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When you first start hearing better with hearing aids, there's a little bit of an adjustment period.
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10 Quick Tips for Getting Used to Hearing Aids When you first start hearing better with hearing aids, there's a little bit of an adjustment period. The first few days with your new devices are essential to your success and satisfaction because they can influence whether or not you continue to use your devices. These 10 tips and tricks will help your adjustment go as smoothly as possible so that you'll be more likely to keep enjoying your new hearing aids fort Waynefor years to come. That way, you can keep living life to its fullest through better hearing. 1. Don’t get discouraged if they feel funny atfirst. Just like your nose might need to get used to the feeling of eyeglasses resting on it, your ears need a little time to adjust to the feeling of your hearing aids. You may be able to feel the devices in your ears, but that will go away in a few days. If you are wearing ones that sit over your ears and you also wear glasses, just be careful when placing them and removing your glasses. You will have space behind your ear and your glasses will find the “real estate” comfortably along with your new hearingaids. 2. At first, only wear them for a few hours aday. If you need to, it's okay to only wear your new devices in comfortable situations and environments for the first few days. Professionals recommend that you eventually try to wear them during yourwaking
hours. The more sounds you are able to recognize and filter out as well as identify as bothersome can help your hearing healthcare professional make adjustments in your follow-up visits. Also, the more you wear your hearing aids fort Wayne, even in quiet situations when you are at home, the more sounds you will be able to detect and filter so that when you are in a noisy environment, your brain will have been able to acclimatefaster. 3. Start out in a quietroom. On the first day, sit in a quiet room in your house and start getting used to your rediscovered ability to hear faint sounds, like the ticking of a clock or a car driving by outside. These might seem unnaturally loud at first because your brain isn't used to hearing them. It's all a part of your brain's adjustment and won't last long. Some hearing healthcare professionals encourage you to write things down that you are noticing that may be bothersome to you. Before you return to your next follow-up visit, glance at your list and you may notice that some of those sounds aren't bothersome any longer. If you find that some still are, those are the ones to report to your audiologist fort Wayne Indianato be adjusted at your follow-upvisit. 4. Don’t play with the volume toomuch. It's likely that your hearing aids adjust to different listening situations automatically, so they shouldn't need to be manually adjusted very often. If you do turn them up, don't make the volume too loud. Don't try to make your devices do what fully-functioning ears can't do, like hear faint sounds from very far away; they don't work that way, and you can damage your hearing more by doingthat. 5. Practice talking to people ingroups. Start having conversations with your close friends and family, as familiar voices are the easiest to identify. Hearing still requires active listening, which means making sure you face the speaker and look right at them while they're talking. This will help your brain reconnect the dots between sounds, vocal patterns, and nonverbal body language. 6. Ask your friends or family to set the television to a “normal”volume.
Now that you have your new hearing aids fort Wayne, you shouldn't need to turn the television up louder than a person with normal hearing would. Ask someone else to help you find an appropriate volume, and try to use that settingconsistently. 7. Watch with captions orsubtitles. Listening to and reading words at the same time is a great way to help retrain your brain to connect sounds and language. Turn on your television's closed captioning and enable subtitles when you watch a movie. 8. Listen to a book’s audio recording while youread. This tip is similar to #7 and accomplishes the same goal. Next time you read a book, listen to a recording while you read it in your printed copy. If you don't have any audiobooks, you can also have someone read to you out loud while you follow along on yourown. 9. Read aloud toyourself. The sound of your own voice might sound funny to you at first, but this will also resolve itself after a few days. If you read to yourself out loud, this will help you get used to your voice more quickly and, if necessary, retrain yourself to speak at an appropriatevolume. 10. Close your eyes and do some listeningexercises. Try to identify the direction from which sounds are coming without looking around. You can also try to use only your hearing to discern between different types of sounds or speechpatterns.
