C'mon then,who on here wears them?

I've been slowly going deaf in my right ear and it's got quite bad now to the point that it's affecting my balance, originally I just thought that it was old age and having "a fall" but looking into it it's obvious it's down to the deafness,I can't even watch TV without the subtitles on,anyroad what I want to know is are they expensive for a non pensioner? (61)