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2:06 pm
February 1, 2012
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Terry
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Do you see, smell, hear things that others don't seem to notice? ME TOO.
Which sense is most acute for you? What puts you over the edge and what do you do about it?
Terry
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6:19 pm
February 1, 2012
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Pinkdivaprincess
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I am so happy to find others that also have this issue, my biggest 2 are smell and things being Way to Loud especially certain sounds like the T.V if there is gun shots on the program or I am watching my sons wrestling meet or football games I have come to always carry toilet paper or kleenex in my purse I ball that up and stick that in my ears and it muffles just enough I can still hear everything I just don't have the urge to run out of the room screaming  Smell I haven't found a way to fix that some foods just really get me and my sense of smell i have found is much stronger then the average person that is for sure at my last job I actually found a fire that was just starting and it was upstairs in the attic! but i could smell something burning
though one good sense I have is the sense of touch since I was a baby the feeling of silk in between my fingers has always calmed me down no matter how stressed out I have been so I always have a blanket with satin trim close by
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1:40 am
February 2, 2012
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aubergine
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Yes!!!! Sounds are too loud! This is worst for me at home where I always cringe at the TV volume and the voices of my husband and kids, especially my daughter. When I ask her to lower her voice, she says "what's wrong with you? You always think everything is too loud." My husband (the undiagnosed one whom I mentioned in another comment) has this with smells.
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7:18 am
February 2, 2012
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jeg700
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Terry said:
Do you see, smell, hear things that others don't seem to notice? ME TOO.
Which sense is most acute for you? What puts you over the edge and what do you do about it?
Terry
Terry said:
Do you see, smell, hear things that others don't seem to notice? ME TOO.
Which sense is most acute for you? What puts you over the edge and what do you do about it?
Terry
My overdeveloped sense of smell has been the bane of my existence! This is not an easy hypersensitivity to control.
I usually use avoidance more than anything else. Living in a city, with the pollution, traffic, crowded public transit etc. makes getting to work a more difficult experience. Scent control in a crowded, standing room only train car is no easy task
I wear a lot of scarfs as a fashion accessory, even on a hot summer day you will see a pretty cotton one hanging around my neck. This scarf has a much more practical use than just decoration. It gets held up to my nose, in the most discreet way I can manage, to filter out the competing scents wafting from all the people surrounding me. It works well enough, and doesn't make me appear as strange as wearing an oxygen mask would
Liver is not allowed in my home. When my husband craves his favourite meal, he gets to go out for his meal, preferably with someone else
And then, there are the various bathroom smells. The only solution is to have 2 bathrooms, one on the 1st floor and one on the upper floors. People can use the one on the opposite floor that you happen to occupy. The fan must run and the air freshener/odour remover must be sprayed. 
It's is a challenge to be so hypersensitive and live in a city. We plan to retire to our island home where the fresh sea air has no nasty smells. Can hardly wait!
I have written about all of the senses and how I handle each one to be able to function as normally as possible on my blog, http://addpositively.wordpress.com I would welcome you to take a look and maybe find a trick or two to help alleviate some of the discomforts you have. This link, OMG! YOU STINK!!! is the one I wrote about that tricky sense of smell.
Good luck everyone! There are no easy solutions, but there are helpful suggestions that can be found. Keep trying and eventually something will work for you
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1:37 pm
February 4, 2012
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Terry
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I'm finding that my hypersensitivities seem to be getting worse with age. Have you guys found that your sense of smell is really strong when you first wake up?
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9:44 pm
February 4, 2012
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Pinkdivaprincess
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omg ! me to mine are getting worse with age as well! I work in a hospital with patients and sometimes smells are very bad and they are unavoidable so a little trick i learned early on (if u can handle the smell of VICKS) carry a small travel jar and dab a small amount under your nostrils when u are going to anticipate a bad smell and whoolla no bad smell just the smell of vicks
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7:26 am
February 5, 2012
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jeg700
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Absolutely!!! I am now 56 and instead of age dulling my senses aging has heightened them to the point where what was once irritating and uncomfortable became intolerable.
An "unpleasant" smell has become something that makes me "run for cover"…my nose that is! I have to block the scent completely or I will gag and throw up.
All "unpleasant" sounds have become amplified so that I often feel like I have spent too much time next to the speakers at a rock concert where the sound reverberates throughout my body, making me nauseous. I have noticed that the sounds of nature do NOT adversely affect me, no matter how loud i.e. pounding surf against the shore, symphony of birds in the early morning hours…it is only man-made sounds that affect me adversely. Oh, and the woman with the high pitch voice makes me cringe as the sound travels up and down my spine:) Sweet as she is, I cannot listen to her speak for more than a minute or two:(
Every crowded event or situation that once stimulated me like a drug now makes me cringe and feel unsafe.
Even the former "stimulation to distraction" trip to a store, convention or street fair/carnival/circus that set me into a swoon of pleasurable looking now only provides me with that feeling of "too much to see" making me dart here and there randomly looking at the next bright shiny colourful thing that catches my eye. I am quickly overcome with a bone deep fatigue, barely able to remain upright on my shaky legs.
And last but not least that sensitivity to touch varies to such a degree there are days that I don't know where to throw myself…sometimes loose, soft and comfortable is mandatory…others times the hug of tight Lycra clothes are needed.
Scary to think what the next phase of my life will bring.
I remain hopeful that I will find most things more tolerable…somewhere in the middle of these first two phases of my life.
My only means of defence has been avoidance this past year and a half.
I virtually have become a prisoner in my own home.
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3:12 am
February 24, 2012
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Yes!!!! Sounds are too loud! This is worst for me at home where I always cringe at the TV volume and the voices of my husband and kids, especially my daughter. When I ask her to lower her voice, she says "what's wrong with you? You always think everything is too loud." My husband (the undiagnosed one whom I mentioned in another comment) has this with smells.
I often cringe at certain volumes of the tv especially if there is music ,talking and tv going on at the same time. I believe i am sensitive to bright or crtain kinds of lighting! I become quite irratable. One of my sons is so sensitive to sounds that he sometimes walks around with his arms up in the air as to cover his ears,… I have never witnessed another child do this until he was born. He seems anxious when this happens and has ran in the house to get away from the noise, say if there was a loud motorcycle near by. Im not sure what to do… As exposing him so he gets used to it , is torture. :( I sometimes wonder if because he wears glasses his hearing has picked up the slack for the stygmatisms in his eys!? Please let me know if you know of this happening and/or any suggestions you may have for me!
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3:14 am
February 24, 2012
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Dragonfly4
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I often cringe at certain volumes of the tv especially if there is music ,talking and tv going on at the same time. I believe i am sensitive to bright or crtain kinds of lighting! I become quite irratable. One of my sons is so sensitive to sounds that he sometimes walks around with his arms up in the air as to cover his ears,… I have never witnessed another child do this until he was born. He seems anxious when this happens and has ran in the house to get away from the noise, say if there was a loud motorcycle near by. Im not sure what to do… As exposing him so he gets used to it , is torture. :( I sometimes wonder if because he wears glasses his hearing has picked up the slack for the stygmatisms in his eys!? Please let me know if you know of this happening and/or any suggestions you may have for me!
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5:10 am
March 17, 2012
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Dragonfly4 said:
Yes!!!! Sounds are too loud! This is worst for me at home where I always cringe at the TV volume and the voices of my husband and kids, especially my daughter. When I ask her to lower her voice, she says "what's wrong with you? You always think everything is too loud." My husband (the undiagnosed one whom I mentioned in another comment) has this with smells.
I often cringe at certain volumes of the tv especially if there is music ,talking and tv going on at the same time. I believe i am sensitive to bright or crtain kinds of lighting! I become quite irratable. One of my sons is so sensitive to sounds that he sometimes walks around with his arms up in the air as to cover his ears,… I have never witnessed another child do this until he was born. He seems anxious when this happens and has ran in the house to get away from the noise, say if there was a loud motorcycle near by. Im not sure what to do… As exposing him so he gets used to it , is torture. :( I sometimes wonder if because he wears glasses his hearing has picked up the slack for the stygmatisms in his eys!? Please let me know if you know of this happening and/or any suggestions you may have for me!
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