It is not some mild annoyance, but rather, instead, a likened feeling of an alarming phone call that comes in the dead of night, the complete panic and sudden fear and NEED to get away. That is what having Fibromyalgia is like with noise. It rises and rises, each pitch a direct hit to the nervous system... A ping becomes driving, forcing, splitting especially competing with voices near you, the way the wind is howling just so, the crumple of a piece of paper 2 rooms over, and that kitchen sink has been on for what must be at least 500 hours straight...