Sounds from everywhere

I noticed I am getting weirdly sensitive about sounds. I can not stand fluorescent lights the sound of ballast give me headaches. Yesterday I thought I was loosing my mind my hubby came home from work and about twenty minutes after he got home my sister and brother in law got up from their nap so there was little chatting then my niece came here with 2 of her adult friends.

After introductions were made I offered to make coffee and then I was in kitchen when suddenly I was overwhelmed with noise from every direction. My head felt like it was going to explode, I slowly was able to pull back and identify each sound except for the high pitch music.

With my 3 dogs and my sisters yappy snarlley one and it seemed like everyone was talking at once my step son was in the basement he decided to drown out all the noise by turning up his music. I eventually got everything back under control without making a scene but this is the second time in a week I have noticed how poorly I handle noise, the first was entering a mall with voices and music and intercom messages, my first thought both times was run away.

Is it this bad for everyone or is this my special fm gift? Noise is becoming an issue and it's something I can not avoid, any suggestions?

When I am flaring, I become even more sensitive to sound. I am always sensitive, though. I jump at loud noises. I have a hard time hearing when there is a lot of background noise. Crowded rooms, music, ambient noises.

I have always been this way, but it has gotten worse recently.

I carry ear plugs in my purse.

It is so amazing the things that we learn we are not experiencing alone. The funny thing is my dd and dh say i turn the tv too loud. I had my hearing checked, it is fine.

Omg,I could never live next door to my family, hubby is loud and I tolerate him because I can tune him out, lol. I do not do it to be mean its self preservation.

My family (Irish as well btw) are noisy, they blame hearing loss I say it hearing loss from all the noise they make. I cringe when they visit but since my sister is having pancreatic surgery today I accepted the fact they had to travel 300 miles for this and last time she had surgery she almost died so at least in my city we all do not need motels and restaurants.

I have limited the amount of cooking and cleaning I can do in a day and everyone is aware this can change to none on a bad day. Yesterday was too much so hubby spoke to son about the music as that is the thing that was the one noise that was not needed. Ahhhhhh family gatherings create so much extra stress, why can't we all just cooperate there is always one or two that will not play well with others.

Noise affects me negatively, too. And it comes at us from all sides. I find that I even have to either turn down my radio station really low or turn it off after a while. I'm also getting into really mellow music (think elevator music!), rather than anything too noisy. Once in a great while, though, I still listen to the oldies.

Peace and quiet can be so calming, and I think those of us with fibro have enough jittery nerves just dealing with everything. I think in general, our world has become too noisy and distracting. I love to take a little time for prayer, reading, and meditating on the Rosary. They calm me down and ground me once again.

Yes, to ALL the above! I have been this way since my first pregnancy. I'm very hard-of-hearing, but yet I'm the one who has to turn down the tv when the volume goes up, like during commercials.

Hubby will be watching tv, blithely watching and listening to every blasted thing that comes along, and I'm constantly grabbing the remote with my reacher and muting it. Everybody seems to think I'm just persnickety.

Also, the dogs' howling when a siren goes by is excruciating! And I used to love it.

Debbie

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I had the weirdest experience the other night I woke up at about 2.00pm and all I could hear was the alarm clock ticking but it was so magnified it made me feel really weird. I have had this alarm clock for years because my radio is on all night so I need something to wake me up. I grabbed the alarm clock and put it on the floor under the bed but I could still hear it, I was sure it was going to wake up DH.

My mom and I are both the same there. I always thought it was due to the tension that builds in our body from dealing with constant pain and then addition of noise. I got a sound system in my car for christmas last year. Now I cant enjoy listening to it. I want to hit my dh in head with remote when commercials come on. If I am around someone loud and fast talking, I HAVE to leave. I am like this before flares and after flares are real sensitive too...I leave the house totally quiet and dark when in flare ... Well darn, guess I am always sensitive, just sometimes worse than others. I have on one occassion told someone to please just shut up. I calld and apologized next day. felt awful, still do. Trying to explain it to someone who hasnt experienced it, really makes me feel insaine. Thank you for posting this.

When I want peace and quiet it seems that's the day my mom wants to talk to me the most. I've had to bite my tongue to keep from telling her to leave me alone.