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Thanks piglet; I was going to phone the surgery this morning to ask if we should continue with the oil. Mum thinks all of her ailments can be solved if she changes her diet & kept asking the nurse if it was 'something (she) ate' that causes her to suffer so. As we'd already been in her office for 45mins+, I was trying to get mutha out the door as the poor girl was looking worn out & thoroughly defeated by then!Full time Carer for Mum; harassed mother of three;loving & loved by two 4-legged babies.
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Every 3-4 months for me.
I use stay-dry tubing (nothing else will do) which never seems to go hard, but I still change the tubing to keep things hygienic, it does get a bit manky in there after a while.
Stay dry tubing ? where do you get them from.I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.0 -
Question... How often do you change your ear moulds ? I have had mine 18 months.I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.0
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Question... How often do you change your ear moulds ? I have had mine 18 months.
I had a rigid mould with no hole,
then I had a hole drilled through to get over the feeling of being in a vacuum,
then I had a softer mould which was slightly deformable, but no-one told me that if I deformed it it wouldn't go back to the shape it had been originally
and THEN I found out about open fit!
I've had several different iterations of them now too, small mushroom, large mushroom, daisy etc.
So now I change my tube and earmould at the same time. Answer is probably still "not often enough!"
And it's still not really comfy, but then last time I was at audiology they said I had a small cyst in my ear, which probably explains why! GP doesn't think he can do much except refer me for surgery, which I'd rather avoid.Signature removed for peace of mind0 -
Fitted with CIC aids yesterday to trial.
Programming still needs a bit of tweaking.
Just been fitted with CIC aids - Siemens.
However, I'm having great trouble using a phone, landline or mobile. If I put either to my right ear it presses against the aid and makes the ear sore, especially the right ear. I also get whistling which I assume is feedback from the aid. I can hear the dialling tone but once a call is connected it's almost impossible to follow the conversation.
How far in should the aids sit? I get the feeling that they are sitting too far out. For example I read that you would not normally be able to get them out without the small wire to pull on. I can get mine out by grabbing the main part of the shell fairly easily.
Programming still need a bit of tweaking but the phone is main issue at the moment as I need to keep taking out the aid every time someone phones.0 -
Fitted with CIC aids yesterday to trial.
Programming still needs a bit of tweaking.
Just been fitted with CIC aids - Siemens.
However, I'm having great trouble using a phone, landline or mobile. If I put either to my right ear it presses against the aid and makes the ear sore, especially the right ear. I also get whistling which I assume is feedback from the aid. I can hear the dialling tone but once a call is connected it's almost impossible to follow the conversation.
How far in should the aids sit? I get the feeling that they are sitting too far out. For example I read that you would not normally be able to get them out without the small wire to pull on. I can get mine out by grabbing the main part of the shell fairly easily.
Programming still need a bit of tweaking but the phone is main issue at the moment as I need to keep taking out the aid every time someone phones.
Does the Siemens miniTek work with your CICs? If so, then ask your audiologist for a trial. It streams phone calls (and other audio as well) wirelessly to your aids.
I have a similar device for my Oticon aids and the sound quality is much, much better than just holding the phone up to my hearing aid mics.0 -
Interesting reading
Hearing-aid hackers fine-tuning their own devices
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18690973
Loath & detest the ear mould.Truth always poses doubts & questions. Only lies are 100% believable, because they don't need to justify reality. - Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Labyrinth of the Spirits0
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