{"id":64698,"date":"2014-11-13T08:58:28","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T08:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=64698"},"modified":"2014-11-13T08:58:28","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T08:58:28","slug":"mum-suffers-seizures-hearing-ne-yo-songs-part-brain-removed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=64698","title":{"rendered":"Mum suffers seizures on hearing Ne-Yo songs, has part of brain removed"},"content":{"rendered":"

A mum who suffers crippling seizures every time she hears pop star Ne-Yo’s music has undergone surgery to have part of her brain removed.<\/p>\n

Fed-up Zoe Fennessy, 26, has an epileptic seizure within seconds of hearing the chart-topper’s vocals, making her freeze, vomit and unable to react to the world around her.<\/p>\n

The healthcare assistant has to wear earphones whenever she goes shopping just in case the ‘Let’s Go’ singer’s tunes are played in stores.<\/p>\n

She has been clinically diagnosed with ‘musicogenic seizures’ which are triggered by the tone of Ne-Yo’s voice.<\/p>\n

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Distracting: Zoe wears earphones when she goes shopping in case his songs come on<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Surgeons removed part of her left frontal lobe in June in a bid to stop the affliction, but it didn’t work and baffled medics reckon the mum will have the condition forever.<\/p>\n

Zoe – who has been unable to work for six months because of her affliction – said: “I don’t dislike Ne-Yo or his music, it just dislikes me unfortunately.<\/p>\n

“I’ll be walking around the supermarket doing my food shopping and I have to put my earphones in to listen to my own music just in case it comes on.<\/p>\n

“It’s the same with most shops.\u00a0 I have to walk in with my ear phones in at first just to make sure they don’t have Ne-Yo on.<\/p>\n

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Distraught: The unusual disorder has affected her life dramatically<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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“If he ever releases a greatest hits album it’s going to be a nightmare.<\/p>\n

“Whenever I hear the first few beats of the song I have to drop whatever I am doing and run.<\/p>\n

“People might think it is funny – and I can laugh at it myself – but it has taken over my life.\u00a0 It’s ruined my life.”<\/p>\n

Zoe, from Retford, Nottinghamshire, had her first seizure on New Year’s Day in 2006 after a long period of sickness and doctors put it down to tiredness and stress.<\/p>\n

But when her seizures increased to six a DAY her GP booked her in for a brain test and she was diagnosed with epilepsy in 2008.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t until she heard Ne-Yo’s first big hit, ‘Give Me Everything’ featuring Pitbull – which topped the charts in May 2011 – that she had her first music-induced seizure.<\/p>\n

“It took me a while to realise that they were being triggered by his songs, and I think it wasn’t until I had heard it for about the 15th time that it finally twigged what was going on,” said Zoe, who has an eight year old daughter Abigail.<\/p>\n

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Holiday from hell: Trips abroad have been ruined by her spontaneous seizures<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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“The song was really popular and I went to my consultant and I said ‘I know this sounds extremely bizarre, but every time I hear this song I have a seizure’.<\/p>\n

“He said it was fascinating and that he had never heard anything like it, and I said that while it might be fascinating, I was really struggling – the song was everywhere at the time.”<\/p>\n

She was referred to Sheffield’s Royal Hallamshire Hospital where doctors played her Ne-Yo songs and were amazed when they induced a seizure.<\/p>\n

Her doctors notes from the time say: “We recognised a few musicogenic seizures arising from the right temporal lobe stimulated by songs sung by Neyo.”<\/p>\n

Another added: “During her admission she was listening to the radio on [her] iPhone when a specific song came on the radio that triggers her fits (Pitbull Ne-Yo – Tonight).<\/p>\n

“She called for assistance at this point and she was noted to be shaking and looking rather anxious and acting a bit confused.<\/p>\n

“The following day we deliberately played the song and exactly the same symptoms arose.”<\/p>\n

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Confirmed: Doctors are baffled by the diagnosis<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The music attacks got more difficult to manage as the singer became more popular with every song he released, including top ten hits ‘Let’s Go’ and ‘Turn Around’ in 2012.<\/p>\n

The 15 second seizures, which happen in her right temporal lobe, leave her ‘staring blankly’ and after they pass she will vomit, be very thirsty and feel extremely sleepy.<\/p>\n

In June this year Zoe endured a six-hour long operation to remove a huge chunk of her left temporal lobe where doctors thought all her seizures may originate.<\/p>\n

But while the symptoms of her epilepsy have reduced, she still has a fit every time she hears Ne-Yo’s voice.<\/p>\n

She said a recent holiday to Majorca – just after the singer released his song Play Hard with David Guetta – was a ‘nightmare’ with the song playing in every bar.<\/p>\n

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Unusual: There has been no suggestion why Ne-Yo’s music causes the seizures<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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“I have had to go up to DJs in places and say ‘look can you not play Ne-Yo’ and they just look at me like I’m an alien,” said Zoe.<\/p>\n

“[Doctors] are saying it could possibly be something in the tone of his voice, something like that, but it doesn’t happen when I hear Usher, or people like him who have a very similar sound.\u00a0 It is only him, only Ne-Yo.”<\/p>\n

“Our holiday this year to Majorca was a nightmare.\u00a0 Honestly it was like being at a Ne-Yo concert – the song was everywhere.<\/p>\n

“I had to stay in the hotel room for most of the holiday because it got so bad.”<\/p>\n

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Source: Mirror UK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A mum who suffers crippling seizures every time she hears pop star Ne-Yo’s music has undergone surgery to have part of her brain removed. Fed-up Zoe Fennessy, 26, has an epileptic seizure within seconds of hearing the chart-topper’s vocals, making her freeze, vomit and unable to react to the world around her. The healthcare assistant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":64699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-64698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-togbe-afede-xiv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}