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This is an excerpt from an IG post I wanted to share in June 2021 that I never got around to posting.
⚠️ ⚠️ This is sensory overload!!!!!
Out of the 8 senses, 2 of them are acting up, and 3 of them are overloaded.
It has been 43 days since my sense of smell and taste began acting up. Smells and tastes come and go. They can be working fine & two hours later they go off grid. Or sometimes yummy things taste like fish.
My sense of sight, sound, & touch are through the roof! I’ve experienced sensory overload for a large chunk of my life, but this is sensory overload on STEROIDS.
I’m spending all day in a quiet, dark room with eyemask/sunglasses and noise canceling headphones. Any little touch or vibration of my bed sends my body into fight or flight.
I went downstairs to work on my pills, but the sound of the TV was too overwhelming. Despite wearing noise canceling headphones it felt like my head was inside a pinball machine. With every little 🛎 ding blasting in my ears.
This is Dysautonomia. My nervous system is unbalanced and right now the sympathetic system is dominating.
The autonomic nervous system is in charge of processing stimuli, and Dysautonomia has messed up the body’s ability to process the world around me from noises, temperatures, lights, smells, tastes, and touches.
The last time my sensory overload was this horrible was during/after Super Bowl Sunday when my body was battling a Covid re-infection.
I’m feeling trapped, and doing what I can to stay away from triggers until my sympathetic nervous system is more stable.
With aggressive rest and pacing with a heart rate monitor, I was able to stabilize the sensory overload. In hindsight, the extreme sensory overload was due to rolling crashes. I had been in a perpetual crash since August 2020.
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