Kickas.org Forums Ankylosing Spondylitis General Discussion #1 AS Web Support Group sensitive hearing

I have very sensitive hearing. I can hear clocks ticking off the seconds. When I go to test in the testing area at school I can hear everyone walking down the hallways, every step they take I hear.

As you can understand this is very troublesome. I have purchased 'noise out' headphones in an effort to block out the noises I am hearing while doing my tests. But I can still hear these noises with the headphones on! I had hoped to take my timed typing tests while wearing the headphones.

I wonder now if I should just go ask my doctor for his opinion or for testing of my mineral levels?

Just advice so I know where I should look next is appreciated. I am getting so tired of having non-existent typing levels. Being a 'former' speed typist of 150 wpm getting 10 words per minute is depressing.

I have added this link which I believe may be a part of my sensitive hearing issues. I get leg cramps a lot at times.

I wish I can help. I have very sensitive hearing but it's strange. If music or the T.V. is loud, it drives me crazy but then when people talk to me,I can't hear them unless I'm looking at them.

Crazy! Good Luck.

Hi Magician, I think the term for very sensitive hearing is called Hyperacusis. For a luck few of us, as our autoimmune diseases increases, Auditory Processing Disorder, and Hyperacusis increases as well.

Will follow your post to what others have to say.

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Gerri

hmm, I think my first step should be to schedule a hearing test for me. I have always thought my hearing was normal. Perhaps it is not. Might explain how I can sit through a class and never hear the instructor saying 'a test is gonna be held on such and such a day'. Then I show up and it's like 'oh? there's a test? I did not know about it! and I never studied."

I know when I was younger, I attended a rock concert. Had front row seats. After the show was over, I couldn't hear a thing. I was deaf. This went away after a while but it sure was scary!

I hear my own heart beating, hear my gum as I chew it, hear my joints creaking as I walk up/down stairs.

should be interesting to get the results of that hearing test, Magician. Wonder if it will show an increased hearing ability (like you can hear things that average people can't) or if they test normal, in which case it is likely that your mind has an extra ability to focus on these details?

There was a fascinating documentary on HBO about autism last year, that showed a boy using his ears to walk down a staircase. It looked to someone else that he had trouble seeing the steps, but the narration explained that he didn't. He instead used his ears (echolocation, like a bat) and to judge how far each step was, by how the sound of distant children playing was changing as he moved down each step!

I have no idea, Dow. I know I can put myself to sleep by changing my breathing. A quiet room with computers running in the background relaxes me, if that makes sense. I 'listen' to their humming and feel the tension leave my body. I know, weird, eh? lol

I know with my type of spondylitis in the upper neck, it often makes my eyes/ears/nose area swollen. During this time, sounds can disturb me - especially as I work with squeaky pre-teens. Sometimes when they all surround me chattering, I get a feeling of vertigo.

Not weird to me!

I know that the hypothalamus is the part of the brain that "lowers" sounds after a few minutes when they are repetitive, and no longer need your full attention.

Like what happens when most people walk into an air-conditioned room, first they notice the sound of the fans, but after a while they stop noticing them.

Me, I literally work in a sound-proof room when I record sound effects, and I do love just closing the big double-doors and having all that city noise just disappear!

I can understand that. When I sat in the student advisor's office yesterday, it was totally silent. I loved it. No vibrating cells, no loud classmates drowning out the instructor, no endless noise, noise, noise. It was like paradise for one brief moment.

an ode to quiet