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hearing aids are they fitting right - URGENT
by lover454, Apr 27, 2008 04:00PM
My Question: don’t you think Marilyn is an idiot and
My sister goes to New Hearing for her hearing aids where there are five audiologists. My sister used to use George (co-owner who knows his stuff) but my sister at one time needed Saturday appointments for repairs, etc. so she had to switch to Marilyn (an audiologist who just works there). However, Marilyn really never helped my sister. My sister has programmable hearing aids so the audiologist can program the hearing aids on the premises when the persons hearing gets worse or a little better. Marilyn never programmed the hearing aids to my sisters hearing loss but only to what my sister wanted (which was louder). So my sisters balance became off.
So today I went with my sister to see Marilyn to correct the problem. When we told Marilyn that my sisters balance is off because the hearing aids are not programmed to my sisters hearing Marilyn refused to believe us. Marilyn told my sister to go to an ear nose and throat doctor because it could be a middle ear thing. When my sister told Marilyn she just saw an ENT and he gave her a clean bill of health Marilyn said “Oh he does not know what he is talking about, you need to go see two more doctors - you need at least three opinions”. This got my sister and I furious and we met with the co-owner and told him what Marilyn said. The co-owner looked at my sisters chart and saw my sister did not have a hearing test since 2006. The co-owner told us that my sister needs a new hearing test to see what level her hearing is at and then he can adjust the hearing aids to her hearing and her balance will be back to normal.
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TO AUDIOLOGISTS: Isn't it true that if a person who wears digital hearing aids and the digital hearing aids are not programmed to the persons hearing loss that could make the person wearing digital hearing aids off balance (dizzy)?
TO PEOPLE WHO WEAR DIGITAL: Have you ever felt dizzy when your hearing aids were not adjusted to your hearing loss?
My sister goes to New Hearing for her hearing aids where there are five audiologists. My sister used to use George (co-owner who knows his stuff) but my sister at one time needed Saturday appointments for repairs, etc. so she had to switch to Marilyn (an audiologist who just works there). However, Marilyn really never helped my sister. My sister has programmable hearing aids so the audiologist can program the hearing aids on the premises when the persons hearing gets worse or a little better. Marilyn never programmed the hearing aids to my sisters hearing loss but only to what my sister wanted (which was louder). So my sisters balance became off.
So today I went with my sister to see Marilyn to correct the problem. When we told Marilyn that my sisters balance is off because the hearing aids are not programmed to my sisters hearing Marilyn refused to believe us. Marilyn told my sister to go to an ear nose and throat doctor because it could be a middle ear thing. When my sister told Marilyn she just saw an ENT and he gave her a clean bill of health Marilyn said “Oh he does not know what he is talking about, you need to go see two more doctors - you need at least three opinions”. This got my sister and I furious and we met with the co-owner and told him what Marilyn said. The co-owner looked at my sisters chart and saw my sister did not have a hearing test since 2006. The co-owner told us that my sister needs a new hearing test to see what level her hearing is at and then he can adjust the hearing aids to her hearing and her balance will be back to normal.
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TO AUDIOLOGISTS: Isn't it true that if a person who wears digital hearing aids and the digital hearing aids are not programmed to the persons hearing loss that could make the person wearing digital hearing aids off balance (dizzy)?
TO PEOPLE WHO WEAR DIGITAL: Have you ever felt dizzy when your hearing aids were not adjusted to your hearing loss?
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Anatomically, I would have to say NO. If the hearing aids were programmed differently, meaning one is giving more power than the other by at least 6 dB, a person would lose the ability to localize a sound source. But that does not have anything to do with balance/dizzy.
Yes the inner ear has a relationship with balance, but you have to understand the inner ear is a two chamber mechanisim, one chamber takes care of hearing, the other takes care of balance. The hearing aid is dealing strictly with HEARING and not balance.
That said, if a person was suffering from a rare cochlear disorder, a hearing aid may trigger a dizzy response, but again this has nothing to do with in correct programming.
AND yes I agree, your sister needs another hearing test and yes it is possible for an ENT to miss a conductive loss over a SNHL, not because they can not read an audiogram, but because the type of test done, may not be detailed enough to allow him/her to interpret the data correctly.
good luck
If Marilyn is an audiologist, she at least has a Masters degree, or a doctorate degree...
You may want to do some self reflection at this point.