by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. A man wrote: My question is about hearing aid effectiveness. I notice that some people talk about having hearing aids but still having problems hearing. At the price that hearing aids go for, while I don’t expect to have Superman’s hearing, I thought I would be getting rid of the […]
Hearing Loss
Folic Acid May Prevent Age-Related Hearing Loss—Let’s Get Real!
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. Supplements of folic acid may prevent age-related hearing loss in older men and women, says a new double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial from the Netherlands. (as reported in Health Truth Revealed, January 3, 2007.) Sounds wonderful and pretty authoritative, doesn’t it? Now we will be able to prevent hearing loss as we […]
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 […]
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 […]
When You Hear Music in the Wrong Key
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. In the last e-zine, I wrote about a man that was having trouble hearing his piano on key, and how my wife hears two different pitches—one in each ear. They are not the only ones with this problem. The day the e-zine came out, Joyce wrote: I was most interested […]