Very noisy, whiny and active 22 month old - please advise!

[Belladonna666]

I have a very very noisy 22 month old. He is constantly making noises, very loudly, shouts a lot (especially early in the morning - lovely for the neighbours) and whines almost constantly. He can't seem to be quiet or very long. He says a few words but no sentences yet and is very very active, literally non-stop moving about all day.

I am exhausted and also have a headache allmost every day from his noise. I know I am supposed to love every moment of my child but honestly his loudness is doing my head in. I find myself craving silence because I literally have a full day of constant noise and it is not pleasant to hear a 22 month old whine for most of the day.

Is this normal? Is there anything I can do to stop his constant need to be making some sort of sound. His hearing has been checked and is fine. My older ds did not do this.

This can be really tiring and frustrating, but I don't think it's so unusual.
My DD got very noisy at about the same age. Not so much whining, but she screamed a lot and shouted a lot in her own way.
For my DD it was the frustration of being unable to talk properly that caused it.
As soon as she turned two years old, she started speaking properly and calmed down massively.
I hope the same thing will happen to your DS when he learns to talk properly in the very near future.

Yes this is normal - obviously yes there is a spectrum so it's not surprising your older child wasn't exactly the same, but it's not unusual. Perhaps it's an attention thing and he would quieten down a bit if you could increase the 1:1 face-to-face attention he gets? Otherwise I think try to spend as much time as possible out and about - shouting will do your head in less if you are in a park rather than an enclosed space!