Maryjane Behforouz's attempts to ignore the disturbing noise in her head always ended in failure, leaving her feeling increasingly desperate. No one seemed to know what was causing the nearly constant clicking — or sometimes crunching — sound that was so loud it would wake her in the middle of the night.
Behforouz, 48, who lives outside Indianapolis, had tried everything she could think of to make it stop.
She had seen three ear, nose and throat specialists, undergone painful steroid injections in her ear, tried acupuncture and changed her diet, all in a vain attempt to drown out the persistent auditory intrusion. When her doctors seemed unable to help, she scoured the Web, intensely focused on finding an expert who could.
Her husband, an ophthalmologist, was sympathetic, but at a loss to explain what sounded to Behforouz "like someone clicking their fingernails together, amplified by a megaphone."
It was only after the cause had been identified and eliminated more than a year later by an expert Behforouz had found that she realized "how much energy it took every day just to deal with it."
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