Feeling noise as physical pain

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Do you ever feel noise as physical pain? Especially if it is sudden, very loud or unexpected.

Does this question make sense to anybody or is it weird?

Low jet planes hurt

it hurts a lot, in my chest and i can feel my ear drums vibrating, it gives me a head ache, noises like Balloons popping, airplanes, car and motorcycle engines, doors closing, children screaming, babys crying, my own voice sometimes, loud music,

Sudden noises shock me...

The last time a dog barked I not only jumped I screamed as well.

Certain noises feel like finger nails being dragged across a chalk board, usually high pitched or unusually loud. They make my nervous system feel on edge. They can feel painful as they seem to make every nerve in my body scream at me.

PN unusually loud etc may not be unusually loud etc to someone else. I don't know what is unusually loud for other people. I only know what loud is for me.

Some noises just hurt my head (ie a room full of people talking simultaneously).

Other noises (such as a buzzing lamp) just drive me nuts psychologically.

Hate doorbells and car horns for that reason. Even doorbells on TV. It's like being tasered in the neck.

Had to change the ring tone on my phone because the one I had, which was more like a traditional phone ring, had an irritating electronic quality to it that jangled my nerves so much I couldn't answer the call when it rang.

Fire engines, babies crying, and toddlers screaming are all painful.

I feel noise going through my whole body. It does not feel good. I know what you mean.

I hate any sort of sudden noise, but doorbells and phones are a complete nightmare. I have a landline and a mobile phone, and both are pretty much always off because I jump out of my skin if they ring. Plus there's the whole horrible "having to talk to someone when I haven't had a chance to mentally prepare" aspect, which I dislike almost as much. So I refuse to have anything to do with phones except when it's absolutely necessary. (Or to surf the net with on the rare occasions when I leave the house. Finally an actual use for my smartphone )

I'd turn my doorbell off too if I could, but I can't. (I could tear it out of the wall, but I suspect my landlord wouldn't be too happy about that.) I never answer the door unless I'm expecting someone, though. It's bad enough that I've just jumped two feet into the air, my heart is racing and my mind has gone into panicked overdrive; I'm not bloody talking to someone on top of it!

Sudden noises don't physically hurt (though they do make me feel terrible in other ways), but very loud noise makes my ears hurt. I used to love going to rock concerts, but I could never enjoy them without ear plugs, it was just too painful. Of course people tend to find it quite funny when someone stands in the front row of a tiny club gig fastidiously inserting ear plugs...

Another "noise" thing I've just remembered: there's a garage underneath the house next door, which shares a wall with the house I live in (at least I think that's what causes it). Anyway, there used to be someone with a sports car - the kind that makes a really deep noise -, who would do something or other that involved standing there leaving the motor running, which would cause a horrible deep humming sound up here in my third-floor flat that was incredibly unpleasant.

Yes, I'm very sensitive to noise.

I can't stand that yoghurt advert with the Nina Simone song. "I've got my..." hands over my ears singing la la la so I can't hear it. That song sets my teeth on edge.

I hate the chorus to New York by Alicia Keyes. I can't stand the undulating up and down "New York, New York, New York" it hurts my head and makes me freely sick. Same with Adele's Set Fire to the Rain song. Choruses that sound like alarms going off. I feel a bit sick just thinking about those songs.

I just keep the phone unplugged.

I am, apparently, impossible reach by such means.