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  • piglet4
    piglet4 Posts: 29 Forumite
    Guardsman wrote: »
    Question.. How often do you re-tube your ear mould ?

    Every 3-4 months for me.

    I use stay-dry tubing (nothing else will do :p) 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.
  • BigMummaF
    BigMummaF Posts: 4,281 Forumite
    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.

  • Guardsman
    Guardsman Posts: 991 Forumite
    piglet4 wrote: »
    Every 3-4 months for me.

    I use stay-dry tubing (nothing else will do :p) 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.
  • piglet4
    piglet4 Posts: 29 Forumite
    Guardsman wrote: »
    Stay dry tubing ? where do you get them from.

    Just from my audiology department (NHS).

    Condensation in the tubes is always a problem for me because I have unvented silicone moulds, the stay-dry tubing really helps :cool:
  • Guardsman
    Guardsman Posts: 991 Forumite
    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.
  • Savvy_Sue
    Savvy_Sue Posts: 47,314 Forumite
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    Guardsman wrote: »
    Question... How often do you change your ear moulds ? I have had mine 18 months.
    In the early days, I got through several in an attempt to get it comfortable:

    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.
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  • browniej
    browniej Posts: 256 Forumite
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    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.
  • piglet4
    piglet4 Posts: 29 Forumite
    browniej wrote: »
    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.
  • piglet4
    piglet4 Posts: 29 Forumite
    Guardsman wrote: »
    Question... How often do you change your ear moulds ? I have had mine 18 months.

    Every year or so, once they start to get a bit squeaky ;)
  • Mrs_Arcanum
    Mrs_Arcanum Posts: 23,976 Forumite
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    Guardsman wrote: »
    Interesting reading

    Hearing-aid hackers fine-tuning their own devices
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18690973
    Would love this option. Aids never feel loud/clear enough once I leave the sound proof booth they do the adjustments in. Nor have I ever come across a hearing T loop that works the same as the one in the audiologists room.

    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 Spirits
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