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Subject : Honesty Of The Provider/Fitter? posted by kip on Mon Mar 5, 2012 8:25 pm |
| A TV commercial caught my eyes/ears, today. It was a visual picture of a side view of an ear with the "nearly" invisible hearing aid, size of a pencil eraser (go check out what a standard size pencil eraser looks like and where a wee mike and a wee receiver, wires and other stuff might fit), to fit inside a person's ear canal. Here, there was a man, dressed in white coat talking about needing people for a free clinical trial; then, I heard "IF" they qualify. This started me to wondering back about the first time I went to see what hearing aids were all about. After the sales pitch, I indicated that I would like to be fitted with CICs. At that, she brought out three different sizes of HAs; and, thinking back -- I suspect that only one was the CIC model. The CIC that she showed me was very small - even more small than my little finger. I know, now, that first CIC model that was shown to me was for sale purposes, only. But, that model looked nice -so I put in the order for one for each ear. Wrong choice for me; for, from then on until a partial refund was given to me, I began to realize how important personal homework is for the first time buyer on up. I felt like the nice young lady fitter, knew what the problems were; but, was just following orders from headquarters. She could see the liquid draining out of my ears was not normal; but communications from her office to headquarters and then back again - even when she sent communications ahead of me visiting another location -- telling them of my problem -- that guy looked in my ears and said there was nothing wrong. When, I visited the nice lady fitter, upon returning from the other location - out of town -- she said that there was nothing else she could do; and, give me a partial refund. I write this for another "buyer beware" caution. Whether an ear impression is needed or not -- any thing regarding the fitting process -- especially if pictures are shown by the fitter, before buying -- see what you are actually getting to put in, behind or sitting in your ears before you want to go on with the process of being fitted. If the fitting process doesn't go well, I have heard - from the fitters - your ears are too small, your ears are too large. Go to the Internet and find out the make up of the inside of an ear, from the outside clear to the ear drum. I read where there is cartiledge inside. Maybe, this is to promote movement in ear areas when chewing -- I really don't know. But, what I do know, in my case, I finally found a fitter that knew how to make an ear impression, correctly - and a manufactering company who knew what to do with the impressions and how to program the CICs, correctly, from the audiogram. And, since this happened, I have never had drainage from my ears, since; and, my CICs are so comfortable, I forget I have them on -- going on seven years of wearing time and great hearing, now. Nice! Well, what do you know about that - and, then some (smile!). kip |
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