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You know something Julie?  I am so glad you are talking about this because right now I am experiencing the same exact thing.  I do believe my MS symptoms are sound activiated.  I think with the MS...we have this hair trigger that sets off our delicate nervous system.   I was testing one of my smoke alarms which did not go off when my son burned microwave popcorn.  I got the alarm to sound and when it did...it set off this chain reaction for me of having convulsions on my right side and then all of a sudden I was having my foot drop symptom.  I am convinced that loud sounds do, in fact, trigger MS symptoms...at least they do for me.  Flashing lights and repetetive patterns found on some video games also set me off.  I will do some more research on this because this sort of thing seems much akin to folk who have epilepsy and how certain environmental stimuli can invoke a seizure.    Here is a message board where people talk about this phenomena of loud sounds activating MS symptoms.    I will do some more investigating and will come back if I find any answers as to why this can happen.  Thank you for asking this question as I am most interested as well.