May 3, 2022 | McDonald Audiology & Hearing Health Care
You’ve been looking forward to this day for a long time. You received your new hearing aids. You’re finally going to be able to get back into the groove of your social life again. Now, you won’t be missing parts of conversations or going through uncomfortable transitions. But your hearing aids just don’t seem quite […]
April 26, 2022 | McDonald Audiology & Hearing Health Care
You love swimming and are all about going into the water. When you were a kid, everyone said you were part fish because you loved to swim so much the pool was your second home. The water seems a bit…louder… than usual today. And that’s when you realize you may have made a mistake: you […]
April 19, 2022 | McDonald Audiology & Hearing Health Care
Your sense of hearing is essential in your life and when it’s gone, there will be no natural way of getting it back. But somehow, hearing loss tends to go untreated and uncontrolled in the general population. As a matter of fact, permanent hearing loss affects one out of eight individuals (nearly 30 million people) […]
April 11, 2022 | McDonald Audiology & Hearing Health Care
Intimacy isn’t normally the first thing that one thinks of when you think about hearing aids. We get it. These tiny devices are normally presented in rather concrete terms. Love, conversely, is something better suited for poetry, music, and art. But you may want to start looking at your hearing aid as an intimacy device […]
April 5, 2022 | McDonald Audiology & Hearing Health Care
It’s frequently said that hearing loss is a slow-moving process. It can be rather subtle for this exact reason. Your hearing doesn’t deteriorate in big leaps but rather in tiny steps. And that can make the gradual decline in your hearing hard to track, especially if you aren’t watching for it. That’s why recognizing the […]
March 29, 2022 | McDonald Audiology & Hearing Health Care
Pain is your body’s way of giving you information. It’s not a terribly enjoyable approach but it can be effective. When your ears begin to feel the pain of a very loud megaphone next to you, you know damage is happening and you can take steps to move further away or at least cover your […]
March 21, 2022 | McDonald Audiology & Hearing Health Care
If you cut your arm, it heals. Before too long, your stubbed toe will feel better. Even a broken bone will mend if correctly set. But if you lose your hearing what happens. Is it possible for the inner ear to heal? Can you get your hearing back? Can that healing be helped by homeopathic […]
March 15, 2022 | McDonald Audiology & Hearing Health Care
An estimated 50% of individuals over the age of 75 have some form of hearing loss and that’s why most people consider it an issue for older people. But research demonstrates that younger individuals are at risk for hearing loss – and, alarmingly, they are losing their hearing in spite of the fact that it’s […]
March 8, 2022 | McDonald Audiology & Hearing Health Care
Who doesn’t enjoy getting a good bargain? But you need to be careful and watch out for small details when it comes to your health. We know, it can be confusing, the names are very similar, but hearing aids and hearing amplifiers are not the same. And making the wrong choice could have significant ramifications […]
March 1, 2022 | McDonald Audiology & Hearing Health Care
You will still visit your eye doctor annually even if you already wear eyeglasses. Because your eyes change over time. Similar to the rest of your body, your eyes aren’t static and neither are your ears. That’s why, even after you’ve purchased hearing aids, it’s imperative to continue to get your ears tested just like […]