Re: Ted: Re: driving yourself mad

[Guest guest]

Deb,

Interesting about the audi " locking " the volume. For me when activated, there

were no restrictions in volume or sensitivity. I simply was told things were

going to be loud and I would have to get used to it. I did set the volume in

the office to what I perceived was a decent level and left it at that. Now, I

submit when going outside that everything was loud! I didn't change the volume

but found the setting for autosensitivity and used that until I got into the car

(mind you I was in the Freedom study trials and I had no idea what the different

settings were...they wanted me to experiment with them).

A suggestion for Ted about driving, if he has a setting like autosensitivitiy,

he could use that and it really makes noises while driving managable or other

very loud environments.

Dale

Deborah H <gypsyheart1963@...> wrote:

Ted,

I see it was suggested that you turn the volume down

on the CI if the sound while driving yourself home is

driving you mad. Be aware that you may or may not have

control of the volume at activation. My audie gave me

control of the sensitivity not the volume, because she

knew from experience (and in my case she was right)

that if the newly activated has total control over the

volume the first day they WILL turn it down and it's

important to do the best you can to leave the audie's

office with a volume you feel you can tolerate

(bearing in mind that the world outside that room is

noisier) and try to take it in and give yourself a

chance to get used to it.

Deb

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[Guest guest]

You're welcome! And don't panic too much when you hear

weird or startling sounds. Most are from " normal "

activities, although I thought the sky was falling a

few times until I got used to some sounds LOL

Deb

Dale...it must've been so interesting being a part of

the freedom trials!

--- " Ted F. " <ted.fletcher@...> wrote:

> Thanks for the input and tips, Deb. What drives me

> crazy, is just how

> quiet the audiometrists offices are. They adjust my

> hearing aids and

> they sound fine in there, but when i get outside,

> they sound

> inadequate. The audi would be a fool to trust me

> with a volume

> control on the first day :-)

>

> I'm starting to think that when they turn me on,

> that its going to be

> noisy, like I experienced with my first set of

> hearing aids. We had a

> cat at the time and she used to scratch the

> flyscreen on the windows

> to be let in and I had never heard this before, I

> nearly sh*t

> myself :-)

>

> Ted F.

>

>

>

> >

> > Ted,

> >

> > I see it was suggested that you turn the volume

> down

> > on the CI if the sound while driving yourself home

> is

> > driving you mad. Be aware that you may or may not

> have

> > control of the volume at activation. My audie gave

> me

> > control of the sensitivity not the volume, because

> she

> > knew from experience (and in my case she was

> right)

> > that if the newly activated has total control over

> the

> > volume the first day they WILL turn it down and

> it's

> > important to do the best you can to leave the

> audie's

> > office with a volume you feel you can tolerate

> > (bearing in mind that the world outside that room

> is

> > noisier) and try to take it in and give yourself

> a

> > chance to get used to it.

> >

> > Deb

>

>

>

>

>

>

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[Guest guest]

Deb,

Yes, it was. I kind of enjoyed trying to " guess " the different setting and

seeing what worked for me. Basically, it went for six months with many visits

during that time (technically it wasn't over after I reached one year). Not

knowing exactly which setting was which is the only thing that drove me crazy.

I did guess the autosensitivity one fairly quickly but the others weren't so

obvious. I did find ADRO my favorite rather quickly as well but I didn't know

what was its name until later (believe it or not it wasn't until my one year

appt that I got all the program names from them). I believe they did make me go

with different speeds and I do remember some awful maps that I just didn't like.

Fortunately, I had fairly frequent mappings so I didn't suffer too long!

They had me do lots of word and sentence tests which weren't easy for me at

first. This was mainly for the fact my hearing had gotten to the point (prior

to the CI) where I had no longer trusted what I heard if I wasn't paying

attention. Talk about a transition with the CI where you could trust and depend

on your hearing (probably for the first time in my life). That has probably

been the greatest benefit for me...to be able to respond in kind and quickly

without confusion or doubts over what was said. Before with my HA, you got

tired of asking people " Excuse me but I didn't catch that... " bit. Nowadays, I

seldom have to ask for a repeat and that is soooo nice!

On a side not, the biggest surprise for me was music. I was listening to all

of my favorites and more that first week and no problems. In fact, I purposely

listened to music from day two on to " train " my brain to get used to the CI

input. I must of been one of the fortunate ones where speech, music and the

environmental sounds all sounded good pretty much by the end of the first week.

Dale

Deborah H <gypsyheart1963@...> wrote:

You're welcome! And don't panic too much when you hear

weird or startling sounds. Most are from " normal "

activities, although I thought the sky was falling a

few times until I got used to some sounds LOL

Deb

Dale...it must've been so interesting being a part of

the freedom trials!

--- " Ted F. " <ted.fletcher@...> wrote:

> Thanks for the input and tips, Deb. What drives me

> crazy, is just how

> quiet the audiometrists offices are. They adjust my

> hearing aids and

> they sound fine in there, but when i get outside,

> they sound

> inadequate. The audi would be a fool to trust me

> with a volume

> control on the first day :-)

>

> I'm starting to think that when they turn me on,

> that its going to be

> noisy, like I experienced with my first set of

> hearing aids. We had a

> cat at the time and she used to scratch the

> flyscreen on the windows

> to be let in and I had never heard this before, I

> nearly sh*t

> myself :-)

>

> Ted F.

>

>

>

> >

> > Ted,

> >

> > I see it was suggested that you turn the volume

> down

> > on the CI if the sound while driving yourself home

> is

> > driving you mad. Be aware that you may or may not

> have

> > control of the volume at activation. My audie gave

> me

> > control of the sensitivity not the volume, because

> she

> > knew from experience (and in my case she was

> right)

> > that if the newly activated has total control over

> the

> > volume the first day they WILL turn it down and

> it's

> > important to do the best you can to leave the

> audie's

> > office with a volume you feel you can tolerate

> > (bearing in mind that the world outside that room

> is

> > noisier) and try to take it in and give yourself

> a

> > chance to get used to it.

> >

> > Deb

>

>

>

>

>

>

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