Music in Head Making me CRAZY

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"Alive" by Pearl Jam is playing like a broken record in my head as I write..............it could be because I've been listening to it incessantly for the last three days. =>

That's exactly it! It sounds really similar. Mine went on four hours last night and 13 hours today. It's insane!

I don't have a recording of this song because I haven't heard it in 20 years. I know when there's a song stuck in your head, it helps to hear it again.. but what I'm hearing lately is buh-bike--buh-bike--I want to ride my bike-bu-bike.. like the record player is stuck. I just called the nurse help line for my health care plan.

Oh... ouch! I have to walk past the theater which is playing Jersey Boys every day on my way to work. When I get to that part of the sidewalk, I cover my ears with my hands, sing out loud to myself, and run through it as quickly as I can. Needless to say, I suspect this looks strange to others...

Oh ! I should count my blessings, when on holiday I heard "stop" by eurasure on the radio. I thought about the words becuase it contained a couple of funny lines. I saw the video on you tube, now every now and then I keep thinking of the music, it is slightly annoying but at least it is not there constantly.

That sounds absolutely horrid, whitetiger! I hope you can get rid of it soon.

If you think it might help you to hear the original song, there is a YouTube of it at this link.

I don't know if that will help, but I hope somehow it does.

Hope you'll feel better soon, whitetiger!

At least you're not stuck with disco right now like I am:

"I may be totally wrong but I'm a ...
dancing foo..ooo...oool
dancing foo..ooo...oool ... "

Thing with me is, it's apparently my normal state to have some sort of music running through my head. It's when the music stops for me that can signal there's a problem ... physical illness, super bad mood verging on depression, or if I can sense something majorly wrong with a friend, for example.

Anyways, I hope and pray that you have peace.

Thanks. I listened to it but I don't think it's the song, necessarily. It's just going bi-bi cycle.. bi-bi, bi-bi over and over now.

The nurse on the nurse hotline said put plugs in my ears and chew gum. Someone PM'd me and told me the same thing. I don't have gum or earplugs. I tried chewing with my fingers in my ears. No luck!

Hi everybody.. it's still going on. It's buh-bike over and over again. Just that. For two hours this am. and it went on all day for the past 2 days. I can't wait to call my dr again when they open.

When my drinking was at it's worst and I would be coming off a binge-I would have a lot of auditory hallucinations that would repeat and literally keep me up until I fell asleep from exhaustion. One was a chorus of women singing:

He doesn't love you
He doesn't love you
He doesn't love you

Are you hearing it "out loud" or is it like an earworm?

It's a chorus that sounds nothing like the original song. When I was a teenager and did LSD, I heard music that sounded like it was coming from outside me. This MIGHT be earworm because although it is loud, it doesn't sound externalized.

omg, what a torture!! Poor you!

Thats why I dont like listen to music, because it makes me crazy too if songs happen to stuck in my head
Its like I cant hear myself think!!

Whitetiger wrote:

When I was experiencing those auditory hallucinations they were out loud but I heard them both in and out of my head. Sometimes I would hear someone say something that sounded like it was from across the room and the next second a little voice would whisper " I'll see you in Hell" in my ear.

Yes, this can be an OCD symptom. Before I started taking Anafranil, I used to get snippets of songs stuck in my head all day long all of the time. My Anafranil has diminished all of my intrusive thoughts, including hearing songs in my head. Now, the only time I get the looping song snippets is when I listen to a new CD or something and get literally obsessed with a portion of the song. It's not the same as getting a song stuck in your head, no, because it's only a small portion, and you have to sing it over and over again, either in your head or out loud.

Also, with me, I tend to get stuck on lyrics that have seven syllables (sometimes eight) and catchy rhymes. (A recent example is this part from Lady Gaga's "Boys, Boys, Boys": "Let's go to the party, heard our buddy's the DJ. Don't forget my lipstick, I left it in your ashtray.") This goes along with the OCD notion of "feeling right." I usually have to tap out the syllable numbers with my fingers. What's really annoying is when you get these intrusive song obsessions and you need to read something. With me, my mind will be working on two levels: I'll hear both the words I'm reading silently, as well as the words and tune of the song.

Anyway, I'd say that this is either an obsessive symptom from your AS or a side effect of you stopping Abilify. And OCD-type intrusive thoughts always sound like they're coming from inside one's own mind, not externalized like auditory hallucinations.
-OddDuckNash99-

That's exactly it, Duck!

I've called my dr's office x4 and they say the psychiatrist will call me back. Maybe we can figure out what's up. I'll keep everyone posted.

I'm playing scrabble now. The music continues, but it is background noise when I play.

Yes, it sounded exactly like what I've gone through. I'm glad that I could help. Actually, I tried Abilify for my OCD (the last medication before I tried the Anafranil), because a new hypothesis is that atypical anti-psychotics can help OCD by the dopamine antagonistic action. It didn't work for me, but maybe a new type of atypical anti-psychotic could help both your OCD symptom, as well as your AS and bipolar disorder?
-OddDuckNash99-