If you’re struggling to keep up in conversations with loved ones; feeling isolated and stressed in busy, noisy environments; or finding yourself turning the TV volume up louder, chances are you’re dealing with hearing loss challenges.
Untreated hearing loss doesn’t just affect how we hear: It can lead to rifts in communication, stress on relationships, and a major impact on your cognitive and mental health. While hearing loss cannot be cured, it can be managed with personalized hearing care and assistive technology where needed.
Nobody dreams of the day they get to wear their first hearing aids, but assistive technology can help you take proactive steps toward improving both your hearing health and your holistic health in one fell swoop.
What Is Temporary Tinnitus?
Temporary tinnitus can be caused by ear infections, wax buildup, medication side effects, or noise exposure—ever come back from a night on the town with ringing ears?
This form of tinnitus, as expected, only lasts for a few minutes to a few days, and it is quickly resolved when the underlying issue is addressed. Whether that’s stopping the medication, curing the ear infection, or removing the earwax, temporary tinnitus will typically resolve itself on its own when this happens.
Signs that your tinnitus is temporary include a recent exposure to loud noise, symptoms of an ear infection (itchiness in the ear, earaches, dizziness), and no prior history of tinnitus within your medical history.
Understanding Hearing Loss
Hearing loss is incredibly common, and the WHO reports that its prevalence is set to double by 2050. You’re not alone in experiencing some challenges to your hearing!
Common causes of hearing loss can include loud noise exposure, genetic predisposition, medicine side effects, and aging, which is the most common cause of hearing loss challenges.
If you work in a loud environment, or your parents or grandparents dealt with hearing loss challenges, chances are that you could as well.
Take a moment to really listen and see what your ears need; if you find that your hearing is muffled or that you’re not hearing as well as you used to, we encourage you to visit us for the first steps of your hearing health journey.
How to Enhance Your Hearing: The First Steps
Every journey starts somewhere: Your hearing health journey begins with a comprehensive hearing assessment to understand your full range of hearing and what your ears need to succeed.
We start with a quick chat about you: Your lifestyle choices, medical history, hearing loss concerns, and more can come up in conversation as your audiologist starts to formulate your personalized treatment plan.
After a physical examination of your ears (to check for earwax impaction or infection causing hearing challenges), your hearing will be tested using the most exhaustive and detailed testing procedures. This way your audiologist will gain a full picture of what’s going on in your ears and recommend the best course of action for your treatment.
Why Hearing Aids Are a Positive Step
When you think of hearing aids, we’re guessing you imagine the bulky, awkward devices that your parents or grandparents wore.
Thankfully, those devices have been firmly left in the past—modern hearing aid technology features tiny but mighty devices that can help manage hearing loss, address cognitive decline, provide relief from tinnitus, and more!
Outside of your ears, hearing aids can lend themselves to helping you gain confidence back in social situations, reconnect with your loved ones, and rejoin the conversations you were missing out on.
Hearing aids aren’t a sign that you’re getting old; they’re a sign that you’re living a full, exciting life, and that you’re taking proactive steps to make sure you can continue to hear the life you love with ease.
Start Your Hearing Health Journey With Pacific Hearing Service
Professional hearing care tailored to your specific needs can provide some much-needed assistance to your hearing loss challenges.
If you’d like to get started with a hearing assessment or chat with a member of our team to learn more, you’re in the right place.
Begin your journey toward better hearing by requesting a callback and we’ll get in touch with you as soon as we can to answer questions, alleviate concerns, and talk to you about your unique situation.
Don’t want to wait? Give us a call at one of our two convenient Silicon Valley locations:
