by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. If your tinnitus is bothering you, maybe you should try Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT). CBT is just a fancy way of saying that how you think about something reflects how you will react physically and emotionally to it. Thousands of years ago, wise King Solomon wrote, “As a man thinks […]
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Difference Between T-Links and Music Links
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. A man asked: What is the difference between the Music Links and the T-links other than the T-links have a built-in microphone and use a different sized plug? The big difference is in how the plug is wired. The Music Links are wired exactly the same way stereo earbuds/earphones are wired—one […]
Lisa Evans-Smith, Au.D.—Audiologist Extraordinaire
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. Recently as I was surfing the web, I came across an audiological web site that blew my socks right off. This audiological practice provides an impressive array of services to hard of hearing people, but what really arrested my attention was that this particular audiology practice had an “Ototoxicity Monitoring Program,” […]
Can’t Understand Your Voice Mail Messages?—Here’s a Solution
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. A lady wrote: I’m interested in a service that provides text conversion for voice mail messages. What company provides this service? The name of the service some hard of hearing people use to automatically transcribe and send text messages to their cell phones and computers is SimulScribe (www.simulscribe.com). As one person […]
Fluctuating Reverse-Slope Hearing Loss
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. A lady wrote: I was diagnosed last year with a mild reverse-slope hearing loss. Since then it has not worsened much—just slightly. My question is: can this type of hearing loss fluctuate? There are days when I hear just fine. Other days I am constantly asking people to repeat themselves. I […]
Is Ciprofloxacin (Cipro) Ototoxic?
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. © Oct 11, 2007; revised Jan 9, 2019 A person asked: “Is Cipro ototoxic?” Cipro is one of the brand names of the generic antibiotic Ciprofloxacin. Ciprofloxacin belongs to the Quinolone class of drugs, all of which can be quite ototoxic. Ciprofloxacin can cause severe hearing loss, loud tinnitus, […]
Absenteeism Higher Among Hard of Hearing Employees When Proper Workplace Accommodations Are Not Made
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. Some researchers have apparently discovered that hard of hearing people call in sick more often than employees with normal hearing. Here’s the salient parts of the story. The extra energy expended on overcoming hearing problems takes its toll on hearing-impaired employees. This may explain why hearing-impaired employees are likely to […]
Are We Hard of Hearing or Not?
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. From time to time, the issue arises as to what we (people with a hearing loss) call ourselves. Many of us refer to ourselves as “hard of hearing”. One person with a hearing loss commented: “It’s a stupid expression if you ask me. Hard-of-hearing makes no sense.” Everyone is free […]
Air/Bone Gap
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. A lady wrote: My hearing loss has been described as “an air gap in the bone.” Whatever do they mean by that? What you really mean to ask is, “What is an air/bone gap?” When your audiologist does the pure tone hearing testing (the series of beeps at different frequencies and […]
Ibuprofen and Tinnitus
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. A lady wrote: I took 800 mg of Ibuprofen for pain relief for dental work and found I got tinnitus after that. As soon as I stopped taking the Ibuprofen, which was almost immediately following getting the side effect, the tinnitus stopped as well. Now when I need to use Ibuprofen, […]