When your eyeballs become audible
All In The Mind
ABC Australia
4.5 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
There's a condition so bizarre and rare that most doctors haven't even heard of it.
It causes people to hear their own blood moving, bones creaking, lungs breathing - even eyeballs moving.
Superior Canal Dehiscence Syndrome can have a profound impact on a person's life and mental health... so can it be fixed?
We go into a hospital operating room to learn about this little-known condition.
Warning: this episode contains a description of a surgical operation.
This episode first aired on 29 March 2020.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, just letting you know, today's episode is one from our archives. |
| 0:04.2 | It's one of my faves, and it first aired just as the pandemic shut everything down in March last year. |
| 0:10.0 | So you might have missed it the first time around. |
| 0:13.1 | Also, just a quick warning. |
| 0:14.6 | If you're squeamish, there are a few sounds and descriptions of surgery later on in this episode. |
| 0:24.5 | No. and descriptions of surgery later on in this episode. When you take a deep breath, you can hear this rush of air going down into your lungs. |
| 0:29.1 | And then your lungs expand, and then you can hear your ribs creaking, you know. |
| 0:33.7 | Then the rush of air out. |
| 0:35.6 | But then underneath that, you can hear your heart beating |
| 0:38.3 | and you can hear your blood moving as well. |
| 0:42.3 | There's a condition you've likely never heard of, where the symptoms include hearing sounds like these, |
| 0:48.3 | all from within your own body. |
| 0:51.3 | When you move your eyes, it's popping at the ears, that's what it sounds like. |
| 0:56.0 | Your voice echoes back through your head all the time. |
| 0:59.0 | And some days your knees and your feet when you walk, you just don't want to walk because |
| 1:04.0 | of the noise that comes back through your head. It's just unbelievable. |
| 1:08.0 | Oh, forget about stomach noises, That's just unbelievably yucky. |
| 1:15.3 | Superior Canal dehiscence syndrome. That's to blame for this cacophony of sound. |
| 1:21.3 | It's so bizarre and rare that most doctors haven't even heard of it. |
| 1:25.4 | But it can have a profound impact on a person's life |
| 1:28.5 | and mental health. |
| 1:30.2 | Some people can take two to four years to get diagnosed because if you go to a doctor |
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