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Oticon v phonak - tinnitus

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For 4 years, I had an oticon that masked my tinnitus without using the masking feature. Has the phonak masked tinnitus for you without using the feature? Thoughts on that? I heard oticon picks up a wider range of sounds.

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Phonak Audeo P-90R here. They had a tinnitus masking feature working until I got the activevent receivers. But I had by that time discovered that when I wore the aids I no longer noticed the tinnitus most of the time. I still get occasional breakthrough, but I just pay attention to other things and it rarely disturbs me.

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I didn’t like the Phonak Tinnitus masking. It just added another sound, so I switched it off

Well, I’ve had tinnitis 24x7 since I was 14, but flash forward to the point of it is that YES, my Phonak Lumity Life 312-battery aids mask that persistent sound unless I’m in a completely silent room. And even then, the house will creak, or a car will go by outside, so I feel that wearing these aids helps HUGELY with any kind of annoying tinnitus tone.

I’m lucky in that my tinnitus is pretty much on a single tone; only when the pressure changes (weather-related) do I get some really tuneful BONGING notes. Even the aids don’t compensate for that.

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Yes. They could run or look at historical REM records on your oticon devices and compare to current REM on your new devices to see what frequencies are getting more or less gain amd make adjustments to try to provide the same degree of masking with your newer devices.

That said, it could be coincidiental to getting new devices rather than a cause of new devices (unless it disappears again as soon as you put in your old devices). Tinnitus is very reactive to physical and life stressors, or changes in hearing loss, so if something else changed your tinnitus may change for a while.

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