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11/01/2025

09/01/2025

For individuals with hyperacusis, ordinary sounds—like chatter at a restaurant, the hum of an appliance, or music at a party—can feel painfully loud and unbearable. A recent article in The Hearing Journal highlights how this sound sensitivity often leads people to avoid:

Social gatherings 🎉
Public spaces 🛍️
Everyday tasks 🧹

This can leave many feeling isolated and misunderstood.

💙 If you live with hyperacusis, know this: Your experience is real, valid, and you’re not alone. VeDA provides resources and support to help you navigate life with sound sensitivity.

Read more: https://bit.ly/3BAqeF4

18/12/2024

Along with helping your vestibular system trying to keep you up right.

Exhausting 😫

07/11/2024

https://youtu.be/gNmKH2Z7nYk?si=tY5JUK3XBsum4nC6

Yes our brains make exhausted and have to rest. Sometimes like today my brain went into processing overload and when I got home I needed to sleep. I'm still...

02/10/2024

Survey for people with hearing loss and their caregivers. If interested click here

Your experiences are so valuable and important to creating better products and services, that companies and researchers will pay you just for sharing your experience and opinions!

14/09/2024

Covid & Meniere's Don't Mix
Thanks Dave for Another Great Video

Yes I finally got Covid. Trust me it's doesn't mix well with Meniere's. Vertigo, tinnitus and deafness is not fun. Please get your vaccines and boosters.

27/07/2024

Living with Ménière’s:❤️‍🩹

Tinnitus: What does it sound like?

Imagine sticking your head in your washing machine while it's on: Swoosh - Swoosh - Swoosh.

Imagine sticking your heading in the dryer, yes while it's on: Woosh - Woosh - Woosh...

Put in your ear buds on high pitch static and imagine a low hum sound. Now turn everything up, full blast, and try to function, all day, every day. Let me know how you can manage? Shout out to all Meniere's Warriors! - Rebecca D

27/07/2024

– Will someday be fully implantable, without any external components? A research collaboration between RLE at MIT - Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School and Columbia University, recently published in the Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, is bringing that possibility one step closer to reality.

Thanks to advances in biocompatibility and miniaturization, the multidisciplinary team was able to develop a tiny implantable microphone prototype (pictured here) and low-noise amplifier, which together perform as well as external hearing aid microphones.

Read more: https://ow.ly/Zjbh50SCvu1

IOP Publishing National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Science Foundation (NSF) University of Basel, Switzerland

27/07/2024

BREAKING NEWS: Have you ever tried to turn on your closed captions, but it takes so long to find the right button, app or setting menu that half the TV show goes by before they’re set up? So frustrating! A new rule adopted today by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) requires manufacturers and multichannel video programming distributors to make those captioning display settings easier to access within two years.

This rule is the result of a multi-year effort by HLAA and other advocacy groups to help consumers with disabilities, including people who are or have , to easily find and customize caption size, font, color and other features—often a time-consuming, exasperating process.

Learn more: https://ow.ly/B5qB50SFErP


NCTA: The Internet and Television Association National Association of the Deaf - NAD TDIforAccess, Inc.

08/06/2024

Tucson icon Linda Ronstadt lost her capacity to speak and hear after a second bout of COVID earlier this year.
.. she said her hearing loss may be permanent.

Legendary songstress Linda Ronstadt has regained her speech after a bout with COVID earlier this year.

19/05/2024

The cochlear symptoms include fluctuating hearing loss, tinnitus and ear pressure. In the early stages, a person's hearing tends to recover between attacks but a permanent hearing loss eventually develops which then progressively worsens over time. The vestibular symptoms include attacks of vertigo, nausea, and vomiting, which are usually disabling and last for several hours.

Diarrhea and sweating may also occur. Some patients experience milder episodes and become dizzy and imbalanced but don’t vomit. People experience these symptoms at varying frequencies, durations, and intensities. Some may feel mild symptoms only a few times a year while others can be debilitated with imbalance and deafened by frequent attacks. Scientists are investigating several possible causes of the disease, including genetics, anatomy, viral infections and environmental factors. -Ear Associates of San Jose, CA

https://www.earassociates.com/conditions-menieres-disease-san-jose-ca.html

28/03/2024

We investigated the association between COVID-19 and pre-existing hearing loss. We found an association between COVID-19 infection and the acceleration of symptoms in individuals with pre-existing hearing.

Should HCPs monitor patients who have had COVID-19 for exacerbated hearing loss? A study looks at the relation between the virus and hearing.

20/03/2024

I talk with Susie Myerson! Yes, Susie from The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Well actually its really actress Alex Borstein, but she's just as fabulous! Listen our new Women Crush Wednesday podcast episode which is all about the upcoming 2024 NYWIFT Muse Awards!

We also chat with actress Tantoo Cardinal (Killers of the Flower Moon) and filmmaker Michèle Stephenson (Black Girls Play: The Story of Hand Games)
https://tinyurl.com/bddvwzfh

23/02/2024

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10/02/2024

Raising Awareness of Meniere's Disease

Accepting tax deductible and anonymous donations
www.earsofmenieres.com

07/01/2024

But a new treatment offers hope.