How long does it take to get used to hearing aids?
There are several factors that influence how quickly and how well you will adjust to hearing aids. It is important to remember that we are really fitting the brain with sound, not the ears. It is your brain and how it adjusts and translates the sounds that are coming into the ears, whether naturally or through an amplified system, which will determine your success with hearing aids. If you have put off using hearing aids for a long time, the brain has had that much time to “forget” how to process the sounds when they are re-introduced. The more you put off using hearing aids, the more difficult and longer it may take to adjust to sounds again. You must “re-train” your brain for sound, especially the difficult task of sorting out speech from background noise. Wear the hearing aids for at least a few hours everyday; build on that experience working from quiet environments up to noisier ones. This can be done over one to two months. Some people will adjust faster and others, slower. It wi
