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Is anyone else sensitive to noise? Do loud noises or several noises at once make you dizzy and drunk feeling??? Does it mess with your concentration too???
Saturday night we had company. My husbands cousin and her grandson was visiting. Our son and his family came over as well. He has two children, ages 2 & 3. Our 2 yr old grandson likes to make 4 wheeler noises, running around the house, and makes noises like the 4 wheeler is changing gears...the tv was on, the adults were talking, I had a small fan blowing because I was warm, the wood fireplace insert was blowing, the ceiling fan was blowing.....Sorry, just setting the scene.
As I was sitting on the couch, all these noises just became to much...almost like my brain was overloaded. I got dizzy headed...kinda like when as a kid we would turn around and around in circle then fall down. After my son and he family left, I made my way to the bedroom. I absolutely had to touch the wall to keep upright....felt drunk. If I let go, I walked like a drunk sailor!
I decided to get in the shower, tilted my head back under the water, closed my eyes to wash my hair and I fell over!! Still dizzy, I decided the best thing to do was go to bed. When I got up the next morning, I was fine.
I know it was the noise that caused that to happen. Somedays at work if there is too much noise I get a little dizzy headed, but this was the first time I had a severe episode.
It's not the meds....milder dizzy spells happened before I was even diagnosed with RA.
Just curious if anyone else has this problem or am I just weird!
Saturday night we had company. My husbands cousin and her grandson was visiting. Our son and his family came over as well. He has two children, ages 2 & 3. Our 2 yr old grandson likes to make 4 wheeler noises, running around the house, and makes noises like the 4 wheeler is changing gears...the tv was on, the adults were talking, I had a small fan blowing because I was warm, the wood fireplace insert was blowing, the ceiling fan was blowing.....Sorry, just setting the scene.
As I was sitting on the couch, all these noises just became to much...almost like my brain was overloaded. I got dizzy headed...kinda like when as a kid we would turn around and around in circle then fall down. After my son and he family left, I made my way to the bedroom. I absolutely had to touch the wall to keep upright....felt drunk. If I let go, I walked like a drunk sailor!
I decided to get in the shower, tilted my head back under the water, closed my eyes to wash my hair and I fell over!! Still dizzy, I decided the best thing to do was go to bed. When I got up the next morning, I was fine.
I know it was the noise that caused that to happen. Somedays at work if there is too much noise I get a little dizzy headed, but this was the first time I had a severe episode.
It's not the meds....milder dizzy spells happened before I was even diagnosed with RA.
Just curious if anyone else has this problem or am I just weird!
I used to be very social. Now I've gotten reclusive and prefer to avoid people and noise.
This happens to a lot of people, you are not weird.
Since I was very young, perhaps even as a baby according to my mom, I have had issues with sudden, out of place, loud noises. Like thunder or balloons popping. Hate them. Typically loud places like bars, concerts or similar places make it to where I get so frazzled that I can't understand people who are talking directly to me, even though I hear them.
Lights started bothering me in my 20s. That's when the dizziness began. It gets worse when they're all combined together though. A thunderstorm while having a birthday party in a house is one of my worst nightmares!
try shutting off the television when the place is wild and hopping. :). hide the remotes of pull the cable out of the wall. mess with people :). everyone was engaged with each other so it shuts down one extraneous noise maker that is just background sound only. that always makes me laugh when people have a gathering and the box is blaring and no one is really looking at it. also without being anti social have you a man cave or a woman cave anywhere in the house when you are out of your mind?
when reading all the posts the sugar seemed to make a lot of sense additionally.
glad you did not hit your head :)
I think I'm just getting frustrated at the whole "health" situation. The heat sensitive and now the noise sensitive problems are just stressing me out.
I find that thinking about the coming Texas heat and going to noisy places is almost a brain overload.
I saw an ENT specialist who is also a balance specialist because of some dizziness. He sent me for a brain MRI, a neck MRI, a head MRI and a CT scan. Fortunately, more or less normal.
Turned out to be Benign Postural Disorder, due to the crystals in my ears, as Nerot says. Dizziness, vertigo, losing balance, falling.
Sorry that you fell over - probably was caused by you tilting your head back too quickly and closing your eyes under the shower. I've also had it happen whilst I've been hanging washing out to dry, had to reach up and put your head back.