How do you cure noise sensitivity?
Ewald Stoltenberg
2025-06-20 02:01:59
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We treat the condition with a combination of behavioral counseling and acoustic therapy. Counseling helps patients manage the anxieties and fears that often come with hyperacusis, while acoustic therapy can decrease patients' sensitivity to sounds. We also fit some patients with a wearable device that produces steady, gentle sounds that can desensitize the auditory nerves and affected parts of the brain over time, allowing patients to tolerate normal environmental sounds again.
Mercedes Labadie
2025-06-20 01:17:37
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Treatment will depend on what caused it. In some cases, like with injuries to your brain or ear, the sound sensitivity might get better on its own. If it doesn't, the doctor might suggest something called sound desensitization. You'll work with a specialist who’ll help you learn to deal with sound. You'll listen to very quiet noises for a certain period every day and build up gradually to louder sounds. Most of the time, you’ll wear a device on your affected ear or on both ears. It puts out a sound like static, so it shouldn't bother you or cause pain. It can take 6 months to a year or more to get the full benefit of the therapy. Your doctor also may give you medicine to help you manage the stress the condition can cause.
Meda Tillman
2025-06-19 23:50:30
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There isn’t a single cause that explains all cases of hyperacusis. Instead, it’s associated with multiple possible contributing factors and conditions. Contributing factors include: Long-term exposure to loud noises: Hyperacusis is more common in people exposed to loud music for long periods, like rock musicians, or who work in loud settings, like construction workers. Sudden exposure to loud noise: Some people with hyperacusis develop it after hearing a sudden, loud noise, like a gunshot or fireworks. Various theories exist. It’s possible that damage to parts of your auditory nerve causes hyperacusis. Your auditory nerve carries sound signals from your inner ear to your brain so you can hear. Another theory is that damage to the facial nerve causes hyperacusis.
Dejah Aufderhar
2025-06-19 23:34:14
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If hyperacusis is caused by another condition, such as migraines or Lyme disease, treating the condition may stop your hyperacusis. If there's no clear cause, you may be offered treatment to help make you less sensitive to everyday sounds. This could be sound therapy to get you used to everyday sounds again, and may involve wearing ear pieces that make white noise. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to change the way you think about your hyperacusis and reduce anxiety can also be offered. Do try some relaxation techniques, such as breathing exercises. You should not wear earplugs or muffs all the time because this could make you more sensitive to noise – short-term use may help in very noisy environments. Do not avoid noise completely because this can mean you miss out on regular activities and make you more sensitive to noise.
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