Hop,

How long does a battery last or do you recharge. I am deaf in my left ear, woke up a couple of years ago deaf in my left ear. Diagnosed with acute hearing loss. I wouldn't mind upgrading to one that would bluetooth.

The ones I looked at that would bluetooth when I got mine few years back didn't have good battery life.

so far about 2.5 - 3 days.

I wear them about 50% of the time, no use having them in when I am out on the property.

the bluetooth is a pendant type doohicky that goes around the neck, cable is the antenna and you can switch from tv to phone etc.

very cool feature, now I don't even have to have the volume on the tv up to listen.

not since the last time he was sick I bet.

Got mine in Feb. I can hear birds chirp again. Being an old drummer sucks. I don't have blue tooth but I love'em.

Now I tell the wife to quit shouting at me. LOL. Got mine at Costco.

If you are looking for aids, PM Derek

I have em. Mine are Audicus. Buy direct from the company. They help a lot. No bluetooth on mine.

Did you get them from the VA? I'm due another set this fall. I really want the bluetooth.

There's a hearing aid forum. I read it and basically they said Costco is the only vendor to give you a 180 no questions asked return policy. It takes your brain a while to get use to them, for me I was good to go in 3 days. I went back and told them to up the treble and the overall volume. I found myself turning down the bass on the surround sound...now other people say "can you turn up the TV?" LOL. They private label Siemens top aids (maybe without a couple features) but they are only $1800 for the pair.

Red

My tinnitus is almost gone now. They say it's noise your brain makes to replace the missing hearing sounds. I now have to think about tinnitus to hear it. Hope that makes sense.

yep, just ask for the bluetooth add on.

My best bud does hearing exams in an audiology clinic. They also have some made out of Titanium and Cobalt, which I found somewhat strange because Cobalt is prone to nuclear decay. Shove that in your ear.

We got my wifes at COSTCO, they have all the features including Bluetooth for $1699.00. Best deal we found.

FWIW...I've had 77 birthdays plus shot guns most of my adult life without hearing protection and my hearing was really getting bad....I was real leery of spending $4000. or more on hearing aids when I've heard so many stories from people who say they weren't helped...
I've used a pair of the Walker ear muff type hearing aid/hearing protection for dove hunting/skeet shooting and watching TV and it really helped but obviously you can't wear them all the time...
I thought before I spent $4000. on hearing aids,I'd try one of the $250.00 Walker digital game ears and it has really helped my hearing...I only use it in one ear and am seriously considering getting another one for my left ear...I also wonder just how much difference there is between walkers game ear and expensive hearing aids other than hearing aids are smaller?
anybody else had a similar experience....

beartrap, I tried that with a game ear but my hearing loss is so bad that it did not help much.

biggest thing about hearing aids is they are programmed to your loss, I sit and watch the graph of what my loss is on the puter screen and the audiologist programs the aids to that.

without mine in I can't hear worth squat, can't understand words if I can hear ya. with my aids in I can hear like I used to mostly.

I think too that the cost depends on the severity of your loss, the more volume you need the more the cost. you almost can not see these new ones, they are about 1/3 smaller than the other ones.