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Hello there, this is really strange to explain, for the past couple of weeks i have been getting annoyed by the buzzing sound of my beard trimmer, the sound makes me anxious to the point i cant finish my shaving without switching it off, the more that i focus on the sound it makes my heart beat faster and i feel my anxiousness rising and scared to carry on, i googled it and im worried i have a Sensory overload, disorder which apparently is associated with epilepsy, didnt know about such a thing, but epilepsy has been a massive fear of mine in over 10 years. I feel now that if ignore the sound while using my beard trimmer it will ultimately end with a seizure and now im sitting here with 1 side of my face shaved.
I also forgot to mention it makes my hand and feet tingle with the trimmer on.
nomorepanic
23-11-20, 20:12
sounds like anxiety to me and nothing to do with epilepsy
Thanks for reading, i truly hope so, i survived 15 years using beard trimmers, why only now its starting to grate on me.
nomorepanic
23-11-20, 20:37
Because things start to annoy us when we highly charged or anxious.
ankietyjoe
23-11-20, 20:38
Hello there, this is really strange to explain, for the past couple of weeks i have been getting annoyed by the buzzing sound of my beard trimmer, the sound makes me anxious to the point i cant finish my shaving without switching it off, the more that i focus on the sound it makes my heart beat faster and i feel my anxiousness rising and scared to carry on, i googled it and im worried i have a Sensory overload, disorder which apparently is associated with epilepsy, didnt know about such a thing, but epilepsy has been a massive fear of mine in over 10 years. I feel now that if ignore the sound while using my beard trimmer it will ultimately end with a seizure and now im sitting here with 1 side of my face shaved.
There's your problem.
I know i shouldn't have, i wouldn't have googled if the sound wasnt making me feel weird.
ankietyjoe
23-11-20, 20:49
You should avoid Google especially because it made you feel weird. Because guess what, you've found an incredibly unlikely thing you don't have to worry about as well now.
I've always been overly sensory - turns out it's because I'm autistic, and I have sensory processing disorder (so does my son) an example is that my son used to have meltdowns if a hand dryer went off in the toilets and I feel like I've been punched when somebody touches me - also I struggle to walk down the street without headphones on.
I also have fibromyalgia which is a stress response (pain) issue involving the ANS and hypothalamus. This means that pain is exaggerated - greatly.
Ever heard that song by XTC - Senses Working Overtime? That's me. :scared15:
Then there's anxiety - where stress hormones cause the body to be hypersensitive - and what you are describing sounds very much like heightened senses due to anxiety (GAD) and nothing at all to do with epilepsy.
Could it be a bit of Misophonia? I have a bit of it due to cancer treatment. When I was in treatment, I was in a large room with a dozen or more other patients getting chemo. When a line became occluded, the machines would beep loudly. It drove me bonkers and I inevitably would get up take my med machine and take a walk around the ward. To this day, a beeping sound gives me chills and makes me want to run!
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I've always been overly sensory - turns out it's because I'm autistic, and I have sensory processing disorder (so does my son) an example is that my son used to have meltdowns if a hand dryer went off in the toilets and I feel like I've been punched when somebody touches me - also I struggle to walk down the street without headphones on.
I also have fibromyalgia which is a stress response (pain) issue involving the ANS and hypothalamus. This means that pain is exaggerated - greatly.
Ever heard that song by XTC - Senses Working Overtime? That's me. :scared15:
Then there's anxiety - where stress hormones cause the body to be hypersensitive - and what you are describing sounds very much like heightened senses due to anxiety (GAD) and nothing at all to do with epilepsy.
Have you looked into hyperacussis, Nora?
I've always been overly sensory - turns out it's because I'm autistic, and I have sensory processing disorder (so does my son) an example is that my son used to have meltdowns if a hand dryer went off in the toilets and I feel like I've been punched when somebody touches me - also I struggle to walk down the street without headphones on.
I also have fibromyalgia which is a stress response (pain) issue involving the ANS and hypothalamus. This means that pain is exaggerated - greatly.
Ever heard that song by XTC - Senses Working Overtime? That's me. :scared15:
Then there's anxiety - where stress hormones cause the body to be hypersensitive - and what you are describing sounds very much like heightened senses due to anxiety (GAD) and nothing at all to do with epilepsy.
Hey, thanks i appreciate you sharing more about it, what is the ending for you and your son? Say if you just let it happen and let the feeling run its course, you walking down the street without headphones or your son with the air dryer? What would happen?
For me, i get annoyed by the sun through trees, makes feel i loose focus, but the sound of the barbers using their machine shaving my head doesnt affect me, just my own trimmer. I want to leave the trimmer running for 5 minutes and see what it does to me but im worried
Could it be a bit of Misophonia? I have a bit of it due to cancer treatment. When I was in treatment, I was in a large room with a dozen or more other patients getting chemo. When a line became occluded, the machines would beep loudly. It drove me bonkers and I inevitably would get up take my med machine and take a walk around the ward. To this day, a beeping sound gives me chills and makes me want to run!
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Sorry you went through that, is misophonia common do you think?
NotDeadYet
24-11-20, 15:34
My first thought was misophonia as well. Completely harmless. I have it with people chewing, swallowing and objects relentlessly clanking against one another. Its just an annoyance.
Best Wishes
Sorry you went through that, is misophonia common do you think?
Yep... a screaming baby or child and other noises do the same thing to me.
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My first thought was misophonia as well. Completely harmless. I have it with people chewing, swallowing and objects relentlessly clanking against one another. Its just an annoyance.
Best Wishes
Yep, I experience the same with those types of noises. Learned several years ago about misophonia.
Have you looked into hyperacussis, Nora?
Interesting....
Hey, thanks i appreciate you sharing more about it, what is the ending for you and your son? Say if you just let it happen and let the feeling run its course, you walking down the street without headphones or your son with the air dryer? What would happen?
My son is actually more tolerant now than he was a couple of years ago and I think that's because his anxiety levels have dropped now he's left mainstream education. We notice that as soon as his anxiety shoots up - so does the sensory stuff. But even on a good day, he is overly-sensitive.
Same for me, really, the more anxious I am, the less I can cope with noise of the traffic. It sounds deafening to me - especially when my non-deaf ear is facing the road because it's compensating for the deafness in the left one. The anomaly being that I play loud music through my headphones...:unsure:
but the sound of the barbers using their machine shaving my head doesnt affect me, just my own trimmer. I want to leave the trimmer running for 5 minutes and see what it does to me but im worried
Tone makes a difference to me - greatly. I can shutdown just on the tone of somebody's voice, so maybe something about the sound of your trimmers (some are very harsh) is making you feel anxious? Maybe it's because your brain is making a connection with a similar noise that comes with a bad memory?
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