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How To Help A Familiy Member or Friend With Hyperacusis
Oftentimes the level of understanding, accommodatingness, and empathy of family and friends of a person with hyperacusis, can largely impact that amount of physical pain the person is in. This is because family members and friends are often shared in environments or frequently around this person, therefore impacting the noise the person is exposed to. Having hyperacusis in it of itself is already extremely difficult and at times miserable, but having your family doing things that cause you pain constantly and not believing you about your condition can just make the situation unbearable. Sometimes a person’s family are just mean or selfish people, but other times they truly love the person and want to help them, but are misguided as to how. I will assume that any family members and friends of a person with hyperacusis reading this fall into this second category. As a person who has lived with severe hyperacusis for most of my life, here are some things that you can do to help your loved one with hyperacusis.
By Jemma Rosewater 5 years ago in Longevity
Why we shouldn’t use Play Therapy to desensitize Children with severe Sound Sensitively
I remember when I was in 1st-3rd grade, doctors, therapists, and school staff would try to expose me to noise through play. I used to see an occupational therapist twice a week, who would try to make me engage in play that involved noise. She would try to get me to play games that had buttons that would make noises, rummage around in toy boxes to get things to play with, turn on fun aqua machines that had motors, and other activities that either involved me making noise or her making noise. These activities cause me physical throbbing and stabbing pain. I had an audiologist who knew that I enjoyed listening to books, and so came up with a plan that required me to gradually increase the volume of my books, on my iPad, and TV. Turning up the volume was physically painful for me, so I stopped listening to books, using my iPad, or watching TV. Staff at school would try to make me eat in the cafeteria with my friends, participate in recess, or fun related arts classes.
By Jemma Rosewater 5 years ago in Longevity
My Advise For Dealing With Doctors, For Hyperacusis Newbies
I was only eight years old when I was formally diagnosed with hyperacusis, although I had been experiencing symptoms for about a year and a half prior. Unfortunately as hyperacusis is such a rare condition and there was so almost no research on pain hyperacusis, meant that I was often not taken seriously. There are so many things that I have had to learn on my own, about the medical side of hyperacusis that I wish I knew when I was younger, so I wanted to share some things that have helped me navigate medical disbelief and misconceptions about hyperacusis.
By Jemma Rosewater 5 years ago in Longevity
My Project To Get A Title Six Added To The ADA
Having had severe hyperacusis with pain for most of my life, I know from personal experience that before the pandemic it was basically impossible to get most places to give me the types of accommodations that I needed. For me everyday noises like people talking and laughing, telephone ringing, dishes clanking, Music or TV, lawnmowers, running water, refrigerators, etc cause me physical pain and lingering migraines. This meant that I was unable to attend stores, restaurants, social events, movies, conferences, extra curricular activities, and most public places. Unfortunately many people with moderate to severe pain Hyperacusis, are unable to attend work, most public places, school, or social events due to the noise level.
By Jemma Rosewater 5 years ago in Longevity
The importance of Establishing Clinical Guidelines to protect patients with hyperacusis
If you have read any of my previous posts you are likely aware of the painful and horrible experiences that I have had with doctors growing up. For those of you who have not read my previous blog posts, ever since I was little doctors treated my hyperacusis like a psychosomatic condition.
By Jemma Rosewater 5 years ago in Longevity
Receiving Disability Services For Hyperacusis
If you or someone you know has severe hyperacusis, then you are probably aware of how debilitating of a condition it is. So many activities of daily living involve noise. Cooking, washing clothes, using the microwave, using transportation, even taking a shower or bath. A person with severe hyperacusis may be unable to perform these basic tasks of everyday living, due to the intense physical pain and debilating symptoms caused from the noise of these activities.
By Jemma Rosewater 5 years ago in Longevity
Hyperacusis Daily Life modifications
People who don’t have hyperacusis don’t realize how many things in their daily lives have noise. From waking up to an alarm clock, to flushing the toilet, to running water, to using the microwave almost everything makes noise. For some people with severe hyperacusis, several if not all those things cause them pain. I have seen the topic of the problem with the noise involved with activities of daily living, come up many times in hyperacusis online groups. I have also spoken with various other people with severe hyperacusis who struggle with these things. Having basically grown up with severe hyperacusis, there are unfortunately many daily life activities that I am not able to do, and others I have had to greatly modify to make them quiet.
By Jemma Rosewater 5 years ago in Longevity
Hyperacusis Causes More Than Just Ear Pain
When the few people who even know what hyperacusis with pain is, they still usually only think of the classical symptoms of noise induced ear pain. Although many people with pain hyperacusis do experience ear pain from sound, not all of them do, and some of the ones that do also experience additional symptoms. These symptoms can range from tinnitus, noise induced migraines/facial pain, vertigo, seizures, confusion, inability to understand speech when other noises are present, and a sensory impairment involving another sense. I personally experience the majority of my pain from sound on my forehead and temples, although I do get ear pain as well. I have random seizures, but also ones triggered by noise. In addition I have sensory processing disorder (sensitive to clothing, shoes, etc), am visually impaired, and cannot understand what someone is saying and get confused when there are multiple people talking or background noise.
By Jemma Rosewater 5 years ago in Longevity
Life in a Fog
Let me start this lovely story about my life with the knowledge given to you reader that I was once a very active person. When I say active I mean up at the crack of dawn and busy up until 1 am. Sleep wasn't a concept that was in my daily life. I was always doing something, and the friends I had back then would think I was ill when I sat down to eat lunch. That's how busy I was, and active. Being outside, doing yard work, riding my horses, giving lessons, training horses, etc. Is what I did, I enjoyed every minute of it. I also want so far as driving hours to show, or to visit my friends, when I ended up moving on the edge of the state. There was nothing I wouldn't do, no distance too far. I'm sure you get what I'm saying. Busy active, no sitting down, The type of person you would hate if you just wanted to relax, and I'm dragging you along like "Come on hurry up!!"
By FancySassy5 years ago in Longevity
Claudine Roura | Contours Makati | Liposuction Effective Way To Remove Body Fat Deposits
Liposuction clinics in the Philippines offer powerful solutions to anyone who is looking to get in shape by removing fat deposits from the body. Liposuction is a cosmetic surgery procedure that involves the breaking and sucking up of fat deposits from the body. It is also referred to as lipoplasty, lipectomy, liposculpture suction or lipo in short. Liposuction is one of the most widely used methods for getting rid of body fat around the world. It is frequently used for removing fat from the buttocks, thighs, abdomen, chin, neck, backs and upper parts of the arms, the back and the calves. A hollow instrument called cannula is used for removing the fat by having it inserted right under the skin. A high pressure vacuum is exerted to the cannula for carrying out the procedure.
By Claudine Roura5 years ago in Longevity
What Weighs You Down
Let’s be honest. None of us, not even the most confident of us, are always on the top of our game. Though we often expect ourselves to be. And if there is one thing you hear about in a weight lifting community, it’s grit. Defined as courage and resolve, or strength of character. When you are trying to pull a bar twice your bodyweight off the ground or stand it up out of the hole, you're going to need courage and resolve. You’re going to need strength of character to back up your physical strength because no amount of physical strength will accomplish that feat alone.
By C. S. Phoenix 5 years ago in Longevity
