My head is BUZZING!!!
 

OMG... I hate this job. I need this job but I hate it. :( I don't hate the work.... I hate the environment!!!!!

I am a DEVELOPER. I need some quiet, I need to think really hard and concentrate on how I'm going to code something, but this is the LOUDEST office in the WORLD. Literally my head is buzzing by the end of the day and sometimes around noon time (like today!).

One woman keeps coming to the empty desk behind me and banging around boxes of files, talking to herself, yelling over to other people, etc... The woman in front of scans files ALL DAY LONG on the LOUDEST scanner in the world.... it just buzzes in my head. There is a woman who is from NYC and has the heaviest accent and the LOUDEST voice that carries throughout the office all day long.

I cannot get away from the noise of this place! I really wonder if it's ME, but whenever I'm home and the TV is too loud I get a buzzing in my head. I get intense moments of dizziness almost. Overstimulated. That is how I feel EVERY SINGLE DAY here... overstimulated and under productive. :( :( :(

It's funny how people are so different, I would be fine with all that going on as long as it was not nails on a chalkboard or somebody blowing their nose... BUT silence will drive my nuts and I would not get a single thing completed.

My life was absolute chaos for a LONG time, then 7 years ago I was single, bought my own townhouse and lived alone for 5 years. It was quiet. I used to turn on the tv or radio for noise sometimes, I liked the background noise. Now I am married, have 2 step kids, a husband who is home when I am home and so much going on again in my life that I CRAVE quiet time. I can't get any. I often feel overstimulated with noise, too much talking, too loud of tv, the scanner at the desk in front of me going all day long, they all just overstimulate me. My job is hard enough seriously.... having all these distractions makes it 100x harder!

My mother was diagnosed with fibromyalsia when she was about 52 years old. It started with a buzzing in her head and pain in her feet. Its a neurological disease and they have no idea if it's hereditary. I literally get a buzzing in my head and the 'overstimated' phrase I use, is often something that happens to my mother, she gets overstimulated and then her head starts buzzing and she has to calm down in quiet for hours in order to be functional for 1/2 days. I don't want that for myself. I'm soooo seriously afraid right now for the buzzing that literally does happen in my head and how much the chaos around me effects me.

well i hope thats not the case for you. can you wear earplugs?? maybe that will help if you can get away with it. good luck i hope they learn to quiet down. lol

I hate to say this :( but if it's fibromyalgia there is no escaping it, you just face everyday with a smile the best you can and push on. Fibromyalgia and anxiety are a hell I do not wish on anybody, I know all too well.

You sound like me with the daycare, haha
Well it's almost Christmas, so hopefully you'll have a nice break:) I know i'm looking forward to it:D
That's what your furbaby is for, you get to go home to him after a crazy day:p

I'm sorry to hear that. I second the earplugs suggestions. maybe people will get the hint that way.

earplugs can be hard to wear, get a good easy to wear set of headphones. I hope that will help

I worked my job for 26 years and really enjoyed it. BUT, the last 4 years or so, under a new owner, I grew to hate it. I even had begun to hate my customers which used to be the best part of the job.

I know how you feel but unfortunately, I don't have an answer for you.

Keep praying is all I can say,
Louise and Zachary

Question... When you go to bed at night are you able to just go to sleep? Or do thoughts just run through your head? Do you feel like every single thing like maybe your husband moving in bed and making the sheets rub sound 100 times louder than normal?

No, thankfully! Why?

The way you explained the buzzing and the noise affecting you plus your mother having fibro I was almost wondering if it was anxiety causing the problem.

Some people with fibro also have anxiety.... And of course being the lucky person I am haha my brain tumor causes all kind of other FUN stuff like fibromyalgia and anxiety sooo I was thinking if you had the same issues I could share my ways of handling it all :)

Noise canceling headphones. They work great

hhhmmm would Anxiety make me feel that way? How do you cope? I would appreciate advice! I'm so sorry you are sick though. You have a brain tumor? My younger brother had a brain tumor, they found it many years ago when he got into a car accident and his pupils were dilated, so they took him in for Cat Scans and found it. He put the Scan pics in a drawer and never told anyone. Years later, his roommate was diagnosed with Hodgkin disease, and my brother remembered his scan pics, so he went back to the doctors and they did more scans because it had been about 3-4 years. He was a walking time bomb. The tumor had grown a lot larger and was pressing on nerves that would make him have strokes. Luckily that hadn't happened and 3 weeks later he had surgery to remove it. Is your tumor inoperable?

It is but the effects stay even if it is removed and 90% chance it would come back so unless it starts pressing on my optic nerve it's best to just leave it there.

But it could, like I love going to concerts or theme parks but all the motion, noise and people I start to panic.. My ears ring things become blurry and it just becomes too much for me to handle. I hate taking all medicine they try to put me on so I try my best to avoid them, like in that situation I find spot away from people just breath slowly and sadly lol I actually just talk to myself to calm me down. But there are books and all out there to help find a way to talk yourself out of a panic attack.
I have no choice but to take medicine at night because as soon as I lay down it is like one of those old black and white movies where the screen clicks to each image running all kind of thoughts thru my head.... Kinda hard to explain.