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Hearing Aids Consumer FAQ #1

Should I wear my aids full time?

You don't have to, particularly if you have a very mild hearing impairment. But if you want to get the most benefit from the aids you will wear them as much as you can within the limits of comfort and convenience.
Ear moldAlso, keep in mind that safety may depend upon your ability to hear twenty-four hours a day. However, there is no logical reason to wear your hearing aids in those situations where they do not improve your ability to hear. Full-time hearing aid use should not be considered a bad sign. If hearing aids help, use them as much as you see fit.

Will wearing hearing aids make my hearing worse?

On the contrary, evidence exists which shows hearing comprehension deterioration in person who had hearing losses and did not wear hearing aids. The "use it or lose it" principle seem to apply when it comes to stimulating the hearing mechanism. The longer the person with a hearing loss goes without hearing help, the poorer the listening habits, and hence, understanding become. Relearning to use hearing then takes much more time and is more difficult.

How can I overcome my self-consciousness or embarrasment when I wear my hearing aids?

After a little while you will probably egard your aids as one of your most valued possessions, as essential as eyeglasses to those who have problems with vision. Once you discover the advantages of your aids, you'll forget they are there - except when you stop to appreciate the listening benefits they provide. The embarrasment is experienced only befre you have worn them, because in a few days the benefits evidence themselves and you realize you are embarrassed much more by not wearing your hearing aids.

I don't want my friends to know that I have a loss of hearing

Sorry, but anyone who knows you well already knows that you have a hearing loss. It is said that the hearing loss is much more dificult to hide than are hearing hearing aids.

Do I need one or two hearing aids?

  • Monoaural hearing aids systems are those of any type which provide amplified sound for one ear only.
  • Binaural hearing aids systems consist of two complete hearing aids (microphone, amplifier, battery and receiver), one for each ear - two hearing aids.
Listening with both ears is as normal and necessary as seeing with both eyes. Two hearing aids should be used if the hearing-impaired must listen critically in the home, work, or social environment and under adverse background or distant noise conditions.

Binaural provides:

  • Depth perception.
  • Better speech discrimination in a noisy environment.
  • The brain a better chance of subtracting out the noise and picking up the signal that you want to hear.
  • Improve localization of sound.
  • Separation of wanted sounds from unwanted background noise.
  • A more natural balance of sounds.
  • Increased pleasure of hearing.
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