Changing hearing aids is positive and recommended. Take the plunge!

 

Renewing your hearing aids means updating and getting in touch with the technological improvements that year after year the various manufacturers put us within reach. All of them strive to periodically present new products that adapt themselfs much better in any sound environment. This means that with regard to old hearing aids, technological advances can mean a very substantial change in the way you hear back.

 

If you have been wearing the same hearing aids for more than 5 years, they probably have far fewer benefits than those that just came out on the market. The outlook changes very fast!

 

Replacing your old hearing aids with new hearing aids involves detecting changes in listening, something that happens in many other situations. Like when you drive a new car or ride a bike that is not yours. The gears or the pedals are a little different but soon you get used to it without problem.

 

One of the most significant advances today is that current hearing aids - especially high-end hearing aids- have more than one program and automatically change from one to another depending on the sound environment you are in. And it is necessary, as we have said in other posts, to go through an adaptation process.

 

Renewing your hearing aid includes two options: either changing the brand or sticking with the same one.
In our view, it is quite advisable to continue with the brand that you have used so far because it facilitates the adaptation process since the sonority of each manufacturer is unique and varies from one to another. But as before renewing your hearing aid you should do a review of the state of your hearing, this advice is not always the solution. You don't have to marry a brand, after all, your hearing care professional has the duty to recommend the best hearing aid that suits your hearing and your lifestyle.

 

As we have already said, changing hearing aids means -just like the first time you wear them- going through an adaptation process. During the first or second week you will notice substantial changes but the trick is to be patient, because over the days you will start to hear and detect many more sounds that you may not have heard before... what implies improving your auditory memory!

 

Moreover, these changes should not startle or frighten anyone. If you have been wearing the same hearing aids for years they are probably obsolete and are "half analog". Nowadays most hearing aids are digital and when you renew them, the qualitative leap is very large and the quality of hearing improves exponentially.

 

Since you have broken the barrier of wearing hearing aids and it is something that many find difficult, why not renewing them and bet on hearing even better than what you have been doing so far?