adjustments to HA

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I'm just curious here... When you go to the audiology to have your digital hearing aid adjusted, does the audiologist take the hearing aid and make the adjustments on his/her own before returning the HA to you, or do they actually hook you up to the computer (as in connect the HA to the computer and you're still wearing the HA), make adjustments and get comments/feedback from you?

Just last week my new audiologist made adjustments to my hearing aid. And the weird thing is... she took my HA and LEFT the room, and made the adjustments in another room while I waited in her office. And with my old audiologist, and even at the University of Wyoming, I was always hooked up to the computer every time.

Let's just say, last week's adjustments SUCK! Can't turn up the volume anymore (oh I can turn volume down, but not UP), and the other night when I put my FM onto my hearing aid so I could listen to some music... well what do you know, buttons 1, 2 and 3 work, but buttons FM and FM+M do not... Oh, new audie turned off FM capabilities on my hearing aid (AFTER she orders the new FM shoe replacement for me)... NOT COOL! :pissed: I was seriously pissed when I discovered that. Oh, and new audie also said that everything should be louder..... uh no, it sounds more quiet that before, and everything sounds worse too. And I have heard really good things about this audiologist but now I'm not so sure if I wanna continue seeing her.
Next Monday, I have an appointment with my old audie (funny, they both work at the same office now), and I'm going to have him UNDO what the new audie did, and then make some more adjustments based on the problems I've been having with hearing.
 
You want to hook the hearing aids up with them on the person. By doing what she did you could chase your tail forever. The only time I'd hook a hearing aid up with it not on the person is if they want me to completely remove a program or disable the volume wheel.
 
That sounds very abnormal. I was always hooked up wearing the hearing aid while my audiologist made what ever adjustments were needed. I could visibly see what program he was making the adjustments too. If I were you I would pop in there and go, fix it! Even then I always saw him save the programs in case I wanted to go back to something else.
 
After all the good things I have heard about this audie, I am very disappointed with her. I'm seriously considering going back to old audie, although I've only seen new one 3 times. Old audie has a better idea of what I want my hearing aid to do, and I can always see what he does on the computer when he makes the adjustments. And I can wait until Monday.... I think. I just may call again and see if it's possible to get in sooner, my sister is getting married this weekend and I want to be able to hear what is going on.
 
When I used digital aids, I had two different audis program them. One audi would always leave the room when programming the aids (although I highly doubt he really made any changes because I could never hear a difference, but that's another story). The other audi made programming changes with me in the same room, but again, I was not connected to a computer.
 
Interesting....... Before I started seeing the new audie, I was always hooked to the computer.. and my friend sees another audie and she is always hooked to the computer. It just makes more sense to hook the client up to the computer, make the adjustments and let the client comment on the adjustments, as to whether or not they can hear, is it too loud or quiet, too much bass or not enough, etc.
 
cdmeggars,

I agree.

The same is true when it comes to programming for the Nucleus CI.

With the previous edition of the Nucleus speech processor (3G), the processor and coil/headpiece had to be removed from a person's head/ear and attached to the computer before it could be programmed.

With the Nucleus Freedom, programming is done while a person is wearing the processor and coil/headpiece which makes it so much easier to determine what frequencies need to be tweaked.
 
Well now that you mention it thats what my audi from hell did.Had it hooked up to the computer,she said it programs from what your hearing test says. Then tweaked it with me wearing it.That said she put me through more hell then I can ever tell you.Call your old Audi quick get into see her and never go back to that new one.You might want to mention it to your old audi too.Save someone else from the struggle.
 
BOTH the new and old audies work at the same office now... but I'll for sure be making appointments to see the old one instead of the new. I've seen the new one 3 times and I'm just disgusted with the programming. I would much rather be connected to the computer so I can hear the changes and decide if it'll work or not. The new one, I think she did it based off my last audiogram which was oh... 5 years ago? And it sounds terrible. The old one, I don't think he ever really used my audiogram much, but I had better results anyway, because I'd listen while he talks, then mention if this or that and blah blah and he'll go tweaking away.
 
cdmeggers said:
BOTH the new and old audies work at the same office now... but I'll for sure be making appointments to see the old one instead of the new. I've seen the new one 3 times and I'm just disgusted with the programming. I would much rather be connected to the computer so I can hear the changes and decide if it'll work or not. The new one, I think she did it based off my last audiogram which was oh... 5 years ago? And it sounds terrible. The old one, I don't think he ever really used my audiogram much, but I had better results anyway, because I'd listen while he talks, then mention if this or that and blah blah and he'll go tweaking away.
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1. Get your hearing rechecked (should be done once a year)


Some audiologists will program a hearing aid based upon the targets the computer software gives them, which in turn is based upon your audiogram. I have never really cared much about targets. Yeah they give you a starting point, but I hold them to be the end all and be all. I mainly go off of what you say sounds good. If you say it sounds great and I look at the screen and scratch my head, thinking this can't possible sound good, so be it.
 
This is sort of strange to me, when I had my HAs they always had me remove my aids before tweaking and always did a quick auidogram with the HA in before tweaking to see what needs to be tweaked based on the audiogram.

I do however agree that it is best to have the person wear the aid while adjustments are being made so there is instand feedback and things are perfected a bit more.
 
cdmeggers said:
can't afford a hearing test at the moment.
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Is there a clinic in your area that provides free hearing tests? You might also consider visiting a local university in your area. With both of these options, the hearing test won't be comprehensive, but will at least give you the audiogram information you are looking for.
 
cdmeggars,

Have you thought about looking into the options I mentioned above?
 
Won't your audi who you purchased the HA's from do another audiogram for free. Mine did so I was wondering how universal this is.
 
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cdmeggars,

Have you thought about looking into the options I mentioned above?
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There's only 1 uni in the entire state of Wyo, and that's in Laramie. And as for clinics, I know of none. I'm not going to worry much about the hearing test right now, as I am still waiting to hear about funding for a CI evaluation.
 
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