David Vance. Hyperacusis, Tinnitus & Chronic Pain

  Recently shared my Pain Hyperacusis & Tinnitus story with The Hearing Health Foundation based out of New York, New York, USA. Click the following link to read.  From Cancer Survivor To Hyperacusis Survivor. Magazine feature will be out shortly!.  May we all heal one day!.  Thank you, Kindest. DV. 

  Three Survivors of Cancer Discuss Their Struggles With Tinnitus and Hyperacusis, two Conditions They Consider Far Worse Written by J. D. Rider  David Vance, Susan Caswell, and Kathy McCain fought the dreaded condition cancer in various forms. It's the diagnosis a person hopes to never get. But even so, they testify that cancer was easy compared to tinnitus and hyperacusis, an aural-twisted duo whose savage decrees equate to endless traps and prison life. Who took their lives and everything and blew them all to smithereens. To preface this article, these are THEIR stories. THEIR thoughts. They're talking from experience. And not to stink on cancer, but in THEIR situations, tinnitus and hyperacusis have been far, far worse. Cancer was scary, horrible. We all know it is. It takes lives, squashes hope. But so do these aggressors, as suicides are a frequent climax to tinnitus and hyperacusis.  As we cover their impact on each individual, they'll explain why these ear traps a...

Article I did with Daily Mail Health New York on my experience with Pain Hyperacusis.  Click the following link to check it out if you would like!.   https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13141539/A-Texan-25-whos-experimental-brain-surgery-DEAFEN-cancer-survivor-driven-brink-suicide-Cruel-reality-living-rare-disorder-makes-faintest-noise-sound-like-bomb-going-ears.html

Just recently shared my Hyperacusis & Tinnitus Story w/ Patient Voice Canada.  Click the link to check it out if you would like!.  https://www.patientvoice.io/shorts/life-with-hyperacusis-david

 An interview and day in the life documentary I did with the Globe and Mail / Canada in 2019 about Hyperacusis & Tinnitus.  Click the following link to check it out!.   https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/article-it-feels-like-a-knife-is-being-stabbed-into-my-ears-says-sufferer-of/

  It Strips You Of Everything / Right & Wrong Approaches To Help Treat Pain Hyperacusis First off, I am not a doctor, and I am not giving medical advice. I am speaking through my own personal experience, and other patients' experiences as well, that I know. It strips you of everything you once had. Freedom, physically connecting with others, ability to take care of yourself - Cooking, cleaning, and sometimes not even being able to bathe because the sounds of running water are too hard to handle. When at a severe level, you cannot live alone, you need compassionate supportive help to do these everyday things, either in your home, or supports close to you for survival. If not, people may fail and get worse, there is no turning back, when at such severe levels with these auditory conditions, there are no limits, absolutely none, and this is what people do not understand who do not have these conditions, they destroy people's lives, and take everything away. In my five years of...