Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones Issues

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First, thank you for the folks who wrote to me in response to the post I wrote

earlier today about losing it. I really appreciate it. My husband brought home

Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones today. I didn't ask him for them but he figured

we should give it a try and see if it helps me at all.

I've had them on for about 5 and a half hours now. It's a very weird experience

because they make my ears feel like their being pulled from the inside when they

are on. I am trying to figure out how to explain it exactly. It feels like there

is suction inside my ears pulling at my eardrums. It's not a good feeling and it

does cause discomfort. Does anyone else experience this with these headphones?

Also, they give me a headache. Right where they press against the head with the

earmuff thingies and the over the head piece even though it's covered by foam.

I've always been super sensitive to things on my head and such and this feels

like it's really squishing me even when I adjust them. The earphone part presses

hard on my glasses and pushes them forward. Though that may get better as they

get older and broken in.

I can hear my tinnitus much more and that's making me quite uncomfortable as

well. The bottom of the earphones also push into my lower cheeks and hurt my

jaw. Perhaps this discomfort, the pain it's causing may be due to the fact that

the Lyme Disease is wreaking havoc on all my joints and such. I'm not sure but

does anyone else have these problems?

I'm super sensitive to a lot of things. I have Asperger's, Lyme Disease, and so

I have sound sensitivity that is related to Asperger's and I have Misophonia-

it's almost like these sound sensitivities are at opposite ends of each other,

and the Lyme makes sound even more of an issue. It's very frustrating. I've

even jabbed my eardrums with q tips trying to deafen myself a bit to get some

relief.

Some of the sounds that are unbearable still come through the Bose headphones.

S's and t's and plates and silverware smacking together and scraping and such. I

can still feel sound vibrations against my body, but of course, it would be

ridiculous to think it would help with that.

I live in a very noisy neighborhood and there are only very short periods of

time I can go outside and be able to handle it. People are cutting down trees

behind us, two doors down they're putting in a new driveway, I could go on and

on but you wouldn't believe it. I don't half the time.

I think I'm in one of those What the hell do I do now phases in my life. My

son's laughter is muffled and coming up through the floor. It's nice to hear him

laugh because he's not been well for a long time. Mom's talking and laughing

too. It's not so much that I hear their voices clearly, it's all muffled, but

the vibrations are causing disruptions in the hummers I have running in the

bedroom upstairs to help cut out sound. I can feel the vibrations work right

through the headboard behind me. My doctor said I am the most sound sensitive

person she has ever met and she's been working with people on the spectrum and

with other issues for many, many years now. That did not give me a feeling of

encouragement.

I'm at the point of what do I do? I just do not know what to do.