Pain not withstanding, some of us are more noise sensitive than others. My younger child had terrible problems with tactile and sound sensitivity until she got through her teens when it finally decreased. In her younger years, she could hear our downstairs neighbors who put musical lights around their front door at Christmas. Mind you, her bedroom was in the back of our apartment and she could here those darn lights with her door shut and the furnace running. She had to wear special ear plugs in addition to running a box fan to cause a white noise. Ain't life grand?