New hearing aids often feel uncomfortable for physical or sound-related reasons. Physical discomfort usually means the fit needs adjustment from your hearing care provider. Sound discomfort takes time to get used to as your brain adapts to hearing again.
One of the questions that I get often is, "I just got a hearing aid, why is it not comfortable?" So this is a question that I always respond with two more questions. So when you say it's not comfortable, does it physically hurt your ear? Is it uncomfortable? Is it painful even? Or is it just different? So there's two ways that can also happen here too of saying, is it physically uncomfortable or is the sound uncomfortable? Because people will describe that in the same way but mean two different things. So let's think about, okay, well, if you're saying that it's uncomfortable, if it's physically uncomfortable, if it hurts your ear, that's not normal. Talk to your hearing care provider. That usually means that something needs to be adjusted, whether it's the size of the piece going into the ear or some type of, you know, adjustment can be made to make it where it physically feels better. Hearing aids should not hurt your ear, but they should feel different.
