I just started wearing phonaks baseline hearing aide with the silicone cones and after 4 to 5 days my ear canal seems to swell and become occluded and sore. After I wait about a week the occlution lifts, the pain goes away and then I try again only to be met with the same effect. The audiologist gave me a smaller cone , but the swelling and closure of canal occurred again. Is it possible I am allergic to the silicone cone? I have asked the audiologist if trying the custom titanium cones would possibly work, and he said he has had very poor outcomes with the titanium tips. Has anyone had the same effect when they started wearing hearing aides for the 1st time.
I love mine. About three and a half years I’ve been wearing them. Don’t know as I’ve ever heard someone get a reaction like that from them. Maybe they aren’t good at doing the impressions?
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Yes, you could be sensitive to the Silicone. I find it is hot and ichey, and I use Acrilic custom molds.
Watch this video … a little long, but inforitave;
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Thank you for the informative videos. The ENT Dr. Says mt ear canals are narrow. I have always had to constatntly clear my ears and I am not sure if my ears are sensitive to the Silicone cones or I just have sensitive ears. The audiologist at Kaiser has been a bit dismissive with regards to custom molds. He says he has had very little success with custom molds for my type of ear canals.
I have narrow ear canals and hated domes, tried everything to be comfortable with them, but generally felt like ripping them out of my ears. I got on fine with Phonak c-shells. I now have Starkey CIC aids and they are a good fit.