Does Your Hearing Aid Fit Right?

How do you know if your hearing aids fit properly? This is a very good question to ask. At first, your hearing aids may feel slightly awkward – this is perfectly normal. While still adjusting to hearing aids, your ears may ache from wearing them all day. This can be typical, but when is the feeling that you feel not normal and causing more problems than they seem to be worth?

Adjusting to new devices

In the beginning it will be an adjustment to get use to the fit and feeling of your new hearing aids. Your ears may ache inside and out. Your ears may be more tired than previously and you may have the occasional headache.

Once again this is normal. There is now a foreign object on or in your ear that your body is not used to and it takes some time to get used to it. Just like putting on a pair of sunglasses and wearing them all day or wearing a hat all day when you are not used to wearing one. You are tired and sore and sometimes get a headache because you do not and are not used to wearing something like this for long periods of time. Hearing aids are just the same in the first few days, weeks or months. However, if over the first few days’ things are not getting easier there may be a bigger problem. So how can you tell when there is a larger problem?

Signs there may be a problem

There are a couple ways in which you can tell that there is a larger problem with your new hearing aids than just getting used to the new fit and feel of them. If you develop a sore or a very tender spot where the hearing aid sits there may be a problem with the shape of the hearing aid, being the earmold. If this is the case see your hearing health professional as soon as possible it may be a simple fix. The hearing health professional can grind away part of the earmold to make that point not such a pressure point in your ear making the fit nicer for you.

If you hear a constant whistle there may be a fit problem as well. Sometimes the earmold is too loose in the ear causing some of the sound to escape, if this is the case a new earmold impression will need to be taken and a new earmold made may help solve this problem. Sometimes it may be the way that you are putting in or on your hearing aids that are causing the problem with the fit of your hearing aid. Hearing aids are meant to fit snugly in the ear and if put in incorrectly can cause fit problems. Be sure to go over with your hearing health professional again how to properly put in and take out your hearing aids.