Hearing Aids?

I'm not a doctor, but I would suspect that your hearing aid should be prescribed by one - there are good specialists out there that can help.

Yours isn't a question that can be answered accurately in a forum like this. Everyone's hearing is so unique that it takes a well trained audiologist to give meaningful advice. One things certain, hearing aids are so much better now than in the recent past. My wife's been really happy with the improvements in the latest generation of Siemens hearing aids she wears now. Says they sound really close to her natural hearing. Any honest audiologist offers risk free auditioning of an aid for no cost other than fitting fees and cost of making your molds. My wife was able to try as many aids as she needed to without incurring any financial obligation (other than fitting fees.)

A friend of mine and my dad both just got hearing aids. Both were perscribed basic units ($500 or so). My friend is a music fanatic and went out on his own and bought a pair of the very expensive units with a little tube into the ear canal. He loved them. I pushed my dad, who is an md. to check on them. He hated and never wore his old hearing aides. He loves the new ones and hears things he hasn't heard in years.
I followed up with a great pair of sealed headphones for watching tv. Sealed headphones eliminate more of the outside noise. He liked the Sony Digital studio headphones much better than AKG 701's. All is good now. My friend likes the in ear phones with noise reduction by Bose.
Hope this helps.