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New Issues OPN1 RITE I SOUND LIKE I LISP AND SLUR MY SPEECH UPDATED

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The saga seems to continue.
Had the aird replaced by OTICON for a 4TH time in the past year and a half or so.
This time the programming was far superior in every way to anything we did previously. Everything done from scratch. I will say that restaurants still suck even with NR pushed to the max. The BF nose if just overpowering even though I wear custom molded / fit domes.

Then…I paired to my Android phone via the Oticon app. Next I paired the Connect Clip to the phone.

An hour later the left aid drops out. It doesn’t shut off but rather gets so low in power that you can barely hear anything through it. Typically if I hold that aid in my hand it screams with feedback. Can’t get it to make a squeak even when this happens. Don’t ask me how I figured this out but the only way to go back to normal (qualified condition) id to blow hard in the where the goes and low and behold it roars back to life. I even had to show my audi that this was the case. Oticon has no clue as to why.

Then, I am having a conversation and all of a sudden have the sense that I am slurring my words and lisping. I have a cold coming on but this is out of nowhere. and my hearing sounds very muffled which I contribute to the oncoming cold. It makes me feel even sicker because my brain senses stuffed up sinuses. Two days later even after asking everyone if I am slurring my words and everyone saying they don’t think so, I go in to see my audi again.

She programs and brand new set of her demo aids and low and behold the clurring, lisping and feeling of plugged ears vanishes in an instance.

We descie to pair the aids to nothing for a day. They honestly work better than they have ever worked except they still suck in noise.

I then pair to the phone via the app. I run good for about 20 hours and then out of nowhere the left one goes silent. I remove it, put my mouth on it and blow hard and the damn thing roars back to life. Antor 24 hours and it doesn’t happen again so I connect to the conect clip by pairing to the aids and to the phone. Everything works great until I stream some music and all of a sudden the volume decreases in the left one and instantly I feel occluded and when I speak my voice again sounds to me as trough I have had a dam stroke, lisping and slurring all of m words although nobody else hears it apparently…and when we programmed this set of aids it went away instantly.

I unpair everything, uninstall everything, change batteries, change wax guards, turn aids on and off and now they are stuck in this damn mode again. Same thing that happened before. There seems to be no way for me the user to reset them to some semblance of normalcy.

I live in MA but will be in for a bit and my Audi has set up in conjunction with Oticon I believe and appointment wit a new AUDI down here on Tuesday of this week.

So damn frustrating.

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Wow, your shows a really bad loss in your right ear. I suspect your are tuned with some form of frequency compression to get the upper frequencies into your hearing range. If the FCo is not right, a lisp is common. However, given the marked difference in your two ears, I am not sure there is a good answer. It is good that your are getting more options for tuning. I certainly an no expert, but your audiogram looks like a really tough fit. Don’t give up for this is not all science.

The perception of a lisp is just that…pet eived because of what the hearing aids make my brain hear when the aids go out of whack…all caused by some interaction between pairing them with my phone and the connect clip.
In addition, once impacyed, the volume decreases by approximately 50% and becomes very muffled.

My Audi is baffled but I have actually showed her this in action . Oticon claims they have no clue

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All this technology about getting the two hearing aids to communicate, yet with your ears that far apart, there is not much to communicate about. My 2 cents. Cone in some of you more knowledgeable members. Could be, to phone should be monaural? Normal operation I can’t say.

Not to ask a stupid question, but have you tried just changing the rather than blowing forcefully into the speaker?

I have and I have even removed it to show this not to be the cause.
The interesting part is at this time now that this new trend has developed whereby overall volume decreases and the feeling of slurring / lisping occurs, nothing corrects the issues unless the aids are fully reset and programs are reloaded.

Most newer hearing aids communicate with each other …

The OPN1 definitely does. I too suspect that the control and streaming algorithms are having difficulties. A theory… Blowing into the aid as you are is compressing the receiver. Imagine taking your hand and pushing against a speaker. The aid isn’t in your ear. So the microphone will pick up what the receiver is doing.

Try this. Totally disable feedback control if the things will sit in your ears without howling. You might get a whistle when your ear is up close to something. Tolerate it for the sake of testing. See if your streaming issue goes away.

This might be a stupid suggestion - when it is an issue that arises over time and it helps blowing into the receiver (with the off?) my first thought would be in the direction of moisture or wax buildup in the receiver. This does not explain the app and streaming related to it, but just for the case that they are different problems.

Moisture/wax in the receiver would definitely make the sound level go down dramatically and would be fixed by exchanging the hearing aid (or just the receiver). And it would come back again if the hearing aid was used the same way again. As you talk about changing wax guards this would then be moisture in the actual receiver.

If this is related to moisture, it can be checked by exchanging the receiver and possibly prevented by using a drying box for the hearing aid during the night.

It might also be connection issues of some kind and then I’m sorry for this long talk and hope someone else has a better suggestion.

I’m related to the hearing industry, working in Widex but what I write here is strictly my own opinions.

I don’t honestly know the answer. I wish I did.
Currently trialing Phonak M90’s. I just can’t deal with the Opns any longer
A very expensive lesson with no relief from the manufacturer.

Best of luck with that. I truely hope they work better for you. And very sorry for the expensive lesson.

In reply to @jfenton

The OPN are not for everyone at least that is what my Audi has told me and another person that he was talk to at the same time the OPN1s are working great for me, but they would not work for the other person and both of our hearing issues are about the same

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