ZeroMercury
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Hi All,
Well consider me another very happy guy to have found this community. I have owned my Triple-fi 10's for about a year now, and despite loving the sound quality of the phones, have been very dissapointed with the fit of them - no matter what I did I could never get them to stay in my ears ( I think my ears canals are two narrow). So after finding this wonderful site, the many success stories, and contacting Kaysen; I made an appointment with my local Audiologist to have the impressions made.
I printed out the instruction form and took it with me for the appointment today. As the Dr. introduced herself and I commented on what a beautiful view she had from her window, I noticed that she was getting foam ear dams out and so I politely mentioned the instruction sheet. She took quick glance at the sheet and said "oh yeah, you're right it does say to use the cotton wool one's. Don't worry though; I've been doing this for years and know what I'm doing."
Since she was about to start messing with my most prized sensing equipment, I was not about to start an argument over who know's best with my ears in her hands (so to speak). So in she went with the foam pads. I almost lept out of the chair it hurt so bad. it felt like she was pushing that thing so far down that it was touching my damn ear drum. I yelped and am embarassed to admit my right eye started to leak (please note: I was not crying - there is a difference
- she asked if I was ok and I said no, and that it really hurt. She said that she couldn't get it down far enough and needed it to go further. I couldn't help but think of the movie Fletch with Chevy Chase. Any of you that have seen that movie will recall his classic line "Geez, you got the whole fist in there doc?".
The left one was painful too but seemed to go in better. The when I thought the worst was over, she injected the putty (not sure what the technical name for it is). If I thought stage one had been painful, stage two was about to take it to another level. Again more wincing with pain and tearing of the eyes (not crying), and then onto the final and most painful stage of all - the removal of the impressions from my ears.
Now, I will never have the opportunity to directly experience the pain of childbirth, but having watched my wife deliver 6 short months ago this did not seem far off. When she took those things out of my ears I jumped out of that seat and though I was going to hit the ceiling tiles! She checked my ears afterwards with the scope thingy and said "hmm, there appears to be a little bit of bleeding". I'm like "d'ya think doc?" So they send me down the hall to the nurse who popped some ear drops in to prevent infection.
As of 2.30pm, 3 1/2 hours since the procedure there is still a little discomfort, but I am no longer tasting blood at the back of my throat as I was for the first couple of hours.
So after all my jibber-jabber (thanks Mr. T for such a great term) - I'm writing this as I wonder if anyone else experienced pain during this process. Is it possible that my ears are just exteremely sensitive today having just recently recovered from a Sinus Infection? If that is what caused my discomfort I wanted to get this out there to warn others not to get their impressions done so soon after recovering from such a thing.
I should probably add that this is not my first rodeo either. As a proffessional musician and music producer, I have been using custom in-ears for about 10 years now, but don't recall the process being so painful last time.
Again my thanks to this community and Fisher for providing a much needed, and much appreciated service to triple-fi owners everywhere.
Andy.
Well consider me another very happy guy to have found this community. I have owned my Triple-fi 10's for about a year now, and despite loving the sound quality of the phones, have been very dissapointed with the fit of them - no matter what I did I could never get them to stay in my ears ( I think my ears canals are two narrow). So after finding this wonderful site, the many success stories, and contacting Kaysen; I made an appointment with my local Audiologist to have the impressions made.
I printed out the instruction form and took it with me for the appointment today. As the Dr. introduced herself and I commented on what a beautiful view she had from her window, I noticed that she was getting foam ear dams out and so I politely mentioned the instruction sheet. She took quick glance at the sheet and said "oh yeah, you're right it does say to use the cotton wool one's. Don't worry though; I've been doing this for years and know what I'm doing."
Since she was about to start messing with my most prized sensing equipment, I was not about to start an argument over who know's best with my ears in her hands (so to speak). So in she went with the foam pads. I almost lept out of the chair it hurt so bad. it felt like she was pushing that thing so far down that it was touching my damn ear drum. I yelped and am embarassed to admit my right eye started to leak (please note: I was not crying - there is a difference

The left one was painful too but seemed to go in better. The when I thought the worst was over, she injected the putty (not sure what the technical name for it is). If I thought stage one had been painful, stage two was about to take it to another level. Again more wincing with pain and tearing of the eyes (not crying), and then onto the final and most painful stage of all - the removal of the impressions from my ears.
Now, I will never have the opportunity to directly experience the pain of childbirth, but having watched my wife deliver 6 short months ago this did not seem far off. When she took those things out of my ears I jumped out of that seat and though I was going to hit the ceiling tiles! She checked my ears afterwards with the scope thingy and said "hmm, there appears to be a little bit of bleeding". I'm like "d'ya think doc?" So they send me down the hall to the nurse who popped some ear drops in to prevent infection.
As of 2.30pm, 3 1/2 hours since the procedure there is still a little discomfort, but I am no longer tasting blood at the back of my throat as I was for the first couple of hours.
So after all my jibber-jabber (thanks Mr. T for such a great term) - I'm writing this as I wonder if anyone else experienced pain during this process. Is it possible that my ears are just exteremely sensitive today having just recently recovered from a Sinus Infection? If that is what caused my discomfort I wanted to get this out there to warn others not to get their impressions done so soon after recovering from such a thing.
I should probably add that this is not my first rodeo either. As a proffessional musician and music producer, I have been using custom in-ears for about 10 years now, but don't recall the process being so painful last time.
Again my thanks to this community and Fisher for providing a much needed, and much appreciated service to triple-fi owners everywhere.
Andy.