Ask any man and they will tell you, there is going to come a time in their life when they are accused by their wives of not listening to what they are saying. For some men, it may be the fact that they have too many things on their mind and they can’t shift their focus quickly enough to actually hear what their wives are saying. For other men, it is a constant battle of trying to catch their wives in a similar situation so that they can justify the fact that they just don’t seem to hear every word or sometimes, enough words to piece together the conversation.
If you have ever felt this way as a man, you might appreciate the issue that one woman has. She lives in China and has a rare condition that allows her to hear women’s voices but she can’t hear a man’s voice. That’s right, when men are speaking to her, it’s as if they aren’t saying anything at all but a woman’s voice will come through without any difficulty.
According to the Daily Mail, Ms. Chen felt nauseated one evening and had a ringing in her ears so she went to bed early. She woke up the next morning and could not hear her boyfriend talking to her.
Dr. Lin Xiaoqing, her ear, nose, and throat specialist gave her a diagnosis:
“She was able to hear me when I spoke to her, but when a young male patient walked in, she couldn’t hear him at all.”
It seems as if Ms. Chen is suffering from “reverse-slope hearing loss.” In other words, she can’t hear low frequencies, such as men’s voices. Approximately one out of 13,000 patients who have problems with their hearing will have such a difficulty. It can be caused by stress, genetics or perhaps a combination of those two different issues.
Ms. Chen told Dr. Xiaoqing she had been under a lot of stress and wasn’t sleeping well because she was working late hours. She was trying to look after both herself and her boyfriend so the stress probably contributed to the problem.
Dr. Xiaoqing believes that the hearing loss is reversible, if she is able to control her stress.
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