by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. A lady explained, I had a cold on Feb 17 and on Feb 22 I suddenly went deaf in my left ear. I went to my primary care doctor immediately and he prescribed Amoxicillin and Flonase. I was not told this hearing loss could be so serious. I saw an […]
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Revised (2021) List of Drugs, Herbs and Chemicals Associated with Tinnitus Released
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. June 16, 2021 The Center for Hearing Loss Help has just released the 2021 edition of what is probably the most comprehensive list ever compiled of the hundreds of drugs, herbs and chemicals that have been associated with tinnitus. Neil Bauman, Ph.D., the author of the books, “Ototoxic Drugs […]
Three Reasons Why Your Tinnitus Will Never Go Away
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. February 6, 2016 I recently came across three reasons why tinnitus will never go away. So if you can’t get your tinnitus to habituate and fade into the background (at least to some degree), see if one of these reasons might apply to you. Here is an excerpt from the […]
Tinnitus and Other Ear Damage From Shooting Rifles
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. January 24, 2016 A man wrote, I am a 29 year old male. 11 days ago, I shot about 60 rounds from an AR-15 (.223) rifle, outdoors, with foam ear plugs in both ears. I might not have had the plugs in as deeply as they could go, but the sound […]
Don’t Focus on Your Tinnitus
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. January 3, 2016 If you have tinnitus you need to stop focusing on your tinnitus. Constantly and repetitiously mulling over your tinnitus will only make your tinnitus worse. Therefore, you need to consciously choose not to dwell on it. Instead, focus on living a happy productive life. Get involved in […]
Musical Ear Syndrome—The phantom voices, ethereal music & other spooky sounds many hard of hearing people secretly experience
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.