How many hours a day do u wear ur hearing aids for?

How many hours a day do u wear ur hearing aids for?

idk how many hours i should start off wearing my hearing aids (BTE) for.
im getting them in just under 3 weeks. so nervous and so scared.
i dont want anyone to know that i am HOH (even tho i am proud of it).
i dont want anyone to know i wear hearing aids (not even my parents, im doin this alone)(even tho im probably goin to be proud of it).
and when i get them i will be proud that i will be wearing hearing aids, cz i will be able to hear clearer and better and understand wot people are saying.
But they are goin to stick out like a sore thumb. i think the earmoulds are gonna look weird, and the aids will make my ears stick out.
people are goin laugh at me and make fun of me.
And im probably goin to take it out and leave it out. maybe put it back in again, but i will see.

Any advice on this.
and anything helpful and useful.

Please be relax. I can wear HA for many hours. I would say 12 to 16 hours. It's not hurt. I can get it off when I go sleep. It's quiet. You will not be die for wear HA in public. It's silly! You're big girl. Nobody will make fun of you. They will say nothing about you wear. You didn't answer my question how many hearing loss percent. You have to be brave and learn how to ignore people think. Hearing aids and glasses are the same. The earmolds is not hurt you. I'm wearing a clear earmolds. Nobody notice me. Everyone know I am deaf and can't hear. I have to accept who I am. You need to talk with your audiologist.

shy girl said:

How many hours a day do u wear ur hearing aids for?

idk how many hours i should start off wearing my hearing aids (BTE) for.
im getting them in just under 3 weeks. so nervous and so scared.
i dont want anyone to know that i am HOH (even tho i am proud of it).
i dont want anyone to know i wear hearing aids (not even my parents, im doin this alone)(even tho im probably goin to be proud of it).
and when i get them i will be proud that i will be wearing hearing aids, cz i will be able to hear clearer and better and understand wot people are saying.
But they are goin to stick out like a sore thumb. i think the earmoulds are gonna look weird, and the aids will make my ears stick out.
people are goin laugh at me and make fun of me.
And im probably goin to take it out and leave it out. maybe put it back in again, but i will see.

Any advice on this.
and anything helpful and useful.

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I wore them from 1st day all day...but I had sensoneurinal loss from birth...so I don't really know..

I never was self conscious about my aid , if somebody uttered a bad jibe soon was either slapped or reported..

Have your head held high and never hear all these badmouthings..those that will do , will not definitely be your friends nor will you trust them...

on practical things , you'll need to adjust to it , and care for it..buy also some dri aid kit...so it will be well mantained , especially if it's humid where you live..
Have always tubes spare , when they go really rigid , the sounds are going a bit whistly and strange...
Buy an tube air blower to keep moisture out of tubing and also wax..
Always have an wallet at your purse that will have spare batteries , an spare tube , air blower , pack of tissues , and a few cotton buds ( especially at summer )

Also get some informative leaflets for your family and close friends to peruse and learn..you will hear better and you also start lipreading and reading the visual cues and be better informed..

I did the same when I got new aid , and now the same for CI ( minus the airblower and tubing.. ).

The most useful were the leaflets where I gave to some friends and family...even with the CI ..

hope I helped!!

and last but not least DO NOT , I repeat , DO NOT let anybody make you thinking that you aren't worth b/c you wear HA's...and do not remove HA for anyone's benefit , except your own!

Vivie said:

I wore them from 1st day all day...but I had sensoneurinal loss from birth...so I don't really know..

I never was self conscious about my aid , if somebody uttered a bad jibe soon was either slapped or reported..

Have your head held high and never hear all these badmouthings..those that will do , will not definitely be your friends nor will you trust them...

on practical things , you'll need to adjust to it , and care for it..buy also some dri aid kit...so it will be well mantained , especially if it's humid where you live..
Have always tubes spare , when they go really rigid , the sounds are going a bit whistly and strange...
Buy an tube air blower to keep moisture out of tubing and also wax..
Always have an wallet at your purse that will have spare batteries , an spare tube , air blower , pack of tissues , and a few cotton buds ( especially at summer )

Also get some informative leaflets for your family and close friends to peruse and learn..you will hear better and you also start lipreading and reading the visual cues and be better informed..

I did the same when I got new aid , and now the same for CI ( minus the airblower and tubing.. ).

The most useful were the leaflets where I gave to some friends and family...even with the CI ..

hope I helped!!

and last but not least DO NOT , I repeat , DO NOT let anybody make you thinking that you aren't worth b/c you wear HA's...and do not remove HA for anyone's benefit , except your own!

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~♥~Pinky~♥~ said:

Please be relax. I can wear HA for many hours. I would say 12 to 16 hours. It's not hurt. I can get it off when I go sleep. It's quiet. You will not be die for wear HA in public. It's silly! You're big girl. Nobody will make fun of you. They will say nothing about you wear. You didn't answer my question how many hearing loss percent. You have to be brave and learn how to ignore people think. Hearing aids and glasses are the same. The earmolds is not hurt you. I'm wearing a clear earmolds. Nobody notice me. Everyone know I am deaf and can't hear. I have to accept who I am. You need to talk with your audiologist.

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i cant help it. wow, thats a long time. i dont want people knowing that im HOH and wear hearing aids.
50% in both ears.

I wear mine for the time when I am out of the house. If I am in my apartment alone I don't wear them. On weekends I will often not wear them. I have them in right now only because I want to listen to music and I only just put them on for the first time this weekend.

I wear them when I want to hear, or if I am in a speaking environment. If I am signing I often won't. If I am alone and out doing errands I often won't, unless I am using my MP3 player with my MusicLink ear hooks,

shy girl said:

How many hours a day do u wear ur hearing aids for?

idk how many hours i should start off wearing my hearing aids (BTE) for.
im getting them in just under 3 weeks. so nervous and so scared.
i dont want anyone to know that i am HOH (even tho i am proud of it).
i dont want anyone to know i wear hearing aids (not even my parents, im doin this alone)(even tho im probably goin to be proud of it).
and when i get them i will be proud that i will be wearing hearing aids, cz i will be able to hear clearer and better and understand wot people are saying.
But they are goin to stick out like a sore thumb. i think the earmoulds are gonna look weird, and the aids will make my ears stick out.
people are goin laugh at me and make fun of me.
And im probably goin to take it out and leave it out. maybe put it back in again, but i will see.

Any advice on this.
and anything helpful and useful.

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I wear it until I go to bed then I take it off. Of course you'll have to take it off when you're outside in the rain.

I understand how do you feeling. It's tough to accept it. When did you get hearing loss by cause? Like born or accident or sick? You can get an Open Fit BTE. You can check it out at other thread that you created. You don't have to make many different create of threads. It's good enough.

How can you communicate with your hearing friends through cellphone when you can't hear? If you're comfortable with your trust friends only. If you have a long hair. You can cover your hair on HA. You don't have to be denial about your hearing loss. It's not help. You have to discuss with your parents about your feeling. I hope it will be work out.

If you don't want to wear hearing aids then you don't have to wear them to hear. It up to you. We are not force you to do. I suggest you talk with your best friends or parents about your feeling.

shy girl said:

i cant help it. wow, thats a long time. i dont want people knowing that im HOH and wear hearing aids.
50% in both ears.

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It's your life and your choice. Life comes with choices. Wear it or leave it.

If you wear it, you will have the comprehensive of understanding the sound and words surround you. Its could help you achieve your learning ability on education.

The other choice is if you don't wear it then you will not benefit any from it. You will have problem understanding what is being said. Without hearing aid, you will not be able to hear music or recognize the lyric of the song. It could hinger you from learning.

DeafPenPal said:

It's your life and your choice. Life comes with choices. Wear it or leave it.

If you wear it, you will have the comprehensive of understanding the sound and words surround you. Its could help you achieve your learning ability on education.

The other choice is if you don't wear it then you will not benefit any from it. You will have problem understanding what is being said. Without hearing aid, you will not be able to hear music or recognize the lyric of the song. It could hinger you from learning.

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Plz can u come on aim, so we can talk about it. thanx.

Shygirl, if you live somewhere near Doncaster then try visiting the Doncaster School for the Deaf. Just ask for a visit and get advice from Deaf student and staff on hearing aid.

DeafPenPal said:

Shygirl, if you live somewhere near Doncaster then try visiting the Doncaster School for the Deaf. Just ask for a visit and get advice from Deaf student and staff on hearing aid.

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Excellent idea!

I don't care if they stare at my hearing aid, so who cares. Some of them looked at my hearing aid, It's like saying "What's that?" and never seen it before. Actually, almost no one is making fun of my HAs at all. Nothing wrong with wearing HAs.

I did exactly just like JennyB and DPP.

I don't wear my hearing aid at the amusement park cuz I don't want my hearing aid screw up and too noisy from the roller coaster and screaming people. You know HAs are expensive. Be careful with your new HAs.

If someone talk really loud on cellphone behind me, I simply take my hearing aid off and it's quiet.

That's about it.

How much I wear my HA (a BTE) really depends what I'm doing.

If I'm at home, I leave it off because I really don't have much to listen to at home.

If I'm out grabbing groceries, or "mall walking" alone I may or may not wear it - depending on how I'm feeling, how hot it is, etc. but I usually take it with me in case I want it.

At work I'd wear it from 8am-7pm daily, and sometimes just forget to take it out until bed.

The most important piece of wisdom I can give you (I didn't start wearing HA until I was in my mid 20s) is that how YOU decide to react is going to go a LONG way towards how others feel. By that I mean: If you're insecure and sure everyone is going to make fun of you and all that - people will pick up on those feelings, and act differently. IF you have confidence about it - and think of the GOOD things the HA might do for you, then people will feel THAT instead.

My personal example: at work, I always wear my hair back in a french braid, as I work with machinery, fire, chemicals etc, and it's a safety thing - so my ears are VERY exposed. That being said I told a number of people I'd be getting my first HA the next day, so there might be a bit of a learning curve for a bit while I got used to it - I offered to answer questions, talked about audiograms, what I could and couldn't hear, talked freely about it, had confidence in myself, and felt comfortable with myself and my future HA. Because of the way I choose to handle the situation everyone (and I mean EVERYONE) was totally supportive and helpful.

Now you may think everyone treated me extra nice because they knew - but a full 2 weeks later I was chatting with my boss at work, and mentioned that I was still figuring out how to get the phone&HA thing working best for me - and they looked at me and said, you don't wear a HA do you ?? (totally serious, and YES the HA was in my ear!), and I turned and showed them - the clear mold and tubing combined with the fact that I selected a HA that was the colour of my hair meant it was barely visible EVEN with my hair back. I'd walked around, chatted with, ate with, etc this person for 2 weeks and he'd totally forgotten and MISSED that I had been wearing it !! and BTW if there was ever a place it might have a potential to be an "issue" it would be there ... because I was a Tech in a Large Music Store, dealing with students, parents and professionals everyday - and I can say not once was it even a tiny bit of a "problem" or "issue"

I've had kids sometimes ask what's in my ear if I'm leaning down to get to their height - I tell them it's a HA, and that it helps me hear things better and they're happy, if they have questions I answer them honestly and its all good - BEST yet ... they never think much of HAs when they see them on other adults or kids - they don't make fun, because after we chat there's just not a whole lot to make fun OF.

If I see a kid with HAs in the store who has neat coloured Molds or covers/shells I often go up and say how neat they are (my mold is currently BLUE & GREEN swirlies - life's too short, have some fun!)

Currently I just finished up my 2nd year in Seminary - and have been placed in 3 churches in this year on an ongoing basis - my awareness and openness has been a catalyst for a number of parishioners feeling better about their own HL as well as helping provide a positive role model, and helping reshape ill informed notions of what it means to be HH or Deaf (I grew up orally, then learned ASL, and now use both)

I hope that helps a bit ... please feel free to IM me here or on AIM/Yahoo

Wow, Anji, great to see you; we don't see enough of you here.

It's nice to be seen (and have the time to post now!)

P.S. I just realised how long that post was - oops !
Hopefully the above essay will be of some help

hohDougRN said:

Something just does not sound right here. U need to come to grips with things here. Your family doesn't even know you hae HA's??? Maybe I am missing the part of the story.

I say don't be self conscious of it. The sooner you can overcome that the sooner you can focus on people and eye contact and 'being you.' Maybe an afternoon on Dr Phil with your family (I can see it now) OK nuff said. I don't have much advice except that this sound like HA is going to help you "function" at a little higher level where you want to be? is that wrong. Really, nobody cares, really. Especially us here. In fact I know I'm bordering insensitive and for that I appologize. I think you will come to the crossroads when you will probably feel naked or not feel normal when you don't have HA's on. Like others here at home and I not seeing need for HA when I want the lovely silence, but in a situation where I want to be a part of conversation, where I need to hear a little bit of info, music, etc.

OK I hope you sort through your feelings and can turn this into a positive point and a good thing to look back on another time.

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For my family, it's "you've done fine up until this point and you never said there was a problem, so you don't need hearing aids". I mean i suppose it is my fault for not telling them how much i was struggling...but the other thing was i had adapted so well within my working environment that i didn't notice how much trouble i really was having (i made myself oblivious)...it wasn't until i got to school that i was like...woah, big problem here!
So when I told my parents that i had completely "bombed" my hearing test...and i needed aids...it was just more of a statement where "you've made it up until this point, why get them now" sorta thing.

I agree with you. It's nothing wrong with HA.

I forget about to post. I didn't wear HA during Amusement park. I didn't want to screw up my HA either. It's expensive! I left my HA at hotel. I went to ride with wet stuff like splash mountain, and other wet riding. And also it's raining for an hour.

zigzag said:

I don't care if they stare at my hearing aid, so who cares. Some of them looked at my hearing aid, It's like saying "What's that?" and never seen it before. Actually, almost no one is making fun of my HAs at all. Nothing wrong with wearing HAs.

I did exactly just like JennyB and DPP.

I don't wear my hearing aid at the amusement park cuz I don't want my hearing aid screw up and too noisy from the roller coaster and screaming people. You know HAs are expensive. Be careful with your new HAs.

If someone talk really loud on cellphone behind me, I simply take my hearing aid off and it's quiet.

That's about it.

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I take my ha out when i get frusterated or i'm tired or headache. I wear mine usually all the time tho otherwise. Sometime's i get sick of hearing people babble like in class and i will take my ha out. When i first got my ha i wore them all day to start out instead of gradually wearing them longer just cuz i was so excited to hear sounds! lol I did bring tylenol tho with me! The 2nd day i had them i went to the museum and there was a birds flood and u can press a button to hear the sound it makes..omg and all the lil kids were pressng buttons..it was horrible..i took it out and needless to say i had a headache cuz i was overwhelmed with all the noise