Toilet flushing
And traffic
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When I walked out of my audiologistâs office for the first time with my new, first time hearing aids (in a very large, busy hospital complex) I could clearly hear people in conversation as I walked by. It surprised me. I was not used to hearing that kind of thing.
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My squeaky office chair! 
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Birds. Prior to getting my aids, I wasnât able to differentiate the sound of multiple birds tweeting at the same time. It would appear as one sound. Now, they are coming from all different directions and in tones I never knew existed.
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Hearing the clock ticking in the audiologists office. I knew clocks could tick, I just didnât know what it sounded like. It still surprises me sometimes when Iâm in a doctors office and the clock is just ticking away or the vent fan is on.
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The hum of the refrigerator! I never knew it made a sound!
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I put the aids on an hit the open high E string on a guitar and got a lump in my throat I have forgotten how bright it actually was!
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For me it was walking out to my car with new HAâs and hearing sand or gravel under my shoes. Then when I started the car the seat belt beeper went off and I nearly jumped out of my skin. Best of all is I could hear crickets again.
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First day: Paper pages being turned in charts at work. And cutlery clinking. The page turning nearly drove me crazy as I could not understand why people were turning pages so often. Soon became used to it though.
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Iâm quite glad I donât have to hear cricketsđ those are quite annoying like bugs!
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Turbo whine. Old VW Jetta turbo diesel.
I pulled over because I thought it was a fire truck!
DaveL
Toronto
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I live a a forest with all types of critters and I love to hear them all.
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My husband talking to me from another room.
Even he was shocked when he asked me a question and I answered him from another room.
I cried !!
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Iâm truly impressed! Iâm often in trouble because I donât respond to a question I havenât heard!
DaveL
Toronto
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Oh lawd donât remind me of crickets that happened to me when I got my Ks10 I was laying in bed one night with our bedroom window open during the summer . Sat going what heck is that Noise?? it was a obnoxiously loud cricket chirping noise right under the window. My husband went that dang thing has been driving me Nuts for weeks. Iâve been complaining about it but I was clueless till I got the KS10s to replace previous hearing aids.
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Cymbals!
and âOne Stormy Nightâ by Mystic Moods Orchestra
careful! There are crickets too!
(First heard this album after a long, very wet and horrible motorcycle ride. Listened to it and the world was right again. Steam Engines with a crack of lightening during a thunder storm. Oh my! I put it on when the worldâs not rightâŚand it is. Hearing that lightening again after years without, I cried with joy with my hearing aids.)
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The day after I got my hearing aids I was absolutely shocked at how loud birds are. I just was flabbergasted at how piercingly loud they are.
At this point, nearly a year into hearing aids, they are just âbirds be birdsâ but those first few weeks with hearing aids bird calls were shocking.
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Most aggravating problem: trying to locate which smoke detector is chirping[quote=âMermaid88, post:1, topic:76156, full:trueâ]
Just curious, what are the most surprising, favorite, worst or just shocking sounds you discovered when getting hearing aids? I was shocked when I discovered that my own footsteps made noise, I thought someone was following me at firstđ.
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i was sitting on front porch of my home in florida and couldnât figure out what the rustling noise was that I was hearing⌠it was from the palm tree fronds in my front yard⌠it was actually a WOW moment knowing I had been living here about 10 yrs and never heard them before
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Me too! Not that I hadnât heard the car turn signals at all, but that the clicking was so clear and loud. It was startling driving home.
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