Last Friday morning I picked up my first set of hearing aids…
At the moment we only have them set at 80% of my prescription. When they first went in and they were set at 100% I was super concerned. Everything sounded super tinny - but the audiologist explained we’d back off and work up to that. Is that really what the world sounds like?
As instructed - I’ve been wearing them the whole day. When I’m working from hom eI don’t really notice much of a difference. Watching TV (I don’t have the TV box connected yet) I boost them up a bit and it seems to help with clarity. I have long found Netflix a problem and almost always have the captions on - the other night I found that I wasn’t relying on reading the captions as much.
Saturday I went out to dinner at a pub with friends - noisy environment - lots of people around - and it did make a significant difference to me. I was able to listen to conversations without having to concentrate as hard, or watch mouths to try and read lips. It was a relief for sure.
Other impressions:
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Keeping the “Find my Hearing Aids” on is a significant drain on my phone’s battery. I turned it off right away. I discovered that if they lose bluetooth connection to the phone the feature doesn’t work anyways - so what’s the point?
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My right HA battery seems to run down faster than the left. Only by a few percentage points - but couldn’t figure out why? Any ideas?
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Audiologist told me to clean them daily with baby wipes. Does everyone do that? I have been - but I feel like it’s going to be like flossing…you know you should do it but sometimes it’s just too much hassle.
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I curl - and had a game yesterday afternoon. There are 8 sheets in our club and all were in use. I was really worried about how loud it would seem with the rocks hitting together and people yelling. I was very pleasantly surprised that that wasn’t the case.
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This one is hard to explain - I was out to dinner again last night. When we first sat at the table - which was kind of close to a window it felt like I was hearing my own voice a lot louder than I had been. Almost felt like an echo - was wondering if it was my hearing my voice bouncing off of the glass? Is that a thing? I turned them down a bit and it was fine - but was wondering why it was happening.
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I wear glasses - I’m having a tough time figuring out where to put the glasses - the outside of the HA? The inside? On top of? On top make the glasses somewhat angled. Inside feels the most comfortable - but it kind of pushes my ears out a bit. Has anyone gone to their eyeglass shop and had them adjusted to accommodate the HAs? Can that be done?
Sorry if I’ve used incorrect terminology - I’m pretty new to the game.