Living with hearing loss can be a difficult and isolating experience, impacting how you interact and communicate with the world around you. What’s more, it can take an emotional toll on relationships due to the difficulty in communicating with those who don’t understand what it’s like to live with hearing loss. As a result, many people who live with hearing …
All About Tinnitus
Tinnitus is one of the most common symptoms of hearing loss but can also be experienced without hearing loss. It describes hearing a ringing or buzzing like noise in one or both ears that only you can hear. This phantom like noise can be intermittent to constant. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 50 million people …
Treating Hearing Loss May Help Prevent Falls & Accidents
We can plan all we want but accidents happen—in fact, that’s why we call them accidents. However, there are steps you can take to lower your risk of making mistakes. Some accidents can be recovered from and used as a learning experience, however, in the United States, 1 out of every 20 deaths are caused by mistake. No one plans …
How Untreated Hearing Loss Interferes with Your Relationships
You may have suspected you have some degree of hearing loss for years, but never thought it was serious enough to act upon. This is all too common- in fact on average it takes people seven to ten years to take action around hearing loss and can lead to disastrous complications which are often hard to reverse. One of the …