Music in Head Making me CRAZY

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I keep having the same 5-15 seconds of a song being re-looped and re-played constantly in my head, loudly. It's been happening for 3 days, ever since I quit taking abilify. Sometimes, the song changes. It's always something I don't like and haven't heard in years. A few times, I don't even know where the song comes from.

I posted on my bipolar website and people said it could be a symptom of bipolar but it is more commonly a symptom of OCD. This has never happened to me before. It's NOT the same kind of thing as getting a song stuck in your head. I mean, I'm hearing, "I want to ride my bicycle. I want to ride my bike!" over and over and over all day.

I keep rocking to the music that I can't shut off. I've tried the alphabet, counting, trying to sing another song, playing music. Nothing works. I just called my psychiatrist.

Does this happen with anyone else with autism?

I hope the psychiatrist refers you to a neurologist. It seems like you have a glitch. Hopefully it will fade in time. Did you go off the Abilify suddenly?

We've slowly gone off it over the past two months. I went from 15 mg down to 2 mg and now zero. So, it wasn't abrupt. The music is continuing, by the way. Sometimes, it sounds like an old record player that keeps playing over the same groove, stuck. I don't know if I will need a neurologist or not. Hopefully, my psychiatrist will know what to do!

I appreciate everyone's responses and support.

Sounds like a really nasty earworm.

Do you know if you have a recording of this somewhere? Sometimes "the hair of the dog" helps me out this situation, though I don't ever know if I've had it as bad as you describe.

Hope it goes away soon!

Thanks. No, I don't have this song. I hate this song. It's by Queen. I haven't heard it since I was in my early 20's, about 20 years ago.

I am familiar with the phenomenon, though I can't say I've had it to the point of severity that you're struggling with. Usually, I drown it out with other music, until it either goes away, or is replaced by a less annoying song.

I hear music a lot. Sometimes it repeats. Sometimes it's something I don't like. I keep hearing a Frankie Valle (sp) and the Four Seasons song being sung without Valle's falsetto. It sucks even without the falsetto. Usually, though, I hear music I like, usually classical. If I'm really feeling right (less sleep-deprived than usual and having enough sex), I hear original compositions. They're coming back after the music went dead in my head after my first child's birth. Am I the next Beethoven?

Yep, join the club happens to me all the time. Occasionally I can change the song, sometimes I can't. If its more than 1 song I hear mush.

I've never experienced the endless music to the degree you are. it sounds horrible. usually listening to music and singing out loud or repeating something over and over in my head will get rid of it.

I have this. It's horrible. I'm hoping meds will take care of it.

Does it help to play other music on top of it? Does it play in spite of hearing other music?

That sounds dreadful, whitetiger. I've never experienced that myself. I've had songs stuck in my head sometimes, but I can always get rid of them by thinking of a different song if the one my head is playing happens to be annoying (eg. the theme tune to that annoying kids show with the elf).

The only time it really starts to drive me crazy is when I haven't heard the song I'm currently obsessed with for quite a while (like a few hours, or something), and it gets stuck in my head and I get annoyed because I want to hear it properly. But that's more a case of "cannot be parted from my obsessions".

I think what whitetiger is talking about is not the annoying earworm that everyone get's now and then but an actually auditory hallucination. Many things can trigger them. I would want a neurologist's opinion before the psychiatrist made a decision. I think a neurologist might know what's going on more specifically.
As far as earworms, I have a running joke with one of my clients, a button down insurance broker with a SpongeBob obsession- I will with evil intent implant songs in his head because he's so susceptible. He gets me sometimes too.

oh, ALL the time. more so than an earworm, i will on various mornings wake up with just a few words from a song on incessant repeat in my head. i get into the shower and literally want to bash my head against the tile because of it. the other day it was the first line of elton john's "island girl".

i see your teeth flash
jamaican honey so sweet

i see your teeth flash
jamaican honey so sweet

i see your teeth flash
jamaican honey so sweet

i see your teeth flash
jamaican honey so sweet

i see your teeth flash
jamaican honey so sweet

and on and on.

Heh... I've had Terrapin Station going for the past several days, but every so often it segues into Ripple...

Seriously.

Then again, it could be worse...

"It's a small world after all...!"