Hearing Aids (anotha one) in Life in General

For the past month or so I’ve noticed something felt off about my hearing aids. I was needing to crank the gain on them pretty high for them to feel like they were doing anything. Slowly I noticed that I was nearly maxing out the gain and I started to panic a little bit, thinking maybe my hearing was getting worse. But it could also have been the hearing aids themselves so I made an appointment with my audiologist to get them checked out.

Luckily she had an appointment within a few days and when I showed up she immediately noticed they weren’t working very well. She tried cleaning out the microphones and still no dice. So she takes a pair of demo hearing aids she had and fits them on me and I was like “OMG I CAN HEAR” haha.

I knew something was off because before when I took them out at the end of the day, it felt like someone was plugging up my ears. But now it feels like I can almost hear better WITHOUT them.

I gotta learn to trust my instincts rather than just convincing myself I’m imagining things.