3 Questions to Ask During Your Hearing Aid Fitting

You’ve been diagnosed with hearing loss, you’ve seen a specialist and have been advised that hearing aids are your best option. You’ve picked out the design that you would like and are ready to move forward with the process.

The next step is to have your hearing aids fitted, a process that lasts between 60 minutes and two hours and is a vital part of getting used to wearing hearing aids. Because this will be the first time that you’ve used and worn hearing aids, it’s vital that you understand everything that you need to about them, so that you can use and care for them properly.

When the time comes to get your hearing aid fitted, it’s important to consider what questions you should ask. You have most probably done plenty of research online and read every leaflet and brochure given to you by your audiologist, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t some questions that you should ask when you get your hearing aid fitted.

During the appointment, your audiologist will fit, adjust and tune your hearing aids, to ensure that they offer you the best quality of sound possible. If you have a friend or loved one who you can take with you to take notes for you, this could be beneficial. But even so, there are three important questions that you need to ask during your hearing aid fitting, these are:

1. How do the settings work?

Every hearing aid is slightly different in terms of how it works, so even if you are going for a replacement fitting, this is still an important question to ask. If you are going to be able to use your hearing aids to improve the quality of your hearing, you need to understand how the settings work. Otherwise, it’s pointless having them. Some areas that it could be useful to focus on when asking about the settings are whether they’re automatic, how the volume works, how to adapt the settings for noisy environments.

2. What do I need to do to care for my hearing aids?

The next question that it’s important to ask if how you should care for your hearing aids. When it comes to learning how your hearing aids work, understanding what it takes to care for them is an important part of taking care of them. It’s a good idea to ask things like how you clean your hearing aids, what the best way is to store them, what you should do if they get wet, and what steps to take if they stop working.

3. How do I wear my hearing aids?

Adjusting to wearing hearing aids is not always an easy task, as the adjustment process can take time. That’s why it’s a good idea to talk to your audiologist about the steps that you can take to make the adjustment process easier for you. Things to consider asking is how often to wear your hearing aids, what your schedule should be for wearing them, and when you shouldn’t wear them.

There you have it, a guide to the process of getting your hearing aids fitted and three questions that you should definitely ask.