No matter how well the audiologist programs an aid or aids for those with Meniere's, the fact that our hearing loss fluctuates from day to day, hour to hour, so the "facts" obtained during a hearing test only reflect how we were hearing at that time, not two hours earlier or a day later. They are the middleman and are paid through the cost of your hearing aids (bundled cost) to do this for you. IF YOU want to have your questions answered, you audiologist needs to work with the manufacturer to get them answered. Face-to-face care with the expensive hearing aids grants the user the best aids/CIs the best results in the long run. If someone ordered them off the internet, they would not have luxury of having custom made hearing aids. Remember, these individual computers are made for each of our specific ears per our audiogram – that is if you had them programmed according to what you audiologist set them up for.
The audiologist have their Masters or Doctor degrees because they need to know how to take care of these expensive instruments for us. Our programming of the aids/CI are all done on computers and the manufacturers have that information. We can't really "talk" with them because the language they speak is not the language we understand. These professionals are the ones who interact with their Company Reps and are given demonstrations, information and knowledge about these expensive instruments/computers that we have in and around our ears. They only talk with the 'professionals' such as the physicians and audiologists who understand and work with their products. REMEMBER… Hearing aid Manufacturers generally do not talk or work with the end users like you and I. You will be helping yourself and others by doing this. Always ask questions even if they seem dumb…because these aids are helping you hear better and wiser.
Then use them by reading everything about them and work with you audiologist to make sure they work full time for you. Know your own hearing loss, what you expect you may need and what you expect the hearing aid will do for you and then learn how the aids will help you. Talk to your audiologist and they can provide you with all of the information about Resound.
There are wireless accessories that are available like I said including: TV Streamer, Mini Microphone and Phone Clip.
My iPhone's bluetooth enables the wireless communications. I chose red colored hearing aids so they match my red iPhone. I have one of their earlier models – the LinX2 – Surround Sound model with 2.4 GHZ wireless technology (connectivity) Mine are behind the ear 77 uses size 13 batteries. Resound makes a number of different Linx models of hearing aids. The "Linx" brand is what we wear as a hearing aid just like we purchase "LG" appliances.
I need to have super hearing aids that adjust and work with my tricky brain.
I have mod to severe hearing loss in both ears with hyperacusis and migraine syndrome. I can alter the volumes in the four programs if I need to since the thresholds have been tweaked by the audiologist to allow the changes. These hearing aids allow me to talk on the phone with my mom via FaceTime and to anyone as if they are right next to me. Over all this has been the best investment I have ever had in my life outside of the Volkswagen Vetta which has saved my life many times. I have been losing more of my hearing so will need to have people wear the mic so I can hear their speaking into my hearing aids. I will be getting a mini mic to complement the hearing aids which I neglected to purchase at the time of the hearing aids because I didn't feel I needed it at the time. I turn on my hearing aids and iPhone to work the hearing aids so I can pick up phone calls, listen in a looped setting, tone down in a noisy environment, or mute out my tinnitus. My audiologist placed four different programs on the hearing aid which are displayed on the app. I purchased an iPhone so that it could work the best on the phone. The two that I help pay for through my insurance plan then, since I was working at the time, work through my mobile phone app. They are the best out of all the previous hearing aids I have had in the last 19 years.
I am in my fourth year with the Resound Linx hearing aids.