I'm sorry you had to suffer so long before you started finding mitigations. I'm certain even with mitigation it's still a struggle.

I'm rather sensitive to noises, especially at night. I have to have white noise going all the time to sleep.

I also can't stand whistling inside. I can tolerate it outside. We were taught that whistling was unladylike in general and rude indoors – and that was in school! But, I cannot stand crickets ever. That sound just rakes across my nerves. No one believes me that cricket noises bother me that way. It's weird. I'm not bothered by tree frogs or cicada sounds. Just crickets.