Hearing & Audiology Clinic | Hearing aids | Echo Audiology

When you have hearing loss, your auditory system and your brain don’t get as much stimulation as they once had when you had normal hearing. Essentially, with a hearing loss, your hearing nerve and your brain are not getting enough exercise. So, when you first get hearing aids, you are basically suddenly asking your brain to work much harder, because you a hearing more signals coming from your daily environments. If you think about it, if I were to ask you to run a marathon, could you instantly do it? Probably not, unless you were already training for it. It is the same for your brain.  When you first get hearing aids, some patients can get a little tired because their body is receiving more stimuli from the environment. Occasionally, patients can also get a  headache because their brain is a bit on overdrive , hearing all these sounds again. Read More :  https://www.echoaudiology.com/can-hearing-aids-cause-headaches/

If your grandparents had hearing aids, you may know what feedback is. It is the annoying high pitch sound that comes out of a hearing aid. Basically, it is the sound signal that leaks out of the hearing aid, cycles around and is picked up again by the microphone from the hearing aid. It is the same acoustic principal as hearing that loud noise when someone on a stage has the microphone too close to the speaker.  In earlier days, feedback in hearing aids was a major issue that hearing aid technology could not fix or control very well. The features within the hearing aid technology was not advanced enough to tell the hearing aid to eliminate feedback when it heard it. The styles of hearing aids that were available at the time were also not elaborate enough to cope with all degrees and shapes of hearing losses. The good news, the styles of hearing aids that are now available and the advancements in technology are good enough that that you should not experience feedback. This said.