Need molds redone for a third time, need feedback

@Bimodal_user said:

I don’t think there is someone against my suppositions,

You may be right but your hearing loss does not call for the acoustics you are wanting. Your fitters are reluctant to give you what you want. Then you are dealing with outside mold builders that don’t understand what you want. They are not doing what you want because it’s different.

@Bimodal_user said:

I don’t think there is someone against my suppositions, but perhaps if I understand correctly you has said it with tongue-in-cheek

I didn’t mean it as tongue and cheek. My point is many professionals blow off what the patient wants. The professional knows more so they do as they feel is best. I believe your audiogram is included to these people making the molds.

I took a look at your attached graphs. They explain perfectly why you are driven for closed acoustics. Improve speech understanding with better SNR. Does this sound right?

@Raudrive said:

I didn’t mean it as tongue and cheek. My point is many professionals blow off what the patient wants. The professional knows more so they do as they feel is best.

Alright, I’m sorry, some words for me like “establishment” are a bit strong in my perception (due to much time in social media I suppose), hence my interpretation as a joke.

Yes, you’re right. The task of professionals is to suggest to the patient such a solution that turns out to be optimal or “quite good” in the largest possible percentage of the patient of particular type.

In my case: “you have good low frequency hearing, so with much probability you will have occlusion effect, so we give you earmold with large vent”.

If they way of thinking is good? In most cases - yes, because, indeed, there are many people who can even refuse using HAs due to occlusion effect. Add some lack of ability to counselling, which can be the hardest part, as @Neville once said.

However, with some knowledge, I know that I can compromise on comfort to get as much potential as possible from hearing aids.

@Raudrive said:

I took a look at your attached graphs. They explain perfectly why you are driven for closed acoustics. Improve speech understanding with better SNR. Does this sound right?

Indeed. My goal is exactly that. So there was some out-of-the-box thinking, like:

1. getting UP receiver instead of P despite my audiogram has “too good” low frequency hearing (not to mention M, suggested by Target software)

2. Keeping earmold as close as possible, so originally, I wanted to have a pressure vent, but in the end I decided to take a chance and buy cShell without vent.

@Bimodal_user

@Bimodal_user thank you for the moral support given your year-long saga of trying to get your molds right! That’s a long trial!

I have been following the back and forth on that, but don’t know enough to respond specifically on that—except to commiserate how difficult it can be.

Btw, does bimodal mean that you have 1 cochlear implant?

@Danuta That is interesting that you say the wire is too short. It may be. Thank you for that tip.

But I also think the fact that I don’t have the natural turn(s) in my ears is a big issue.

And the fact that I have loose ligaments/connective tissue, meaning that my TMJs are hyper mobile is a big deal, too. Argh, the number of ways things can go wrong is a lot!!

@Bimodal_user Thank you.

You cochlear implant people have my admiration, as you’ve had to go through a lot to hear. But, thankfully, that is possible now, whereas in the past that wasn’t possible. I don’t know how long it has been possible, but probably not a super long time.

My friend is an audiologist, I had the same problem with the first bernafon HA, she gave me this tip, yeah it was a reason , they exchange for longer ones.