Starkey Hearing Aids Reviews

I didn't know I had a hearing problem. I knew a lot of times voices seemed muffled, but I just thought maybe I needed to have my ears cleaned out, but come to find out, I have scar tissue. So, my Starkey hearing aids really helped. I didn't know I was missing so much. When I first got them, I could hear the wheels on the grocery cart. I just always thought I was too far from them. I didn't know that the sound was there. I just wasn't hearing it. I had to have my sister try that out. It was way too much stuff I was hearing. I'm hearing even the air coming through the ducts.

I'm afraid I'm gonna lose my hearing aids, so I don't wear them outside the home because the ones that I had before will fall out. So, I didn't wanna take a chance with these, but it has helped me understand conversations a lot better. I feel like I could be more a part of a conversation. I'm not saying "huh" all the time. Sometimes, I don't even let people know that I didn't hear them because nobody wants to keep repeating themselves. So, it helped me not to have to do that. While it's not perfect, especially in the right ear, I understand them.

My hearing aids are completely in the ear canal, and they fit fine. I don't have any issues with them. I love how they are now. I can't imagine what could possibly be next as far as the future. There's also the little box to where you can stream it to your television and adjust the volume for just yourself. So, there's that feature. However, that's above my pay grade to think about, too.

As I've gotten older, my hearing has become worse. But with the hearing aids, I can hear more now than I could even five years ago. Because of technology, I can hear birds chirping, where I've never heard them chirp before. It's little things like that that a lot of people take for granted. Now, I still can't hear a mouse. Some people can. It's been quite an adjustment from time to time because of technology. Every time I get new hearing aids, I'm able to hear something new because technology keeps improving. I can control my hearing aids through the app. I'm not so sure if it would be good for the elderly and for someone not so tech-savvy enough to be able to use the app. But for myself, I like it. I'm confident with it. I can make my own adjustments.

Once, I had an issue with getting my hearing aids updated because I changed phones, and it didn't wanna carry over to the new phone. So, I called customer service, and the lady was able to help me with no issues at all. She knew exactly what needed to be done to get my Starkey going so that I could be reconnected with my hearing aids through the phone.

As far as the price, I feel like it was fair even if I did have to pay full price. But thanks to my employer and the program that they have, insurance-wise, because I was able to pay very minimal compared to full price without any insurance coverage. This is the first time in my adult life that I've had insurance. When I was a child, my mom had other insurances through the government, and they took care of it. As an adult, I've always had to pay full price out of pocket. So, what I paid for two hearing aids is like pocket change compared to if I had to pay the full price. Price-wise, there are other brands that are cheaper, but I also feel like you get what you pay for. So, I can't really say anything negative at all about the price.

I’m very satisfied. With the hearing loss I have, they work fantastic. They’re behind‑the‑ear with the little piece that goes in the ear. Once a year, they clean and check them for me. I love them. I have hearing loss in both ears, but my right ear is worse. I also have tinnitus. The ringing has been there so long that I just tune it out. The hearing aids help pick up sounds even over the ringing.

I use them when I really need to hear, like at church or the doctor’s office. Otherwise, I don’t wear the right one because it’s distracting. The one for the left ear I wear all the time. I can hear because they tuned it really loud, but it’s confusing after so many years of not hearing in one ear. Putting something in it throws me off. Still, it helps a lot. When I’m in noisy situations, I can hear over everything. I can’t normally hear a bird chirping or water dripping, but with the hearing aid, I can. It’s extremely helpful. I could have gotten Bluetooth, but I didn’t want it. It’s too distracting for me. My hearing aids use batteries, and I charge them about once a week. I use Duracell, so they last longer, sometimes eight or nine days. When I take them out at night, I open them so the battery is not running for nothing.

I get little notices from them, like an email, a card, or a text reminding me to bring in my hearing aids on certain days. I got them in Marksville at Dr. Breen's office. So far, I’ve been very satisfied. I don’t have anything to complain about.

My daughter started all of this. She picked up the phone, made the call, and told them what was going on. Then Starkey called me. We spoke, and that’s how it came about. I can’t remember the name of the place where I got them, but it was a good experience.

The only bad thing was that they constantly change their staff. Once I got to know someone there, they were suddenly gone, especially the actual hearing doctor. She was very nice and friendly, but the next time I went in, she was gone. The same thing happened with the rest of the staff. Now, I don’t know anyone there.

Right now, I have an issue. I had my hearing aids paired to my phone through Bluetooth, but I bought a new phone in April and I can’t get them to connect. I’ve been trying to do it through the Starkey app, but for the life of me I just can’t get it to work. I finally got so frustrated that I gave up.

I need to try again because I like that feature, being able to use Bluetooth to hear music or take calls. I had it set up like that on my old phone. I’ve tried everything. I uninstalled the app, went back to the Google Play Store, and re-downloaded it. I even tried starting from the very beginning, but it still won’t let me set it up.

Overall, the experience was good. They treated me well and explained a lot. I’m actually supposed to go back, but I’ve had some scheduling issues. They’re supposed to call me early next week to set up the appointment.

Starkey is better than the other ones my wife tried because it has a very small ear tube. They had a hard time getting little microphones small enough to go in there comfortably. And this lady at Willoughby Hearing did her job to get something that was comfortable. The last time we were at the location, the agent tuned them down somehow to make them a little more comfortable for her.

My wife doesn't always wear them because she's a piano player and whenever she sits on the piano, she feels like she's playing on a tin can. So, she takes the hearing aids out, sits in a little dish on the piano, and plays, and then she'll leave them there. She doesn't seem to buy the idea that by not wearing them, she's allowing room for the advancement of more failure and more dementia as she gets older. She doesn't always wear them all the time because the peace and quiet is so wonderful. When I wash dishes or do anything, everything's so crackly and noisy and everything is so intense.

The hearing aids will not give her new ears. But if she doesn't wear them, then the problem that was so clearly detailed to her about the higher frequencies that she has a problem with will only get worse if we don't maximize the stimulation that's available by wearing them.

Her audiologist is giving the best she can afford to get her under her terms with Social Security or Medicare, because they have certain limits. We have limited income and co-pays sometimes are a bit of a source of anxiety for me. But everything was paid. And every time she goes in there to have her ears cleaned or to have the hearing aids adjusted or tested, there's never any charge. That means that Medicare or Medicaid is paying for it. And maybe they're getting a $1500 hearing aid, under the limits. It could be that a $3000 hearing aid would do better than the one she's got if it were affordable. I'm sure Starkey has a range of pricing and the technology they can provide for different investments.

One of the reasons my wife wouldn’t want to go anywhere else is that she doesn’t want to lose connection with Roz. She’s an independent agent but she has all these things on the wall and certificates having to do with Starkey. My wife likes how well she's been treated by the company. We've sent the hearing aids back one time because it wasn't working right. One of them was returned and they did some kind of repair on it, so, she was only using one for a week. And she was happy to get it back, but she also commented that it's great to deal with a company that stands behind its product so unconditionally.

I didn't know how bad my hearing was until I got the hearing aids, because it was just a slow decline over the years that you don't realize what you lost until, all of a sudden, you can hear again. I just couldn't understand what people were saying. Especially during the COVID time, when people wore masks, I couldn't read their lips, so I really didn't know what they were saying. I've had the hearing aids for about a year and a half now, but my life's definitely better. I hear conversations and hear what's going on. I'm not just sitting in the background listening to a bunch of mumbo and not understanding anything. I have a lot more interaction with people now.