New Sound. Just Shoot Me Already...

[RingerBell]

If I go on a nature walk now (my way of trying to fight hyperacusis) there are actual loud crickets absolutely everywhere. Not really surprising this time of a year. What is surprising to me is when I return back home I can hear that cricket sound again in my ears. It is intermittent. Is my brain playing games with me?

Please, don't tell me I can't even do nature walking now. Nature sounds should be safe and calming, correct?

I don't know how loud crickets can get, but could it be that these things are unrelated? Could it be just the walking and the exercise that gets your T to spike, just like a regular exercise spike, and you can hear this new and fading tone for a while? New tones can be a bit unstable in this sense.

 

[Jiri]

I don't know how loud crickets can get, but could it be that these things are unrelated? Could it be just the walking and the exercise that gets your T to spike, just like a regular exercise spike, and you can hear this new and fading tone for a while? New tones can be a bit unstable in this sense.

Yes, that's what I was thinking. I didn't have this problem before the ENT visit, though. Since then I became even more protective of my ears. I was stuck with that sound for some time, was super upset about it, then with more protection it seemed to disappear after many days. Now I try to go on nature walks as to 'exercise' my ears in a safe environment again (crickets around here are pretty loud, btw - or it's just my ears sensitivity, I can't tell anymore).

So it's either my ears are perhaps a little too sensitive now, or there has really been damage done at the ENT's office, and this new exposure to even modest sound levels just opens 'old wounds.' I should add I've got some ear pain later too.

Or, my brain just reacts to the crickets' noise from fields alone as if the sound itself were stored somewhere in my brain and this specific sound then unlocks it and I hear it again?

 

[Manny]

I sincerely think that ENTs are just people who couldn't cut it as good doctors. This proves my point.

Haha I don't know if this is true but I love it

 

[Manny]

I am suprised how ENTs got their degrees. I knew so much more than my audiologist and my ENT. My audiologist said that Hyperacusis can cause hearing loss.

YES. What the hell do they learn in school when they don't know the first damn thing about hearing, beyond the basic 250-8000 hz in a quiet room?? I guess they only learn anatomy? I'm being serious here!!