Why are Hearing Aid Fittings Necessary?

Once you have officially been diagnosed with hearing loss, should your audiologist recommend that you start using hearing aids, it is vital that you schedule a hearing aid fitting as soon as possible? Why are hearing aid fittings necessary? There are a number of very important reasons why you should attend your hearing aid fitting, including the following:

Fitting Your Lifestyle

If you skip your hearing aid fitting, there is a very good chance it will backfire on you because one of the most important functions of a fitting is working with your audiologist to ensure that your hearing aid device fit your ears, as well as your lifestyle, as comfortably as possible. 

Not all hearing aids are suitable for everyone, and depending on your ears, your level of hearing loss and how you live your daily life, one style may be more suitable than another. Not only that, but your audiologist will need to make sure that they have ordered the right hearing aid. Becoming a hearing aid user without first attending a fitting, just does not make sense from a lifestyle point of view.

Ensuring Your Comfort

Your audiologist will want to make sure that you can wear your hearing aids regularly, which means they will want to make sure that they do not cause too much pressure to your ears or other areas that they encounter, such as the area behind the ear. So many hearing aid users avoid wearing their devices and end up unable to fully participate in everyday life because they are so uncomfortable or because they aren’t tight enough to prevent whistling noises from being created – that doesn’t need to be you, not if you attend a hearing aid fitting, anyway.

Optimizing the Settings

Your audiologist will want to check that your hearing aid settings have been optimized to improve your hearing function as much as possible. Pretty much any hearing aid, no matter the style, make or value needs to be programmed to the individual user to ensure they are not too loud or quiet, that they are sufficiently clear enough and that they are optimized to deal with the kind of sounds you most often encounter. If you skip your hearing aid fitting, you could find that your hearing aids aren’t doing quite as good a job as they could be. You may also not know how to properly use the settings on your hearing aid, because this is something your audiologist will typically cover with you in the fitting session.

Most hearing aids will allow you to change settings depending on whether you’re having a quiet conversation, watching TV or working in the office, so that you feel more comfortable in any situation, but these are only useful if you know how to use them and that is where hearing aid fittings come in.

If you require a hearing aid, then you also require a hearing aid fitting conducted by a qualified audiologist, it really is that simple.