Hearing loss can seriously effect how you live, even when it’s mild. There will be a significant change in the way you communicate with loved ones, friends, and coworkers. It can become challenging to accomplish daily activities such as going shopping. But that doesn’t mean it has to be all doom and gloom. If you utilize a well calibrated hearing aid, it can make a huge difference.
Most people normally think of those advantages in a really linear sort of way: Hearing aids help you hear better. And that’s true. But how do hearing aids enhance quality of life? What further advantages will hearing aids deliver?
Hearing aid’s top ten advantages
It’s kind of amazing, isn’t it, how people can so frequently put together top ten lists for anything? I bet you didn’t think you would be reading a top ten list about hearing aids when you got up this morning. I mean, if you’ve known about your hearing loss for a while… maybe you did!
So here are the top ten advantages of wearing hearing aids.
1. Your relationships will improve
Strong communication is crucial to any good relationship. But when you have neglected hearing loss, communication can be challenging. With hearing aids, you’ll finally hear more than little snippets of conversation. You’ll hear everything, you’ll get the whole story, and you’ll be able to keep up with the conversation.
You won’t be resentful and feel left out of conversations. So you will have an improvement in your relationships with family, friends, and coworkers. There is a strong connection between relationships and hearing aids!
2. You’ll be more independent
Shopping at the supermarket or going to a restaurant when you have untreated hearing loss can be an ordeal. Trying to communicate with wait staff and cashiers can be challenging when you can’t hear very well. But with a set of hearing aids, the whole process suddenly becomes a lot easier. You’ll have much more independence when you move around the world around you.
You’ll also be better able to drive safely. That’s because your hearing aids will increase your overall situational awareness (more on that later). You won’t be as anxious about doing things on your own when you can hear the world more clearly.
3. You could make more money
Let’s chuck out a hypothetical: if you’re missing large parts of what’s being discussed during meetings at work, your job performance will suffer. This can result in diminished job opportunities and being passed-up for promotions.
With your hearing aids securely in place and working properly, you’ll be able to keep up with meetings, and you won’t be as tired all the time from straining to hear. By doing this you can have an opportunity to raise your income by improving your ability to focus on work.
4. You’ll have diminished tinnitus symptoms
Tinnitus is one of those things that most people have experienced now and again; it’s that buzzing or ringing in your ear. When you suffer from hearing loss, tinnitus can often be experienced much more intensely (there are a host of reasons for this, sometimes the tinnitus is just relatively noisier because everything else is so quiet, for instance).
With a hearing aid, many people observe that they experience decreased tinnitus symptoms. In these instances, that’s because the hearing aid is overpowering the sound of the tinnitus. But we will take relief whenever we can, right?
5. Less chance of developing dementia
There is a solid connection between cognitive decline and hearing loss. For instance, neglected hearing loss can significantly raise your chance of developing dementia. Treating hearing loss appears to be helpful, although there are many theories as to why. That’s why it’s important to make sure you use your hearing aids. You might be giving your brain a better chance of staying healthy longer.
6. Music can once again be appreciated
It’s hard to appreciate music, in its full entirety, when you suffer from hearing impairment. That’s because one frequency of sound typically goes before the others. Maybe you can’t hear low frequencies, for instance. Because of this, the song you once enjoyed may just sound… strange.
With your hearing aids, however, those missing gaps in the music will be filled in, and you can appreciate music again! You’ll get the high notes and the low notes, instead of only one or the other (or a muffled mess). It can be an incredible relief to hear your favorite tune again.
7. Your confidence will improve
Having better hearing and interacting more completely will give you a boost of confidence. And confidence is a great thing.
We’re not implying that you shouldn’t have confidence simply because you deal with hearing loss. We’re just saying that you may find yourself having a difficult time interacting with others, particularly if your hearing loss is new.
Those connections can become easier again with hearing aids. And that can result in improved confidence.
8. Your energy will be increased
If your hearing loss has been slowly developing, your brain has likely been working harder. That’s because your brain doesn’t realize your ears aren’t working correctly, so it’s continuously attempting to fill in the audio gaps that your hearing loss has produced. That’s… a lot of work! And so, your brain is under continual strain.
When you get a hearing aid, you’re giving your brain a chance to slow down and refresh. It won’t need to work as hard. Which means you won’t feel so continually exhausted and depleted. You’ll have more vitality to do the things you love to do!
9. Being more mindful of your surroundings will keep you safer
If your hearing loss is recent, you might not yet have completely adapted. You’re used to hearing oncoming traffic before you step out into the road. Before you look up into your rearview mirror, you would normally hear the oncoming sirens.
If your hearing loss is new, or you aren’t aware of it, you may presume that some situations are safe when they really aren’t. And that can be a hazardous proposition.
This lost awareness will be recovered by using hearing aids. So you’ll be capable of making wiser, less dangerous decisions.
10. You’ll be a positive example!
Change can be difficult, and personal growth harder still. When you invest in a hearing aid, you’re admitting that something isn’t actually working properly anymore. But you’re improving yourself too.
There’s nothing wrong with that! It’s the kind of thing we should all strive for! So you’re becoming a role model and a positive example when you wear your hearing aids. (It’s fine, you can blush a bit, you deserve it.)
Get your hearing checked as soon as you can
When you wear hearing aids you will hear better and that’s the main benefit. That goes without saying. But as you know, there are tons of immediate benefits of hearing aids! This top ten list is only that, one little list of just ten of these benefits.
You may have a totally different top ten list. No matter what benefits you look forward to the most, the first step is scheduling an appointment with us to have your hearing checked.
