Is noise a problem for others with chronic pain?
 

I'm just curious if noise is a problem for those like me who suffer from chronic nerve pain? I would like to have those double windows installed so when I sleep at night I don't get bothered by noise, which can be cars, motorcycles, barking dogs, birds etc. I could take sleeping pills but they are very addictive! I would appreciate your feedback with regard to this!

Just about any stimuli can cause pain for me. I am more suseptable some times more than others. Let's say that the weather takes a big change from warm and sunny to cold and wet. It seems like most of my bones and nerves are jumping. Noise will aggravate the situation and increase my pain levels. It's a puzzlement. Best wishes

There may still be tax advantages to installing double glazing, not to mention energy savings, but I don't know the details - you may have to do the entire house. They also may not do much good unless your walls are insulated as well. Are you thinking of doing the whole house or just the bedroom? If the latter, storm windows, or removable interior frames with plastic may be as effective. What stops noise (and heat transfer) is dead air space - not the glass or other barrier material. Another option is to have upholstery foam cut to friction-fit the inside of the window frames that can be put in at night and taken out in the morning (more sound reduction than double-glazing).

For a while, when I had to have the TV on to distract me from the pain enough to fall asleep, my wife used foam earplugs - very effective for sleeping.

Is it just the incidental noise that causes pain? White noise can also block incidental noise, and for some is less noticable. In the heat of summer we often have a fan running all night, which effectively produces a white noise that drowns out the incidental noises (even the railroad near the house). Now we both need cpaps for apnea; the white noise produced between the machine and mask is very subtle, but does muffle some incidental noise.

All-in all, I think the simple foam earplugs would acheive both the greatest sound reduction and be the least expensive/invasive thing to try. You can get them at any drug/discount store for pennies a pr. and they'll cut noise by much more than double-glazed windows. There are other types that cut more or less noise depending on their intended purpose:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earplug....27_type_plugs

Doc

Fans for white noise
 

I run several fans at night to take care of incidental "night noises". I, too, run the tv on bad pain nights. I have several shows that bore the socks off of me and I fall asleep as soon as the intro. music begins. Long live classical conditioning. I have a an old tape that has six hours of one show. I just pop the tape in my old tape player and I am good to go. If I just play one episode, I wake up as the show ends. Go figure. :confused:

I've experienced that. I think it's testimony to how much gets through to our subconscious. Like when you're dreaming about it raining and you wake up and it is raining.

Doc

A fan is my best friend at night!!1

noise and pain
 

Noise drives me up the wall. My 4 and 5 year old are currently living next door with my mother because I can not handle the noises they do make. My boys also know not to yell around me. I get very sad when I have a headache and on of my boys ask me mom did I make your head hurt and the truth being is yes. I never tell them they did. On a good day my husband know that 12 is the magic number on the volume control in the truck. It is amazing how I can always tell if he goes any loader. I purchased a Electrolux harmony vac. I can put it on the gentle mode and barley hear it. With the highest setting it is still quieter than any other. If I am not having a ear infection or I can touch my ear I will were earplugs when leaving the house or if the boys are home. :hissyfit::hissyfit::hissyfit:

I'm so sensitive to sound that I have 2 sets of custom molded ear plugs that I had made through an audiologist. I cannot live without them. One set is for when I am outside (I only leave my house to go to medical appointments) -- they block out 47 dB of sound. They block out so much sound that I cannot hear a person speaking to me. The other pair are called "musician's ear plugs" and are made for professionals musicians. The musicians plugs have filters. They can be fully plugged, in addition to a filter that blocks out 25 dB, a filter that blocks out 16 dB of sound, and a filter that blocks out 9 dB of sound. I never use the 9 dB filter, I only use the 16 dB filter on the rare occasions I have to speak on the phone, even though the volume is on the lowest setting. The 25 dB filter I use for in very quiet places for conversations, but I still ask people to speak softly/ almost whisper. I use the blocked musicians ear plugs for typical conversations; for example, when I am talking to a Dr in an exam room. I am also incredibly sensitive to light.

Hi
 

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?

noise & floresent lights
 

I have RSD. I have a big problem with noise. When I am having a bad day sudden noises paralizes me. I move to different places in the room to make the noise less. Earplugs and sun glasses are a good thing to carry with you at all times. Floresent lights kill me. I get sick at my stimach and very irritable in a brightly lite room. Shades make you look important! lol Earplugs--- Folks just think you are on the phone or listening to music. I could not go to grandkids parties that were at the noisy arcades untill I discovered the shades and earplugs trick.

Also after procedures I always got sick to my stomach. Now I tell every oneas I wake up to make sure I have my shades on or I will throw up in thier shoes. Waking up & looking directly into floresent lights-----Barf time!