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Planning for a trip is always a chore, whether it’s a weekend jaunt to the beach or a month-long vacation in an exotic location. If you suffer from hearing loss, it can make planning even more complicated. How will you navigate? Will you need special accommodations?
Is participating in conversations difficult for you due to hearing loss? We’ve come up with a few ideas to help you hear better this Father’s Day.
While we may not notice the onset of hearing loss, we most assuredly do notice when our gradually lost hearing is suddenly replaced by a high-tech object resting in our ear canal. While there is little doubt that wearing hearing aids is a great benefit and brings about a life altering change, it also takes some getting used to.
Musicians with hearing loss are certainly not alone. In fact, a study from 2014 revealed that musicians are almost 4 times more likely to acquire hearing loss than non-musicians. The same study also found that musicians were twice as likely to develop tinnitus. Just because you may be developing hearing loss, your chance to enjoy playing or listening to music isn’t over. Here are 5 tips that will help you to stay positive and continue to enjoy the music you love.
As we get older, regular visits to the doctor are even more crucial to keeping our health in check. At the same time, however, we are also more likely to acquire age-related hearing loss. When you have hearing loss, you may struggle to even hear the questions your doctor asks or what medications he prescribes. To make those trips to the doctor easier, try following these 3 tips.
Many are surprised to learn that when your hearing aids arrive, you won’t immediately start hearing better. In fact, most hearing aid wearers experience a 3 to 5 week adjustment. Although this adjustment period will eventually lead to improved hearing, it can be a challenge in the workplace. To make adjusting to your hearing aids just a little less difficult, here are 5 tips.
Uh oh! One of your hearing aids isn’t working quite right. If you're experiencing some difficulty getting your hearing aids to do their job, you might need some help. For hearing aids from Advanced Affordable Hearing, here is how you can troubleshoot your hearing aids in two easy steps.
Sleeping with your hearing aids in is not recommended. From damaging your hearing aids to experiencing discomfort, it’s not good for your devices or your ears. However, without them, many people worry they won’t be able to hear their children, a smoke alarm in the middle of the night, or their alarm clock in the morning. There are several reasons we recommend against wearing hearing aids while sleeping, and we’ve outlined a few of them for you in this article.
Behind-the-ear hearing aids, glasses, and nasal cannulas all rest behind your ears, making it easy for one item to interfere with the other. The good news is that there is still a way for you to hear, see, and breathe better all at once. In the following, we address how to wear glasses with hearing aids, how to wear a nasal cannula with your hearing aids, and how to wear all three at once.
Whether you have age-related hearing loss, or any hearing loss type for that matter, group conversations are likely something you try to avoid. Between the multiple voices chiming in at once, to missing so much information that nothing seems to make sense, group conversations often become more unpleasant than enjoyable. The good news is that there are coping strategies available to make those frustrating situations a little bit easier. For your convenience, here are 10 tips for better handling group conversations when you have hearing loss.