Misophonia

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Does anyone else suffer with it?! I'm sat here listening to my husband SLURP his gravy and it's knocking me sick 😂 i dread dinner times, puts me in a bad mood
Is there even a cure for this awful problem? Misophonia not the husband 😂

And whistling. He walks around whistling. It physically hurts me hearing it.

That's a good idea dea @Dolamroth. Playing music in the background might help to block out the chomping noise. I assumed that DH was somehow willing and able to eat quietly in the company of his parents but it's probably just less noticeable if we're in a restaurant as a family or in ILs house where they often eat with the TV on in the background.

Plate scrapers. AGGH! The incessant SAWING of food so they are just sawing at the plate squeaking and screeching as they go.

Mine really racked up during peri. I cannot sit in the cinema. It’s a cacophony of gnawing and wrappers and chewing and slurping and kicking.

During meal and drink times music is always on. We have Alexas in almost every room in the house and if I’m in it with someone who’s eating there will be tunes playing. I find that very effective.

Oh my god, yes! This drives me utterly insane
! A child doing it I can accept but a grown adult going for their plate like they're trying to slice it open makes me fume. I was in the pub the other day and a man was doing that on the next table. I gave him the worst looks and everyone on my table couldn't understand my reaction. I couldn't understand how it wasn't driving them mad!

Yep -
eating/drinking noises ,
breathing
sniffing
the sound of someone cutting nails with clippers ,
cat washing itself ,
tapping fingers/nails ,
small noises that other people don’t seem to hear Humming sounds , electricity sounds , when someone twiddles their hair it makes a crunchy sound

probably more , but theses are my main ones

I remember the first time I became aware of people's eating noises, I was about 7. It was awful listening to someone eat and not being able to get away from the hideous noise, it made me angry and tearful.
I do not eat in the same room as DH at home anymore, his eating noises are much louder than they were when we first met for a variety of health reasons, and I just have to cope with it, when on holiday.
At work we have some spectacularly noisy eaters, truly olympic standard's of slurping, clacking, chewing, licking of fingers, the lot ! Weirdly I can manage better in a work environment than at home, although I occasionally struggle with the performative finger licking !
I did wonder whether hypnosis would help ?

I do. Public transport is the worst

I’m the same, it gives me the absolute rage, as does my husband’s performative sneeezing always followed by a huge noisy yawn Every.Single.Time.

Yes, it’s getting worse as I age too. It causes some almighty rows between dp and I. It’s all I can focus on even with music or the tv playing. We were away recently and the person on the next table was eating so loudly, sucking lips, scraping the knife and fork and breathing ridiculously loud whilst chewing so fucking fast. I had to go the toilet.
My in-laws truly have 0 table manners and the noise is horrendous. Dp has gotten better over the years but sometimes slips into bad habits and it makes me physically sick. The loud breathing whilst eating is what really gets to me. He has 0 sinus issues so there is really no excuse!

Yes I struggle a lot with this, noises that I cannot stand are:

-coughing
-sneezing
-kissing noises
-throat clearing
-yawning

They distract me to the point of me losing my train of thought halfway through speaking and fill me with so much rage. Particularly difficult as I work in hospital.

I'm almost fine with eating noises, but mine manifests itself badly in clicking noises. Anything repetitive. It got so bad at one point that just seeing someone with a clicky pen would mean I left the room.

It is also progressing to repetitive movements without a noise. DH can't keep still, drives me bonkers.

HOW can you work in a hospital with misophonia? Omg they trigger mine so much. Last time I had to stay overnight - heart issues- the sound of beeping monitors gave me rage, and tears, and sobbing, they found me some earplugs and turned off a few unused machines that were just beeping away on their own. I certainly didn't feel any better being there so I was sent home next day.

It is hard, I am okay with beeping noises and humming etc, it’s mainly just sounds people make that set it off, but yes it’s very hard, I work with a chronic throat clearer and a chronic cougher and they bother me a lot more than the patients for some reason. It’s like with the patients I can block it out more, but with my colleagues I can’t and I’m not sure why.

It’s like with the patients I can block it out more, but with my colleagues I can’t and I’m not sure why.

Completely relate to this, when working on the wards, patient noises didn't effect me nearly as much, its almost as though my brain had given them a get of jail free card, the colleague chewing gum on the other hand used to drive me to distraction !

We don't eat together. Problem solved.

That's a Mumsnet taboo though, better to suffer.

Mine is certain eating noises my husband makes sometimes, not all the time thankfully.
But it's also repetitive things too. I could scream sometimes! Something only has to get to a third repeat and I can feel my anger and irritability rising. Husband has just bought a steering wheel cover for his car and it doesn't fit smoothly round the wheel. He's now got the habit of flicking it with his thumb while we're waiting in traffic and it drives me insane! I screamed at him the other day while we were out, to stop it! I think he thinks I'm being overly dramatic! But seriously, it enrages me and puts me in a bad mood!
And don't get me started about house alarms going off! Within a minute, I feel like I'm going to explode! Is it an intolerance or misphonia? I don't know!

Mine started when I had to sit opposite a kid at school dinners. Revolting even to a 7yr old! Thanks James you revolting child. DGF was dreadful, as a teenager I ate in the kitchen on my own rather than eat anywhere near him. He was like a toddler. my toddlers soon learnt to eat probably, unlike a pensioner
I've recently discovered loop earplugs. They may save my sanity.

I have to have music on during meals. No debate - I cannot bear to hear my husband eat. The dogs slurp and gobble down their food and I am fine with it, but people......!!

I definitely have it and my dh can't understand how hard I find it sometimes ! But equally sometimes I can hear the tiniest sounds that are helpful .
magnesium and B6 can be very helpful so maybe worth researching

Men whistling, and police and ambulance sirens affect me, really badly . I had an MRI scan last week and the noise was dreadful my headphones fell off. It was so bad. I also get anxious when a few people are taking all at the same time and especially if there is a radio on at the same time. It’s hard for some people to understand isn’t it

@Paulettamcgee whistling is the worst ever and it’s always a few discordant notes and it’s ALWAYS men I’m not joking it makes me so upset

Me too. Husband eating is awful. Oh and gulp of his tea, long wait, next gulp, long wait, repeat. Just bloody drink it.
i have a pupil at the moment who has had the most awful cold for ages. She is now mouth breathing constantly. Feel sorry for her but ahhhhhhhh! Also my bloody fridge which beeps. In fact anything that beeps.
was in a meeting and someone ate an apple.

staff briefing - scrape scrape of a porridge bowl. Why????

it has deffo got worse.
going to buy loops.

I've found my people! Misophonia makes my life miserable. Wet eating noises, lip licking, heavy breathing, plate banging, knives and forks being scraped together... They make me want to murder people! I can't bear the cinema or public transport and avoid the office as much as I can because of people eating at their desks. I can't even bear to see someone eat or licking their lips or whatever from a distance. I would love a cure, I was about 10 when it started and it affects me so much of the time!

It's made my life difficult since I was a child. Eating noises are the worst for me... when I rule the world, apples, crisps and eating with open mouths will be banned! I've not been to the cinema in decades. I avoid meals out. I'm single, for a few reasons but a big one is so I don't have to be around somebody who chomps on their food. My poor daughter is the quietest eater ever after being trained from a toddler how to eat quietly. I would honestly pay good money for a cure.