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How Long Can You Expect Your Hearing Aids to Last?

How Long Can You Expect Your Hearing Aids to Last?

With proper care, hearing aids can last for a number of years, but their performance depends on whether they’re programmed to your existing level of hearing loss. Comparable to prescription glasses, hearing aids are personalized to support your specific auditory requirements, necessitating regular reassessment. Assuming correct programming and fitting, here’s a guideline for their longevity. […]

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“Normal” Hearing, Yet Struggling to Follow Conversations

Your workplace has opted to encourage teamwork and cooperation by opening up the office floor plan. But this new setup has become a struggle for you. Not because you miss the privacy of cubicle walls, but because the increased noise makes it hard to follow conversations. Even if mainstream hearing tests indicate perfectly fine hearing, […]

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Common Medications That Can Trigger Hearing Loss

Common Medications That Can Trigger Hearing Loss

It’s natural to want to know about the side effects of a medication when you begin taking it. Can it trigger digestive issues? Will it cause dehydration? Cause insomnia? There could also be a more severe possible side effect that you may not be aware of – hearing loss. Lots of different drugs are known […]

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Muffled Hearing: Causes and Remedies

Muffled Hearing: Causes and Remedies

There are a large number of reasons for muffled hearing. In most instances, this condition is temporary. But muffled hearing can also be a sign that a more serious hearing problem is happening. That’s because, for the most part, hearing loss is a gradually progressing condition. Symptoms build slowly and over time. One of the […]

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Top Tips for Using a Phone with Hearing Aids

Top Tips for Using a Phone with Hearing Aids

Nowadays, the mobile phone network is much more dependable (and there’s a lot less static involved). But that doesn’t mean everybody can hear you all the time. And for individuals who have hearing loss, it can be particularly challenging. There must be a simple fix for that, right? Why not use a set of hearing […]

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5 Hearing Aid Care Tips

5 Hearing Aid Care Tips

Caring for your hearing aids probably seems simple enough. After all, you were probably given a set of care guidelines when you initially purchased your devices. Most hearing specialists will give you a step-by-step how-to in regard to routine hearing aid maintenance. Still, getting that much information at once means you probably didn’t remember some […]

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As We Get Older, Does Our Hearing Loss Worsen?

As We Get Older, Does Our Hearing Loss Worsen?

Is age a factor in the progression of hearing loss? Hearing loss is a common gradually advancing condition that affects all adults. Actually, over 50% of people 75 and older have a hard time hearing. Presbycusis Presbycusis is defined as age-related hearing loss or the gradual process of hearing loss as we age. Typically, there […]

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Can Hearing Loss be Affected by Insomnia?

Can Hearing Loss be Affected by Insomnia?

Sleepless nights aren’t any fun. Especially when it happens regularly. You lie awake tossing and turning, checking the time again and again, and worrying about how exhausted you will be tomorrow. Medical professionals call this kind of chronic sleeplessness “insomnia”. With insomnia, the downsides of not sleeping will then begin to compound and can, over […]

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Your Risk of Hearing Loss is Increased by Diabetes

Your Risk of Hearing Loss is Increased by Diabetes

Genetic predisposition, aging, and prolonged exposure to loud noise are all common factors that can contribute to hearing loss. However, you might find it intriguing to understand the link between diabetes and hearing loss. Allow us to elaborate. How is your risk of experiencing hearing loss raised by diabetes? The prevalence of diabetes increases as […]

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Is the Operation of a Hearing Aid Impacted by Cold Weather?

Lots of people really love winter! Okay, it can definitely be a bummer if you have to get anywhere. Or if you don’t have the correct gear (or proper infrastructure). But there are plenty of fun things to do in those chillier winter months. Don’t believe us? Skiing and sledding aren’t the only fun things […]

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