REM testing in programming software

Thanks. So do you think I am asking too much to be able to hear my colleagues and students wearing masks? Even when Im standing right next to them I cant understand them. I have trialled each brand for the time they would allow me - widex 4 weeks, otican 6 weeks, beltone 4 weeks and now the phonak, which seems a bit better. I think they all have frequency lowering. Does it make a difference that it was 4 different HAs?
Today at work I have spent literally 90% of my day not understanding what was being said.
I still cant understand why you believe I will be able to program when audiologists couldnt.

Which aids have you worn before all these trial aids? How well did you hear with those aids?

I don’t think any of us are pushing you into self programming. This is the DIY forum, we talk about it here. Most of us had bad experiences with audiologists that could not fit aids so we learned how to self program.

If you don’t want to talk about DIY maybe you should start a new thread in the other part of the forum. Lots of help there.

@Doggit said:

I still cant understand why you believe I will be able to program when audiologists couldnt

The audiologists can’t hear what you hear, remember only you and you alone know what you can understand and “hear” when using HAs, so this is why DIY could be a solution for you to try, sure you need to have a basic understanding of how to program, but its not hard to do.
There’s plenty of posts about the subject, just use the search tool from right here on hearingtracker to find the answers you need.

My loss is different from yours, Dawn, but it slopes from workable low/mid to deaf in the highs. Even with what I think is a great HA program, I absolutely struggle with speech of mask wearers compared to when I could lip read them. I feel bad that you were stressed to tears. My solution, which may or may not be helpful to you, was to change some of my expectations of understanding spoken language and to switch to visual assists: captions, real time live transcription of speech via free mobile phone apps, InnoCaption for phone calls (I don’t think that one is in Spain) and others. I’m happy to provide detail if you think it would help.
I don’t think my colleagues at work fully understand the impact of masks, it’s brutal. They need to change speech patterns and that is very hard for people to remember.
The one speech comprehension-related advantage I found beyond hearing aids alone is the Roger pen, which helps but doesn’t solve speech comprehension as my progressive loss deepens. You’re in my thoughts!