I'm very noise intolerant, can it be fixed?

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I find noise unbearable. I'll give some examples.

Visiting in laws, we are all chatting and they put the tv on loud, everyone talks louder over the tv so someone turns the tv up, it all gets louder and louder and my head feels like it's going to explode.

Ds watching noisy videos on YouTube, people shouting and screaming. sudden shrill high pitched screams. I can cope with normal cartoons but the shouting on YouTube drives me insane.

Dh and ds keep talking over one another, asking me questions or telling me thinks at the same time and I can't process what they're saying.

Persistent coughing.

Loud cats or motorbikes.

Any sounds like someone tapping on a desk or table.

Everything that goes on in our open plan office, people banging drawers, dropping things, sneezing loudly, loud ringtones, snorting when they laugh, eating loudly.

I could give many more examples. I hate being this way it makes life so difficult because obviously there's noise everywhere. I just want to run away with my hands over my ears.

It isn't your problem to do this, but I'd consider offering to pay for a lesson or two from a dog behaviour specialist to teach them how to train it. May be more effective?

Hi OP. This screams autism, to be honest!

Has anyone tried the Calmer ear plugs?

Autism and ADHD is very genetic!

Do you think this reverts back to any part of your childhood? Were you ever told off for being too noisy growing up, or perhaps your parents like peace and quiet and imposed this upon you as a child? Just a thought. We are usually the way we are due to our upbringings/childhood, so I’d wonder whether this subconsciously stems from then

I have a bit of this, strangely enough came on with mild hearing loss and tinnitus.

I'm very noise intolerant and have to sleep with ear plugs in even though we live in a rural area! I wear noise cancellation head phones by day and they help a lot. I can find life very stressful with my chatty five year old twins and vocal pups when they are all bouncing off the walls. It's ironic though, or even hypocritical, as I'm quite a loud person when I talk and laugh. I think I might be somewhere on the spectrum but I'm of that age when diagnosis wasn't common.

I have this, any loud noise makes me stressed, on a bad day, even hearing children playing in gardens makes me anxious. Loud TVs stress me out too. For me it all started after I had a nightmare noisy neighbour when I rented a flat in London years ago. It triggered an anxiety response to noise which has never gone away

I’m like this and I have ADHD, hard to filter things out. Sensory overload!

Yes me! Sensory overload.

Struggling with being in an open plan office and I absolutely hate MS Teams. I really struggle to follow meetings on Teams. Have wondered for a while if I am autistic and I am almost convinced I am now.

Just started a new job and I'm not sure how to broach it. I feel like a right snowflake!

Our DD experiences this severely. She is diagnosed with Autism, Hyperacussis, Misophonia…and I do wonder about ADHD!

I have heard Loop ear pieces can help.

Also, trying to keep tiredness and anxiety levels lowered.

There is a link to noise sensitivity and low magnesium levels. I have noticed a huge improvement in my sensitivity to noise since I started taking magnesium and b vitamins for peri menopause symptoms.
Although it might just be that all the vitamins are helping with stress levels so I don't get as easily irritated by everything in general.

I'm really loud too when I talk and super chatty at times. They laugh at me in work as they always say they can hear me coming and my life.

This is super interesting. I'm peri and started hrt. I wonder if magnesium supplement would help

I’m so glad I found this thread, I was starting to feel that it is just me that has this issue. I’m also finding competing sounds very difficult and also there are some noises I can only describe as intrusive and hinder my ability to focus on anything else. My real nemesis sound is whistling, I feel a kind of semi paralysis when someone is whistling. I think I need those earplugs!

Another misophone here. Mouth noises, squealing and high pitched voices, tapping, whistling/humming are just a few things I can't tolerate. Thank goodness for earphones!

It's Misophonia and it's fucking awful to live with. I've had it for years and living alone (happily) and getting older makes me even more intolerant.

The main trigger for me is food. In particular, apples and crisps in the open plan office. It's absolutely unbearable and when it goes on I feel panicky and can't focus on my job. I go out for a drive at lunchtime and when people start chomping away for elevenses I sit in the toilets for ten minutes. I literally can't be around it. The drawer slamming I actually told one person to stop because she would literally BANG so hard it hurt my ears and I was fucking sick of being the one having to suffer in silence all the time because it's my problem. Fuck her, just STOP FUCKING SLAMMING DRAWERS!! She did thankfully. Some things you have to put up with but some things are totally inconsiderate.

As for trains and buses... music via earphones. Don't go to the cinema unless you arrive five seconds before the film starts. Holidays I will only stay in adult only quiet resorts with stellar reviews.

It's horrible but unfortunately there is no cure, just avoid as many scenarios as possible x

I am also absolutely convinced I am autistic

I hate noise and I don't think I have any other traits of autism/ADHD but maybe I do? I wear my noise cancelling ear buds a lot. Banging doors drive me insane.

I would also happily hurt anyone that sneezes loudly!

I'm exactly the same. Noise really stresses me out. I cant concentrate or even read properly when its loud. The only time I can manage loud music is when I'm driving

I’m the same and I can’t bear the noise of hand dryers in toilets it drives me insane!

what is interesting is that I can cope with living in a v loud household ( main road so traffic noise and v v loud autistic child) as it is our noise and somewhat predictable but neighbour noise stresses me especially if its people being loud after drinking etc. So.just seeing my neighbours getting ready for a get together makes me want to.run away. and hide ( proper fight / flight reaction that is overwhelming).
Someone up thread said that there must be a trigger and I do.think that it was caused by an incident in my youth when I was chased by a group of drunken aggressive girls because one of their boyfriends had been eyeing me up.apparently. I had done nothing to encourage him but I was lucky a passing police car rescued me and my friend before they caught us.
It has left me with an anxiety about people being.out of control and I associate noise with that.
So having worked that out all I need to do is learn how to overcome it !

God, yes, I hate, hate, hate noise. In particular, I hate noisy cars. So many people now have cars with souped up engines and modified exhausts. They sound like aeroplanes coming in to land. And the exhausts make horrific banging sounds, like fireworks going off. Apparently, it is illegal, but the police do NOTHING about it. I also hate living on this new build estate with so many people on top of me.

I don't think you are odd OP. We didn't evolve to live this way. We're not designed to live surrounded by so many people and so much noise. I suspect it's one of the things driving the mental health crisis – our nervous systems are burnt out.

I am like this with loads of noises. It makes me feel like im going mad. I am autistic, and this is such a horrible sensory sensitivity.
Its a struggle with my own family when they all interrupt each other and me