Pressure in ear canal from hearing aids

@anon54276456

M50 is the same level as your Q50.

The SP fits your loss better in the highs. You might be getting over power of highs as your highs are too good for the UP.

I’m no expert but if you feel you can stick with a UP, the the P50 is same level as your Q50.

If you go for the M50, then they have BassBoost option.

So the M50 won’t have as much high end and more focus on the low end?

The only reason I was looking for bass boost in the P70-UP was so I could turn it off to see if it would prevent the aids from destroying my ear drums.

I have been at work for 6 hours now, I’m wearing my old hearing aids with the same occluded molds that I was wearing on the new aids and there is zero pressure. My ears drum are sore from the old aids but the delivery is comfortable and the levels are comfortable. So I’m not sure how the mold could be the issue like all the other people are suggesting when they perform perfectly with my old aids. The aid itself really isn’t any different seated on the outside of my ear, so i think it’s fair to say the physical fitting isn’t the issue.

I talked to Audi today, he’s gonna order the P50-UP aids today. He wants to compare them on his REM and other tests side x side with my old aids. But he set the P70-UP aids to the same settings as my Q50-UP aids and the sound nothing alike, but the REM said they measured the same. I’m not sure what REM measures but the didn’t sound the same, not even close.

I have always had a 675 battery so I’m just a little worried about the 13 battery being sufficient I suppose. But they way those the P70-UP we’re pushing I’m guessing the M70-SP will be ok. Maybe have to change batteries more often

@anon54276456

Hopefully you find them better and can hear better with them.

Good luck. Keep us updated.

I’ve gone from 675 batteries to 13 batteries on my M70 and they last 6 days so not as good but still a good amount of time.

Ok, that’s manageable. That’s good to hear.

Yeah what issues should I expect?

You might not get bluetooth issues. Do an search on ’ Marvel aids Bluetooth issues.’ on Forum.

I just wanted to update: after trialing the Oticon Xceed 1, Phonak P70-UP, then M70-SP, then 2 pair’s of Starkey’s, then Phonak P30-UP, finally it was found that the P50-UP was best fit. The Oticon Xceed’s were the best in my opinion had they not had reverberation issues, could not figure that out, their wind management is superior, their Genie Software is superior, compatibility wasn’t great, the reverberation could not be corrected, but best sound quality otherwise. The M70-SP’s weren’t powerful enough, there was lots of reverberation on the mid’s, otherwise they would have been alright. The Starkey’s had some weird issues like rubbing against my hair was really loud, feedback issues, and didn’t sound great. After all this time I can say, the P70-UP is a noisy circuit. The audi thought about it and suggested trying the P30-UP. I was skeptical, but he had them, and they were too quiet of a circuit. Coincidentally, the P50-UP are inline and balanced with the old Naida Q50-UP I wore, which makes sense. And here’s the other thing, I do feel very minimal pressure with the P50-UP but no where near the P70-UP which felt like my head was going to burst. The P30-UP the pressure was nonexistent but so was some of the minute background noise I would like to be aware of, comfortable with my surroundings. The P30-UP did seem to struggle a little bit processing noise, where as the P70-UP would process anything it picked up overwhelmingly, almost a nuisance for my situation. The P50-UP imported all my old settings balanced too, which the P30 was audibly underpowered and the P70 was audibly overpowered.

With all this being said, I still have no idea how an audiologist could simply prescribe whatever he/she felt suitable and find a correct fit, there are way too many factors to be overlooked. If I had settled for the P70’S I would have harmed my hearing and turned a bad situation into worse. If I had settled for P30’s I would have continued my perpetual disappointment. Now I’m not saying the P50’s are great, but after trying Oticon, Phonak, Starkey, they seem to be at least as good as the Q50’s. I was really hoping for an improvement this purchase since the last two pairs were substantial downgrades as far as the analog hearing aids I had prior to digital aids. And I am not willing to downgrade again, my social life has already diminished, my speech has diminished and my ability to communicate is non-existent since the development of digital aids which was never the case with analog aids. I used to be lively and energetic and excited, now I am a monotone, flat, expressionless individual as a result of the digital age. So I guess at least I can say, I got something as good as the old hearing aids, no more no less.

Thanks for those that were helpful @Zebras @Neville @tenkan @hass5744 @Terost & esp @jeffrey.

It just goes to show how everyone hears differently

@anon54276456 said:

ever since digital has been around, each generation I have bought I have lost more and more social life. Each gen has been a downgrade.

Is your loss progressive?

I don’t think it’s the digital aid. In fact digital should help more. But as has been asked. Is your hearing declining

No, my hearing has not changed since childhood.