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| Frenchie |
| Posted on: February 23rd, 2014, 7:12pm |
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Maximum Member2 LIke to hear from anyone that was Co C 4/31
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i honestly was shocked....i had to look at it more than once!!!!! but my Diabetes II determination was included in the SAME letter and that was going on since of June 2013....8 months ago?
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Frenchie - Gilbert E Manasselian
C 4/31 Feb 68 to Feb 69
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| Frenchie |
| Posted on: June 2nd, 2014, 5:26pm |
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Maximum Member2 LIke to hear from anyone that was Co C 4/31
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Back in March 2014 i had a problem with my hearing aid (one of them) i took it to the VA Hosp Audiology Dept. They told me they would have to send it to the manufacturer....i never heard a thing after TWO inquiries a month later..i even went down there in person.
I asked for a Follow Up and they told me when they got it they would let me know (IE: NO follow up), I asked for a contact number, they wouldnt or couldnt give me one...i really needed BOTH hearing aids otherwise im only HALF good :) ...
So last week on my own i started looking up phone numbers and ended up calling the VA place in Colorado where i order my batteries....the NEXT DAY i get a phone call from my local VA that i would get my hearing aid within a few days (hell i would have picked them up) and sure enough a DAY later i got the hearing aid in my mailbox.
coincidental that NOTHING happened until I started my own follow up? maybe, maybe not....but i was minus my hearing aid since March (3 months!!!!) |
Frenchie - Gilbert E Manasselian
C 4/31 Feb 68 to Feb 69
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| Gregory B Peters |
| Posted on: June 10th, 2014, 5:17pm |
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Maximum Member2 B company, 3/21/196th, incountry 07/1966-07/1967
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| Frenchie, a funny story: my brother was Armour/Artillery but was turned down for hearing aides. Shortly after he purchased his own and all the batteries. he said later it would have been cheaper to hire someone to repeat everything he needed to hear :-) |
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| Frenchie |
| Posted on: June 10th, 2014, 6:33pm |
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Maximum Member2 LIke to hear from anyone that was Co C 4/31
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each battery (one per ear) lasts several days. ....im lucky because all i hve to do is make one call and a box of batteries shows up at my door...thats 60 batteries per box!!! they are NOT cheap for sure....
Its a shame they denied your bros claim, sounds like he might need them....it has improved my life for sure....TY VA |
Frenchie - Gilbert E Manasselian
C 4/31 Feb 68 to Feb 69
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| Jim Armstrong |
| Posted on: December 4th, 2014, 5:47pm |
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A VA Clinic visit is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get. Actually, you can be pretty sure of a bit of stupidity, needless confusion and workers who seem to be working for themselves instead of the customer/client/patient/vet.
I called for a hearing assessment about six weeks ago and took the first available appointment which was yesterday.
After surviving the REMF dweebs at the front desk, the technician and the Audiologist (a nice lady M.D. appearing from San Francisco via television) were competent and helpful. The exam seemed complete and professional.
The result was that I have fairly good hearing at low frequecies and profound loss at higher ones, worse in one ear than the other.
While I am not sure that I am ready for hearing aids, the doc was and had me molded and scheduled for a medical exam and to pick them up in, unsurprisingly, six weeks.
Since I am already at 100% service connected, there was no discussion of disability or cost.
She said the aids "might" help with my long standing tinnitus, which is apparently TIN-it-tus, not tin-EYE-tus.
When I asked about having a 175 battery firing over our heads for two days form 100 feet away (with no protection and no warning) as a partial cause of my problems, she said "maybe" again and added that the protection the artillerymen had was not very good. Guess she has been through that.
Here is a good resource with further links:
https://www.vawatchdog.org/hearing-loss---tinnitus.html
All this, by the way, was without any contact with my primary care "doctor-of-the-month". |
Jim Armstrong
C, HQ, A 2/1
1965-1967 |
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| Frenchie |
| Posted on: December 4th, 2014, 6:09pm |
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Maximum Member2 LIke to hear from anyone that was Co C 4/31
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not tin-EYE-tus??? oops
ive always said it that way ....i should have had hearing aids a long time ago but i resisted the idea until my hearing got progressively worse and i could no longer ignore it (IE: monday night football)....now i can enjoy conversations without *guessing* what is said in a normal conversation. Its all good.
Im still training my wife to face me when she speaks to me.
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Frenchie - Gilbert E Manasselian
C 4/31 Feb 68 to Feb 69
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| Jim Armstrong |
| Posted on: December 4th, 2014, 10:21pm |
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Frenchie: Apparently ear docs don't like tin-EYE-tis (my long time pronunciation as well) because the EYE-tis usually means inflamation, which is not a comman part of the condition.
Either way is OK, so I think I'll have one in one ear and the other one in the other. :=) |
Jim Armstrong
C, HQ, A 2/1
1965-1967 |
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| Frenchie |
| Posted on: December 5th, 2014, 5:41am |
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Maximum Member2 LIke to hear from anyone that was Co C 4/31
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Jim: i reall dont call it it TIN EYE TIS or TIN-it-tus
I call it ringing in my ears :) but my suspicion in regard to the pronunciation of the word is based on what part of the country one is from. |
Frenchie - Gilbert E Manasselian
C 4/31 Feb 68 to Feb 69
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| Jim Armstrong |
| Posted on: December 5th, 2014, 5:33pm |
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| And nobody can tell you that you don't have it! |
Jim Armstrong
C, HQ, A 2/1
1965-1967 |
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| Frenchie |
| Posted on: December 6th, 2014, 2:47am |
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Maximum Member2 LIke to hear from anyone that was Co C 4/31
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And nobody can tell you that you don't have it! |
thats the one thing no one doubted me on......i was surprised how they just took my word for it.....i did get tested and they could tell myh hearing was shot......diabates II i got tested.
PTSD i got tested..no test for ringing in the ears.
Colon cancer they wouldnt accept it...not on the VA list......
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Frenchie - Gilbert E Manasselian
C 4/31 Feb 68 to Feb 69
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| David Bates |
| Posted on: December 12th, 2014, 11:59pm |
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| Have you tried TV EARS. They are wireless and worked great. |
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| Frenchie |
| Posted on: December 13th, 2014, 6:00am |
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Maximum Member2 LIke to hear from anyone that was Co C 4/31
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i think they are the same thing they sell at costco.......i tried them BEFORE i got hearing aids......they improved the quality of my tv viewing but NOTHING is better than hearing aids if you need them....
in my case i cant hear low tones and the TV ears do not compensate for that.....they amplify ALL sounds... |
Frenchie - Gilbert E Manasselian
C 4/31 Feb 68 to Feb 69
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| Jim Armstrong |
| Posted on: January 16th, 2015, 9:07pm |
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I picked up my hearing aids yesterday.
The first stage was an "exam" by another remote controlled doctor. This should have come first (and probably been in person), but it was basically: "How long has one ear been worse than the other?" "Do you get dizzy?" "Put your feet together, arms out in front and march (!!) in place."
"You are probably OK, but you can come down to San Francisco for an MRI if you want to." End of part one.
Next was another TV face and voice to check the Rx on the new aids and other mysterious settings.
Then the in-person tech showed me how to work the little machines. I took them off before leaving the office and fooled with them this morning.
I have some noisy appliances in the house and garage and typing on this keyboard makes a heck of a racket.
As I said in my first post, I am not sure I need them.
But to add to my sense of guilt for getting them anyway, I looked them up on the internet.
They are Oticon Alta 1 Pros, right near the top of field.
About a year after I got back from Vietnam, I bought a new 1968 BMW 2002 which I drove for almost 30 years. It cost $3200.
It seems that one can pay more or less, but that is about in the middle of what these hearing aids cost. Each. |
Jim Armstrong
C, HQ, A 2/1
1965-1967 |
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| Jim Armstrong |
| Posted on: March 10th, 2015, 5:10pm |
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I think I could use some advice.
As I said to begin with, I asked for a hearing examination to see if my high frequency loss and tinnitus were matters to be concerned about.
After a long-distance appointment and various tests, the audiologist asked if I wanted and/or needed hearing aids. I told her I didn't think so. She said well we are going to order them up anyway.
When I went back for a follow up, I told same doctor (again on TV) that the main thing the aids did for me was make a lot of racket, garbled conversation and made the ringing much clearer.
I asked if maybe some other veteran could use these very expensive devices better than I can.
"Oh no, no, no. We'll try domes instead of molded inserts."
Now I have somewhat different looking aids, mainly with the addition of a inch and a half long tube sticking out the bottom that i have no idea where to put.
I am not wearing these devices.
At my next appointment do I try again to give them back or just say thanks.
Frenchie: You will love that this same doctor used "tin-EYE-tis" this time. Go VA! |
Jim Armstrong
C, HQ, A 2/1
1965-1967 |
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| Jim Gray |
| Posted on: March 10th, 2015, 9:11pm |
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| Jim. years ago my wife had tenitis. She was prescribed a device similar to a hearing aid but called a "masker." It did wonders for masking the ringing. Good luck with your quest to stop the ringing. |
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