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Can this be an issue with or DSLv5a?
Is it sometimes preferable then to slightly underfit at soft stimulus? I’ve noticed that for my fit providers can struggle to fit via the three levels using . It seems that you may be saying it would be better to compromise by underprescribing the softer sounds rather than the louder ones with the accuracy focus being around medium sounds?
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But what if your patient says that a bit of background noise actually soothes their 24/7 tinnitus,
Use the Tinnitus noise genertor in the software. Overamping the lower level sounds isn’t really helping - especially as it will contribute to future loudness demands.
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would be better to compromise by underprescribing the softer sounds
Not under-prescribing, just not chasing more loudness for the sake of it: it’s a bit of a one way dead end street - accelerating yourself faster to the other end helps no one.
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Do you have a process for when to increase loudness? Maybe specific feedback from patients that suggests more loudness is needed and they are not just chasing volume.
Do these volume chasers eventually have altered pure tone results or lower at lower input levels?
Excluding new wearers who are adapting, is the opposite of this ever true in that folks want but perhaps should not chase less volume? Or that does not matter because the ear cannot adapt to what it is unable to hear?
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Here is what is nteresting, over the past 8 months I have noticed, 1 my tinnitus isn’t as bad and 2 I have lowered the volume of my aids. At my last appointment in August my audiologist lowered the volume of my aids by what I see as one level of volume by my app and since September I have been lowering the volume and additional 1 level. And I can still hear as good as before. My audiologist can not explain why and neither can I. The only thing that I know has changed is that in early February I started a new supplement regiment that has really benefited my vision and eyes. You see I have dry eyes, cataracts ans macular degeneration. The supplements have given me better vision even by my eye doctors thinking, my tinnitus lowered, and even my blood pressure has lowered to the point that my physician stopped fussy at me to take prescription drugs. I don’t take any prescription drugs. I am 78 years old. Still extremely active and my diet is a moderate keto diet. In otherwords I do eat a higher amount of carbs than the strick recommended amount. I don’t eat factory processed food or fast food or drink soft drinks. Yes I drink a beer a few evenings a week.
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‘Noise/Level junkies’ are a pretty well established phenomenon. It’s a known thing in certain fitting environments.
The reverse does happen, but if people are tending towards quiet: they just remove their aids.
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A curious thing. Usually when I open this forum, I enable Google’s automatic English/Italian translation, and I do the same with YouTube videos so I have Italian subtitles. The other day I opened the Dr. Cliff video above, and without my doing anything, the audio was dubbed in perfect Italian. At the time, I thought it was something Google had done, but today, when I reopened the video, the audio was in English even though I had enabled, as usual, the translation of the forum text into Italian. What do I have to do to enable audio dubbing? Or maybe I dreamed it?
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Got it! By clicking the wheel you can choose the audio track, but sometimes it doesn’t appear. Dubbing is done via .
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they got oticon zeal, mini iic.
and the intent as R with sound tubes.
check their press site.
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