Take your hearing aids out, hear more
You could hear more by taking your hearing aids out.
How does that work? Well, I was in a meeting yesterday, sat around a table with seven other people - after a while I realised that I wasn’t hearing several of them as well as I normally would be. I did a quick check that the volume settings on my aids were correct - they were. I didn’t have a cold. I couldn’t think of any reason why I couldn’t hear them.
Until after the meeting, that is.
While at lunch, I took my hearing aids out and noticed that I had really sweaty ears (I have ITC aids and suffer from the occlusion effect). I left the aids out for five to ten minutes to let my ears dry out - popped them back and my hearing magically returned to normal. My sweaty ears had reduced my hearing slightly - not by much, but enough to stop me hearing those people in the meeting.
Thanks for popping over to visit my blog, Steve. I’ve just returned from a fabulous walking holiday in the Lake District.
I get this same problem - I usually find a small amount water has blocked the tube, giving me that underwater feeling: A quick shake to dislodge the bubble of fluid usually sorts it for me. I got given some ‘low condensation’ tubing for my old aids, but these new HAs have got the old style tubes in, so I’m back to suffering from ‘condensation’ again!
contact any specsavers hearcare store and they will be able to get you some stay dry tubing for your behind the ear aids.
for the in the ear user it may be worth checking the vents in your aids to ensure there not blocked hindering the aireation of your canals and perhaps look at purchasing a dry aid kit in which you can put your aids overnight these contain silica gel crystals which absorb moisture build up in your aids which can cause the aids to malfunction. speak to specsavers
With hearing aid supplied by specsavers i to have suffered with the ’sweaty ear’ syndrome, first noticeably at a party where dancing was taking place after hour or so came a period of whence returning to table and conversation found it hard to ‘pickup’ conversation and when ‘clamping’ ones hands to ones sweaty ears found there was no response as is the norm, did eventually remove same and later returned to norm.