A little OT, but this is AMAZING!
A long time ago I was in an explosion. I lost most of my hearing in my right ear and have been suffering from tinnitus ever since. Today, on a whim, I bought a pair of bone conduction headphones because I read a review from someone else that suffered hearing loss and tinnitus and they said they could hear very clearly. Well, it has been a very emotional day for me. For the first time, in a long time, I was able to hear things without the ringing. I started with music and couldn't believe all the different sounds I've never heard before. I had my kids call me and I heard their voices without the muffled sounds for the first time. I heard their voices. Their real voices. And I played the sims and I heard all the little background noises I've never heard. I'm crying. I've been crying for hours just listening to all the things I've been missing. I usually turn the main music of the game down pretty low because the ringing and muffled-ness of it gives me a headache, but I was able to actually listen to it. I listened to all of it. I watched all the TV channels and listened to all of the radio stations. I got a whole bunch of kids together and listened to them play the piano and violin very badly and scratchy in the same room. To actually hear it on my right side, in kind of a surround sound. OMG! GUYS I'M DYING OVER HERE!
If you're wondering what they're like, they sit in front of the ears and it creates a vibration near my ears. I hear the sound somewhere in the back middle of my head. If I close my ear canals, I hear much louder and more clearly, but with them open, I still hear clearly, but I also hear everything else around me and the ringing. But the sound it creates isn't muffled and I can hear over the ringing...I don't know if that makes sense. But I can hear. I like want everyone in the world to call me so I can hear them. I'm so happy and so overwhelmed. I had to take them off to charge them and I'm back to not hearing and it's so upsetting. I've never had a hearing aid that worked well and now I'm going to ask my doctor if they have hearing aids like this. I'm so excited at the prospect of hearing again.
If you're wondering what they're like, they sit in front of the ears and it creates a vibration near my ears. I hear the sound somewhere in the back middle of my head. If I close my ear canals, I hear much louder and more clearly, but with them open, I still hear clearly, but I also hear everything else around me and the ringing. But the sound it creates isn't muffled and I can hear over the ringing...I don't know if that makes sense. But I can hear. I like want everyone in the world to call me so I can hear them. I'm so happy and so overwhelmed. I had to take them off to charge them and I'm back to not hearing and it's so upsetting. I've never had a hearing aid that worked well and now I'm going to ask my doctor if they have hearing aids like this. I'm so excited at the prospect of hearing again.
