Can Living in a City Affect Your Auditory Health?
Living in a vibrant city can be exciting with its endless entertainment options and diverse opportunities. But have you ever thought about how urban living might affect your hearing health? City life brings a variety of loud noises, from blaring car horns to constant construction activity. Over time, these sounds can cumulatively impact your auditory…
How Are Cancer Treatments and Hearing Loss Connected?
Treating cancer is an impossibly difficult time for patients. While therapies like chemotherapy have been effective at managing cancer and saving lives, they often come with difficult side effects—including hearing loss. Let’s take a look at the connection between chemotherapy and hearing loss and how hearing aids can help. How Does Chemotherapy Cause Hearing…
Tips for Storing Your Hearing Aids
Hearing aids are an investment in your health and well-being. People who treat their hearing loss with hearing aids report a wide variety of different benefits including better physical and mental health and improved relationships with others. Treating your hearing loss with hearing aids lets you enjoy more of the amazing sights and activities Tampa…
When Should You Seek Help for Your Tinnitus?
Tinnitus is an auditory symptom causing a ringing or buzzing in the ear. Because tinnitus causes an internal ringing that cannot be heard by an outside observer, you may find it challenging to decide when it’s time to seek help from an auditory specialist. Let’s take a look at a few signs it’s time to…
How to Support Your Loved Ones With Tinnitus
Tinnitus causes a ringing or buzzing noise in the ears that cannot be heard from the outside. Affecting more than 50 million people in the United States, bothersome tinnitus can have a severe impact on a person’s life. Common side effects of tinnitus include stress, frustration, lack of sleep, irritability and more. If your loved…
What to Know About Presbycusis
Presbycusis is age-related hearing loss. It is the most common form of hearing loss worldwide and affects approximately two-thirds of Americans aged 70 or older. There are several contributing factors to presbycusis, and the symptoms can be hard to notice initially. But if you’re struggling to hear conversations at Buddy Brew Coffee, you might consider talking with…
How Tinnitus Can Affect Work
Tinnitus is experiencing a ringing, buzzing or other noise in one or both ears. It’s a common condition, with an estimated 10% of the U.S. adult population, or about 25 million people, experiencing some form of tinnitus. For some people, tinnitus is relatively mild or resolves on its own. However, others have chronic and even…
What Is the Link Between Tinnitus and Migraines?
Tinnitus is the presence of a ringing, buzzing, roaring or other noise in the ears that cannot be heard from the outside. Affecting more than 50 million people in the United States, tinnitus can range from mild to severe. Severe symptoms can adversely affect sleep, mood and concentration. Tinnitus can arise from no identifiable cause,…
Can Yoga and Meditation Help Manage Tinnitus?
If you regularly experience tinnitus, you know how irritating and stressful symptoms can be. Many different lifestyle factors may help to reduce your tinnitus, including yoga and meditation. Tinnitus Basics Tinnitus is when you experience ringing or other noises (buzzing, clicking, etc.) in one or both of your ears. Most cases of tinnitus are subjective,…
Is There a Link Between Tinnitus & Blood Pressure Medication?
When you’re prescribed a new medication, it can be overwhelming to read the long list of possible side effects when you pick it up at Tampa Family Pharmacy. If you’ve recently started taking or are considering taking a blood pressure medication, you may have noticed “tinnitus” listed as a potential side effect. We review the…