I'm on the fence with mine right now- I'm so used to being deaf that I get annoyed when I hear everything. If I go to Wallyworld I can hear people talking 2 aisles away, don't need that. If it wasn't for the tinnitus, they'd stay in the drawer next to my cassette Walkman. One thing I am looking into right now is hearing aids that generate white noise- When our new county gov't. offices were being built, they had "white noise" generators installed in the offices to help with the background noise (your tax dollars at work)- when they test fired them up, I was shocked. Silence. First time my tinnitus was silent in 40 years. Almost creepy. Now that I've found that some aids have this built in, I need to investigate further... Pricey, yes- but if they work the way I hope; I may actually use them. And with any luck I can get by with minimal amplification, since I was just using them to overcome the tinnitus anyways. We'll see.
