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Have you looked into hyperacusis? I have it and there are many noises I can't deal with that most people don't hear at all. This includes pretty much every comp

Have you looked into hyperacusis? I have it and there are many noises I can't deal with that most people don't hear at all. This includes pretty much every computer I've come across since developing the problem. Other noises like electric meters, electric mains, fan motors, wind noise, locations with lots of echoes, and strangly the noises crickets make. All these noises cause cognitive and attention issues as well as dizziness and nausea. Many noises are just plain painful even though they are far less than 80 decibels. I've seen countless neurologists and audiologists and have made a small amount of progress with tinnitus retraining therapy and clonazepam. A simple test to eliminate hyperacusis is to buy some cheap foam 33db earplugs and see if that helps you handle the situation better. For the computer, have you tried putting it in a different room and running a long display cable and using Bluetooth keyboard and mouse? This setup allows me to use my computer for up to an hour compared to less than five minutes with it in the same room.

exikyut 9y ago
No, thanks for the new term to make a note of. I do have a very mild form of misophonia but I believe that's a psychological glitch, not a neurological breakdown, so there are no noises or frequencies I physically can't handle (and particularly not in the sense of the EMR issues). I do very occasionally use earmuffs and seriously appreciate the quiet, but it's more "yay no sounds I need to decode" more than anything else. Ambulance/police sirens are merely annoying, but due to some ear issues from when I was younger I learned about how my ear canal works and somewhere along the way I figured out how to use the muscles near my ears to apply pressure to make sharp noises 0.1% less sharp, so that deals with that. If you want to keep in touch (via throwaway or non-throwaway email), I'm gmail@asmqb7 (decipher as per obvious). I'm curious about frequency-based health issues in general, because I wonder whether everything has similar root causes and the solution(s) for one are widely applicable to the others. FWIW I'm absolutely tragic with email (backlog months (!) long :P) but occasional back and forth of news etc may be interesting. I'm fascinated that you have zero issues with RF (Bluetooth). How long can you use a tablet (= fanless thing with a screen in it)? Try seeing if your computer has Wi-Di (Wi-Fi Display) - it's a low-latency Wi-Fi-based display solution built into newer Intel chips. I don't have a new PC so I have no idea how it works, but if you have it it'd likely be the simplest way to solve the "can't watch YouTube over VNC/RDP" problem.

exikyut 9y ago

No, thanks for the new term to make a note of. I do have a very mild form of misophonia but I believe that's a psychological glitch, not a neurological breakdown, so there are no noises or frequencies I physically can't handle (and particularly not in the sense of the EMR issues). I do very occasionally use earmuffs and seriously appreciate the quiet, but it's more "yay no sounds I need to decode" more than anything else. Ambulance/police sirens are merely annoying, but due to some ear issues from when I was younger I learned about how my ear canal works and somewhere along the way I figured out how to use the muscles near my ears to apply pressure to make sharp noises 0.1% less sharp, so that deals with that. If you want to keep in touch (via throwaway or non-throwaway email), I'm gmail@asmqb7 (decipher as per obvious). I'm curious about frequency-based health issues in general, because I wonder whether everything has similar root causes and the solution(s) for one are widely applicable to the others. FWIW I'm absolutely tragic with email (backlog months (!) long :P) but occasional back and forth of news etc may be interesting. I'm fascinated that you have zero issues with RF (Bluetooth). How long can you use a tablet (= fanless thing with a screen in it)? Try seeing if your computer has Wi-Di (Wi-Fi Display) - it's a low-latency Wi-Fi-based display solution built into newer Intel chips. I don't have a new PC so I have no idea how it works, but if you have it it'd likely be the simplest way to solve the "can't watch YouTube over VNC/RDP" problem.