Hearing loss can impact many areas of your daily life. Your hobbies, your professional life, and even your love life can be affected by hearing loss, for instance. Communication can become strained for couples who are coping with hearing loss. Animosity can develop from the increased stress and more frequent quarrels. In other words, left […]
Why is getting routine hearing assessments essential? Well, the truth is that hearing loss can have significant and long-term effects on your general health. Having your hearing tested regularly can help you detect hearing loss early, get care faster, and, improve your health, wellness, and quality of life. Getting a hearing exam – who should […]
Physically, you will usually get several years out of your hearing aids, but as your degree of hearing loss changes, your hearing aids could need an upgrade. Getting routine hearing assessments is key to making sure your hearing aids are programmed and fit properly. Assuming appropriate programming and fitting, here’s a guideline for their longevity. […]
Your workplace has opted to encourage teamwork and collaboration by opening up the office floor plan. But this new arrangement has become challenging for you. Not because you miss the privacy of cubicle walls, but because the elevated noise makes it hard to follow conversations. The inability to follow along with conversations in noisy settings […]
When you begin on a course of medication, it’s normal to want to be educated about any potential side effects. Can it upset your stomach? Will it cause your mouth to dry out? Make you sleepy? There could also be a more severe potential side effect that you may not be aware of – hearing […]
Muffled hearing can present for lots of reasons. For the majority of individuals, it’s a short-term situation. In other cases, muffled hearing can be a precursor of more serious hearing-related problems. Partly, that’s because, outside of sudden hearing loss, hearing loss is usually not a condition that progresses suddenly. Symptoms appear slowly over a long […]
These days, the mobile phone network is a lot more reliable (and there’s a lot less static involved). But sometimes, it will still be challenging to hear what the person on the other end is saying. As a matter of fact, there’s one group for whom phone conversations aren’t always a positive experience: those with […]
It most likely seems like a simple thing to take care of your hearing aids. When you first obtained your hearing aids, you most likely got a set of care instructions, after all. Most hearing specialists will give you a step-by-step how-to in regard to routine hearing aid maintenance. But it’s quite likely that you […]
Does hearing loss get worse as you get older? Hearing loss is one of the most prevalent conditions impacting all adults as they age, but it’s a gradual process. Actually, over 50% of those 75 and older have trouble hearing. Presbycusis Presbycusis is defined as age-related hearing loss or the slow process of hearing loss […]
It’s no fun when you’re unable to sleep at night. Particularly when it occurs frequently. You lie awake tossing and turning, looking at the time again and again, and stressing about how exhausted you will be tomorrow. Medical professionals call this sort of chronic sleeplessness “insomnia”. With insomnia, the drawbacks of not sleeping will then […]
