British man hears everything going on inside his body, including his eyes moving. - Polidicks

[release]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. "Sleep was pretty much impossible with the beating of my heart and the scratching of my eyes. It was like trying to drop off with a noisy workshop in my head." Stephen, a company training co-ordinator of Banbury, Oxfordshire, recalled: "Towards the end it was starting to affect my eyes as well. My vision would pulsate with the rhythm of my heart. "Doctors put it down to congestion and gave me any number of sprays, drops, tests and antibiotics - it never made any difference." But this year a CT scan revealed a tiny hole in the temporal bone in Stephen's skull. It meant fluid from the semicircular canals of the inner ear was leaking into Stephen's brain and conducting bodily sounds. An op cured the problem. Birmingham consultant Richard Irving, who treated Stephen, said: "It is a very unusual condition and difficult to spot. There may be one case a year per 500,000 people in the UK."[/release] [url=http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/woman/health/health/3725333/Stephen-Mabbutt-can-hear-his-own-eyeballs.html]Source[/url] I wonder what farting or a stomach growl would sound like with this hearing condition.

Far worse than going deaf, I imagine. Horrific.

Shut the fuck up heart, this is my last warning!

I can hear loudly when I'm chewing but that's it. I can also hear my heartbeat

I can't hear anyone either when I'm eating chips.

Since it says that the problem was cured by an operation, shouldn't the title be [i]heard[/i] everything going on?

I can hear my own heartbeat, but only when everything is quiet.

[QUOTE=Deiru;31476187]Since it says that the problem was cured by an operation, shouldn't the title be [i]heard[/i] everything going on?[/QUOTE] Yes it should, I missed that when I was making the thread.

When asked what it sounds like when he masturbates he replied "Fap fap fap".

[QUOTE=Deiru;31476187]Since it says that the problem was cured by an operation, shouldn't the title be [i]heard[/i] everything going on?[/QUOTE] Well, D and S are close to each other on the keyboard.

I had the same problem, only it wasnt as bad as this. It didnt affect me much. I could sleep and socialize like normal.

ITT: hypochondriacs.

I don't usually expect these kinds of articles to have a happy ending so I normally read just half of it. Lucky of him that the doctors found a cure.

This makes me wonder what it sounds like inside me.

When I was sick and had fluid backed up in my ear canal, I could hear every internal sound extremely well, but external sounds were muffled. I got super self conscious, cause I thought I had burped really loudly in the middle of class, but it was just some internal gurgling.

This is both awesome and terrifying. [editline]2nd August 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=cecilbdemodded;31476306]When asked what it sounds like when he masturbates he replied "Fap fap fap".[/QUOTE] I'd kind of like to know what it sounds like. Not because it's really important or anything; it's just one of those weird, unimportant questions that's still interesting. Think about the sounds he must have heard when his stomach was digesting food.

Fap fap fap, squirt.

I can hear my heartbeat pretty well, but what's great is if I'm really still I can see my heart shaking shit, ever so slightly. Like the glass of water in Jurassic Park, my heartbeat does that and it's awesome. If I'm on my back and I look down, I can see a space in between my two ribs where the skin bulges out a tiny, tiny bit with every beat. Bodies are fuckin' amazing, you guys.

[QUOTE=JumpinJackFlash;31479137]I can hear my heartbeat pretty well, but what's great is if I'm really still I can see my heart shaking shit, ever so slightly. Like the glass of water in Jurassic Park, my heartbeat does that and it's awesome. If I'm on my back and I look down, I can see a space in between my two ribs where the skin bulges out a tiny, tiny bit with every beat. Bodies are fuckin' amazing, you guys.[/QUOTE] Are you per chance missing a rib cage?

If I cup my hands over my ears and close my eyes while rolling them around, I can very faintly hear them moving.

[QUOTE=Plattack;31479443]Are you per chance missing a rib cage?[/QUOTE]Well, if I was there wouldn't be a space between two of my ribs, as I wouldn't have ribs to begin with.

Good thing he was cured of it. Sounds pretty crappy.

[video=youtube;vsEuOw3ihbs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsEuOw3ihbs&feature=player_detailpage#t=98s[/video] [editline]2nd August 2011[/editline] at 1:38

oh god that must feel so weird.

I thought everybody can do this and this guy's was just permanent. Whenever I get sick, my ears are stopped up with fluid, and when I start to get better, I can do some kind of flex with my eardrums. It's the same as if you hold your nose and try to push air out your nose, you'll open something in your ears. If you start to talk, it's extremely loud, if you burp, it's deafening. I thought I wasn't the only one?

What does he hear when he takes a shit?

My dad can hear me snoring though my nose, when I'm awake of course, I forget to breathe though my mouth.

Is it bad that I can hear my eyes move? It's not loud or anything, but i can hear it.

[QUOTE=Second-gear-of-mgear;31486431]Is it bad that I can hear my eyes move? It's not loud or anything, but i can hear it.[/QUOTE] Completely silent when I move my eyes. I highly doubt it's actually "bad" though. I guess it's kinda like with floaters. Most people have them, but some don't. Most people can't hear their eyes moving, but some can.

[QUOTE=MrEndangered;31476035]Far worse than going deaf, I imagine. Horrific.[/QUOTE] Trust me being deaf is far worse. I'm deaf in my right ear and it limits me tremendously.