Hint: Hearing aids will make you hear better, but they wonāt make people speak better. I work with a horrible mix of bad speech habits and widely varied volume speakers. People who mumble, speak to you while waking or facing away, speak to you from another room, whisper or try to talk so low that no one else can hear what they say, speak while covering their mouth, etc. are still going to be a huge challenge, no matter what hearing aids you have. Turning up the volume for those habitually poor speakers will leave you scrambling for the mute button when the loud talking country girl walks in the room!! :-0
Your life is about to get much nicer, and you may hear sounds you havenāt heard since you were much younger, but they wonāt make you HEAR like you did way back then. What you currently hear may sound DIFFERENT, because it will have added treble or bass tones that you are missing.
So, expect to hear BETTER, but donāt set your expectations too high. Hearing aids are only as good as the people tuning them, and since they donāt hear what your ears are hearing, itās quite a frustrating journey with lots of trial and error tuning. Be patient!
In a perfect world, we could all āTuneā our hearing aids with our cell phones or laptops, which would allow us to fine tune them in our own environments, while listening, rather than trying to communicate our needs to someone who is essentially a blind painter trying to create a masterpiece.
Your hearing aids will be tuned to your hearing test results, and thatās your base line, but it may take many visits with your audiologist to better tweak them for your āreal worldā needs. Give yourself a couple of weeks to adjust to the new sounds, and As someone already said, make notes of your hearing challenges and carry those to your audi. He/she will then adjust what frequencies he thinks your challenges are coming from, and hopefully youāll have a great experience.
Best of luck, and congrats on being able to hear better!
