In conversation with friends, you like to be polite. At work, you want to look involved, even enthralled with what your manager/colleagues/clients are talking about. With family, you might find it easier to just tune out the conversation and ask the person next to you to repeat what you missed, just a little louder, please.
You’re having a Zoom call with your granddaughter and you’ve been waiting for it all week! You’ll have a blast and get caught up with your cherished family members. But when you log in you realize, to your sadness and disappointment, that you can’t hear very well. You’re wearing your hearing aids but things still
Crackling in your ear? A condition known as tinnitus can cause you to hear buzzing, crackling, whooshing, or other noises in your ears. Here’s what you need to know. Do you hear phantom noises such as thumping, buzzing, or ringing in your ears? If this is occurring with hearing aids, it could mean you need
As we age we start to have difficulty hearing clearly and we normally just accept it as a normal part of growing older. Maybe we need to ask people to speak up or repeat themselves when they talk. Perhaps the volume on our TV keeps getting louder. We might even discover that we’re becoming forgetful.
You totally forgot your hearing exam tomorrow, but that’s not really surprising, you’ve been really busy. Luckily, you just received that reminder text from us, and you still have a few hours to get ready. So… what should you do? You won’t need to stay up all night cramming for a hearing test like you
You’ve got an active summer planned. Some beach time and lots of swimming for sure. You’ll do some regular running and then maybe take in a baseball game or two before going home and grilling up some tasty dinner. Your schedule is going to be quite full. So it’s essential that your hearing aids are
Keep your eyes on the road. While this might be sound advice, what about your other senses? As an example, think about the amount of work your ears are doing while driving. You’re using your ears to connect with other individuals in your vehicle, call your attention to important info appearing on your dashboard, and
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 turned up to the point where my kids recently complained. Do you know what I said to them? I said, “What”? It was a joke. I thought
The ringing in your ear keeps getting worse. It started off quietly enough, one of those “is it really there” sort of situations. But you’ve observed how loud and persistent the tinnitus sounds have become after a full day on the job at a construction site. These sounds can take many forms, such as ringing,
The last time you had dinner with family, you were quite frustrated. Not because of any intra-family episode (though there’s always a little bit of that). 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 cat or
You finally obtained your new hearing aids. You’re so thrilled to be able to dive into your social life again. Now, you won’t be missing elements of conversations or experiencing uncomfortable transitions. But there’s an issue: everything sounds a little bit off. The reason for this is that it will normally take some time before
As a swimmer, you love going 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). The water seems a bit…louder… than normal today. And that’s when you realize you may have made a mistake: you wore
