Can Hearing Aids Stop Ringing in Your Ears?

senior hearing loss patient smiling as she is fitted with a brand new hearing aid

Hearing aids are an incredibly useful tool that many people across the world use in their daily lives in order to live much more easily and freely. They are obviously designed to help an individual be able to hear properly and fully, and that is something that they are especially good at, but there are other things that they might be able to help with as well, which is good news for anyone who might have any of these other conditions.

Tinnitus is a very common symptom of an underlying condition that people all over the world have every day. It can be acute or chronic, but in either case it is identified by a ringing in the ears, which can be either severe or subtle. The question is, can hearing aids stop ringing in your ears, and if so, how effectively can they do so?

What is Tinnitus?

This can be a short-term or long-term experience, and it can vary greatly in the volume and intensity, as well as the duration and frequency too. For anyone who has it regularly, however, there is no doubt that it can affect their quality of life considerably. For that reason, you would want to know whether there was any kind of solution to having tinnitus, and if so, what it might be.

There are a few solutions that are often preferred for someone who has tinnitus, and hearing aids are indeed one of them. Let’s look at how they can help.

How Hearing Aids Can Help Tinnitus

Some studies show that hearing aids provide relief of tinnitus to around 60% of participants, so that is a significant number that you are going to want to be aware of if you are wondering how to deal with your own tinnitus. Around 22% of those people said that the relief is total, but even for the others it is still clearly better than having no relief at all.

While hearing aids are not designed specifically to treat tinnitus, this is a secondary effect that they can indeed have. If you have tinnitus, it’s certainly worth trying this out by seeing an audiologist and asking if they can provide you with a hearing aid.

Making Noises Louder

One of the ways in which hearing aids can help you with your tinnitus is by making all noises slightly louder, as hearing aids are obviously meant to do. This helps because the ringing in your ears is not usually affected by your hearing loss, so it sounds louder. As such, increasing all the other sounds can really help to reduce that ringing.

Improving Conversations

When the ringing subsides, and the other noises improve, it naturally means that conversations are going to be a lot easier to have. For one thing, the natural sounds in conversation will improve, making that easier. This then has the effect of you being more social, and the evidence shows that being more social means that you then focus less on your tinnitus.

As such, you will not feel as though you are experiencing that ringing in your ears all day, every day – and that can be a wonderful relief to feel.

Keeping the Brain Fit

All of that also has another benefit which helps with tinnitus: it keeps your brain fit and healthy. Your brain is less likely to atrophy from non-use, and that means that you will feel much more alive and active. That in turn can help to minimize some of the symptoms of tinnitus considerably, thereby aiding this virtuous cycle even more to improve and improve.

Getting a Hearing Aid

So, as you can see, hearing aids can indeed help with tinnitus, along with providing many other benefits to your daily life. So how do you get a hearing aid, and how can you make sure you get the right one? It’s simple: you just need to seek out an audiologist whom you can trust, and then ask them to help fit you one.

They will carry out some tests before administering you with a hearing aid fitted for you, and they will help you work out how to use it and maintain it as well. You’ll find that this is a great solution that you can really enjoy.

To find an audiologist who can help you in this respect, consider calling Kirsch Audiology at 310-586-5533. We will be more than happy to speak with you.