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    High Pitched Sounds Painful

    Hi Everyone,

    I have developed the weirdest symptom over the last 2 weeks and I have no idea if it is neurological or an ear issue. I first noticed it about 2 weeks ago. I was crossing the street with a friend. The crosswalk was one of the accessible ones that has an audible beeping noise to help the vision impaired. I found the beeping noise to be ear piercing and basically, intolerable. My friend didn't find it bothersome at all.

    Ever since then, I find any high pitched noise to be way too loud and painful. This includes fans, alarms, beeping, generators, crying babies, etc. I actually had to leave a restaurant the other evening because of a screeching baby. This would never have bothered me in the past. I have worked in a children's hospital for 32 years. I am used to crying babies.

    I messaged my neurologist and he thought it could be migraine related. I haven't had any change in my migraine pattern so I don't think that is the cause. He suggested I message my ENT so I did that.

    Has anyone experienced anything similar??
    Thanks

    #2
    Hi polopuppy.

    I don't have a problem with this but have heard of it, it's called Hyperacusis.
    https://www.asha.org/uploadedFiles/AIS-hyperacusis.pdf
    Diagnosed 1984
    “Lightworkers aren’t here to avoid the darkness…they are here to transform the darkness through the illuminating power of love.” Muses from a mystic

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      #3
      Hi Snoopy,

      I just looked up hyperacusis and it sounds exactly like my problem. It is strange that my neurologist didn't suggest it.

      My ENT was no help either. She sent me a message back to follow up with my local ENT. I have no idea who my local ENT is!! The only ENT I have ever seen is her. If she doesn't want to help or is unable to help, then she should say so. It is all very strange. I guess I will live with this like so many other things I just live with.

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        #4
        Yes, I have had this happen during a period of time when I was especially sick with both sinus infections and severe neuro symptoms from a yet to be diagnosed MS disease. It first happened during a water aerobics class when they had a toddler class in another pool, the children screeching within the metal roof just about paralyzed me, yet it did not seem to bother anyone else.

        Trying to get a handle on the sinus infections, I went to a neuro-otologist because I had this searing ear pain, who put me through a battery of tests that explained the dizziness and visual disturbances, and was diagnosed with loose ear crystals. They were going to perform these maneuvers, I would have to sleep upright in a recliner for 3 days, and then I would be cured! Wow, after multiple physicians and specialists, many diagnoses and misdiagnoses, all kinds of medications, I would be cured and dizzy no more. He said just before I was to make an appointment for the therapy maneuvers that he wanted to do an MRI of my brain in case he overlooked something. And, he called me to say that I didn't need that therapy but I needed a neurologist.

        I changed the time for water aerobics classes so I wouldn't have to deal with the painful voices, and IVIG finally cleared up the continuous sinus infections and greatly improved my MS symptoms. The painful voices has not returned, but I sure miss the the treatment that was supposed to lead to a cure.

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