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Does long hair affect hearing aid performance?

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Wife formerly short hair now well over her ears. Seems she isn’t hearing as well with her . Any estimates how adversely this impacts hearing?

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I’ve had long hair forever and if you can ascertain that it negatively impacts hearing, please let me know.

That being said, I’ve never had any signals from anywhere that it impacts on the functioning of ’s. I believe it’s even a standard strategy for hiding HA’s.

What frequently have impacted are a slight cold, allergies, clogged slim tubes for , fully clogged for and badly fitting domes. If you notice that the lower frequencies are less clear, than it’s probably the domes (or custom molds.)

The length of her hair should have no noticeable affect on the performance of he .

I have long hair, I also have style, KS 9s. Sometimes I wear my hair down; other times I have it up in a pony tail. I don’t see any difference in my hearing.

Has she tried wearing a pony tail, to see if SHE hears any differently? Just a thought.

Long hair myself. Have to wear it pulled partially back or in ponytail because hair swishing across ’s makes loud wack-wack noise. Thinking about cutting it short.

Due to covid, my hair is rather long and covers my hearing aids. That being said, even with hair covering my hearing aids, there is no discernible difference between sound quality as a result. It still sounds the same to me even with the obstruction / covering.

In reply to @mnorling24

Hi mnorling24,

I had that issue when I first got my . On my first trip back for adjustments – I think it was about 2 weeks – I told the audi and she fixed that. I think this is something many folks experience when they initially get hearing aids. You may just need an adjustment.

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