Congratulations on starting your journey from hearing impairment to hearing empowerment using HiFi OTC’s powerful Fidelity hearing aids. You’re about to embark on a unique and new experience that will take some time and patience to get through, a medical process of getting comfortable and accustomed to your hearing aids. Along that path to success, you’ll encounter some minor frustrations, personal challenges and, ultimately, well-deserved improvement in your hearing quality once you’ve come out the other side happier and healthier overall. To help you get through this journey is our quick, easy-to-read guide that you’re encouraged to follow in order to better prepare you for what’s to come. So let’s get started:
Whether you’re using a 1.0, 2.0 or 3.0 Fidelity model hearing aid, your best place to begin getting used to your device and its fitting and functions for day-to-day use should begin with a fun, judgement-free conversation in the comfort of your own home. Find a trusted friend or loved one to sit down with you to figure out how it feels, when speaking at an indoor level, to improve your confidence through utilizing your auditory assistant. Allow for pauses between responses to adjust your comfort levels, both for setup and volume levels, and take as much time as needed to understand how this will function for you moving forward. Once that’s out of the way, the next step will be a bigger hurdle to get over, but not an overly difficult one:
Important to Note: If you continue to experience difficulty in either fitting or comfortability with volume levels during these one-on-one conversations to make immediate arrangements to contact a trained specialist at HiFi OTC and troubleshoot any potential technical issues you might be experiencing
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Phone: 877-214-7222
Email: service@hifiotc.com
Next is mastering your ability to handle all of the ambient noises that are generated by the world outside. Understanding the difference between adjusting for indoor conversations and sound levels and outdoor noises and surrounding volumes will be critical moving forward. To get started, try making a day of forced exposure in quieter parts of your town or city: pick a park or a public green space to sit by yourself (or with someone else) so you can focus on what works and what doesn’t work for your device setup and volume levels. Make sure to consistently adjust your setting — depending on which HiFi OTC device you’re using at the time — and take note of which dial does what for your comfort, as well as what feature(s) provide the most ideal environment for your day of testing. After that, finish your afternoon by exposing yourself to an area with more highly concentrated environmental sounds, such as a busy downtown area or a moderately-attended concert. Remember, don’t do anything initially to upset your personal comfort or condition, and seek the indoors immediately if things become too loud or overwhelming. Over time these daily sessions will become easier for you to get used to, and eventually your mastery of the outdoors using a hearing aid will become complete.
Great, if you’ve come this far in this step in the guide, it means you’re comfortable enough with both indoor and outdoor spaces that you’re ready to do a bit of homework and learn all there is to know about the various functions and features on offer with your advanced HiFi OTC auditory device. Although more of a consideration for those of you who sprung for the more innovative elements of the 2.0 and 3.0 models, even users of the 1.0 should do themselves a big favor and get accustomed to the few dials, switches and buttons on hand that are built into your aids. From the Auto On / Auto Off modes to the revolutionary implementation of built-in bluetooth, these features will be crucial to understanding and internalizing in your memory, if for nothing else, to ensure you don’t mess up your current set-up and end up getting confused or turned around by accident.
You’re almost at the end, and for that you should be proud of your progress, but there’s one final step in this guide between you and completion, and that’s the important job of staying ever on top of your hearing aids and their use. Like a skill that requires consistent fine tuning, the quality of your hearing will depend on whether or not you devote yourself fully to using them day in and day out. Train yourself to associate your charging sessions with your phone charging cycle, and ask your family and friends to ask you about your using your HiFi OTC hearing aids every day so that you never miss a beat. Overtime, you’ll be your own best pillar of support when it comes to acclimation, and after a time it’ll almost become second nature for you to simply charge, use, recharge and then use again these immensely helpful and necessary tools to elevate your happiness and your overall well being.
This guide will be important to follow if you want to learn how best to adjust to your hearing aids, and you can better educate yourself on HiFi OTC’s devices directly by visiting our products page or reaching out directly to our team to discover how the Fidelity model lineup can help you hear tomorrow better, today.
