Note: Tell FDA about injuries, malfunctions, or other
adverse events. To report a problem involving your
hearing aid, you should submit information to FDA
as soon as possible after the problem. FDA calls
them “adverse events,” and they might include: skin
irritation in your ear, injury from the device (like cuts
or scratches, or burns from an overheated battery),
pieces of the device getting stuck in your ear, suddenly
worsening hearing loss from using the device, etc.
Instructions for reporting are available at https://www.
fda.gov/Safety/MedWatch, or call 1-800-FDA-1088. You
can also download a form to mail to FDA.
Note: What you might expect when you start using a
hearing aid. A hearing aid can benet many people
with hearing loss. However, you should know it will not
restore normal hearing, and you may still have some
difculty hearing over noise. Further, a hearing aid
will not prevent or improve a medical condition that
causes hearing loss. People who start using hearing
aids sometimes need a few weeks to get used to them.
Similarly, many people nd that training or counseling
can help them get more out of their devices. If you
have hearing loss in both ears, you might get more out
of using hearing aids in both, especially in situations
that make you tired from listening-for example, noisy
environments.
