I can get an insurance benefit this year for new HAs, but then I have to wait five more years before I can get another benefit.
I have been wearing Oticon More, which have been OK in most situations, but when I’m in a noisy restaurant/bar/party situation with multiple conversations going on around me I struggle. As others have reported, when I increase volume, activate MoreSound Booster or change to the speech-in-noise program to try to hear the target speaker more clearly the HAs seem to boost the volume of the surrounding conversations just as much as that of the target speaker, which is very distracting.
I realize that this is, at least in part, due to Oticon’s “Open” philosophy. I’m considering trialing the Phonak Lumity, as Phonak seems to rely more on traditional beam-forming, which, at least in theory, might work better for me. I’d be interested to hear about anyone else’s experience who has switched from Oticon to Phonak, especially from More to Lumity. Thank you.