A woman in China has been diagnosed with a rare hearing problem that lets her hear only female voices. This might sound like ‘selective hearing’ or a trick to brush aside the banters of her boyfriend, but it is not. In what could be considered as one of the rarest of the rare conditions, a woman who has been diagnosed with a hearing problem woke up to find that she was completely tone-deaf to what her boyfriend was telling her. According to Mail Online, the patient, who has only been identified by her surname, Chen, woke up to find she was unable to hear her boyfriend.
On heading to the hospital for the bizarre symptoms, a specialist diagnosed her with reverse-slope hearing loss, in which she could only hear high frequencies.
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According to figures, the condition is believed to affect only one in nearly 13,000 patients with hearing problems, according to figures. And doctors now suggest that stress may have contributed to the condition.
Local reports report that Chen reportedly had been suffering from nausea and ringing in her ears the night before her ordeal. But the next morning, she was shocked to find she was unable to hear her partner talk.
Reports state Chen was able to hear every word, according to Dr Lin Xiaoqing, who treated her. “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,” Dr Xiaoqing said.
Dr Xiaoqing also believes that fatigue and the added stress of long days may have contributed to the condition. The doctor added that the patient was diagnosed with “low-frequency hearing loss”, or reverse-slope hearing loss, explaining why she was unable to hear deeper sounds.
This condition is normally difficult to diagnose because both medics and patients may be unaware it exists.
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Chen, however, has made a full recovery and should be able to hear her boyfriend’s voice once again. News of the unusual case, when circulated on social media, has not gone unnoticed and many have also taken the opportunity to awaken the trolling-dragon.
One user tweeted, ‘’Doctors will call it a hearing loss, I call it evolution’’ while another wrote, ‘’A blessing’’.
Check out some of the tweets here:
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