Sound Sensitivity?

[PC1989]

I'm not sure if it's just me or if everyone experiences sound sensitivity. I've never had - to my knowledge - a blackout seizure due to sound.

Example 1:
I was at a Trader Joe's (grocery store) and I was very tired. When Trader Joe's employees need an extra cashier they ring a bell. When this bell was rung I felt the vibration in my body and I collapsed because of my legs giving out. I didn't lose consciousness and I held myself up with the grocery cart. I kept feeling the vibration for a few minutes.

Example 2:
My boyfriend made a loud noise by slamming a book closed. I was startled and froze for 30 seconds, staring? He asked me if I was alright and I told him not to make loud noises because I can feel them.

Example 3:
Whenever our neighbors slams a door, a door is closed loudly, something is dropped, or a loud car zooms down the road, I feel the sound's vibration. Sometimes it's painful and causes myoclonic jerks.

Anyone else ever have this happen?

 

[Nakamova]

Some folks have "startle epilepsy" or "reflex epilepsy" -- seizures in reaction to a sudden stimulus. The most common form is photosensitivity, but the stimulus can also be a sound, touch, smell, etc. Maybe that's what's going on with you?

 

[petero]

I can pinpoint a handful of noises that just flat out drive me nuts- since this sensitivity has been of relatively recent origin I've tended to associate it with either a phenytoin thing or an epilepsy trigger thing in general, although I've never found a definitive link between a seizure event and these sounds.

the sounds are all of a clicking or popping nature and are vocalizations, coming from a person's mouth