Assistive hearing device

I have had my two lead Boston for a year now. I wear a hearing aid and am thinking of purchasing an assistive hearing device called a "loop"....you wear the device in front and it loops around like a necklace. It contains batteries, etc. Does anyone out there know what I'm talking about, and would the device interfere with my pacemaker?

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Aids in both ears

by donr - 2013-01-25 02:01:56

I have aids in both ears, wear the loop. Use it all the time. No problems at all. It's an FM transmitter/receiver, does not generate fields strong enough to affect anything. The loop around the neck is the antenna.

Don

assistive hearing device

by Pollypacer - 2013-01-25 04:01:51

Thanks, Don and Robert. You guys have put my mind at ease. I'm seriously thinking of getting the devise and was concerned about it.
Quattro makes something I'm interested in.

Interesting question

by RobertS - 2013-01-25 11:01:33

I'd like to know the answer too.

I wear hearing aids in each ear. I've not got a neckloop device though have thought about it. I'd guess that both the pm and the loop are pretty much shielded. The loop has to be, I suppose, to prevent outside interference. And the bit with the batteries will hang much lower that your pm site - around the bottom of the sternum. So should be OK.

You could contact your EP or the manufacturers of the pm perhaps. But I'm sure someone here will know.

Robert

You know you're wired when...

Bad hair days can be blamed on your device shorting out.

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