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Sensitive to sound

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jimmy97411
jimmy97411

Anyone has the experience of being sensitive to sound, which makes you annoyed or tired or anxious when/after you got Vertigo?

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  • christine42810
    christine42810 jimmy97411

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    Absolutely. Especially on the first few days after the vertigo occurred. So sensitive it was painful!! But none of the doctors I've seen have made anything of this. I still am a little more sensitive than I was prior to the VN but I can live with it. Well I have to really, like living with the VN. Have to keep telling myself, it's not life threatening, merely life limiting to a degree. Christine
  • Razouski
    Razouski jimmy97411

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    The sensitivity to sound is called hyperacusis, and I started a thread on it asking for ways of coping, but so far have had very little response. My hyperacusis started after I developed sudden hearing loss and acute vertigo just before Christmas. Initially I think I just had tinnitus in my deaf ear, but then I became aware that, although I can't hear sounds in my deaf ear (I have almost -90DB hearing loss - profound deafness) my ear has an oversensitivity to noise and creates a harsh jangling sound in the cadences of speech or sounds in the environment. This includes the sound of my own voice. The jangling is like rattling a biscuit tin half full of nails and screws loudly in my ear, and I hate it.

    As my hearing one eared hearing is a challenge anyway, the hyperacusis distracts me from what little I can hear, and I feel as if I'm totally deaf when there is background noise.

    I'm really keen to find out if anyone has any tips for managing it.

    • jan1958
      jan1958 Razouski

      Posted

      HI, I have vestibular hypofunction, which apart from poor balance, I am significatly deaf, have loud tinnitus. The tinnitus at times is so severe it feels like my whole head is vibrating, when this happens any sounds are like an electric shock going through my head. The only way I can manage this is to lay down in a quiet room. I tend to read in the night from my kindle when I cant sleep with it. I find the VEDA website ( also on facebook )very helpful, reasuring that I am in no way alone with this dreadful illness.
    • Razouski
      Razouski jan1958

      Posted

      Hi Jan,

      This sounds very similar to me. I do find lying down in the quiet works well - but isn't a solution for coping when I'm at work, which is when I find things hardest to manage. I will take a look at the VEDA website. Thanks.

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