my new hearing aids are here:)

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Sooo i got my new hearing aids today!! well one today and the other next week since my dad didn't send me money for the first payment. So they gave me the right to wear for now but we programmed both hearing aids and guess what I got the MyPilot too! I didn't even know that the mypilot was worked into the price! So when she told me I was excited, but I hadn't really wanted it because I thought it was an extra few hundred but it was worked into the already good price that I am paying for the left hearing aid since my right was free by phonak. So, we did the real ear measurement first without the ha's on and then with the ha's. My audi was like omg you have such tiny ear canals!!! Lol...I was like ya....I get that a lot...lol :ty:
Then we started putting the programs on and she set up my programs and I have my automatic program, calm, speech in noise, comfort in noise, music, and fm is with the automatic as well as auto telephone. With my new hearing aids I also got from phonak, a kit with a de-humidifier, lubricant (which i prolly won't use), a battery tester and spray. I also got a battery case, and a phonak case for my hearing aids and mypilot, a iPod sort of case for the myPilot, 2 cases one for each ha, a lil phonak pouch that looks like a change purse i guess for the ha's and I think that's it.

Here are some pics:)
 
That is neat. Especially the first one with the little green dots showing through.

In spite of my love for bright colors, I might consider something like that next time.

Hope they work good for you.
 
They have worked well so far, i went shopping and the auto program was pretty good, cuz it changes in diff environments. Music also sounds sooo much better...the left sounded funny tho but my audi said it's cuz my ear hasn't gotten stimulation for a while and needs to catch up with my right.
 
congrats on your new aids, alicia! i also have very small ear canals, so you're not alone. :)
 
I think your new HAs are really cool, being transparent. In Britain the National Health Service only provides different coloured HAs and moulds to kids. Unfortunately when I was a kid they didn't have them, so I missed out there. As an adult you have to have either beige or brown, depending on your skin colour, which is really boring. I think colourful HAs and moulds could make our HAs into a fashion statement, after all hearing people walk around with colourful bluetooth things in their ears.

I have a very narrow ear canal in my left ear due to radical mastoidectomy surgery when I was nine years old. I actually find it to be an advantage, my left HA rarely gets any feedback problems, probably because the mould is such a tight fit. I get feedback all the time from my right HA, in the ear which hasn't had this surgery, maybe because the ear canal is not sealed as well by the ear mould.
 
I remember getting my new ones. It was exciting. I realized all the things I could hear that I didn't hear before. Birds chirping, crickets etc. I wish mine auto programmed, I have the 4 channels but I have to change them. But I am thankful either way, it has changed my life. My husband told the doctor at my first check up when asked how I like them, before I could say anything he speaks up and says "I am no longer her hearing aid". I didn't realize how much I depended on others to hear for me. I still tell my daughter who has dealt with my hearing loss all her life, she is now 19, I tell her to stop yelling at me. Out of habit she speaks up when talkign to me and it is really loud! My right ear was also the worse, and Doc told me same thing, I need to "LEARN" to hear out of that ear! Glad you got them, enjoy!!1
 
djchur said:
I have a very narrow ear canal in my left ear due to radical mastoidectomy surgery when I was nine years old. I actually find it to be an advantage, my left HA rarely gets any feedback problems, probably because the mould is such a tight fit. I get feedback all the time from my right HA, in the ear which hasn't had this surgery, maybe because the ear canal is not sealed as well by the ear mould.
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interesting. i never thought about the fact that small ear canals might have something to do with a decrease in hearing aid feedback, but it makes perfect sense. when i had severe-profound hearing loss and used skeleton earmolds (as i always have), i never had any problems with feedback which many people found hard to believe.
 
good luck with the MyPilot! I didn't care for it much when I tried it with the Naida in the Spring (I prefer the older Phonak remote.. but then again I don't even use it anymore... I don't even know where it's at!). That's a pretty neat looking hearing aid!
 
Thanks guys:) I really like it to far..music sounds great and it works well with the auto esp at work..I need to ask her to change the boot up time tho ..i thought my ha was broken this morning cuz it has a 6 second start up delay on it lol
 
Your hearing aids look neat! I would like to have those HAs someday. I see some green spots on it. It looks like a Christmas green decoration. That's cool!

I thought that this word "MyPilot" means that your hearing aids take you up in the air and control them with your device whatever you want to go. :giggle:
 
Whewhoo Alicia, lookin good. We are twinners now, yurs look just like my HA's. Hope things work out great.
 
Hey Alicia,

FYI- pretty sure boot-up time can't be adjusted. That is just one of the charms of the newer phonak aids. It's so you can turn them on and then put them on without there being feedback. I believe it is mostly to help with kids. I personally am a huge fan of the delay for that exact reason, I know they aids are squealing as I put them on my kids! It's very handing after we go swimming or something and I am putting them on them in a public place!
 
she said she made the boot up time 6 seconds..so i believe it can be changed...i will e-mail her and ask:) lol good ol' melanie...
 
i HATED the boot-up time on the Naida. why oh why can't they make new hearing aids with an on/off switch?!
 
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