Hi Abishag, (((( Smiles ))))

I like your Kitty Cat... I know about the sounds you are talking about and they use to be
just awfull for me at one time as well.. For a long time as it was a process of getting worse
and a process of getting better for me.. And better doesn't happen overnight for H..
I wish you were like cured like me because I can handle normal environmental sounds now and some not so normal like car motor sounds ect..
Things to an extent of loudness..
Very rarely do I feel ear pain anymore from that it would have to be real loud....
As I didn't get my normal tolerances back I had pre T and H but this is good!
It took me along time to finally be able to vacuum without muffs and not that long ago in time..
I gave them up... But bought a new vacuum as well.. it's still noisy though but better..
And about the message on your phone..
Long ago there was a person talking on a cell phone and she went 2 rooms away though there was no closed door inbetween us..
But I heard what the other person on her cell phone was talking about and when I told her
she just looked at me and said really??? You heard all that.. I did..
Like that person was there with me in the room....
hyperacusis is really good super duper hearing not the other way around for sure..
Plastic bags ect sounded like the crackling of a rageing fire at one time..
It got so bad for me at one time I had to take to my room and eventually did pink noise
therapy starting off from there.. Then acupuncture took supplements changed my diet..
just whatever it took to try to get well.. I remember standing on the scale one time and
I registered a flat 90 pounds I was so sick.. Probably dipped in the 80's as well..
I know how bad it can get.. I can identify with you and other's with hyperacusis or
tinnitus or myoclonus ect... as I expirenced it myself..
Still I have left over things as my ears didn't get completely well but this is good!
Plus.. About hyperacusis from a head injury...
You probably allready read this but for others who haven't....
It's on Marsha's site..... But I had alot of thoses symptoms as well..
Distortion, muffing, sensitivity to high pitched sounds, feeling plugged up,
my pain was only in my ears or head though like a sound caused headache..
I had/have crackling and popping, fluid pressure ect....
You know how it goes and I'm just glad the worst is behind me..
I just have a few left over things now.. but...

Marsha Johnson on Head Injury...

Onset of the primary symptom of hyperacusis was described as a period of time following the head injury from immediate to a period of months. Eighty percent of the patients describe changes in hearing following the injury including distortion, muffling, sensitivity to high pitched sounds, a feeling of numbness or loss of sensation, feeling plugged up, or feeling referred pain in adjoining anatomical areas. Patients also complained of ear tenderness, excessive crackling or popping sounds, a sensation of uncomfortable awareness of the area, and a feeling of fluid or pressure in the ear.

Take Care My Dear Friend and (((( Hugs To You ))))
Life in hyperacusis land is not fun!
But now I have to find a fun design too..
Lets see what Russ has got here..
Isn't it nice of him to bring the awareness of hyperacusis to his site..
It can go with so many conditions as well being a symptom and all....
Anyone could come down with it as well... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/garfield.gif" alt="" />
Even garfield.. poor cat..
But Taz is a fighter maybe he would do well.. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/taz.gif" alt="" />
But of course the warning is there for anyone who may do this..<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/playdrums.gif" alt="" />
or this...<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/guitarrock.gif" alt="" />

Now wasen't that fun.. Take Care My Friend <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/sidehug.gif" alt="" />

Lynn