While your experience is not identical to mine, I can relate.

Depression is not uncommon in Aspies – and I am not at all certain whether the cause is due to the ‘differentness’ of us Aspies, having to live in a neurotypical-dictated world, or if some of the underlying physical differences in the brain that are associated with Aspergers are also a potential factor in depression.

It is also a fact that many Aspies suffer from Auditory Processing Disorder – sometimes called ‘hearing dyslexia’.

And I DO know Aspies who are ‘sensitive’ to environmental factors, such as air pressure. So, no surprise there. And we are talking physical symptoms here, not ‘awareness’.

I am not certain how much of what I have written on Aspergers you have read, but I have a hypothesis that on a functional level, people with Aspergers can be described as ‘missing filters’.

Indulge me in an explanation…

A normal person, after a while of putting their shirt on, they will not be constantly aware of it. Yet, if they think of it, they will feel it. It is almost as if that person has (for the sake of the argument, I pick an arbitrary number), say, 100 ‘filters’ for ‘baing aware of their shirt’. When they first put it on, it’s 100% aware, but it diminishes over time. Still, they have 100 filters to choose from (subconsciously) of how much awareness they have of the shirt.

An Aspie might only have 10 such filters, or 3.

This explains why, sometimes, when their mind is occupied and ‘strong’ filters are on, they don’t seem to perceive any discomfort or even pain. (I once almost sliced off my thumb slicing fruit – it was not until I saw the blood that I realized I was hacking at my own thumb.) Then, at other times, when they have ‘low’ filters, they find even tiny little discomforts extremely painful.

It is the same way with hearing.

And other things.

Now, as for the medication: even Wikipedia says that it is useful in treating bi-polar disorder, so it obviously has an effect on brain chemistry. If your ringing in the ears is as variable as you say, it might be due to these ‘faulty filters’ – and a medication which affects brain chemistry would be quitel likely to have an impact on it.

It might be worth your while to do some reading up on this yourself, so that you can discuss it with your doctor in an informed manner.