Hearing Health Blog

Gatherings. More, and more family gatherings. It probably feels like you’re meeting or reuniting with every relative you have, every weekend, during the holidays. The holiday season can be fun (and also difficult) for this reason. Usually, it’s easy to look forward to this yearly catching up. You get to reunite with everybody and find […]

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You’re assaulted by noise as soon as you get to the annual company holiday party. You can feel the pumping music, the hum of shouted conversations, and the click of glasses. It makes you miserable. You can’t hear anything in this loud setting. The punch lines of jokes are getting lost, you can’t make out […]

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While everybody has experienced a runny nose, we don’t commonly mention other kinds of cold symptoms because they are less common. One type of cold you don’t frequently hear about is the one that moves into one or more ears. While you may generally consider colds as harmless, here’s why this ear-related cold symptom shouldn’t […]

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You’ve been avoiding calling us to see if you need hearing aids, but you’ve finally decided it’s time. You’ve been resisting this like so many others. But the inconvenience, the lost moments, the missing interactions, they all finally became too hard to ignore. So it’s a little disheartening when you’re sitting in the hearing specialist’s […]

Read More… from Hearing Aid Domes: The Pros and Cons

Surprisingly, it’s been over 10 years since most people have had a hearing exam. Harper is one of them. She reports to her doctor for her annual medical test and gets her teeth cleaned every six months. She even gets her timing belt changed every 6000 miles! But her hearing exam normally gets ignored. Hearing […]

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You know that it can be challenging to get your partner’s attention if they have neglected hearing loss. First, you try to say their name. “Greg”, you say, but you used a standard, inside volume level, so you get no reply. You try raising your volume and saying Greg’s name again but he still doesn’t […]

Read More… from Can Hearing Loss Make You Sensitive to Loud Sounds?

There are lots of well known causes of hearing loss, but not many people recognize the dangers that certain chemicals present to their hearing. Groups that are at risk include automotive workers, plastics, textiles, metal fabrication, and petroleum. You can protect your quality of life by being aware of what these chemicals are and what […]

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Aiden enjoys music. While he’s out jogging, he’s listening to Pandora, while working it’s Spotify, and he has a playlist for everything he does: gaming, cooking, gym time, and everything else. Everything in his life has a soundtrack and it’s playing on his headphones. But lasting hearing damage might be happening due to the very […]

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You first notice the sound when you’re lying in bed trying to sleep: Your ear has a whooshing or pulsating in it. The sound is rhythmic and tuned in to your heartbeat. And once you hear that sound, you can’t tune it out. It keeps you up, which is bad because you need your sleep […]

Read More… from Are my Sleep Issues and my Tinnitus Triggered by Anxiety?

Because you’re so hip, you were in the front row for the whole rock concert last night. It isn’t exactly hearing-healthy, but it’s fun, and the next day, you wake up with both ears ringing. (That’s not as fun.) But what if you can only hear out of one ear when you wake up? Well, […]

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