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.
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:
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