Don’t take your eyes off the road. Obviously, it’s good advice, but it doesn’t say much about your other senses. Your ears, for example, are doing a lot of work when you’re driving, helping you keep track of other vehicles, calling your attention to info on your dashboard, and keeping you engaged with the other […]
When is it time to have your hearing checked? Here are four clues that you should get your hearing assessed. Recently, my kids complained about how loud my television was. You know what I said to them? I said, “What”? It was a joke. I thought it was funny. But it also wasn’t. I have […]
You have a buzzing in your ears and it’s not improving, if anything it’s getting worse. At first, you could hardly hear it. But you’ve noticed how loud and constant the tinnitus sounds have become after a full day on the job at a construction site. Sometimes, it sounds like ringing or other sounds. You’re […]
Your last family dinner was disheartening. It wasn’t because of family drama (this time). No, the issue was that you couldn’t hear a thing over the boisterous noise of the room. So you didn’t get the details about Nancy’s raise, and you didn’t have the ability to ask about Todd’s new dog. And that was […]
You’ve been waiting for this day for quite a while. You got your new hearing aids. You’re finally going to be able to get back into the swing of your social life again. Now, you won’t be missing parts of conversations or going through awkward transitions. But there’s a problem: everything sounds just a little […]
You enjoy swimming and are all about being in the water. The pool is like your second home (when you were a kid, everybody said you were part fish–that’s how often you wanted to go swimming). Today, the water sounds a bit… louder… than usual. And that’s when you notice you may have made a […]
Your sense of hearing is essential in your life and when you lose it, there will be no natural way for it to return But strangely, the general public tends to neglect hearing loss. As a matter of fact, permanent hearing loss affects one in every eight people (about 30 million people) 12 and older […]
Intimacy isn’t usually the first thing that comes to mind when you think about hearing aids. We get it. The advertising on these little devices is rather straightforward. Love, on the other hand, is something better suited for music, poetry, and art. And yet, the two are closely linked to the point where you might […]
Hearing loss is well known to be a process that progresses slowly. It can be rather subtle for this very reason. Your hearing doesn’t get worse in giant leaps but rather in little steps. And that can make the gradual decline in your ears hard to track, especially if you aren’t looking for it. That’s […]
Pain is your body’s means of delivering information. 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 happening and you can take measures to move further away or at least cover your ears. But […]
