* Your hearing aids should allow you to listen with less effort.
* It requires time to become accustomed to your hearing aids.
* Your hearing aids WILL NOT restore your hearing capabilities to “normal” or pre-existing hearing levels.
* Not everyone will achieve the same degree of benefit from hearing aids; the ultimate benefit is determined by the nature of the hearing loss.
* Hearing aids DO NOT eliminate background noise.
* In quiet environments, your hearing should improve.
* Your hearing in moderate background noise should improve.
* Your hearing with background noise is NOT going to be as good as your hearing in a quiet environment.
* Soft speech should be audible, average speech should be comfortable and loud speech should be loud, but not uncomfortable.
* You may be aware of soft sounds that were previously not audible. Examples include: footsteps, whispers, crickets, etc.
* Your hearing aids/earmolds should not hurt.
* There should be no feedback when the hearing aids are properly seated in your ears.
* Your voice should be different, but acceptable, to you.
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