Beware of over-amplification
Be careful not to have your hearing aids turned up too much and put excessive strain on your ears.
If you find yourself wincing at loud noises while wearing your hearing aids, if you start to get ringing in your ears, or if your ears hurt then you should see your audiologist and get them to test your hearing and check your volume settings.
If your aid has a manual volume control then don’t be scared to turn it down a bit when you know you will be in noisy surroundings - you don’t have to stay on the same volume all the time.
Many modern digital hearing aids will have the ability to dampen or cut out excessively loud noises and stop over-amplification occurring - if your aids don’t have a feature like this then you need to control it yourself by turning your volume control down or switching programme to something quieter.
That’s good to know. I’m concerned because I keep my cell phone on the loudest volume setting. When someone with a strong voice calls, I have to turn it down quick! For most callers, I need it on the loud setting.
Sarah
Long rant - be warned.
I have moved this comment and made it a page in its own right as I felt that Paul raised some good points. The page is here.
I’ve read Paul’s comments. He may have a very good hearing aid and a very bad audiologist. I’ve seen all types of strange settings come into my office.
Two cheap hearing aids are better than one good one. Paul is at a disadvantage. Try placing your finger in your ear and holding a conversation and you’ll see what I mean.
yes, things should seem a bit louder you don’t want to emulate the patient’s hearing loss (normal is a hearing impairment after all), but the digital aids do have experience levels at the push of a button
Enough said for now
Rick
Rick Kirkham