Hello everyone, welcome to my channel today.
Today, I'm going to share some hacks to solve the scratching sound on your hearing aids.
Hello, if you're new, my name is Emily, I created Definite Hearing as a way to increase
awareness for the D/deaf and Hard of Hearing.
I'm hard of hearing myself, and I've been wearing hearing aids since I was four months
old.
I love my hearing aids so so so so much.
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I am so excited to share these hearing aid scratch hacks with you today.
All right, so what causes the scratching sound on hearing aids?
Well, I'm just going to start out by saying, it is not a programming issue, the scratching
sound that you hear through your hearing aids is actually on your hearing aids, it's your
hair, scratching your hearing aid near your hearing aid microphone, and if you've experienced
this, you know, it's so annoying.
I deal with this a lot because as you can see I have a long, thick curly hair.
And recently, this hearing aid scratching has been driving me absolutely crazy.
I want to share how I solve this issue so anyone who experiences this hearing aid scratching
can have these hacks, and hopefully fix or mitigate that problem.
Alright so solution number one, I pull my hair up in a way for my hearing aids.
I love my long thick curly hair because it's super easy for me to do this, even when I
don't have a hair tie, but regardless, you'll want to pull your hair up in and way because
your hair, rubbing on your hearing aids is the reason for this annoying scratching.
Item number two is that you can shave this area near your ear.
That can or cannot work, it typically works based on how much area, you shave, so people
were super short hair usually don't have this hearing aid scratching problem.
Hack number three, you can use a vinyl wrap to prevent the hearing aid scratching.
The vinyl wrap, gets the hair away from the microphone just a little bit more, I like
to use adhesive vinyl paper from the dollar store, I highly recommend if you go to a craft
store that you get removable vinyl, and then you can use an exacto knife to cut a pattern
that will fit on your hearing aid and simply stick it on.
That should work.
I found that this method doesn't work as well, and so I'm going to show the method that I
currently use and love, it enables me to keep my hair down, I don't have to shave an area
on my head and it works better than the vinyl wrap idea, and this is applying jewels to
the area of my hearing aid, next to the microphone.
These jewels keep my hair up and away from microphones, thus preventing, mitigating,
totally reducing the annoying hearing aid scratching sound that I deal with, so I want
to show you what I did.
I've been doing this for about a week and a half now it's an idea that I came up with
after I was so annoyed with the hearing aid scratching I thought, you know I just need
to get my hair away from my hearing aids, but how can I do that, while my hair is down
without having to shave the side of my head?
I will admit I have wanted to shave the side of my head and like put some designs in and
stuff but I have just heard from people who've done that, but it's like a nightmare, growing
back in, and I really like my hair right now.
I finally, I'm like enjoying my long curly hair so I just didn't want to shave it so
I found this jewel idea, it's super great.
Let me show it to you.
Alright, so I only put it on my left hearing aid because this is the one that was having
the most trouble.
My right hearing aid almost never has trouble, and I can't figure out why because my right
ear has a greater hearing loss, which means that that hearing aid would be relatively
closer to the threshold than this hearing aid, so I don't know why my left hearing aid
has more trouble but it does, which is why I applied the jewels.
As you look closely you see these two little jewels right here, and they just raise the
bar just enough that the hair does not scratch on my two microphones that are right here.
So I absolutely love it, you can apply these jewels in one of two ways.
One, you can go to the craft store and get the tiny jewels that are adhesive, and you
just take them off and stick them on make sure that they're removable adhesive jewels.
There are some jewels that have really strong adhesives on the back and you don't want something
that's permanent.
Also, you can do it the way that I did it.
I used ModPodge and jewels from the dollar store that were not adhesive.
I just took some tweezers put a very tiny tiny tiny bit of ModPodge on the back and
put it on my hearing aid.
Now, if you do do route number two, like I did, I just have to say, please please please
realize that you're putting this on your hearing aid certain credibly expensive you don't want
to ruin them.
Do you need to make sure the glue, the ModPodge, stays so far away from those microphones so
if you feel a little insecure about that definitely just do the adhesive tool, but it works, it
totally works and I was like so happy.
So there are my hearing aid, scratching hacks.
Do you have any hearing aid scratching hacks that you've tried that I didn't mention in
this video?
If so, I would love to hear in the comments below.
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to making more awesome content for you.
Until the next video, stay strong, stay amazing.
Have a great day.
So for those of you that want to know how to actually do this, I'm going to show you.
Step one, you want your jewels, go ahead and select what jewels you want.
Step two, get your ModPodge, and pour that out.
Step three, get some tweezers, simply pick up your tool, dip it in the ModPodge, and
this is an important step, make sure you dab off the excess glue.
If you just take the jewel and put it right on your hearing aid, there will be too much
glue and it will probably seep into the hearing aid microphones.
You do not want that.
Be sure to dab off the jewel, so you just have a small, small, small amount of glue.
Then use the tweezers to place the jewel with the glue on your hearing aid in the areas
that surround your hearing aid microphones, and then do it with any other jewels that
you may need.
There you have it.
Now you have your ear scratch guard tools on your hearing aids.
Make sure you let the hearing aid sit and dry before you put it back into your ear.
I hope this solves your hearing aid scratching problems, And if you try this, I definitely
want to hear in the comments below about how it worked for you, and just know that this
is a DIY craft, this is not something that like, I want you to try if you don't feel
110% confident that you won't ruin your hearing needs, I cannot be responsible for any damage
hearing aids, or the addition of jewels so enjoy.
I hope this video helps, and if the applying your own jewels idea is not gonna work for
you, definitely try the vinyl wrap, or one of the pulling your hair away from your hearing
aids or just shaving the side of your head.
Anyway, I hope that helps.
I hope you all have a great day!