Hi! I'm both sorry and happy to learn that there seem to be many of us with "HYPERSENSITIVE HEARING".

My AC is running right now (yes it's 90 today in Texas), I wish there was a volume control on it.

I went to an Astros game Saturday in Houston with DH and friends. The sounds were blasting from every where, 35,000 people. I pulled my earplugs out and muted it by atleast 50%. I keep them with me all the time.

Cannot sleep w/o ear plugs, have gotten in trouble at a job in the past for wearing them. Avoid malls, huge crowds. Go to movies, restaurants, etc in "off" hours.

What all have "ya'll" found that helps??

My hearing was tested because I was going on a cruise and get violently sea sick. Have you ever been fully tested for your hearing? They put me in a room, ran warm and cold water in my ears to test my inner ear making me read things aloud. I had my husband with me. I got so violently ill, I was throwing up and yelling to my husband to make the Tech stop. Good news reluctantly the Dr. gave me an RX for the "patch". It felt like I had a margarita in me the entire week of the cruise but I had a blast.

Glad to find this forum, sad that we have this problem. I too cannot stand be near power lines, if there is a power box anywhere near I'll hear it. No one can talk on the cell phone in my house, it's just too loud.

Yes, yes!! My hearing is very hyper-sensitive. I can even hear things that aren't even there!! I'm always turning the TV down and really prefer to not have any background noise.

Sometimes when I'm in the car I think I hear a siren but there isn't one.

All I need now is x-ray vision!!

I never related it to MS, but sometimes mine is bad. It is particularly bad when fatigue hits and all I wanna do is sleep. I seem to hear every little thing... and of course a headache brings out the sensitive hearing. I don't really think I have it otherwise.

My hearing is pretty much normal, but there are certain sounds that bother me, such as using a scrub brush on certain textures. I also have periods of time (hours, days) when I have a hollow, echoing sound. Drives me nuts. During those times, I can't stand to talk on the phone. Well, I can talk, I just don't like to listen!

Like B2Y, I have normal hearing but there are times when certain frequencies bother me (high frequencies).

Jewelbaby - Welcome to NT! I am glad you found us and am glad you had a great time on your cruise.

Hi there Jewelbaby. I see this is your first post so I wanted to welcome to NeuroTalk.

As you've found us here in the MS Forums, I'll take it as granted that you also have concerns in the same department.

You'll meet some wonderful here at the site Jewellbaby, so welcome again. It's good to have you with us.

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.

This is me to a T! Sharp, loud noises are so painful like being stabbed in the ear drum.

Screaming children. I get the earache from kids screaming...and not just a normal reaction, I'll have to get up and leave, and plug my ears as I'm leaving. The parents sometimes give me nasty looks.

I was in a restaurant a few months back. (the kind of place you have to get dressed up to eat at) Already had an earache because of a cold, and the darling little kids at the table next to us were screaming. (have they never heard of "inside voices"???)

Everytime one of them would scream/bark/throw a fork while screaming, it would startle me. Even if I can see the kid and can tell they're about to let loose, the scream is loud enough that I'll startle, or I'll have to cover my ears and start to curl up into a fetal ball. I cant help it.

Well, I guess the mother saw me startle a couple of times and then put my hands over my ears to try to hold my brain inside because the screaming was setting off a migraine.

She suddenly started to grab children, and told them they were leaving because **I** was being rude. (umm...I wasnt the one screaming, and I was trying to ignore it)

After she left in a huff, screaming kids and embarassed husband behind her, a few people a couple of tables over said "dang, about time she left..." or something like that, and a ton of people in the restaurant started to giggle. Our waitress said that she didnt think I was rude, just reacting to the screaming like I was in pain. She was actually about to send the manager over to ask them to be quiet or leave when the lady took care of the problem for her.

I wasnt trying to be rude, I just wanted to keep my head from exploding and having brains go everywhere. I cant help it if I'm sensitive enough to loud voices that I'm starting to carry earplugs with me when I'm in places with screaming children...the library...when did it become ok to allow small children and teenagers to run like wild dogs thru the library? I always got "shhh-ed" by the librarian if I even just whispered when I was a kid.

Wow Erin, that woman sounds like a real...um...winner. LOL I love how some parents feel that everyone else should experience their kids attitudes. Apparently the parents are so immune to the noise that they can block it out but for the rest of us - wow. I would probably win mean Mommy of the Year award because if my child decided to act up in a restaurant and I just simply could not get him or her to calm down and behave, I'd tell the waitress to box up the food, we're outta here. No sense making everyone else's lives miserable.

That's the worst thing about the nice weather we're having. First thing DH does is open all the windows like he just did. Normally I wouldn't have a problem with it but the neighbors behind us have the loudest, noisiest, whiniest bunch of BRATS that I've ever heard. The one has already whined, screamed and cried to the top of her lungs within the last five minutes. We're not talking toddlers here, these kids mostly range in age from 8-15. As I've told my husband numerous times, these kids are the best form of birth control. LOL