Hearing Loss

[truck driver + 2]

Sooner or later we will all need hearing aids due to being in loud noisy environments.
The mail order hearing aids are a big rip off and then you have the overpriced aids from E.N.T. specialist and Beltone along with Mirical ear.
One of my fellow shooters had gone to Costco's and found they had a hearing aid service and would do free hearing testing to see if you really need hearing aids.
I've been wanting to join Costco's for a while and when my Beltone aids hit the fan I found it to be a good excuse to join up.
The Audiologist is trained and licensed professional. The equipment used to test your hearing is the latest available, the audiologist I saw was well trained and very knowledgeable. After an extensive hearing test, she recommended I see an E.N.T. and wrote a referral because the hearing in one ear was vastly worse than the other and thought I could have other problems that hearing aids wouldn't help.
The audiologist got a pair of aids out and electronically set them to compensate for my hearing loss for me to try. I was amazed at what I could hear as compared to my old aids from Beltone.
I went ahead and ordered a new pair of JABRA Enhanced Pro aids that had a 30-day trial period and could return them for a full refund if unsatisfied with them. I also saw my E.N.T. and he ordered an M.R.I. of my brain saying that hearing loss is brain related and there could be a sist or other abnormally that could be causing a problem.
You should get a hearing test every two years and when I was working my employers would have a mobile clinic do it. Costco's does it for less than an E.N.T. and the membership is less than the doctor's visit, so you pay for the hearing test with one trip Costco's and if you buy hearing aids you save over 75% on the cost of aids.
I hope this is helpful information for some of our members.

[Grouchy]

I had a free hearing test by a hearing aid company. My hearing is stll decent at my advanced age.

[TexWeatherby]

I'm still blessed with good hearing, which is amazing considering the gunfire I was exposed to as a young man. We didn't wear any protection 50 years ago.

[224KING]

WHAAAT?   

[Dino82520]

WHAAAT?

TYPE LOUDER!!!

[Grouchy]

I had very selective hearing problems. I just could not hear anything my now ex said.   

[Dino82520]

I had very selective hearing problems. I just could not hear anything my now ex said.   

Not only did my EX have selective hearing but she had the most creative memory I have ever seen.

[.257]

I heard Costco was good for hearing aids. Than a friend told me about a place, and a very attractive woman doing the testing. I told the wife about it. She promptly told me l was going to Costco!! 🤷🤷😎

[11charlie]

4.2" mortar, fired from a track, head above muzzle level each round, muzzle within arms reach. Wicked muzzle blast, most painful sound I've experienced when fingers didn't make it into ears. Earplugs were insufficient, plus I couldn't understand fire commands with them in. Very bad to put incorrect data on sight, adjust gun, and fire.

[Dino82520]

The line from Robin Williams "Good Morning Vietnam" is a perfect example. When an artillery soldier requests a song he said "I don't care what you play, just play it loud". That pretty well sums it up.

[TexWeatherby]

The pain and ringing just from a .357 out of a short barrel is horrible.

[11charlie]

The tinnitus is crazy loud. An extra loud country cricket frog symphony, with whistling, snap, crackle, pop, Morse code, static, etc. thrown in with it. Always there.

[truck driver + 2]

 i did a search for Jabra before i bought the hearing aids and found to my surprise they are made in Holland, the cheap over the counter ones are Chinese.

[BB340]

I need hearing aids already and I'm only 46. Never wore hearing protection when I was younger for shooting or any other time like using power tools. I use them now, but the damage has been done. Severe tinnitus in both ears but my left ear has the most hearing loss and tinnitus.

[zoniezonie]

I use to drive with the window down after many years the hearing in my left ear worst than my right ear.  ex Navy and firing naval guns plus  working around extreme noise my hearing is shot.  long time ago the military gave us waxed cotton wads to put in our ears it actually worked kind of weird stuffing it in your ear canal.