Find the Right Hearing Aid to Help You Hear Better

                                                                  

Looking for right hearing aid for hearing loss. Hearing loss is common. It is not an illness or disease; it is however, second only to arthritis as a health problem for people over the age of sixty-five.

How to start? The first thing is not to take any advice or recommendations from anyone else: your spouse, children, neighbors or anybody. Get up one morning and begin to keep track of what's going on with sounds in your life. If someone says "please" and you hear "cheese" remember that . If someone says "door" and you hear "more" pay attention to that, don't ignore it or block it out or blame the speaker, just recognize that it happened. Don't argue with anybody or pay attention to their "you need a hearing aids speech". Observe your days with regard to sound, what is the number on the TV volume control when you watch it by yourself - what is the number when someone else in the house is controlling it? When you go out do you hear the birds? What about your air conditioner, your fish tank, the sound of your feet on the rug, running water? Pick out things that make sounds and noises that you know and make note of what you're hearing or not hearing; music, rain, wind, traffic, etc. If someone asks did you hear the phone, door   bell, whatever, answer them honestly and make note of it. After a while you will begin to see what's going on with the sounds in your life. You may be mixing up S's and T's and D's and C's, having difficulties hearing all the consonants, having difficulty hearing your grandchildren, notice that low pitch sounds are louder than high pitch sounds. These observations are important when you are ready to move forward for hearing help.

                           

Furthermore, a formal evaluation will provide a piece of information often taken for granted: whether or not a hearing aid will help you with your hearing loss. You can do this during your regular doctor's visit; take your time, you're not going to die of hearing loss. Hearing loss tends to stay the same or get worse over long periods of time. Your hearing will not get worse because you're not wearing hearing aid. The issue is the sounds of life that you are missing without getting hearing help. If you experience any sudden hearing loss see your doctor quickly.

Now that you have your own assessment of your hearing loss, and your doctor's assessment and recommendation, you are better prepared than ninety percent of people who seek hearing help. Remember hearing is one of your senses, and it's your right to decide what you like. If you don't like the taste or smell of something you avoid it. If you touch something and it hurts you don't touch it again. Your goal, besides better hearing, is better hearing aid that you are comfortable with.

The first step is to determine your primary objective. No hearing instrument can completely solve one problem never mind all hearing problems. Select what hearing problem you would like to improve most; whether it's hearing the TV, conversations with your spouse, hearing at work, at church, at family gatherings - this will give you a starting point, your primary objective. All other problems become secondary objectives that you should also prioritize.

Now that you have clear goals, you don't have to feel pressured into making these types of decisions while you shop. You can now control the process of purchasing the best possible solution for you at the lowest possible price, not because of what somebody else tells you but because you know what you want. Now we need to consider what type of hearing device will best fulfill your objective.