How often do you change the Receiver on RIC hearing aids?

Sorry to hear that. Take care and be happy!

A follow up it wasn’t my left receiver! After some testing and check things out it seems that something has changed, possibly with my hearing. As it turned out all I needed to do was to leave my right hearing aid volume at default and lower the left hearing aid volume one click and everything is much better, I even made it all the way through the morning church service without having to make any other changes to my aids. That is is a first all summer.

So much for bragging about not having a receiver go bad, my left one has high frequency distortion. I am lucky I have an extra left ear mold with receiver of the same size receiver, now to put it with a less than perfect fit until I can get a replacement.

Sorry 'bout that, Chuck.
And they won’t be open on Monday.
Does your clinic stock them?

BTW my More’s had to go back to Oticon because they were intermittently shutting down, and restarting.
They’ve got to replace the Polaris chips on both!
Been 3 weeks. Actually getting better sound with my OPN S’s!

I had a back up but it may give me some slipping issues. My receivers are embedded in the ear mold. I also have my OPNS1 aids with the same receivers that I could swap out. I am good.
And I have an appointment early October. For a complete hearing test.

@bcsnapier said:

If you look after the HA, you will never have to replace the tiny speakers (because that is what they are). Make sure the wax filters that protect them are cleaned regularly and take them out of your ear very gently each time.

Totally not true and you simply cannot make a generalized statement like that for everyone.

I really look after my hearing aids, replace the wax filters regularly, clean the receivers regularly, put them in dryers at night, take them out of my ears very gently each time (only via the plastic retaining line) → do everything you mentioned above, and I still have to replace my receivers because they eventually go bad.

Every individual situation and hearing loss is different and the level of amplification varies for individuals as well, so what applies to you doesn’t necessarily apply to others.

You obviously did not read the question of the person who started this topic. " The cause may be my carelessness because at first I sometimes carelessly pulled the hearing aids out of my ear. I once put the hearing aid in the charger by mistake in the dark and closed the charger door over a wire"

Also, you omitted my first sentence. " I believe you already answered your own question". which actually refers to the original question and supplies the person’s own answer.

It doesn’t matter if the OP answered his own question already or not. It still doesn’t change the fact that the generalization you made “If you look after the HA, you will never have to replace the tiny speakers” is not true because it doesn’t apply to EVERYONE, even if it applies to the OP.

My right hearing loss is worse than my left one, not by much, but enough difference. I do note also that my right receiver tends to go bad before my left receiver, so I think that your theory that sometimes the receiver can be overworked to death has some merit. But my left receiver eventually went bad, too. So it may be coincidental as well. There’s just not enough data collected to form some kind of conclusion. I’m assuming that part of the OP’s goal here is to solicit enough responses on this thread to see if we can maybe observe a trend. But so far it looks like the data are all over the place for different people.

I have KS9’s. I use DIY silicon ear molds. When the mold wears out I use new receivers to make new ear molds. I don’t know how long I’ve had my current ear molds but probably close to a year. I’ve been buying receivers from a seller on eBay who charges $50 per pair.

@bcsnapier said:

You are absolutely correct. You and a few others may need to replace it sometime.

@bcsnapier: That’s utter balderdash. You clearly don’t know what you’re talking about and are misleading others by your ignorance.

Receivers are mechanical devices and, as such, are subject to wearing out, from time to time. Just because your receiver fails doesn’t mean you have crappy hearing aids, or didn’t look after them.
It just means it wore out and failed. Period.

if you look at my audiogram, maybe mine also broke due to too much increased work. That’s why I would like manufacturers to start making stronger receivers that can handle these operating conditions.

If receivers in the ear fail due to too much work, how come the receivers of the Power BTE aids don’t fail? At least I have never heard of anyone’s integrated receiver inside the BTE aid to fail.

It’s not as common but it does happen, the receiver “wire” on a RIC is the most common cause for failure, mostly from constant pulling/bending at the receiver end over time, next is the insulation breaks down and exposes the wire which allows moisture to enter, and last but not least is the receiver itself, for a variety of reasons, it’s a pretty hostile environment in there!

Bte is most often intended for an increase of up to 120 dB. Hearing aids are larger in size, and I’ve heard that some have two receivers in them that do the work of one receiver.