TransEar gets better each day

[Jeanlea]

Sandy, congrats on your tumor dying.  Hope all goes well with your TransEar.  I'm finding mine getting better each day.

Jean

[Boppie]

I am so happy to be reading the posts and good news from you about your new TransEars.  I get to say "I told you so!"   
And I am scheduling an appointment with my audiologist to get the program tweaked a bit on my TransEar I (2006). 

[matti]

Sandy, fabulous news regarding Ivan!!!  I will be anxiously awaiting your TransEar update, I am very excited for you  

hugs,
Cheryl

[okiesandy]

Thanks for all good wishes. I am so excited. I really do well with my one sided hearing. I have almost forgotten what it is like to be able to hear on my left side. Gets really intresting at the drive through bank and ordering at eating places. I just pretent it is their speakers, drives them nuts. I work with 180 co-dependent Realtors. They insist on talking to my deaf ear. Sometimes it is better that I don't hear.

Gosh, I hope they got the fitting right. So much excitement in two days. I went for my 1 year MRI in Jan. They told me the AN was smaller. It wasn't until yesterday with the neurosurgeon that I knew just how much of it was showing necrosis. Just about 1/3 of it. It is getting long and skinny look. She had a really big smile on her face and was as excited as I was. She is also very interested in the Trasear. Thinks it should help some with the balance. Now to the neuro-eye guy and more help with balance. She said all AN people need to see neuro-eye doctor at some point. Now why hasn't someone told me this before?

Sandy

A special thanks to our Transear leader Boopie. Did you always want to be a pioneer?

Sandy

[ppearl214]

*jumps up and down, doing the happy dance for Sandy!*

heck ya!!!!!!!

xoxo
Phyl

[Boppie]

This is no pun...I always wished I had become a brain surgeon.  Really!  But go figure!  I got to be a Grandma instead.  By getting hearing aids we are showing others how to face our problems and move on.  Pat yourselves on the back.

[Captain Deb]

This is a really important thread. SSD sucks.  I have my disability hearing 2 weeks from tomorrow. If all goes well, I'm heading straight to the audiologist, not passing go, not collecting $200, and ordering the dang thang.  Yeah Boy!

Capt Deb

[Boppie]

Sail on Cap'n.  Get off these shoals!  Get pink, too!

[okiesandy]

Question,

I got my Transear yesterday. Audiologist was impressed with the workmanship. Fits well and is comfortable. First couple of times I chewed it was a little ouchy. Now I can't feel it at all.

On to the big question. When the doctor plugged my good ear I could barely hear him talk.  The hearing level is about 1/3 of the loudness of my hearing ear. I don't mind the difference in how the sound comes through "tin man" is OK and I expected it. My concern is the volume I really still hear only out of my only hearing ear. If I turn the sound up to 3 then it vibrates at high pitched noises. Suggestions any one? 

I don't have problems getting it in or our and the fit seems firm when I try to take it out. Should I talk to Transear about this? Or will it improve? At this point I can't she how it could help me. My husband whispered in my ear this morning and I can tell there is a sound, not what the words are. I can plug the ear and hear the radio if I turn it from 13 to 21. Shrill little children make it go crazy. Ok all of you who have gone before me chime in here, I am depending on you.

Sandy

[matti]

Sandy - According to Rick you should not feel the TransEar 270 vibrate. Hopefully he will pop in here and reply to your post. The vibration is why I am getting a remake. I only hear sounds on volume 3 1/2 to 4, but with that I get alot of vibration and more so with high pitched sound. When the phone rings or with the tone/pitch of certain voices, the TransEar vibrates like crazy. With mine, we are thinking that the processor is being over driven, so a tighter fit should solve the problem.  I will get my new one some time this week. 

Mine is very comfortable, I acutally forget I have it in. It sounds like you and I both only hear at the higher volume levels. If I were you I would call TransEar and talk with them. Since my audiologist was new to the device, she couldn't help much, but TransEar was able to step in and help her out.

Cheryl

[okiesandy]

I am going to email Rick right now.

I can barely hear at level 4 and then not the same volume as my hearing ear. at anything past 2 1/2 it vibrates like crazy.  Back to the drawing board

Sandy

[Captain Deb]

I just got a message from Rick alias TranEarXpert, and he is about a 2 hr drive from me in Tenessee. He says I can get fitted by Dr Shumaier the inventor, himself!!!  Yowee-zowee, I just about fell offa my chair! I can even see how they are made and stuff.  Maybe the good doc is an art lover and wantsta do a swap! I'm waiting to hear from Rick about how I can get an appt as soon as I get home. What an amazing resource this forum is. I've been chatting with Karen, who has lived my dream of circumnavigating by sail!

Capt Deb

[Jeanlea]

How lucky for you Cap'n Deb.  We'll want a full report when you return.  Sounds exciting.  Good luck to you.

Jean

[Boppie]

Sandy, Did the audiologist use the software to check the programs on your unit?  When I turn my TransEar to #3 I can expect to get about 1/3 the volume of the good side.  I believe the summation of the total sound in both sides is how the aid benefits the patient.  I would not expect the hearing aid to operate as a stand alone sound source.  Nor will it sound as loud as your good ear when the good side is plugged.  

As for the vibrating, I think this needs to be addressed especially if the vibrations occur at the middle volume settings.  When the unit is turned to full volume I would expect distortion so one wouldn't get comfortable sound at that level.  TransEar should be able to answer your questions.  Every ear canal anatomy is unique and fitting takes some tryouts.

[ixta]

alright alright, I really need to "hear" about the real test.

headphones on, blast the heavy metal music,
does one hear "STEREO"?