If you’re diagnosed with hearing loss, then one of the most widely recommended and effective treatments likely to be offered to you by your hearing health professional is a hearing aid. Hearing aids are one of the top strategies for coping with hearing loss, and the impact they can make on your quality of life cannot be understated, if they’re right for you. However, wearing these devices can seem like a big change, so here, we’re going to look at how you can get a little more used to them.
Learn how they work
Choosing a hearing aid with the help of a hearing health professional is always recommended. Not only can they help you select the device that works best for you, and make sure that it’s fitted properly, but they can teach you how to operate it. Learning the different features of your hearing aids and how to control them, whether it’s by interacting with the device itself, or with an app on your smartphone that can connect to ti, can make you feel much more comfortable with it. You do not need the help of a professional to adjust your hearing aid to better suit it to your needs.
Take a little time to get used to them
Wearing a hearing aid (or two) can feel like a big change in your life. That said, it typically just takes a little time to acclimate. While the amplification of noise might be initially a little overwhelming, your hearing health professional is likely to recommend a schedule to wear them on. First, you can start by wearing them only for a few hours a day, inside your own home. As time goes on, you can get used to wearing them for longer, and then out and about, in different environments, until you acclimate to your new and improved sense of hearing.
Learn how to care for them
Hearing aids do not require a ton of maintenance. That’s one of the many myths about hearing aids debunked by professionals a long time ago. However, there are factors that can damage them that they ought to be protected from. Moisture is the most significant one, and you shouldn’t wear your hearing aids in the bathroom or if it’s raining too heavily. You also want to ensure that you have a dehumidifying storage for them, with separate storage for the batteries, so you can take them out when you’re not wearing them.
Be sure to clean them every day
As you might expect, a device that sits in your ear, whether partially or completely, is going to get a little dirty over time. Dust, earwax, and other debris can start to affect it, so you should take the time to learn about using a hearing aid cleaning kit. Cleaning it every day can drastically decrease the chances of any glitches while using it.
Hearing aids might seem like an intimidating level of change to everyday life, now, but that will certainly fade over time. Before long, they’ll just become part of your everyday life.
