Background: I got my first hearing aid at the beginning of this year. They sent me a CIC (not what I ordered…), had various issues like static and distortion with “louder” noises, and died a little over a month. When I was finally able to see audiologist for followup, she said it was physically a poor fit as I complained how it hurts the bottom of my ear, and they needed to remake it smaller.
Since Oticon gave me a CIC instead of the one size bigger as ordered, I figured I’d just get a IIC for a replacement if I was going to be using the smaller battery anyways.
Just got the IIC and I can’t hear certain high frequencies which wasn’t an issue to begin with; i only have low freq congenital conductive loss similar to otosclerosis. 4k and 8k is at least 20 dB worse than unaided. 6k seems fine. This didn’t happen with the one before. Looking at the hearing aid itself, the vent seems much smaller on the outside (half the size or more); the inside seems the same size at before. Is this the issue? Perhaps this is why the one before was too large; it was the vent side that was poking out and into the bottom of my ear.
This fitting experience was also very different from the first so I don’t know if that’s part of the issue. First time I spent over an hour there and this time was just 20 mins. I had to run back because it was unbearably loud despite already having it adjusted down already.