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Best Hearing Aids for Fluctuating Hearing Loss

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My hearing fluctuates often and quite a bit - 40 -50 decibels in some frequencies. I’d like to have at least 3-4 different programs based on different hearing tests (worst day, best day, and a couple in between) I am testing Phonak Sphere i90’s right now and they say I can only have one main program. If they create another program, then none of the , or automatic features will work when I’m using that program. Anyone have any experience with this? Or have any suggestions for hearing aids that accomodate fluctuating hearing?? Help! :slight_smile:

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Just to give you some comfort the short answer is yes.
Some users create a manual program to force Spheric mode on demand rather than have to wait for the auto Parameters to cut in.
Others will be along to give you more details.
You are going to have an embarrassing moment with your audiologist.
You could be considering diy.

Sorry you haven’t had any other responses. I think the title may have confused others.
Depending on the level of aids you have you can usually create up to four manual programs based on a choice of other installed programs.
To create what you are asking you would have to do several hearing tests at those times when you suspect the variations were present.
You would have to then enter those gain values and other settings into the created manual programs.
Obviously not the usual time Dependent action of someone telling you it can’t be done.
That is why I suggested you research diy.
Lets ask @firenzel for his expertise.

consider buddy. I’m in the same situation. I don’t have the hearing aids yet, but I do know what I want to buy. My main advantage may be that I’m a sound engineer so I have some knowledge about what those settings mean, but we all have the internet. I suggest you reading a lot about the physics of sound, understand what’s a , what’s frequency, how the proprietary software for your hearing aid works and so on. On the other hand 10dB fluctuation in all frequencies a day is not a great what. Most of the hearing aids you see sold have some basic eq like: treble bass middle… they let you play with 5dB plus or minus. Welll I think it suffice. Keep in mind for a perfect DIY setting you should be able to measure hearing, make so you know for sure what’s lower and higher. Such devices are very expensive. I wanted to buy for myself some Senheisers used in audiometry and they where like 500 USD… god forbid. Also you need a pure sine generator (hardware preferably) and the most important the calibration. This is the most hard thing. You don’t have the technical capabilities and to invest thousands of dollars (or Euro or whatever) in such toys makes no sense. I do encourage you to study about the sound and how to play with your hearing aids.

I’m a musician and have recorded a few albums, so I know some about EQ, etc. When you say , do you mean get the Phonak program that audiologists use and learn it so I can create my own programs? I do have an audiologist friend from another state that sent that link to me and I’ve downloaded it. I wasn’t sure if I messed around with that, if it might void my warranty or what the audiologist where I bought the hearing aids would do. I wish the hearing aid apps allowed the use to take a basic hearing test through the hearing aids so I could see where my hearing was on my own. The $179 iPods allow you to do that, but the $7000 hearing aids do not.

@Alaria said:

When you say DIY, do you mean get the Phonak program that audiologists use and learn it so I can create my own programs?

Yep and you’ll also need the Noahlink wireless programming device for any projects.

@Alaria said:

I wasn’t sure if I messed around with that, if it might void my warranty or what the audiologist where I bought the hearing aids would do

No you won’t void any warranty and don’t worry about what the Audiologist is gonna say, no one cares about their opinion and remember that these are your and the Audiologist works for you, not the other way round.

You don’t need “basic” to fit to your audogram, you can enter this manually or do your own test using In-situ audiometry in target.

@tenkan said:

no one cares about their opinion

This is a very fun opinion to have, and is in no way counter-productive (sigh).

Anyway, @Alaria without looking at prior fluctuations it is tough to say whether each fluctuation will be exact every time. This is why I tend to activate volume control for those cases. However, if you know that your fluctuations are in low frequencies only, that can be grounds for manual programs or tweaking with the EQ settings in the app.

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