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When wearing hearing aids:

* Your hearing aids should let you to listen with less effort.

* It will take time to get used to your hearing aids.

* Your hearing aids will not restore your hearing capabilities to the way they were before you developed hearing loss.

* Not everyone will get the same benefit from hearing aids; the amount of improvement is determined by the nature of the hearing loss.

* Hearing aids do not eliminate background noise.

* In quiet environments, your hearing should get better.

* Your hearing with moderate background noise should improve.

* Your hearing with background noise is not going to be as good as your hearing in a quiet environment.

* You should be able to hear when people speak softly.

* You should feel comfortable when others speak normally.

* Loud speech should sound loud, but not uncomfortable.

* You may begin hearing soft sounds that you couldn’t hear before. Examples include footsteps, whispers, crickets, etc.

* Your hearing aids/earmolds should not hurt.

* You shouldn’t hear feedback when your hearing aids rest in the correct position in your ears.

* Your voice should be different but acceptable to you.

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