Single sided loss - what are the recommended aids these days for a new user?

@AidenL said:

They said I wouldn’t actually qualify for it?

Understood. But when did they say that to you? Guidelines change; I had not been qualified in 2011, and 1.5 years later, with the same results of hearing tests, I finally was.

@AidenL said:

The audiologist I visited said that amplifying the bad side would possibly cause confusion or crosstalk which could be, or would be distorted to the better side, so recommended a Cros.

But is it best to keep some stimulation to it?

The audiologist may suspect that, but it isn’t for sure. I think it’s worth a try to stimulate it, but YMMV. There are opinions and research suggesting that stimulating the ear as long as possible and keeping the auditory nerve activated improves outcomes after later cochlear implantation in that ear.

CROS is an option if HA on that ear provides no benefit.
My opinion only, but I think consider first stimulating that ear with a rather cheap hearing aid fitted with REM, and give yourself some time to get used to it and a chance to take advantage of brain plasticity.

If that would be unusable, try BiCROS.

IIRC, AmpCROS has much less flexibility in programming than BiCROS… There is a Dr. Cliff video on YouTube about different kinds of CROS.

I lost hearing after a long flight in my left ear. I did have a cold. 5 days after my return I went urgent care. They said eustacian tube dysfunction. There was fluid in the canal but zero evidence of an infection. Claritin D and Afrin was the regime. After 5 days I saw the ENT. He said that there’s a regime of steroids and injections we can try, but he doubts very much that I’ll ever regain my hearing. He was right. So after going thru all of that I went to the audiologist to talk about CROS HA’s. I was excited about trying them out. Resound was the 1st set. They were so small and comfortable. If they worked, I would be very happy. I tried them for a month. We made several adjustments but the deciding factor to return them is that when streaming the CROS HA deactivates. So, we tried the Opticon. They didn’t deactivate which was good. I tried again for a month, again very comfortable but a bit larger than the Resound. The thing I didn’t like and this was with both. Besides the incessant ringing, loud background noise was just horrible. Sounds like aluminum foil is being crumpled along with the ringing. I returned them and am now exploring a Cochlear Implant I have heard it can eliminate or at least reduce the incessant ringing/humming.

One thing I did like about the Resound over the Opticon was the app. The.Opticon you couldn’t have any control with the settings. The only thing you could do was adjust the little toggle on the CROS.

Have you asked about the ReSound Vivia, the latest generation of aids it offers? I have the ReSound Nexia Bi-CROS, which works great. When it’s time for me to get new hearings aids, I’ll be looking at the Vivia, which has built-in AI chips to better handle speech in noisy environments.

I only skimmed the full thread but with assymetric losses like yours an ENT evaluation eval is often suggested to determine cause. I saw that someone suggested it was due to infection but it would be nice to have it be evaluated.

@JDee6957 said:

I returned them and am now exploring a Cochlear Implant I have heard it can eliminate or at least reduce the incessant ringing/humming.

Not to mention restore a significant amount of your hearing in that ear.