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If you have hearing aids, you’ll likely to encounter hearing aid whistles.
This occurs when parts of the hearing aid are incorrectly shaped or not well placed in the ear canal and sound picked up by the hearing aid microphone and repeats with increasing intensity. This is known as feedback.
And the causes are many, so here are some questions to ask yourself to help troubleshoot this vexing issue:
- Is your hearing aid seated properly?
- Is something blocking the microphone?
- Is the BTE hearing aid tube split?
- Is earwax a problem?
- Is your ear mould seated properly?
- Is your hearing aid too loud?
The answers to those questions can be found in this very helpful Value Hearing article here.
One of the first and easiest things to try is ensuring your hearing aid is seated properly. Test by moving the receiver in your ear to see if that works. It might be that excess ear hair may prevent hearing aids from seated properly.
If you think that may be a problem, we have an article here on how to manage excess ear hair.
Secondly, check to see if earwax is a significant problem. If that is a problem, we have some great articles here which may help:
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