Responses to hyperacusis sensivity in patient

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Dear Matt,

It is so good to see so much activity from the group as a direct response to

your posting about your friend. It means people are reading the posts and also

reaching out. This is certainly an unusual disease and if you think about it,

it could also happen to any of us. I don't know if it comes on suddenly or

gradually, but according to what I have read on the subject, the patient learns

to live with the condition and takes precautions to keep the noise level to a

minimum. As stated in the article I posted earlier, therapy may be used to

" retrain " the auditory processing center of the brain to accept every day

sounds. The human body is resiliant, so your friend may be able to partially

overcome this amplicafication of sound or take measures with devices that can

lessen it.

Let's all hope for the best outcome for your friend. Just knowing someone

else has it and learning how they cope with it should be a comforting sign, even

though it may be permanent. I had terrible and loud sounds in my ears after an

attack of true vertigo. It never left me entirely and my ears still bother me,

but I rarely think about it much anymore, as I have more or less grown

accustomed to it. It is much worse when I lie down, so we use a sleep aid

called white noise to drown it out and we have been doing that for about 48

years. I would find a good ENT to help with the problem. I was told by someone

promoting hearing aids that if one wears a hearing aid, the noise is less

noticeable. When my husband got his hearing aids, he said it drowned out the

noises in his ears.

Best wishes for a good outcome,

Lottie