sensitive to noise? - Epilepsy Message Board

flemmy · 08-27-2006, 07:34 AM

Hi.

I was wondering how many other epileptics are sensitive to noise. I particularly hate barking dogs, fireworks, screaming kids etc. Or is my irritability from something else? Any comments?

thanks,
-m

Kodo · 08-27-2006, 12:23 PM

Hi flemmy,

Almost any noise annoys me, even my wife, who has a habit of shutting doors and drawers with more force than is required. She also annoys me because she ALWAYS has the TV blaring even though she isn't in the room. Somehow I find it very annoying though I do manage to keep my comments to myself (not always so easy). I think it could be the keppa I'm on, I would almost prefer that than the thought of me being such a grouch!

kodo

valeriedl · 08-27-2006, 07:39 PM

I don't know if this is the same type of sensitivity that you are talking about, but things do annoy me. Screaming kids also drive me crazy. Our next door neighbor has a granddaughter that does nothing but scream when she is outside. I don't know if she is hurt or just playing. The screaming is so bad that my parents that live two doors away can hear her!

My boyfriend always has the TV on loud and that annoys me. I'm wondering if he's deaf! Then he gets mad at me when he will ask me a qestion and I can't understand him because the TV is up so loud!

Now he plays drums. He's in the basement when he does this and it puts me right to sleep (I stay up stairs). I don't know if it's just because it's music.

I'm wondering if the noise thing might be more of a "what annoys me" type of thing rather than an actual "noise" thing?

flemmy · 08-27-2006, 08:35 PM

Yes, I have a neighbor with a pool in the backyard and they have a little girl who likes to swim and scream ...all....day...long. I used to love summer, but I actually can't wait 'til they're back in school.

The reason I was thinking it might have something to do with epilepsy is that certain kinds of noises -mainly repetitive stuff- seem to get to me. I don't like flashing lights either, which I believe is a classic for epileptics....

-m

Travis from MN · 08-28-2006, 12:41 PM

Even though I have hearing damage, I can "tune in" to noises. I don't know if my meds have helped boost my hearing at all.

I can pick apart the noises as I could with music (the training helps) for seperating the instruments on a completed piece with my ears. Use your ears as you do your eyes and "focus".

I'll hear people 3 or 4 units down the hall, or outside with the windows CLOSED. sometimes it's great; otherwise it's a curse and I want to put on the headset's and watch a movie.

I'd hear an electrical hum of transformers sometimes that drove me batty (the emergency light on the back side of my room wall charging!!) Or the Water lines are also about 4 feet from that transformer for the heating system. Drives me batty hearing the pipe water pressure pushing through the wall when trying to sleep.

My nature morning alarm is not yet returning to my window/tree (the large woodpecker) so I'll be waiting for a few weeks until that pair comes back to start pounding on the tree and my feeder like a jackhammer at about 630 AM.

--Travis

However as for noise bothering me, not really. I work concerts, construction, gas and diesel generators and gear... so no, not really. I lived right off an interstate in a highrise with a rail line. Average db level there on a GOOD day was 76 INSIDE my residence. Rush hour was worse thats when the train was away.