Help for your hearing loss, tinnitus and other ear conditions
How serious are the side effects of ototoxic drugs? What can I do to help preserve my hearing?
This article is an introduction to ototoxic drugs and how they turn lives upside down. It includes a list of a few of the hundreds of ototoxic drugs commonly used. Furthermore, it explains the side effects of such drugs, the risk factors associated with them, and the steps you can take to reduce this risk.
My mother began hearing music in the form of Christmas carols and other songs. She insisted that she was hearing actual carols coming from a neighbor’s house. I couldn’t hear a thing, but I drove around the neighborhood trying to find a source of this [phantom] music without success. Is she losing her mind?
If you hear phantom voices, singing or music, you are not nuts. You are just hearing some of the strange auditory hallucinations many hard of hearing people experience. Learn the causes of MES, and more importantly, how to bring these phantom sounds under control.
This article explains reverse-slope hearing loss, what it is like to have an extreme reverse-slope hearing loss, and tips for fitting hearing aids and ALDs to people with reverse-slope losses. It also contrasts reverse-slope losses to the common ski-slope hearing losses that most are familiar with.
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. Revised January 21, 2017 Introduction To most people in the medical community, Ménière’s disease is a mysterious condition—I say mysterious because although it has been known for more than 150 years, doctors still don’t know what Ménière’s disease really is. You see, unlike a typical disease where doctors can define it […]
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. For a number of years I maintained a web page listing the various facilities of which I was aware in the USA that used hearing loop systems. As the number of looped facilities snowballed, it became harder and harder to keep this list up to date. Now, with the advent of […]
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. Quick. In what year was the first electric hearing aid was made? Take a guess. Bet you’ll be surprised how far off your guess was. Non-electric hearing aids such as primitive hearing horns have been around for many hundreds of years. In contrast, electric (and electronic) hearing aids are of relatively […]
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. Have you ever wondered whether there are any significant differences in the performance results you could expect, depending on which cochlear implant (CI) you chose? Doctors, and cochlear implant centers typically tell you that all CI brands are good (and this is true). Thus, you might assume that they all […]
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. July 9, 2015 Don’t let the weird Greek words in the title scare you off from reading this fascinating article on one category of Musical Ear Syndrome (MES). Musical Ear Syndrome is a relatively common phenomenon where you hear non-tinnitus, phantom sounds that are not of a psychiatric nature. Typically, you […]
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. © July, 2015 Our brains are marvelous organs. They are always trying to make sense out of what we hear. Thus, when we miss something, they try to fill in the gaps in what we misheard with something that seems to make sense, even if it doesn’t really make […]
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. If you are like numbers of hard of hearing people who have worn hearing aids for some time, you probably have several sets of old hearing aids kicking around in your dresser drawer. You keep your previous set of aids as backup in case anything happens to your current aids. But […]
