I hate my NHS aids.
I have two, but generally only wear the one in my better ear.
The aid often makes my ear hurt and my ear is perpetually full of flaking skin. I also occasionally
use E45 cream to ease the flakiness and the nasty deposit resulting on the towel in the morning, post shower, is evidence of how much the aid creates the flakiness.
I've had a new earpiece made, but it's no better.
I take the aids out whenever possible, (much to my wife's annoyance), and luxuriate in the relief of not having my ear stuffed with an uncomfortable foreign object.
I had a private aid some years ago and it was similarly nasty to wear.
With my aid(s) in place, the slightest cough makes me gag and only their removal cures it.
I only really watch TV if there are subtitles as, unlike my wife, I'm a quick reader and a glance suffices to read most sentences.
Blessed silence, especially if there is loud background and largely unnecessary, so called, music!
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