You’re having a Zoom call with your grandchild and you’ve been looking forward to it all week! You’ll have a great time and catch-up with your cherished family members. But when you log in you notice, to your sadness and frustration, that you can’t hear very well. You’re wearing your hearing aids but you still […]
The ringing in your ear keeps worsening. It started off quietly enough, one of those “is it really there” sort of situations. But after being at the construction site all day (for work), you’ve realized just how loud (and how relentless) that buzzing has become. Sometimes, it sounds like ringing or other sounds. You’re thinking […]
Snoring is something that’s annoying to you and your partner but it’s usually viewed as not much more than an aggravation. However, a condition called sleep apnea can frequently be the cause of snoring. When you’re asleep, you can suddenly stop breathing because of sleep apnea. You should definitely take sleep apnea seriously because though […]
The last time you had dinner with family, you were rather aggravated. It wasn’t because of family crisis (this time). No, the problem was that you couldn’t hear anything over the boisterous noise of the room. So you didn’t hear the details about Nancy’s promotion, and you didn’t have the ability to ask about Todd’s […]
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Your sense of hearing is essential in your life and when it’s gone, there will be no natural way of getting it back. But for some reason, hearing loss frequently goes neglected and unchecked in the general population. In fact, permanent hearing loss impacts one in every eight people (about 30 million people) over the […]
Ah, Spring! After a long winter, it’s wonderful to finally open those windows, take a deep breath of fresh air… and start sneezing. Okay, the sneezing part isn’t so great. But there’s no questioning the reality: allergy season is here. In general, allergy season goes from March through October of any given year. So, are […]
Intimacy isn’t usually the first thing that comes to mind when you think about hearing aids. We understand. These tiny devices are usually presented in very concrete terms. Less defined expressions like poetry, music, and art are more suited to the topic of love. And yet, the two are closely connected to the point where […]
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One way your body offers information to you is through pain response. It’s an effective strategy though not a very enjoyable one. When your ears start to feel the pain of a very loud megaphone next to you, you know damage is occurring and you can take measures to move further away or at least […]
As a swimmer, you enjoy being in the water. The pool is like your second home (when you were younger, everybody said you were part fish–that’s how often you wanted to go swimming). The water seems a little…louder… than usual today. And then you recognize your oversight: you went in the pool with your hearing […]
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Each year more than 50,000 people are diagnosed with oral cancer (oropharyngeal cancer). And that’s sad because oral cancers can have a fairly high rate of mortality. Most of these people are 60 or older old, but not all. Oral cancer isn’t very aggressive, so that isn’t why it has a high mortality rate. Instead, […]