I can relate to all of you; I as born with hypersensitive hearing. My child Emily, is atopic. She is one of the few with true hypersensitive skin. She use to itch every second of every day. We believe she has learned to tune out some of this.

My As a kid, I found it kind of fun to hear better than others. I came from the country, so a lot of things were not there to bother me. My earliest memory of this was when we walked into a jewerly store. To date that has been the worse of all. We left asap, as I could hear their alarm in my ears and it was killing me with pain. College was not fun with the dorm noise and all. I use to get up at 3am and study till 7am. That was the only time it was quite enough.

As an adult, I lost some of the sensitivy. In spots I could hear the electricty,.. I had a tv that I always heard the background noise of it running - even with vol high. Don't buy a Zenith - unless u test it 1st.

Now with MS all the sensitivy is coming back. I'm not happy about it at all. I hate music now, I can hear any tv, vcr, ref, computer running on mute or just turned on. I do not even need to be in the room. I hear some lights (mainly ultra) - the list goes on. So far I can manage it.