The noise is driving me insane

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I get up at 5:30am, take my partner to the station, walk the dog, then drive for 40 minutes to my office. After work, it's a 40 minute drive back to the station to collect him, then drive home. We're out of the house for 11 1/4 hours a day.

On Sunday evenings he has to inject his chemotherapy drugs which make him feverish and restless so neither of us sleep well. He was particularly bad this week, so I arrived at work on Monday feeling very tired. It's a shared building and the company downstairs are having major alterations done at this week, so on Monday I had to cope with constant drilling and hammering. Not just the noise, but also the vibration through the floor.

Monday night was disturbed by a pair of helicopters circling around between 2 and 3am; Tuesday at work was more drilling and hammering. This let off at around 4pm but by then a colleague's wife had brought their baby in who proceeded to scream and cry for an hour.

Last night we had torrential rain which kept me awake and today the builders have been cleaning up - with an extremely high-pitched vacuum cleaner. Also, there are absences so I am manning three phone lines (one is bad enough, I hate the evil object!)

All this noise and lack of sleep - I feel like my head is going to explode.

I'd really like to scream!

Wierd, I woke up 6 am Monday morning by the sound of helicopters over our building...are you in Philadelphia by any chance?

Anyway, I'm the same way, this city is too damn noisy.

Hi there Whitbywoof, sorry to hear your having such a bad time right now, please pm me if you need someone to talk to.

I had to deal with the same kind of thing recently. Some new neighbors moved into the other side of my duplex. I woke up one morning to find a strange man on my back porch, taking down the wall between my side and theirs. It turned out they were building a shed to house their washer and dryer.

For the next few weeks, there was constant hammering all day. It kept giving me migraines. They must have had to drastically alter the building's plumbing. Every day, someone would knock on my door and say, "We're turning the water off for a few minutes." Then it would be off for hours.

One day, they turned off the gas without telling me. I filled my kitchen with fumes, trying to get the burners to light. That didn't help with the headaches and nausea.

During all of this, the cable stopped working. When someone finally came to fix it, they said the wire had been cut, over on the neighbors' side of the house. Being offline for five days was awful because I go to school online and I had a paper due.

I couldn't have my dog in the backyard because the workers didn't like animals. This was especially inconvenient while I was feeling so sick. Even the landlord got upset because they caused some damage she had to pay for.

Anyway, I know how these things tend to cause chain reactions. I hope that things turn around for you soon!

Fifteen years ago I was going through a real bad patch as my failed marriage had about two years to go before self destruction. I therefore had lots of trouble sleeping due to either the stress or my wife's excessive use of her tongue. Eventually I worked out a solution.

I was a field service engineer for a chemical company and I never knew what time I would arrive home, 3pm or 8pm. On afternoons where I had an early finish I used to park the car by a local lake, let the seat back, and sleep for three or four hours. Once in a while I got people knocking on the windows asking if I was OK but these short periods of sleep saved my sanity.

Ed Almos

Stupid neighbors, I'd say we'd all be better off without them.

Or at least I would.