Posted by Mitch on July 22, 2001, at 17:52:58
In reply to Obsessive Musical Tunes, posted by PattiJo on July 21, 2001, at 17:46:25
Oh boy, have we have had some talks here about this before, trust me! I experience the same exact phenomenon, and some believe it to be temporal lobe epilepsy (to me it is a suspicion not a conviction).
An MRI might not catch it-have you had an EEG? I had an EEG and it was negative but not an MRI! There is one thing that definitely makes it worse (for me and some others anyhow) and that is SSRi antidepressants. These are also good for OCD, which is why I don't think it is OCD. You wouldn't also be taking one of those by chance would you??
If I "doseup" on an SSRi (we are talking say 25mg of Zoloft or 10mg of Prozac) it can get very loud and also more repetitive and the same song gets stuck longer. It is like "sampling" or a snippet or a lyrical line that just keeps going onandonandon. Hell, I can wake up with a stupid line running through my head. Interestingly, I just got some Depakote added to my Neurontin and Klonopin and I notice it is a lot quieter...
Maybe the temporal lobe thing isn't a bunch of crap after all...
Mitch
> I have had problems with repetitive musical tunes going through my head 24/7 since December 2000. I pick up tunes when I listen to them and also seem to pick up tunes that I haven't heard in years. The only time that I don't have these tunes going over and over in my mind, is when I am engaged in conversation or watching TV or listening to a radio. I have had an MRI (which was negative), seen an ear specialist, and seen a psychiatrist--none of them can give me any answers. I do not have any symptoms of OCD. I was on Ambien for over a year and have some suspicions that it is related to the Ambien. I have been off of the Ambien for eight weeks and the music is still playing. Will the music ever stop? Please help. Thanks.
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