What? Pardon? Agghhh, I CAN'T hear you 8(

Today I had my follow up appointment to get my hearing aid checked out for how it's going. I'm real sad to say, he's taken it back 8( My cute little pink hearing aide is mine no more.

When I told the audiologist the problems I ended up having with it, he suggested I try another model. With the one I had, the tube that enters my ear canal is to wide. He says I have a narrow ear canal, so the tube was a tight fit. It actually became uncomfortable for me, and as I talk, chewed, swallowed, it felt like my ear canal was trying to squeeze the tube back out. It's surprising how much your ear actually moves as you do these activities, it actually kinda opens and shuts. I was having to regularly take the aide out and scratch or rub in my ear, which actually irritated it further.

As well as the size, the audibility was not really set for aiding me in hearing people talk. I'm guessing if I wasn't having the tube size problem, he would have just adjusted the hearing and I'd try again(the aide gets hooked up to his computer and he tweaks the levels of hearing that way). So, hopefully once I have a more comfortable aide, the levels will be adjusted better.

I could definitely hear better, it was truly amazing! But, the "background noises" (eg-foot steps, crumbling paper, cutlery clanking) were taking over any other noise. Even though a persons voice was louder then without the aide, the background noises were louder still.....so virtually put me back to square one :( Plus the whooshing noise I could hear from the aide is hopefully gonna be less noticeable with a smaller tube in my ear, as the audiologist suggested that it was caused by the feedback within the canal.

Anyway, next appointment is the 23rd Feb, where I will get fitted with a different aide. It DOESN'T come in pink :`( This one only came in beige, brown, red or blue. I've gone blue. And you know the funny thing? When I first picked the pink aide, the audiologist was a bit taken back with it, even checked with my husband that I'm being serious, yet today as he sent me on my way, he said they've had those colours for ages and no one gets them and he's glad to see someone ordering them! lol

Anyway......SPEAK UP, I'm deaf!!!!