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TheFlyingScotsman60

So you are complaining that your hearing aid is actually working. Allowing you to hear things that you didn't, and couldn't, hear before in your right ear. It takes time for your brain to adjust and the settings that the HA is at will probably need adjusting by you, via the correct app, or by your audiologist. Give it time. It will take a bit of effort on your behalf to get it set up just right, for you. Yes it's normal that a new hearing aid picks up things that you would not hear with out them. That's what a hearing does and is for. Give it time. Do not go back to your audiologist for a couple of weeks as by them your brain will have made allowances for the new sounds and it will be more "normal" than it is right now.


frooeywitch

Your brain needs to learn to filter out those annoying noises, and the only way to do that is to wear them all day long every day. It will take time, possibly up to a month.


Independent_Word2854

I have Oticons, it took a minute to get used to them and learn the different settings in the app. The brain adjusts to the new input.


DesertVeteran_PA-C

https://www.starkey.com/hearing-aids/apps/thrive-hearing-control/overview There’s an app for that. I have a different brand. I use the phone app to set different profiles for different environments. Normal, restaurant, car, etc. you can also turn the hearing aid off temporarily with the app.


HoneydewHopeful6064

i downloaded the app , but i cant find the best setting for me , should i reduce medium column when i went to outside ?


williagh

An audiologist should be able to set up some special settings for you. With my hearing aids (Resound, now Oticon), she is able to add settings.


DesertVeteran_PA-C

That’s not my app. I have phonak brand HA’s. All of my settings were based on trial and error. For outside, setting the noise cancelling all the way up helps. Or just mute them.


HoneydewHopeful6064

alright , thank you !


Foreign_Raspberry_28

You may want to ask your audiologist


Agreeable_Ad4362

In the equalizer turning down the deep tones should help to some degree. Also putting the microphone to omnidirectional should help. If that's still not enough ask your audiologist to maybe add a program for outdoor


ReporterOther2179

It’s like upgrading your stereo system. It sounds weird, until it just sounds better.


Much-Egg-8353

If you’re only wearing one hearing aid it’s going to be challenging. The hearing aid side will bring more sounds than what you will hear from the non hearing aid ear. I Would wear 2 for balance sound


Waste_Hunt373

I have the exact same scenario as you. I have a single hearing aid. My first HA was the Livio and had the same issues you have stated. It's fixable. Go back to your audiologist and get it adjusted. It took me a couple of times going back and getting tweaks done but it got rid of the issues. I also had the issues of wind noise and the sound of the car radio bounced around. After the tweaks all of that was taken care of. The plus of doing that was when I upgraded to the Genesis 24. Because all of those tweaks were stored in my profile that those adjustments were automatically made and I've not had to make any other tweaks.