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You want to be polite when you are talking to friends. At work, you want to look engaged, even enthralled with what your supervisor/peers/clients are saying. You frequently find yourself asking family to repeat themselves because it was less difficult to tune out parts of the conversation that you weren’t able to hear very well.
You’ve been looking forward to this all week: a Zoom call with your son and daughter-in-law. You’ll be able to catch up, check-in, and, have a laugh. But when the call starts, you are mortified to realize, you can’t hear what your family members are saying. You’re wearing your hearing aids but things still sound
Crackling in your ear? A condition called tinnitus can cause you to hear crackling, buzzing, whooshing, or other sounds in your ears. Here’s some info. Do you hear phantom sounds such as thumping, ringing, or buzzing in your ears? If this is happening with hearing aids, it may mean you need to come in and
As we age we start to have trouble hearing clearly and we normally just accept it as a normal part of aging. Maybe we need to ask people to speak up or repeat themselves when they talk. Perhaps the volume on our TV keeps going up. We may even discover that we’re becoming forgetful. Loss
You totally forgot your hearing test tomorrow, but that’s not very surprising, you’re really busy. Fortunately, you just got that reminder text from us, and you still have some time to prepare. So how should I get ready? Hearing tests aren’t like back in college or high school where you’d have to pull an all-nighter
You’ve got a lively summer planned. You’re certainly going to go to the beach and maybe go for a swim. You’ll enjoy some live entertainment, you’ll get plenty of exercise jogging or possibly playing some tennis, then it’s time to get to the grill. You’ll be busy! So it’s important that your hearing aids are
Keep your eyes on the road. While this may be sound advice, what about your other senses? For example, think about the amount of work your ears are doing when you’re driving. You’re using your ears to engage with other people in your vehicle, alert you to important information appearing on your dashboard, and help
When is it time to get a hearing exam? You need a hearing test if you have any of these four signs. I guess my TV is frequently cranked up to the point where my kids recently complained. Do you know what my response was? I said, “What”? It was humorous. Because it was a
The buzzing in your ear keeps getting worse. It started off quietly enough, one of those “is it really there” kind of things. But after spending all day at the construction site (for work), you’ve realized just how noisy (and how persistent) that buzzing has become. At times, it sounds like ringing or other noises.
Your last family get-together was disheartening. It wasn’t because of family drama (this time). No, the problem was that you couldn’t hear anything over the loud noise of the room. So you didn’t get the chance to ask about Dave’s new kitten or Sally’s new career. And that was really annoying. For the most part,
You finally got those new hearing aids. You’re so excited to be able to dive into your social life again. Now, you won’t be missing parts of conversations or experiencing uncomfortable transitions. But your hearing aids just don’t sound quite right. The reason for this is that it will often take some time before you
As a swimmer, you enjoy being in the water. The pool is like your second home (when you were a kid, everyone said you were part fish–that’s how regularly you wanted to go swimming). The water seems a bit…louder… than normal today. And that’s when you notice you may have made a mistake: you wore
