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Hope Lanter explains why new hearing aids sound tinny and overly bright at first. Your brain needs about 30 days to adjust, similar to how new glasses take time to feel normal. Be patient with the transition.
Hope Lanter explains why new hearing aids sound tinny and overly bright at first. Your brain needs about 30 days to adjust, similar to how new glasses take time to feel normal. Be patient with the transition.
The first day you put a hearing aid in, it would be similar to me handing you a pair of glasses and saying, "Here, I'm gonna restore your ability to see the color blue because you haven't been able to see the color blue in 10 years." So now you put those glasses on and immediately all you see is blue. Everything around you looks blue. Even objects that aren't even blue will somehow have a little bit of a blue look or tone to them. The reason being is that we're not used to seeing it, so now it suddenly stands out. So it's okay. What you want to do is say, "Well, you know, how do I get everything to look okay again so that everything doesn't look blue?" Well, it's the same way of saying, "How do I get everything to sound okay so it doesn't all sound tinny, doesn't sound all high-pitched, doesn't sound so harsh?" So that's something that, you know, because the brain is taking 30 days to physically rewire itself to hear a new hearing aid sound, you want to give it time.
