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Originally Posted by seishin
This thread has been really helpful. I'd been wondering what causes sound sensitivity.
The largest issue for me has been dealing with sounds over the cellphone. If my friend is cleaning or clanking things in the background while we're talking on the phone, I start jumping out of my skin and have to hold the phone away. We have an agreement now to hang up if he's going to run a blender or wash dishes etc.
Also, when he gets caught up in a story and starts talking in a higher pitch on the phone, I lose ability to understand what the heck he's saying.
Simultaneously, I've noticed a significant loss of hearing in my left ear. Prior to the diagnosis or having researched anything about MG, I was wondering aloud how I could be more sensitive to sound while simultaneously experiencing hearing loss.
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I am
still wondering about that!!!
I wonder if you can have hearing loss at a certain frequencies and sound sensitivity at others..........
I got a diagnosis of hyperacusis and recruitment many years ago.
ī3. Recruitment: This condition is ALWAYS a by-product of a sensorineural hearing loss. (If you don't have a hearing loss, you can't have recruitment.) A person with recruitment perceives volume increases much faster than the actual volume increase. As a result, sounds rapidly become too loud to stand. A hard of hearing person may have both recruitment and hyperacusis at the same time.ī
http://listen-up.org/med/hyperacu.htm
Those symptoms that you describe I had for years. Also taking the dishes out of the dishwasher and them clanking against each other in the cupboards was murder. Working with unpredictable decibels at my job was even worse.
(I was sent on a tinnitus course but couldnīt understand why as I didnīt have those symptoms)
It is odd that my own myasthenic weakness started to improve and my ears happily followed suit
Myasthenic ears???.......
Impossible!!!!!!!!!!
Anacrusis