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I am curious to why my right aid only whistles in automatic mode?

My right mould is a year old now and I am getting a new one but I don't understand why its only whistles in one program?

It only started whistling 2 days ago.

Anyone else experience this?

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LoveBlue

Just a guess, but your automatic mode probably is at higher "volume" than any of the other molds. You may need to get the audi to adjust the "max" on it. Especially if you've been turning up the volume. These aids have a memory and will eventually adjust themselves to the volume you seem to be most comfortable in. But, this may cause the HA to need to have it's max adjusted by the audi. This happened to me once...I think my problem was that the HA would cut-off because of this.

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NaidaUP

Going to try new moulds anyway and then if it is still going on, then will look at what you said and other options.

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Just changed my microphones protectors and it seems not to be whistling in automatic. See if it stays like that. Only changed them few months ago but have had a lot of rain in the UK.

Have a friend who has had the Naidas since they first came out and I ask him how often he changed his microphone protectors and he has said never. Can't see how he is coping. He has NHS aids and they haven't given us microphone protectors. I bought mine. Me being 26 y o and working is fine. He is 15 y o and still at school.

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cdmeggers

I have that same problem. For some odd reason, it stops feedbacking if I flip the HA over my hear, so it's hanging in front of my ear instead of sitting behind the ear. Same thing happened with my last hearing aid too.

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RoseRodent

Sorry about this thread hijack but is there any limit on this, or could someone potentially fry their ears by turning the volume up and up and up every day? Just interested. I can imagine my mum turning up and up because her aid is blocked with ear wax, then I clean them for her and it blows her head off!

Also, does it apply program by program or across the whole hearing aid, do you know? My "Speech in noise" program is ludicrously quiet, I have to turn the volume up by 4 notches as soon as I enter that program but it never seems to get any louder, I'm wondering if it makes all the programs louder so they will never even out. It's the one thing I'd definitely change about my Phonaks is that when you change programs it knocks off all your volume changes and puts you back to the middle again. If I'm having a really deaf day it's a total pain constantly resetting it.

LoveBlue

Well, you can only turn them up so far (based on what the audie sets as the max). Not sure if there's a max to the max that the audie can set.

I know what you mean with the speech-in-noise. Unfortunately it muffles all the sounds when it goes into that mode/program.

I can't recall if the volume goes up for all programs. Before I got the ComPilot, I found myself turning the iCom up when using the TVLink. Now I can use the volume control on the ComPilot.

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RoseRodent

I know that they set a max range that you can adjust within, so nothing, +/- 6dB or +/- 10 dB. The number of times you can press volume up doesn't change and it certainly seems like it's still giving a +10dB range. So say you keep turning it up by 4dB every day, eventually it will set that as the mid-point, giving you -6dB to your original prescription and +14dB. You turn it up more so you reach (comparatively) +18 and -2, then gradually bump it up till you have +22 at the top and +2 at the bottom. Since you had to have your max volume reset by the audi it certainly sounds like it would just keep on going up and up. Automatic learning is a pain for me anyway, as I have a fluctuating loss.