u/FionaLeTrixi

Hello! I was diagnosed HoH a good couple of years ago, and have been experimenting with alarms for at least the last three. The things I've tried so far:

• excessively loud alarms designed explicitly for the HoH.
• the possibly ill-advised venture of sleeping with my hearing aids in while using the above.
• bed shakers, both of the mains-powered-fully-wired variety, and of the portable battery-powered variety (because I kept on breaking the wired ones in my sleep somehow).
• light-based alarms.
• Apple Watch with as many alarms as I can put on it.
• a variety of other watches whose sole functionality was to vibrate you awake, usually in conjunction with at least one of the above.

I feel like I've tried about everything, but absolutely none of these seem to work. My Apple Watch has been the best of the lot, but it's still wildly inconsistent. It seems like the only thing that works properly is being literally shaken awake by someone else, which is both impossible given I live alone, and would be unfair and unsustainable even if I didn't.

Is there anyone else with this kinda problem? How in the world do you wake up?