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Worst Sounds to Phonophobic Ears
By Kerrie | May 8, 2008
Metal curtain rings sliding across the metal shower rod is the absolute worst sound when a migraine makes my ears ultra-sensitive to sound. My fingers clattering on the keyboard is pretty unpleasant, too.
What sounds make your ears cringe and head scream?
Topics: Coping |
May 9th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
Teeth brushing. Listening to Hart brush his teeth last night was torture.
Kerrie
May 9th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
The squeak and groan of our garage door opening and closing.
Also the sound of a fork hitting certain types of plates/bowls. The most problematic brand is the one that never breaks. We’ve given ours away in favour of natural pottery which doesn’t make the same kind of sound.
May 9th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
A newborn’s scream on a crowded airplane.
May 9th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
Hi, someone just sent me the link to this blog, great stuff thank you so much for having it.
For me the worst is electronics that are in ’standby’ mode or on ‘mute’. That high pitched, vibration niose. And hush machines/white noise machines. Ugh. Makes me nuts even when I don’t have a migraine, 100x worse when I do.
May 11th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
Coughing!
May 12th, 2008 at 7:33 am
The organ at our church is too loud. I’ve had to stop going to church because it brings me to tears.
May 12th, 2008 at 9:25 am
Any noise that a human can make- snorting, nose blowing, chewing… you name it and it hurts.
May 12th, 2008 at 9:51 am
The automatic toilets at work. What makes it worse is you don’t know when they will flush, so they startle you too! I try to get out of the stall before they flush when I have a migraine, but it usually doesn’t happen.
May 12th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
I’m particularly bothered by sounds like a fan on high, the barking of the two miniature Dachshunds two doors down (they bark ALL day when I’m home with a migraine), garbage trucks, anyone cutting their lawn or cutting down a tree. They make an already horrible situation even worse.
May 12th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
Commercials!!!
My GOD - the COMMERCIALS!!!
What is UP with that????
May 17th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Fire Alarms! twice now I have been inside a store when they decided to test the fire alarm. The high pitched sound sent me right into a migraine.
Oh, and teeth scraping against a fork, can’t stand that either