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Can anyone explain to me how to to take the hearing test correctly please?

I understand that when audiologist performs the hearing test on me, I need to press the button if I hear the sound.

But when do I need to press the button? barely heard, hear clearly, or hear faintly.

I asked audi when to press … but I just always got question when you hear something then press the button. We all know from faintly heard to hear clearly can have up to 10 different DB.
The reason I asked because the setting on my Oticon OPN1 kept go wrong. I went to see few Audi already and I did program myself in insitu and my graph is different from their graphs and it has been 8 months already but I am still struggling to get to level of hearing I wanted.
Can anyone shed me some light on it please?

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If you are struggling to get enough volume wait until you “positively” hear it, rather than borderline. I realised after doing several new fittings that the best result for me is to ensure a definite result rather than respond when you think you might’ve heard it.

Hi tinkyp,
Do you mean I have to wait till the test sound is loud and clear? in the other words, if I faintly hear the sound, then just don’t react (Press the button) but wait till the sound is loud at reasonable volumes?

Thanks again for your respond

It’s difficult but I had a little flat patch which if I press when it’s extremely faintly audible my hearing would be quiet in that area, so now I only respond when I can really hear it in that patch. If you are really not hearing well though it sounds like something isn’t quite right, as I can still hear well overall even if that area is a little flat. I have Widex hearing aids and they use a sensogram fitting, the sounds are played directly into the hearing aids so the margin for error is very small. It’s difficult to know what isn’t right without the ins and outs of it but a good fitting should enable you to hear pretty well straight away, but it needs to be done exactly as it should be, which will vary with different hearing aids.

In the hearing tests that I have had, they want you to press the button as soon as you hear anything. Due to my severe high frequency loss, I sometimes think the tone is my tinnitus, so I ask if they will either do an interrupted tone, or a warbling tone so I can tell the difference. I do know that when I do “ Direct” in Target software, I get less loss than when I do a regular hearing test. I think the difference is that with Audiogram Direct, I can give myself several tries to be sure what I think I hear is actually the tone.

Thank you all for responding to my question.
But hello all I am still loss!.. after gone through all of your comments.

My question is: when do I need to press the button? barely heard, hear clearly, or hear faintly, or hear loudly?

Again, the reason I asked “very specific” because I believed best hearing for hearing aid wearer is based on hearing test and that test is entered into audio-gram. if the hearing test is not as accurate as it should be then the audio-gram is wrong which turns into terrible results. It’s been 8 months. I visited 3 audi and they came with different tests (their results were not big of the different from each other but they do have different … I think it was because of me responding to the sound by pressing the button) and I have been programming myself too with Insitu feature in Gennie2. and my results were also different from those Audi. when I programmed myself, I stay in the closet so it was very quiet as the audi test room.
To make it short. in Gennie2 fitting software, it has target dashed line and computed optimum hearing graph line that was calculated from user’s audio-gram. Neither audio-grams from my 3 audi and myself program did work great at all. What I did was to increase/bring the prescribed graph line (computed optimum hearing line) above target line for frequency 500 to 2k in order for me to hear people talk.I don’t think what I did was correct because I can hear one on one conversation but I am completely unable to hear when there is group discussion… I know there is something is not right but I cannot tell where and what is wrong… please shed me some light.
I don’t think any of my Audi really understood what I have described to them … I did not tell them I did program my aids in Gennie2. Only things surprised them were their setting saving were changed whenever I visited them… I saw what Audi did to my aids were also trial and error. They increased some frequencies and decreased certain frequencies base on my complained then sent me home and comes back next two weeks… Please let me know what you think

thank you

Barley heard and faintly are one in the same and the correct time.

What are you doing in the forum asking this question? Are you a self fitter?

I see it as threshold-seeking. They start out at what they think you should hear. Then lower the volume. Even with warbling or pulse tones I wonder…is that it? Then they bump it up a little and yup that’s it and press the button. Maybe they drop it again. I wonder again but am not sure. I don’t press the button.
I only press when I’m sure.
I guess some people can kind of game this if they know they want more gain somewhere but I’m not interested in gaming my results.

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