Hearing

[Joe79]

Hello, a quick question.  Ever since a couple months ago when I was told I have MS and shown all these lesions on my MRI I have become hypersensitive to any and all symptoms.  I have a lot of common sense and I believe I have done an ok job at determining what is accually a symptom and what is not.  "Ok that was or is something medical" or "ok that is something that is normal with me"  I am trying to do my best.  I want as good of a timeline as I can get and don't want to hurt the doctor from doing his job.  At the same time, I don't want to imagine things and start listing off a thousand things to him, especially considering that three months ago I thought I was fine.  He accually stopped me and told me that he can't help if I don't tell him that anything is wrong.

Anyways, I could swear that I have been hearing things.  Just right now as I was writing someone a comment I thought I heard someone going through a plastic bag, checked the whole house and nothing there.  Can't quite remember, but a couple nights ago whooshing sounds, like wind or a sea shell, for a couple seconds.  Those are the two wierd ones, other than that at work we have to listen a lot to sounds in the mountains.  I hear people breaking brush and I can see someone ahead of me or to the side that is making the noise, but the sounds are coming from behind me or from the other side.  I can hear it, they are really sounds but the location of the sounds are off.  So anything with that or am I smoking crack?  Thank you.  

[Lulu54]

Hi Joe,
you are so wise to be aware of the phenomenon of hypervigilance/hyperawareness.  I think we all suffer from it initially after our dx.  It is awful hard to know what is and isn't our MS talking to us when we don't know an exact list of symptoms.  As best as I can figure, there must be over 1,000 ways this disease presents itself.  

Please just keep writing things down and work with your neuro.  They are used to the newbies having extensive lists.  Once you get comfortable in your new body, you will turn down the volume a bit and hear much less.

my best,
Lulu

[Mooshie27]

I have'nt heard strange sounds or anything, but where I hear the sound and where the sound is actually coming from has been a bit distorted.

[Joe79]

No deafness or hearing problems at all.  I'll see and know the sounds are at my 1 o'clock but I hear them as if they are at my 5 o'clock.  Maybe that's better.