Tag: coping

• Coping Tools for Hyperacusis & Tinnitus

  There are so many videos out there promising instant relief to tinnitus, and they just aren’t real. In this video, I info share about what coping tools actually work and…

  

• Safe Sound Science with Granny Jan

  Are you looking for a tinnitus hyperacusis playlist of science supported info on free coping tools or self-help strategies? Maybe you want a playlist on the facts about environmental noise…

  

• Rethinking Care for Hyperacusis

  My latest article in Tinnitus Today (Spring 2025) is titled When the patient becomes the clinician: Rethinking care for sound hypersensitivity. In this post, I’m giving a short overview and…

  

• Building Balanced Screen Time for Today’s Tech-Savvy Youth

  I’m happy to share that my new article was published in the Winter 2024 issue of Tinnitus Today. The focus is nurturing healthy digital habits among today’s youth. Children and…

  

• Tinnitus and Hyperacusis Wellness Apps

  [Originally published August 26, 2018] Many people with tinnitus or decreased sound tolerance (hyperacusis) are told nothing can be done. Or they wait months for appointments without being given any…

  

• Online Resources for Tinnitus & Hyperacusis

  [Updated Feb 5, 2025] These links to free online resources include research, coping information, peer support, prevention, and social media, mainly related to tinnitus and decreased sound tolerance. This includes…

  

• Tinnitus & Hyperacusis Emergency Lifelines

  This is a list of suicide prevention resources. If you’re struggling with depression or distress and thinking of hurting yourself, you are not alone. There are millions of people around…

  

• Protecting Hearing at Concerts

  Images by Jan L. Mayes Whether it’s pop, rock, or country, amplified music at concerts is loud enough to damage hearing health. I’m an old bat in my 50’s and…

  

• What Tinnitus Taught Me

  Yes, that’s me on the cover of Hearing Health magazine! I’m sharing some of my current coping tools after being asked to write about how having tinnitus (and decreased sound…

  

• Tinnitus Q & A

  I did my best to answer a hard question in the Summer 2021 issue of Tinnitus Today: Tinnitus can be unsettling, but it is seldom a sign of serious disease.…

  

• Finger Plugs Protect Hearing Health

  This International Noise Awareness Day 2021, ignore the images showing people clapping their hands over their ears to block out loud noise. This doesn’t lower sound levels. Hands are NOT…

  

• When Hearing Aids Don’t Work

  [Revised January 19, 2024. Originally published December 17, 2020 at silencity.com.] Many people with hearing difficulties delay getting help because they’re told hearing aids don’t work. But in my experience,…

  

• Build Your Own Hearing Protection Toolbox

  I was pleased to write an article and help answer reader questions for the American Tinnitus Association Winter 2020 issue of Tinnitus Today. This is an excellent issue full of…

  

• Neuromodulation is Not a New Tinnitus Treatment

  A recent Scientific American article covers tinnitus treatment research that isn’t new. The treatment described is neuromodulation or bimodal neuromodulation described in the Body Therapy chapter of Tinnitus Toolbox Hyperacusis…

  

• Hyperacusis & Gaming Soundtracks

  Regular everyday sounds are physically painful for people with hyperacusis or decreased sound tolerance. This means sometimes we need to use hearing protection to cope when other people don’t need…

  

• MRI Testing with Tinnitus or Hyperacusis

  Doctors don’t make MRI referrals unless testing is important for a person’s healthcare. But MRI testing can cause hearing loss, tinnitus, or hyperacusis. In 2018, scientists found noise levels of…

  

• e-Cigarette or Vaping Risk to Hearing Health

  When vaping a few years ago triggered a severe flare up in my tinnitus and hyperacusis as well as worse hearing, I was very worried. In 2018, I set up…

  

• Reasons Why There is No Tinnitus Cure Yet

  Everybody wants to know the answer: why is there no cure for tinnitus? So it’s not surprising this free open access study on the topic has been shared more than…

  

• Tinnitus Hyperacusis Awareness Facts

  [I have fibromyalgia and arthritis in my fingers. Typing hurts. I try to abbreviate tinnitus and/or hyperacusis/decreased sound tolerance. I’m not trying to offend by calling them hyper ears, especially…