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Cookie bite hearing loss, can I wear IIC hearing aids?

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Hi i’m new. Sorry for my english. I have cookie bite on both ears. From 1-3KHz downgrade to 40db. I consider but ONLY becose work, they must be invisible. What are best IIC for this kind of HL? I have bad tinnitus, have this 12 years.

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My hearing loss started out as a cookie bite hearing loss, and I am going to be honest it s hard to fit. And depending on how severe will determine what aids are best for your loss. I have been wearing aids for over 16 years and I have always had issues with speech understanding. When I finally gave into getting aids my loss was mild to moderate to mild and I still had speech understanding issues. To be honest a cookie bite hearing loss needs an Audi that fully understand how to make adjustments and you will need to be very patient and willing to go back in for a number of adjustments that go far beyond the normal number of adjustments that most Audiologist want to spend the time with you to do.
By the way I have had tinnitus for almost 45 years. It never goes away, but when I am wearing my aids I notice it less. And there are aids with tinnitus masking programs that helps some of us. I use my program when a lone and in a very quiet environments

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I’m a fellow cookie biter. I started with a Widex as my first pair decades ago. I’ve since moved to . I have better hearing in the highs and lows and drop to moderately severe in the mids. I couldn’t tolerate the IIC style because it blocked the sounds I heard better and gave too processed of a sound. When BTE open fits came around they were beneficial to our type of loss since they allow some sound to enter naturally. I know BTE are not invisible on the back of the ear but otherwise they’re hardly noticeable.

However my audiologist said that if I wanted to try an IIC again they are much smaller than when I previously owned a pair. She recommended Signia Silk as an option for my cookie bite. I declined trying them because I like streaming from my phone and I want to avoid an intermediary device to do that. Otherwise I might have tried them out. They were so delicate and I’d imagine for IIC more comfortable than what I’d once had. And it might have been a slightly open fit IIC but don’t quote me on that because I didn’t try them and I’m not positive.

By the way, I was 31 when I got my first open fit BTEs. It was in my late 20’s and early 30’s that my loss became troublesome enough that I sought out a new pair. The loss is incredibly hard to program. I’m currently trialing new devices and have tried most that are on the market. Right now at age 41, I’m still trialing Resound Ones BTE open fit. Still attempting to work out kinks in the programming. I’ve connected with some other people cookie bite loss and it seems quite common that early 30’s is when they needed treatment. In some cases that’s when it was diagnosed. The better high and low hearing makes it possible to compensate for awhile. My advice to you is find a place that lets you trial before purchasing. Good luck!

What is a reason for cookie bite hearing loss? In my all family nobody have problems with hearing. I using headphones somentimes but not loud so much, i was on 3 loud concerts but i dont notice worse after them. My tinnitus start without a reason in regular day after work long before concerts, it was 12 years ago, on this time i have normal hearing, one frequency only have decrease 2KHz to 30db. I never work in noise, sometimes if i doing something loud like drilling i always using earplugs or other hearing protection like special headphones. After this years my hearing slowly decrease but i dont notice this. This is hereditary? Or noise falt? I have 32 yo and i have depression about this…

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Cookie bite losses are typically hereditary. Like you, there are no other known cases in my family. It’s quite likely you were born with it. Mine was caught in an elementary school hearing screening at age 9. It didn’t progress far enough for treatment until I was 18. At the time there were few options that would’ve helped my loss. Hearing aid technology is infinitely better than the late 90’s.

For me, I think I’d have opted for the Silk. I’d be interested to hear what your experiences are with either one. Please share on this thread if you give them a try.

In the past couple of years I actually have seen a therapist to mainly talk about hearing loss struggles. Having someone to talk to regularly to about it has helped me. Hearing loss can be frustrating to deal with and anxiety provoking at times.

Sure but i only think about buy a pair at the moment. I hear not do bad, i can speak normal with other persons but have trouble on noisy enviroment. Can you tell me what can be a reason od cookie bite ?

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Cookie bite losses can vary in severity. I can also converse without hearing aids and my worst environments are noisy ones. Mine has been progressive since age 9. I steadily lost hearing between age 9 and my early-mid twenties. It’s been relatively stable in the past 15 years. I think the progressive nature of the loss made it harder for me to accept it. I remember an audiologist telling me that those first experiencing/ or learning of their hearing loss go through the 5 stages of grief. It can take time to reach acceptance. Be gentle with yourself.

I’m not a doctor and I’m speaking purely from personal experience with my own cookie bite/ mid frequency hearing loss, and what I’ve learned about mine over the years. Probably the best thing you can do is have regular hearing screenings. Since my loss has been stable for years, it’s recommended I have them ever 3 years.

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I have been told it is in my heritage but none of my family has ever complained with hearing loss. I have also been told it is due to my military service as an electronics technician and I worked around loud equipment fans and also jet engines and aircraft.

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