Sound with Fibromyalgia is like constantly having your ears bleed.
Right now someone is in the other room washing dishes. An insect is chirping on repeat outside of the window (which is closed). The only form of escape is ear plugs, but wearing them constantly tends to irritate the inside of the ears.
It's aggravating. I would have to say the overwhelming sound and sight part of this disease is one of the hardest things about it. There is no way to make the sensory overload stop and it can get to the point where you want to scream.
People around us can try their hardest to be quiet, to make smaller movements, to help us in any way that they can and still it is never enough.
We hear everything. EVERYTHING. The crinkle of a plastic bag rooms away, the refrigerator door cracking open, the running water hitting every dish washed, the motorcycle half a block away. And it hurts. Physically, actually hurts. It is an indescribable pain but I can assure you that it is all too real.
It'd be swell if they made a pill for this!
