Gradually been losing my hearing for the past 10 years. There’s no guidance as to when to go for a CI and my audiologist has always never really pushed me towards it (although I’ve never really pushed towards it myself).
I know I am cooked. I guess I just want to see others opinion on my audiogram results and whether I’m being stupid and it’s blatantly obvious I should now go down the CI route.
Currently wear phonak HAs. 30 years old.
Thoughts please….
I have been a hearing aid user since 2019. Profound hearing loss as deafness runs in the family so gradually been getting worse since I was 16 (29 now).
For the past 4 years or so the left hearing aid doesn’t quite fit well. It’s not terrible but it’s most certainly not perfect like the right HA. I currently wear the Phonak Sphere.
Laughing or eating I have to just push the shell back into the ear for the correct position.
I get them from Specsavers who, when I mention the issue, have remoulded my shell about 7 times and it always comes back with the same issue. I don’t quite know what to do from here? I spoke to an independent audiologist who, when I explained, simply said that they would use the same fitting technique as specsavers so if I have that issue with specsavers then it will just result in the same issue with them.
Has this happened to anyone else? Does anyone have help as to what steps I can do from here?