I wear only one aid, in my right ear . I suffer quite bad tinnitus with a constant whistling and loss of high frequencies.
The NHS aid is perfectly adequate to tune out my problems but if others want to pay more for sophisticated additional controls then it is up to them .
I noticed on first wearing the wind noise across the microphone, high pitched bird song, crackling of newspaper and traffic noise and it did take a couple weeks getting used to it.
I do not tend to wear it all the time but need it more in social outings where I am surrounded by sound and I can tune out the volume of sound behind me and directly concentrate on conversations with those that I am facing.
I was told by the audiologist the cost of each NHS aid was around £1500.
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