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

1
First Time Hearing Aid User? Heres 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 havent
  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 havent heard these sounds in a while. Dont
  get panicked and take it as a normal procedure
  for your brain to get acquainted with the sounds.

5
Dont 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  century and now manual hearing aids have been
  replaced by auto hearing aids that set the volume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.
• Its 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 isnt 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 youll 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 batteries after 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, youll 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 [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• Email ID reception_at_hassa.com.au
• Website URL http//www.hassa.com.au/