I am very noise sensitive. Since I have to move back to Virgina on Saturday so my mother can care for me in her home, I have to deal with the noise of being in airports and on an airplane. I have the Bose Noise-Cancelling earphones, but they only lessen the sounds, not completely block them out. We also ordered a battery operated white noise machine that I can use. I thought of taking a bed pillow to wrap around my ears on the plane.

What am I forgetting? Does anyone have any strategies for blocking noise in public places?

Early on in my recovery I was VERY sensitive to noise as well.

I think you will have some trouble blocking out ALL sound in the world.

I had a lot of trouble "masking" sound when I was so sensitive. All it ended up doing was adding to the cacophony I was already bombarded with which made it worse... your experience may be different, of course.

I recommend using foam earplugs and/or the wax kind. You can buy both at a local pharmacy and they are cheap. I've found that these two kinds of earplugs tend to drown out the most sound. (p.s. I work with audio/sound professionally and have for many years, for what it's worth here).

You should also consider going to your Dr. and getting a note for your traveling and contacting TSA in advance to discuss any special needs you may have since traveling is probably going to be an arduous experience for you.

I would add the yellow foam ear plugs. In combination with noise cancelling head phones, you should be in good shape. I have combined ear plugs and head phones successfully.

Yes, I agree with Mark. The foam ear plugs with noise canceling earphones does wonders.

Also, polarized sunglasses with a baseball hat to narrow visual complexity. A cane to help walk.

Airports were the worse.

Ginger candy to help nausea. Mint tea.