Voice/auditory issues

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Does anybody find that they have issues with vocal or auditory? My wife says my voice is so quiet sometimes that she can hardly hear me at times. I read in a few articles that temporal lobe epilepsy or some AEDS can cause issues with auditory control.

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I have left temporal lobe epilepsy and had surgery in 2011. I started having focal seizures again in 2013. When I have a funny feeling /seizure my aura is that I hear a strange noise.
Most of my seizures are when I'm at home on my own or when I do have them at work & feel an aura coming I go down the back away from my co workers so not many people have seen them. But I once had a seizure in front of my hairdresser and she said my voice was high pitched and I was talking really fast.

A couple of years ago not long after I started having the funny feelings one of the neuros said it made sense I heard noise as the area of my brain where the scarring was and which was removed is close to the area of brain where sound comes from.
 
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You might want to consider that your wife is the one with the problem - ie. development of hearing loss. You might want to encourage her to get her hearing tested to see if this is an issue.
 
Good Suggestion! I didn't know I was going severely deaf until my roommates at the time, all but dragged me to get a hearing test. Up 'til then I was sure a LOT of people were just mumbling. When the loss comes on slowly, it can be very difficult to notice. People also got angry at me, thinking I was't listening, or paying attention to them.


Another point on this: As we age I read it is not uncommon for our speech processing in the brain to slow down, which can also affect hearing and communication.
 
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