Give your brain time to adapt
When you first wear aids, sounds you'd stopped hearing come flooding back and can feel sharp or tiring. Your brain needs time to re-learn them.
Audiologists call this acclimatisation. The evidence on the size of this effect is mixed, but there's strong agreement on the practical advice:
- Wear them consistently, every day — the brain adapts to what it hears regularly. Occasional use slows progress.
- Build up gradually — start in quiet, add busier situations over days and weeks.
- Expect a few weeks to feel natural, and up to about three months to feel fully settled.
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