Posted by bulldog2 on May 25, 2008, at 14:17:33
In reply to Intrusive music in my head, posted by boltsdraggin on May 24, 2008, at 20:42:23
> I have intrusive music in my head. I will emphasize that I don't, and never have, "heard voices". I hear it all the time, sometimes even when I'm sleeping. It does not consist of complete songs, but rather random snippets that play over and over again, until something (completely unidentifiable) will suddenly "change the record". When I'm under stress, naturally the music gets louder. It will pervade anything I try to use to distract my mind. Sometimes, I will have two songs going simultaneously.
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> The fact that the music is there is not necessarily the distressing fact. It's the fact that I can't control it.
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> Currently, I'm taking Paxil 40mg and a low dose of Ativan to try to compensate, since I'm a registered nurse and need my mental faculties. However, now it goes and comes. When it's there, sometimes I can redirect it, but not always.
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> I have had three major head injuries in my life - was whacked with a golf club in left frontal lobe at 11, was run over by a log wagon at 14, and smashed the front of my head into a windshield in auto accident in '99.
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> Any suggestions?Every now and than I will hear my wife call my name out..I ask her what she wants and she says she didn't call me..doesn't happen a lot...but for years I will think someone has called my name out..don't know what causes that
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