If you were recently fitted with your first pair of hearing aids, then it is important for you to know how to deal with any pain or discomfort that you may feel during the first week of wearing them. While you should never have pain from wearing hearing aids, sometimes your ears can become a bit tender while they first get used to having a foreign object in contact with them all day. So, if you find that your ears are a bit sore when you first start wearing your hearing aids, here are some tips that can help reduce the most common forms of ear pain:

Tip: Try Lubricating Your Ear Canal with a Small Dab of Baby Oil

Sometimes hearing aids will irritate your ear canal because they rub against it as you talk, eat, and move around. The easiest way to alleviate this irritation is to place a small dab of baby oil on your clean finger and rub it gently into your ear canal. Using just a very small amount of baby oil will provide enough lubrication on the surface of your ear canal for your hearing aid to be much less painful.

Tip: Have Your Hearing Aid's Ear Mold Shaved to Reduce Rubbing

If you have been wearing your new hearing aids for a couple of days and one of them makes your ear sore in one specific spot, then you can take your hearing aids back to your audiologist's office and have the ear mold shaved down. By shaving down even the slightest amount of material from the ear mold, the hearing aid will fit better into your ear canal and will not be irritating to it as it naturally shifts around.

Tip: Have Your Physician Test You For Allergies to the Ear Mold Material

Finally, since your hearing aid ear molds can be made out of various materials, pain can be a signal that you are allergic to one of the substances that they are made of. If you have been wearing your new hearing aids for a couple of weeks and are still having problems with pain, you should see your audiologist and have them refer you to an allergist who can test you to see if an allergy is your issue. If you are allergic to something in your current hearing aids, then you may need to replace them with a different model.

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