Common misconceptions
Digital instruments are available in all prices and start from £495. There are many different categories to meet all budgets.
There are many reasons why people don’t wear their hearing aids. Today’s modern hearing aids are programed to match your hearing loss but it still takes time to get used to wearing them. With patience, practice and perseverance your brain will learn to identify the sounds that it has forgotten. Once you can do that it is easier to concentrate on the important sounds and filter out the rest.
With warranty – from the date of fitting you have at least a 24 month warranty but many hearing aids now come with a four or five year warranty. This means that if the hearing aids stop working or malfunction during the warranty period then, provided that you haven’t caused the damage yourself, the hearing aids will be repaired free of charge.
Without warranty – If the hearing aid is not covered by a warranty then there may be a charge to repair it. Often we can get the hearing aid to work again ourselves but if it has to go back to the manufacturers then it is likely to cost at least £100.
Today’s modern hearing aids are automatic. They ensure sounds remain audible and comfortable at all times. They also ensure that sounds don’t become uncomfortably loud, so you can relax and let the hearing device do the work.
Yes. They can do but hearing aid manufacturers having been working on this problem for years and now they have solved it. Most hearing aids can now monitor the sound signal and cancel out any whistling sounds before they become audible
Not anymore! You can hearing aids so small they disappear completely inside your ear canal while sleek and slim behind the ear models come in many different colours to match your hair or skin tone.
This could mean that you may be starting to lose your ability to hear high frequency sounds. Digital hearing instruments can pick up those sounds and amplify them without making the sounds that you can already hear quite well, like mens’ voices, louder than they need to be.
They sound like they are mumbling because you may not be able to hear some of the most important speech sounds. It is often the soft sounds like “s”, “f” and “th” that disappear first. They get drowned out by the stronger vowel sounds and words start to sound muddled or run into each other. Hearing instrument can bring back those sounds so you don’t feel like you are missing out on half of what is being said.
There are people of all ages who suffer with hearing loss. You may begin to misunderstand things, say “what” and “pardon” or ask people to repeat themselves. This may make you feel old or that you may have changed. Hearing aids help to keep you young and at the centre of things.