10 Nerve Damage Symptoms
Reviewed: Dr. Gromatzky
Symptom #4: Changes in Special Senses
In medicine, the special sense refers to organs such as the eyes, ears, nose, and tongue. These are known as special senses as they have organs devoted to them. They are distinct from the general senses as they have information carried in special visceral afferents and somatic afferents.
Since all the information is relayed via the nerves, when nerve injury occurs to these nerves, changes in the special senses may occur. Examples include anomalies in smell, taste, loss of vision (complete or partial), hallucinations, deafness, double vision, and ringing in the ears.
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