My dad and a colleague both wear hearing aids and they both complain it’s harder to hear because everything gets turned up. I don’t understand what they mean, wouldn’t it all increase in volume relative to it’s initial volume level?
Side note – my dad just started wearing a hearing aid but my colleague has been wearing one for over 20 yrs so I don’t agree that the reason is not being used to the hearing aid.
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Oh oh! I’m actually a licensed hearing instrument specialist.
In the simples way possible, hearing aids amplify sound to levels that the wearer can still hear. Now, not all sound is equal (like all the different keys on a piano), so when we test for hearing loss we’re measuring at different frequencies where the person is just barely able to hear. More often than not, a person with hearing loss will not hear all of these tones equally. The hearing aid is programmed based on this measurement and amplifies these ranges accordingly and possibly further tweaked based on the wearer’s feedback.
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