Ain't Nobody Here Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 Just been fitted with a new hearing aid in my left ear. My word, the world is a noisy place . I've to wear it one hour the first day, then two the second and so on so my brain adjusts. My voice sounds even weirder than usual, my rings knocking on the bannister going upstairs was a shock and the washing machine sounds like a jumbo jet. I can now hear my typing too which is a bit annoying . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 Good luck with it, persevere, the brain adjusts very quickly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dancing cloud Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 My dad reckoned the thing he noticed was the difference in the sound of planes. He always said they sounded like rattling tin cans and, when he got his new ears, he was delighted to find they did actually sound airworthy after all He also found the world a loud place for a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandmashazzie Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 The first thing I noticed was the car indicator actually clicked when indicating.Until then I thought it was only light on dashboard that flashed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alis girls Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 Good luck - I reading this with interest as I know at some point I will be doing this soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 First thing that my dad noticed, was the birds shouting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purplemaniacs Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 Good luck ANH Chrissie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted October 14, 2014 Author Share Posted October 14, 2014 Being in the house on my own was fine (nice to know the hall clock ticks!) but cooking is proving a challenge - everything's so noisy! I think keeping the hearing aid in will be preferable to just doing an hour a day - putting it back in again seems to put you back at square one each time . Not looking forward to OH's gargantuan yawns which I used to be able to hear no problem . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 Are you going back to get it adjusted? Phil's folks both use them, and they had them adjusted a couple of times to fine-tune the levels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted October 14, 2014 Author Share Posted October 14, 2014 It's all very high tech - while they were programming it I had to listen to some very strange speech, a mixture of all kinds of different languages all merged into some kind of unintelligible sentence as well as random noises. I've to go back in after a few weeks if I'm still finding sounds strange and the background noises haven't diminished. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackrocksrock Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 Hope it soon settles down - I am going to have to do the same at some point as I am really getting quite deaf too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparkysmum Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 Good luck with this, ANH I believe the new tech hearing ids make all the difference in the world. Ax Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 My mum drove us potty with her hearing - or lack of. But because everything was so noisy she kept turning it off. She had it turned off yesterday when I saw her - I got one of those candles that opens up into a flower on her birthday cake, while playing a tune at the same time. She said oh I can hear something. Yes it's the candle, so she leans over so her ear is almost touching it (thankfully the candles had been blown out) and then she said oh I think I can hear it now - I don't have my hearing aid switched on. She does a really good job of lipreading though. But I wish she would have persevered so she could adjust. It was pots and pans that "hurt" her ears too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted October 15, 2014 Author Share Posted October 15, 2014 Had to take it off in Dobbies today - so much background noise, it was horrible . The audiologist warned me about paper and plastic being rustled/scrunched and also cutlery on plates - he was right! The sound just isn't natural at the moment which is a bit odd but I'm hoping that'll settle down. The one good thing is that the aid itself is fairly comfy to wear. There's a wee ventilation hole which my old one (20 years ago) didn't have so your ear can "breathe". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 That's another one - the announcements in the shops - she used to stand in the aisle, wincing and covering both ears. First time we ever did Sainsbury's in record time without wandering round for hours looking at things she didn't have on her list and certainly never needed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
