Hyperacusis - auditory hypersensitivity; increased perception of volume. Ie people who have it hear the sounds louder. When it is congenital, it is due to defects in the nerves that conduct sound stimuli to the brain, or their processing. It can also occur with (acquired) damage to the inner ear. I accidentally discovered (on the Internet) that I am not the only one with this problem (I have it by birth). But it is obviously very rare, because I have not met others with such a problem, and there is very little written about it on the net (in Bulgarian). But there is in English. I will retell a brief description of this condition: For humans, normally perceived sounds are up to 95-100 decibels, and the tolerance threshold is approx. 120 db (after which the sound is perceived as pain). In hyperacusis, these values are reduced to varying degrees. For example, I am annoyed by sounds over 70 dB, which in other people / as it is written above / happens at 95-100 dB. And for me the latter are unbearable, I feel them as very painful, which in normal hearing happens only at 120dB. There are some special pads (sold in pharmacies), similar to plasticine, which serve to reduce the volume. I put them on when I have to go somewhere where it's very noisy. But their help is not endless. For example, even when I close my ears tightly with them, I can't stand the music of nightclubs or concerts (that's why I don't go to them), I can't stand somewhere where construction machines are buzzing (even with corks) ... my ears or I stiffen when a motorcycle or a car with a siren passes me ... All other people would have these sensations only at 120 dB, and this can happen very rarely. That's why I want to find at least someone here with a similar problem.
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I don't know if I have something like that, I'm generally at odds with the topic of sounds, but there are times when when people talk and it starts to irritate me a lot. it first appeared when my grandmother began to deafen and began to speak louder and louder. there were times when I cried. otherwise with music, I have no problems, but in general I like to stay quiet .... but it's probably because I'm crazy: D
I also have a low sound tolerance threshold. Even when children are screaming around, I feel bad because I hear them screaming in my ear. I hear sounds from everywhere. Recently there was a party in the next block. My whole family slept normally, but I couldn't sleep for long because I could hear the bass on the system. In the morning my relatives told me they had not heard anything. When a motorcycle or a car that buzzes a lot passes me, I can barely stand the sound. Calm down, you're not alone :) F26
FROM THE AUTHOR: # 2, as if I wrote it: D The problem is that it is very rare and no one understands it. I've read a lot on the subject, and as I experience it myself, I think the most accurate explanation is that all the sounds are just louder. It has nothing to do with any psychological reasons - e.g. it's one thing to get upset about someone shouting or the kids making noise, it's another for the sound itself to cause you physical suffering, # 2: ".... because I hear them like they're screaming in my ear" - namely.
Rather, we have a keen ear. For example, I sense the slightest noise that people around me can't do without straining. Ever since I was a child, my mother kept telling me: Hey, how did you hear that? There was a period when I lived in an apartment next to a gypsy house. So a gypsy child was born to them, the 4th boy in a row after three girls. Well, I'm not going to tell you that I was on the verge of a nervous breakdown for about a week. There was music around the clock that no one found disturbingly loud to call the police. But I was screaming! It's like the system is in my house. I kept telling my roommate that I would call the police now, and she would say, "Well, it's not that loud." I have never been interested in this syndrome. I find it normal. As some people have sharper eyesight, so we have sharper hearing :) F26
Well, everything has an advantage, but lack of understanding is a problem sometimes. The author:)
It is good for you that you hear well, in my opinion this is not a problem but an advantage. I have two questions for you. Why does someone who has a problem look for people to understand him and to comply with him and his problem? I don't understand if there are people without problems, can everyone comply with everyone to such an extent that if ONLY you hear the music, you can call the police, for example. If the others don't hear it, then it's at normal decibels and the cops can't do anything, why waste them just for you. After all, for people like you, earplugs have been created so that you can sleep peacefully, why do you need to wake up and get angry? I don't understand that.
Thank God there are others like me. I thought it was just me: X But let me tell you, obviously in some people the hearing may be sharper than what has already been mentioned. For example, I hear the sound from the current in the contacts. It is very strange and quite unpleasant. If I plug in a charger for a phone, laptop or just another power strip, I literally hear the current "flowing" on it. At first I thought that the problem was only at home, but now I see that I have started to hear "electricity" in other places as well: X It sounds super stupid when I write it, but it's not cool at all. I hear the phones of my neighbors downstairs ringing and the worst thing is that I hear the person they are talking to (thank God I hear him from afar and the speech is not clear, otherwise I would go crazy) Not to mention people and passers-by cars on the street or god forbid for ambulances. I can't stand I have the feeling that my head will explode. And I do not know what to do. Otherwise I have no such problems with sleep, I do not hear sounds while sleeping (but I have narcolepsy) I do not know what is the case with me, but I started hearing so sharply recently, maybe about 5-6 months and I have no idea what to do owes.
I suffer from a similar problem. True, alive. orchestral music, for example, I can listen to very loudly and enjoy, but some sounds I just can't stand. Over time, I realized that it also mattered when I heard them. For example, when I'm resting, the lightest sound irritates and drives me crazy. I have no problem with natural sounds (birds, river), I even adore them. But while I'm sleeping, I can't stand talking, snoring, rattling, but even very lightly. I sleep very lightly and the slightest sound somehow lifts me alert. I HATE SOUNDS that have no place in a given situation. Strong speech when there is silence and we can understand each other quietly. Clapping, itching, unnecessary rattling, knocking, creaking, dog barking incessantly, Seljuk music and what not. I freak out so much that I get furious like an animal. I'm on several waves - when you listen to music, you listen. When he rests - he rests !! When eating, eat, etc. Without unnecessary screams, itching, noise and the like. In the end, I decided that it would be best for everyone to take earplugs.
hyperacusis is not uncommon at all. I got it after a flu. it is an otoneurological disease that can change you completely. I noticed that with small doses of magnesium things become much more bearable, I walk constantly with earplugs, otherwise I just block at loud noises. during geomagnetic storms it sharpens a lot. alfiasvetoslav is my skype. whoever wants can write to me
Hi, I may have the same problem, but it's not congenital. 13 years ago, suddenly my ears screamed at the noise of people, I blocked it because I became very uncomfortable. Then I noticed that at a loud noise it starts buzzing (noises) it's hard for me to explain. Then, gradually over the years, this began to happen from my voice, ie if I speak very loudly or shout. With the slightest cold or flu, I have the feeling that my ear is covered with a towel and I swallow constantly. I went to different doctors, if I may call them that, the first one said that I needed an operation, but I would be deafened by it. I just laughed, the next one tells me that it was like a muscle fever in my ear: I quote: "just as when you carry a heavy and your legs tremble, so here a muscle trembles with a loud noise". The next one told me that the eardrum is stuck to the back wall and surgery is needed, they put a tube to provide this distance, but there is no 100% guarantee, another laughed when I said about this tube. So tell me could I trust anyone? And so I put up with it, even though sometimes I can't stand it. If anyone knows how and if this can be cured at all please let me know.
I see that the last comment was a long time ago, I don't know if the topic still exists, but I will share it anyway. For me, the problem, as I called it before, is this - usually in the evening my hearing sharpens a hell of a lot. I hear the sound of working electrical appliances such as TV monitors from the system, even when they are on stand by, for example. It often happens to me when I go to bed to hear the loud conversations of the neighbors downstairs only later I realized that no one else can hear them, and I have the feeling that they are literally talking in the room next to me. When I'm in bars with loud music, I don't feel pain, as mentioned by several people above, but rather a strong distraction and I can't lead and watch any conversations with others. And the most interesting thing is that there are times when I lose that sharp sound. Is there any possibility that this hypersensitivity is a consequence of other factors? are there any people familiar with the topic?
I have been suffering from hyperacusis since 2004. A real hell. I move from one place to another in search of the silence, the minimum that is required by law ... and so, in 11 years I changed about 40 places. People do not respect each other and do not have the will to comply. I suffer every day, every day and minute, for 11 years. I need help. At the same time, I have managed to be useful to others outside Bulgaria. Let's join forces!
Extremely incorrectly stated for normally perceiving noise levels around 100 decibels. In the Bulgarian laws (which are much softer) it is noted that the normal noise levels are: In residential areas - up to 50-60 dB; In industrial zones - up to 70 dB; In living rooms - up to 35 dB; In classrooms, reading rooms - up to 40 dB. So, you will rightly be annoyed by noises like dog barking, loud music, especially chalga and gypsy music, truck noise, etc. Here are some noise levels: Whisper -10 dB; Quiet conversation between two -40 dB; Normal group call -60 dB; Phone call -75 dB; High speech -80 dB; Automatic washing machine -80-85 dB; Road transport 75-106 dB, which creates a noise level in homes -55-60 dB; Vacuum cleaner -75 dB; Discos -85 - 120 dB. http://srzi.bg/Pages/health_control/25/Default.aspx?evntid=hRnUs47sPBw= - Metropolitan Health Inspectorate
Hello! It's 2 o'clock at midnight and I'm waking up because I hear the bass of the neighbors' system, which the others don't hear from me. In the beginning, when this problem started, I was very, very panicked when I suddenly heard sounds. And I still have such moments. I have been to different ENTs three times, but they say that everything is ok with my hearing, but I am convinced that there is a problem that I can not yet understand what it is and where it comes from. I also thought that this was not an exacerbation of the peripheral nervous system. People's footsteps also irritate me. I have moments when I stand with friends and ask them if you heard this noise, and they neee, ahaa clear and I start to think whether I heard ee now or not. I feel like I've damaged my ears
Hello from me! For me, the problem is with my wife, who has recently started hearing things that other people with normal hearing cannot hear. When she told me that she could even hear the leaf falling from a tree or the footsteps of a cat following, I looked at her in amazement. We even had to change the apartment because of noisy neighbors, but the next problem was the same. This situation with super hearing makes her very nervous and she cannot live a normal life. I read the comments above but couldn't figure out if anyone has found a cure or solution to the problem other than earplugs.
Hello from me! For me, the problem is with my wife, who has recently started hearing things that other people with normal hearing cannot hear. When she told me that she could even hear the leaf falling from a tree or the footsteps of a cat following, I looked at her in amazement. We even had to change the apartment because of noisy neighbors, but the next problem was the same. This situation with super hearing makes her very nervous and she cannot live a normal life. I read the comments above but couldn't figure out if anyone has found a cure or solution to the problem other than earplugs.
Hello. I've had this problem since I was little. And so for 30 years. This comment completely describes me hash: 20239542b9. Except that the earplugs are bothering me. And when I put them on, even if it's quiet now, they make me uncomfortable. I have tried everything, my experience has shown that there is no salvation. When it comes to sleeping, you just have to find a quiet place to live. Which is not at all easy when it comes to an apartment. But there is some hope, as of today I am trying the last thing I know, but I am not - homeopathy. Regardless of the effect, I will write what happened.
Hi, I have the same problems. Not so much during the day, but in the evening when I go to bed it's scary. I fall asleep at 3 o'clock in the morning, when my neighbors usually go to bed, and I get up at 6 o'clock for work. My neighbors are just noisy people - they drop, step hard, slam doors, windows, sometimes talk loudly or play music. All this makes me very nervous, my relatives of course do not hear anything and sleep normally, they tell me that I suggest, but I wake up at the slightest noise and I can not sleep. Nothing helps - by putting on corks I don't stop concentrating again and I can't get out of it. When I go to visit - the first thing is to listen to not be annoyed by something.
Hello. An interesting forum. I read and see familiar symptoms. For me, things are as follows: I have been working in a mall for 5 years. For 3 years I have had problems with the neck on the right, it turned out to be spikes. Bad work, pain, limbs, disorientation, irritability, deafness in the ears, every noise irritates me. While I'm 12 hours working in the store there is music. When I get home in the evening and I hear in the silence the neighbors' devices working. When I'm in public transport, I have the feeling that everyone is shouting. I have had sinus problems recently and my ears are deaf, but I still hear things that others can't hear. I've had a lot of problems at home over the past year, and that probably triggered something. Walks in nature away from the noise of the city calm me down for a moment. How are you? Work environment, at home, etc. symptoms?
Hi, I'm number 17 from above. Homeopathy has not helped and that's it. At the moment I still can't sleep, I try not to get angry with people who tell me that I'm imagining and it's on a mental basis. Let me tell you I'm waiting for them to release this