You just skated over the hearing test and never mentioned the full results, are you saying they are better now than when you were young, you must have some hearing damage, my hearing aids have corrected a lot of the damage. Most people who have a hearing test simply don't want to wear hearing aids, I didn't now i can't bear to have them out. When I first got in the car with my new hearing aids in and couldn't stand the jingling of the keys against the dash as I was driving.