Do you suffer from a chronic health problem?

[Anonymous]

How has it affected your life?

yes

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[Sonorous]

The ones that disrupt me the most are my hyperacusis, anxiety, & depression. I think my hyperacusis & anxiety are the two biggest causes of my depression though. They make each other worse. If one of them is really bad one day, the other will start making me suffer as well.

To put my hyperacusis into perspective:
• If I want to do the dishes without being in extreme discomfort, I have to wear ear protection.
• If I want to sleep without being awoken by people in the house or cars passing by outside, I have to play noise when I sleep.
• Even if someone is speaking to me softly, if they're close enough, or if it's a small & quiet room, I could feel discomfort from their volume level & sibilance depending on how sensitive my ears are in the moment. (My ears are less sensitive when there's a sufficient amount of ambient noise creating a compensatory noise floor relative to whatever the common dB spikes/dynamic range are/is.)
• If there isn't enough ambient noise, I constantly feel my tensor tympani muscles responding to what my brain perceives as "loud noise." It's trying to protect me, but it feels as if you somehow had a compressor on your ears. But one that gives you an uncomfortable feeling due to its fluttery & bassy nature. And even after all of that, you still feel even more discomfort from the "loud noise" because of the compressor's shitty attack & release time. Making the brain feel like it's being overloaded.

So if normal people feel discomfort at a certain dB, I feel the same discomfort at a more extreme level at least 20db sooner than they do. Especially for the frequencies above 5khz.

And my anxiety is mainly social but not entirely so. It can be triggered by many common things. They don't even have to be loud. It can be something as simple as a bird chirping outside my window or a thumping sound that isn't repetitive/predictable enough.

[Sonorous]

All of these things & more constantly make my brain feel discomfort & can give me headaches. My headaches don't get very bad though because I take consistent preventative measures. A major one is that I always have earbuds nearby so I can play noise &/or music if need be. Or I have my earplugs nearby in case I need to significantly knock dampen sound.

[Asker]

Thank you so much for sharing your situation. 🙏 There should be more awareness of people with hyperacusis

[Sonorous]

You'd be surprised at just how many people have it though. Many just don't have the extreme & life-disrupting versions of it though. Or maybe they just have better pain tolerance than I or others like me¿ Who knows.

But you'd also be surprised at just how common it is for people to be aware that someone has it, yet still show little to no true care. I've even spoken to other people that have hyperacusis & they say that many of their loved ones don't treat it very seriously due to not being able to relate. It even happens to me with mine.

I kinda wish my body could show that I'm in pain. Like I wish I could just start bleeding out of my eyes or something. Then! Maybe then! People would take it more seriously.

[Asker]

I feel you completely… I also suffer from eye and stomach problems but looking at me you’d never know. I think I lot of people take for granted that other people are all problem free. Most problems often go undetected..

[exitseven]

I have something wrong with me and it has been causing me problems. I will need a couple of small surgical procedures. I am starting a new job in 2 weeks and I don;t think I should be asking for time off from work right now. I just hope I do not end up with organ failure.

[Asker]

You are not alone. And I send you positive energy.

[exitseven]

@lynnn Thanks for that.😀😀😀😀

[Asker]

You are welcome!

[exitseven]

Thanks for the MHO😎

[MORPHEUS_12]

I have Ehlers Danlos Syndrome which is a rare congenital connective tissue disease. My joints slip out of joint or sublax which is the correct medical term. Because of EDS, I have the following comorbidities.

• Hip dysplasia
• Intracranial hypertension
• Adrenal Insufficiency
• Achalasia
• Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome
• Chronic pain
• C3 - C5 Cervical Fusion
• Hip replacement
• Sjogren's syndrome
• And many more but this is enough to get an idea.

[Asker]

Thank you so much for sharing. I want to learn more about EDS. Do you take anything to mitigate the chronic pain?

[MORPHEUS_12]

Yes, I have been in pain since I was 8 and I have been on opiates since I was 16.

[jahaims]

Yeah, adds to depression and gives me physical limitations

[Aiko_E_Lara]

Yeah. I have a chronic pain in my lower left abdomen, left testicle and left thighs causing my fatigue and it's pretty hard to relax with it.

[Asker]

Is it like sciatica?

[Aiko_E_Lara]

Maybe. Or it could be different. It feels swollen and tight that i get joint pains too. I don't like "wasting my money" on tests.

[Aiko_E_Lara]

I've already done it tho. I get many different opinions every time

[RuthlessAggression]

Yeah, i swear it feels like Christians just wear on my health, with everything they're doing to me, as a jew

[DrewJay]

No I dont suffer from cronic health issues