I suffer from persistent tinnitus following years of riding a motorbike but not using ear plugs. I don’t suppose going to see Pink Floyd, Motörhead, iron Maiden etc helped very much. Still, my fault.

Anyway the long and the short of it is that I have to wear hearing aids to hear conversations clearly. Its not all bad though - on the plus side I can always turn them off! Riding my bike now means I take the aids off and put them in a box ready for the end of the journey and the ear plugs go in - I protect that hearing I have left.

The problem I have is that the behind the ear hearing aids get flipped off when i remove my face mask and I don’t always realise. So far I have lost three and it is getting tedious.

Now in an ideal world I would have in ear canal hearing aids that have Bluetooth so I can link to my phone and would have noise cancelling capabilities so that I could leave them in my ear when riding allowing me to have the choice of listening to music without having to wind the volume right up - remember I want to protect the hearing I still have left. I know that there are in ear canal hearing aids with Bluetooth and that there are ear plugs that have noise cancelling - but are there in ear canal hearing aids that have noise cancelling and Bluetooth or am I looking for a unicorn?

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