Man Says He Can Hear His Eyeballs Move..LOL WTF
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DOCTORS were baffled when Stephen Mabbutt told them: "I can hear my eyeballs moving."
But they finally diagnosed a rare ear condition in which sounds INSIDE the body are heard very loudly.
Stephen, 57, could also hear his heart beating - and when he chewed food the noise was deafening to him.
The dad of two was experiencing autophony - one of the symptoms of superior canal dehiscence syndrome. The bizarre illness was unknown until ten years ago.
At first he noticed the internal sound of his own voice was beginning to drown out everything else around him.
Over six years the condition worsened as other bodily noises joined in.
Stephen said: "I was sitting quietly alone in the house one evening and I suddenly heard this quite loud scratchy noise, like sandpaper being rubbed on wood.
"I was quite alarmed and looked around, wondering what it was. Then I noticed the noise came every time I moved my eyes. I started to think I was going mad." He went on: "The first symptoms appeared around 2005. I found if I raised my voice I'd get a vibration in my head.
"If I was eating a bag of crisps, the crunching noise drowned out people speaking. Then I found I would be hearing my heartbeat...and..
Full story http://www.waneenterprises.com/forums/4/961/1
DOCTORS were baffled when Stephen Mabbutt told them: "I can hear my eyeballs moving."
But they finally diagnosed a rare ear condition in which sounds INSIDE the body are heard very loudly.
Stephen, 57, could also hear his heart beating - and when he chewed food the noise was deafening to him.
The dad of two was experiencing autophony - one of the symptoms of superior canal dehiscence syndrome. The bizarre illness was unknown until ten years ago.
At first he noticed the internal sound of his own voice was beginning to drown out everything else around him.
Over six years the condition worsened as other bodily noises joined in.
Stephen said: "I was sitting quietly alone in the house one evening and I suddenly heard this quite loud scratchy noise, like sandpaper being rubbed on wood.
"I was quite alarmed and looked around, wondering what it was. Then I noticed the noise came every time I moved my eyes. I started to think I was going mad." He went on: "The first symptoms appeared around 2005. I found if I raised my voice I'd get a vibration in my head.
"If I was eating a bag of crisps, the crunching noise drowned out people speaking. Then I found I would be hearing my heartbeat...and..
Full story http://www.waneenterprises.com/forums/4/961/1
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