I have learned quite a few things from these pages and in particular from this thread. I want to share my own experience with Phonak Audeo Q90 which is overall good, but I also have some outstanding issues that I hope someone has advise about.
I have had these HA for about 4 months. And overall the experience has been good. They are my first HA so I have nothing to compare with. For any new users reading this I will say it gets better the longer you have your aids, they become part of you in a good way, but don’t be put off if that takes a little bit of time. I have had 3 adjustments after initially getting my HA and I am thinking about going back for some fine-tuning. I deliberately have waited a while, because I wanted to be sure that my issues were real and not just a matter of “getting used to”. I know about myself that I can get a little obsessive about perfection and that sometimes creates more problems than it solves.
On of the “issues” that I have is when the automatic programming kicks in in noisy environment I get a very stuffed up feeling. I read somewhere is the thread that it is what it is supposed to do and that I most likely should get good speech understanding if someone spoke to me in one of those circumstances, I guess that makes sense, but I was wondering if it is something that I could get adjusted so that my aids don’t turn down the volume quite as much or quite as soon?
I have am a bit surprised by how many situations my aids classify as noisy, but then again I have not been hearing well for a while, so who am I to judge that?
Another issue is my own voice. I have a job that requires me to speak in front of groups on a regular basis and when I do that I naturally speak a little louder than I do in one on one conversation. And that is when my voice seems distorted. Slightly metallic and vibrating a little bit and it kind of sound as if I have something in my throat and need to clear my voice. I may have found the problem, but not sure if that can really be the reason. My HA are RITE and I find that when I pull my left receiver out a bit (from how it naturally fits) the voice issue seems to diminish. I am thinking that the wire is a bit too long and that the receiver is too close to my ear drum, but we are probably talking about millimeters here, so I do not know if I can get a wire that is just a tiny bit shorter for that ear?