First Time Hearing Aid User? Here’s how to Get Started

1. First Time Hearing Aid User? Here’s how to Get Started

2. If you have finally taken the first step to better hearing and ordered your first hearing aid, congrats, you are on your way to connect with your loved ones again! For the first timers, however, the experience can be a bit apprehensive, especially if the hearing loss is several years old. Besides, you may hear the sounds you haven’t heard in quite some time, and your brain will take time to readjust to processing those sounds. Here, we have highlighted a few tips that help new hearing aids users to adjust their device for optimal performance and maximum benefit.

3. Give Yourself Time to Adjust Many people accept hearing aids to work in a similar fashion like power glasses as they correct issue with senses and are worn on the head. They believe just how they start seeing sharper images as they put on a new pair of glasses, hearing aids too will offer clear speech clarity from the first time they are worn. But this is not the case, hearing aids take time to get accustomed to.

4. When you first put on your hearing aids, find a quiet spot at home to get used to the new sound quality in your surrounding. Some noises like the hum of air-conditioning, the ticking of a clock, or the beep of a microwave oven might feel unusually louder at first - but this is because you haven’t heard these sounds in a while. Don’t get panicked and take it as a normal procedure for your brain to get acquainted with the sounds.

5. Don’t Adjust the Volume Too Much Hearing aid technology has evolved since the 20th century and now manual hearing aids have been replaced by auto hearing aids that set the volume according to the environment. It’s obvious for the first timers to turn down the volume of their devices when getting into a loud restaurant or turn it up again when walking into a library. But by adjusting the hearing aids on your own, you are not only interfering with the hearing aid adjustment process but running the risk of further damaging your hearing.

6. Take Baby Steps Putting on a hearing aid device and expecting to hear speech and sounds perfectly without any hassle isn’t realistic. Reacquiring your hearing skills takes practise, especially if you are using this technology for the first time. There are times when you feel exhausted wearing those hearing aids for long – in such situations consider removing them for a while but try to put them on to catch things swiftly. Remember, the longer you wear your device, the better you’ll get at interpreting voices, identifying sounds, and focusing on what you are hearing.

7. Keep a Hearing Journal Track down the noises that bother you even after hearing them for quite some time. Like if you are struggling to hear conversations in a crowded restaurant and clock ticking is still bothering, you need to write it down and discuss the struggle with your audiologist. Most importantly, to listen to your surrounding sounds seamlessly, make sure to change your hearing aid batteriesafter a few months.

8. Lastly, when it comes to offering helpful tips for the first-time hearing aid users, we cannot stress this enough - a new hearing aid device takes time to adjust, so be patient. Once you are used to the device, you’ll able to listen to your favourite as well as day-to-day sounds precisely without any hassle.

9. Contact Us Hearing Aid Specialists SA • Address: 6 Grenfell Street Kent Town , S.A. , 5067 • Phone: 08 8362 6099 • Fax: 08 8363 3444 • Email ID: reception@hassa.com.au • Website URL: http://www.hassa.com.au/