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Posted 2/2/2014 1:45 AM (GMT 0)
Ever since I started with Fibro I find that loud noises physically hurt me. My pain actually increases. When my husband yells at me or raises his voice or even turns the tv up loud my pain immediately increases and I feel physically ill. He doesn't believe me. Does this happen to anyone else?
Posted 2/2/2014 1:52 AM (GMT 0)
Loud noises can make you hurt more by making you tense up. Tensing up makes more pain.
Somedays make me sensitive to noises.
Posted 2/2/2014 4:21 AM (GMT 0)
Are you on Cymbalta? I had that trouble and found out that is a side effect. Noises are magnified.
Posted 2/2/2014 7:08 AM (GMT 0)
Not exactly, but they sure do hurt my actual ears! No one around here seems to believe me, either.

I also am driven cuckoo by commercials. Tomorrow's Superbowl will be trying for me....it's not so much the game itself, but the endless hours of "noise noise noise noise!!" If I'm in the same room, I'm constantly muting the commercials, and my family can't for the life of them understand why - although I've explained it 100 times.

So I'll be spending a good chunk of it out of the room. That's ok, I'm not a huge football person anyway. But it's more fun than usual because most of my family is, and we live in Colorado :)

Debbie
Posted 2/2/2014 10:05 AM (GMT 0)
yes - whenever i was at work and went into a noisy conference or if i go into my local Tesco and its noisy, it makes me feel dizzy and sick - then after a while I get used to it...I knw what you mean though...i think its something to do with extra stimulation and because we are over sensitive to everything :o(
Posted 2/2/2014 3:13 PM (GMT 0)
I have always had issues with noise. Now, I really easily get over-stimulated by excess sound. I carry ear plugs in my purse.

I know I am pre-flare or in-flare when I cannot differentiate between important noise and background noise.
Posted 2/2/2014 4:48 PM (GMT 0)
I have sensitivity to light and sound. Especially background noise. I find it even harder to concentrate when there is a lot going on. I never used to have this problem, and was able to multi-task at will with no problems at all. I now have to dim the shades, and loud noises like even a coffee shop send me into orbit.
Posted 2/3/2014 12:16 AM (GMT 0)
Thank goodness I'm not nuts. I suffer from tinitis, very loud in my deaf ear and slight in the other. Loud noises also make it worse. Commercials and being out in large crowded noisy places make me very anxious. This is a difficult thing to handle.
Posted 2/3/2014 2:57 AM (GMT 0)
I agree with others.. make me tense up which = (more) pain
And I am more sensitive
Posted 2/3/2014 3:43 AM (GMT 0)
Yes, noise is something very destructive, it costs me a lot of energy to shield myself trying not to hear it. When I had to waste energy to overhear the noise the pain comes back full power.
The worst is this bloody music in supermarkets. A disturbance which makes it difficult to concentrate on the things I want to buy, calculate prices....
Even worse is the noise of Australia's road traffic. They do not have any warrant of fitness here and every idiot can saw off the exhaust pipe of his vehicle. That racket and honing and the decompression brakes of the trucks just throw you out of bed in the middle of the night when one just might have a few minutes of a little bit deeper sleep - gone
Satpathie
Posted 2/4/2014 7:47 PM (GMT 0)
my husband and sister n law who live with us seems to think I am crazy when i say their added noises bother me.. like poping of the chewing gum or tapping of the fingers.. Those sounds seems so magnified to me
Posted 2/4/2014 7:50 PM (GMT 0)
Yep, me too! Doesn't help that my husband is hard of hearing in one ear and plays movies REALLY loud. Ugh!

I have two young sons (10 and 8) and man, sometimes their voices get to me. Noise noise noise. I agree with the tension and the overstimulation!

Jen
Posted 2/5/2014 1:22 AM (GMT 0)
Tinglyinnc

Consider gifting your husband a set of small speakers from the TV to place by hubby's chair.. the tv volume will be seperate.
Posted 2/5/2014 3:52 AM (GMT 0)
My wife is very understanding, we both use headphones and each of us can regulate them to his/hers needs
Posted 2/5/2014 4:07 AM (GMT 0)
It's good to know that I'm not alone. I just wish my husband would understand that when he raises his voice at me during an argument that it can make me flare even more or if we are riding in the car and he puts the radio on very loud it really bothers me. He thinks I am being too sensitive and doesn't believe it increases my pain.
Posted 2/6/2014 11:07 PM (GMT 0)
I finally told family members that not believing me was the same as calling me a liar to my face.

Then asked 'do you think I am lying?"

This is ongong issue w/ so many of us.. ay be a more direct approach will help (with the loud radio)

Sure hope so hon
Posted 2/10/2014 10:15 AM (GMT 0)
Hi hpymomof3, I don't experience pain in response to noise but it upsets me terribly.

I have always been overly sensitive to noise and was in the habit of turning the sound off during the adds long before I got Fibro. Now on a normal day I couldn't possibly have the radio on in the car and I find a group of more than three people very difficult to deal with. I get confused and overwhelmed.

I recently had the flu and went to McDs before my doctors appointment to wait because I was too early. It was not a busy time but the sound of the music, people chatting and kids laughing was overwhelming for me. I was in extreme distress. I had a very strange experience, I went into a kind of trance. I felt separated from my body and the noise around me. This seems to have been a protective thing. It was very spooky. I had a low grade fever at the time. When I left the place even though I was still ill everything returned to normal. I presume being ill exaggerated my over-sensitivity to noise so much that I couldn't deal with it at all.

Has anyone ever experienced anything like this? Neenaa
Posted 12/13/2015 3:29 AM (GMT 0)
Hi Hypmomof3,
I am a male 63 years old. I have had either fibro or Chronic Fatige or myalgic encphlomeyeletis or whatever they call it now for over 30 years. It gets a little worse as time passes. I am now on morphine and oxycodone for the pain.
I too feel physical pain when I hear noise. Sometimes it is a lot worse than others. There are a lot of times I have to lay down because I can no longer sit up. That is when it is the worst. My wife who I love and who loves me has had a condition for the past 6 to 8 months, where she just coughs once or twice. Even in her sleep. When this happens (we live in a tiny apt) it feels like someone shoves an ice pick into my brain. I feel bad telling her because she cant control the cough. It is especially bad when sleeping. She coughs about 15 to 20 times a night in her sleep. Every time it wakes me up like getting shot in the head with a gun. I am going to get a pair of those noise type ear muffs. That should help.
So there you have it. I feel bad for you that your husband might yell at you or turn up the TV. Our house is totally quiet. We have no TV and my wife reads. I think it would kill me to live in a situation like what you have to endure. Feel free to show your husband this. Maybe it will help him have more compassion. (I am tempted to say if it doesn't help, shoot the son of a ****) What he is doing is flat out ABUSE. i will pray for you.
Posted 12/13/2015 6:40 AM (GMT 0)
PCguy, if your wife is coughing that much during the night something is wrong with her.
She may have asthma, or sleep apnea, or Gerd, or something more serious going on. Get her checked out soon. Okay?
Posted 12/13/2015 10:01 AM (GMT 0)
Noise bothers me a lot .i thought it unrelated to Fibro .

Now I know why...

Thanks for validating my thoughts... yeah
Posted 12/23/2015 8:27 AM (GMT 0)
I used to be able to blur out the sound of crying or screaming kids in the retail world. But recently I have been overwhelmed with the need to yell shut up at them and any loud noise at all. It is so weird. My old boss used to be so sensitive to kids crying and screaming and she was not a mom so I just blew it off as that but now I GET IT,LOL
Posted 12/23/2015 10:54 AM (GMT 0)
Hi Everyone,

I've had sensitivities to noise and other stimuli for years. The noise that irritates me the most is the sound of horns such as in a band or orchestra.

Here is an article that can help explain some of us having these sensitivities:

http://www.everydayhealth.com/fibromyalgia/fibromyalgia-coping-with-sensory-overload.aspx
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