Thank you for your email. I’ve just come back from physio appointment and the hearing aids didn’t reduce background noise etc.
Can you let me know what a spheric mode program is and also how do I put my hearing aids into Spheric mannually to give it a good test? This afternoon’s appointment would have been a really good test. Can you also let me know about the threshold that you refer to?
I do have the MyPhonak app and maybe I’m not using this as well as I might. So it is really disappointing but would be very grateful for your advice.
I think the most important feature with hearing aids is the setup.
I’ve been where you are and wish I knew more.
When I changed hearing care suppliers I found out the dispenser had made at least two setup mistakes. They were simple. They were the reasons I could’t hear. Know you are hearing from people that are very knowledgable and helpful.
Been wearing hearing aids for over 20 years. My current hearing aids are over 3 years old.
Little changes have made a great difference. I should have moved from my supplier earlier.
Domes:
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Power Domes I hated.
I resisted what I was told here. molded inserts are much better for me. But I am stubborn and waited to get them.
I was outside yesterday and couldn’t understand/couldn’t hear. I have more to do.
The creation of custom programs has been covered pretty well on the site and even in general on the web. Briefly: go into myphonak, poke the name of the current program, and it should open a program picker dialog. At the bottom should be an “adjust” button. That will display which program autosense has chosen if you were in “automatic”. (If you go to an extremely noisy place, then hopefully it tells you Spheric. I don’t have mine yet, so I don’t know exactly what it says. You will want it to say Spheric to create a Spheric custom program to put it into manually.) If you just want to create a program to be able to manually enter that program when you demand, simply hit “save as new” at the bottom. The name you pick will show up in the list of programs in the program picker. Any changes here will be saved as well.
Your hcp can create one for you with their software without having to go to a noisy place. They can also adjust the threshold for entering Spheric when in autosense. That can’t be done with myphonak. If you want to do that, the diy section of the forum exists to help point the way. You’d want to study up before undertaking that process.