Wasn’t sure if the hearing aids were really all that helpful at first, and admittedly they don’t actually improve much of the speech clarity itself for me (my loss is primarily low frequency) but over the last year ish of wearing them, I can confidently say that they do, even if I don’t wear them all the time. Here’s a few examples of things I’ve noticed with them on vs off:
-I can talk to my mom through the bathroom door without having to stick my ear against it
-yesterday my brother in law said something to me from the front porch when I was in the driveway (about a hundred feet away, it’s a big driveway) and he only had to repeat it once, and even that was only because I wasn’t paying attention the first time
-I can hear the tone of my own voice more clearly, which lets me be more confident when I’m singing, even if it is only to myself
-I can hear various sounds from further away
-I can hear people talking from farther away
-I can hear people talking at softer volumes
-I can adjust the volume of each hearing aid which helps me account for the fact that my left ear is worse than my right (my aids are otc and I fitted them with the app used by this company)
-on those days when my hearing randomly gets worse on my right for no reason, the aids are extremely helpful; that’s honestly the biggest reason I wanted them was because I was sick of not having anything to help with those days
-I can hear various household appliances from across the room instead of having to be right next to them
-Voices sound fuller and richer, and I can distinguish between the different parts of music more easily
It’s nothing crazily extreme or anything, it’s not like I’m hearing a bunch of brand new sounds or anything, but then I wasn’t expecting to either—it is, after all, a mild hearing loss and not a major one (I can hear almost anything within the speech frequencies, I just have to be closer to the sound than most people in order to hear them)
