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When I had unitron unison 3p in 2004 til it died in 2014. I loved it! I love quietness but hates the noises. I believed i only had noises nearby and not few feet away or in the distance. Except for sirens, that was in different program. I had 2 programs.

Here's the thing, ever since 2014, I have struggled and frustrated trying to replicate the same sounds i had with unsion 3p. One thing for sure is, I need to have programs adjusted manually! I hate automatic and since it changes by itself when it doesn't need to! I need the speech and noises equally leveled. I know it can be done and no one is willing to do it what I need in a hearing aid. For those 10 years I loved it! I just want to be satisfied and happy once again and this doesn't help me since im also dealing with anxiety which can makes it worse til I know what I need in a hearing aid! Help!!!!! Im wondering what your thoughts are and what rechargable hearing aid would be good for this!

@floridacats said:

I loved it! I love quietness but hates the noises. I believed i only had noises nearby and not few feet away or in the distance.

So, you're trying to replicate a 22 year old hearing aid that you wore for ten years that gave you close sounds and no distant sounds (poor overall audibility).

Your best bet is probably the Unitron Stride 3 PR. Fit to linear or NL1 targets based on the last thresholds you had taken prior to the death of your previous device, possibly with a loose mold or just generally turned down. Were you someone who went in for regular hearing tests and adjustments or did you just get a hearing test in 2004 and never again?

I can see why no clinician wants to do this, but if you explain you want it to sound exactly like it was before you can get pretty close. Closer if there's any on ear measure record or if the old settings are saved somewhere. But it's a bit like asking the optometrist to give you glasses that only correct your vision halfway, and can have some negative consequences for the brain.

Definitely wasnt loose mold at all! Oh I am one of the regulars who gets hearing test every few years and adjustments when I get new ones every few years! Between 2004-2014 was a different story! I moved to Fl in 2005 and the hearing aid literally lasted that long! Sadly the settings are gone after 7 years or so! I did noticed when I went back to one of the places where I did get unsion, they actually still had my old back in Dec. 2004. I actually took a picture of it between then and last summer on same audiogram and wasnt much difference!

Oh I have for all these years and many years I gave up while struggling and frustrated by it! Just this week I realized it was manually adjusted whereas nowadays automatic and does the work for you which I hate and it drives me nuts specially with my anxieties nowadays! It changes by itself when I dont want it to change! Its been crazy for past year! When I think they got 1 area and need to change others, the whole thing changes instead! The audiologist i had this week, actually made the adjustments the opposite what I needed! Its more noises than speech which suppose to be the opposite!

So if it was turned all the way down (audiologist would say its turned all the way up to the max) for noise reductions, i wondered what's not working if it was turned all the way and still doesn't meet my needs!

I have learned the hard way where no matter what i had done from forward on, is ask for copies, downloads, prints, saves into files on thumb drives or put into file cabinet just in case! I may be over 20 years old at the time but I didnt think these things sometimes and wished I did

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