hearing repeat sounds/songs in my head

[lagn]

I keep hearing repeat songs in my head...I do not hear voices only songs.  I suffer from extreme anxiety and depression am on Lorazepam and several homeopathic remedies.  I was put on several anti depressants for a period of one year with severe side effects.  I am now hyper sensitive to medications.

[jukehead]

I am fascinated and relieved to come across this information.  My wife, who is a  musician,  and I have had constantly recurring "songs in our head" as long as we can remember (we're in our late fifties).  Periodically just to test and out of curiosity, we will suddenly ask the other, "okay what song is in your head?"  It's usually a surprise to both of us since the music is so constant it's like neural wallpaper.  As I type I've just checked my internal jukebox and "I Only Have Eyes for You, is playing (I heard a Sinatra version last night).  Like one person above mentioned, the only way to get rid of it is to replace it with something else.  If I don't choose, there will be some "default" song.  I'd love to know more on this subject including is it distracting?   Since I  can't remember a time when it didn't occur,  I don't know what life would be like without it.  Also, how common is the "constant" version and is it more common in musicians?  Thanks for the info, fellow inner musicians.

[NYbirder]

I;m sure it is more common in anyone who hears music often!  I often have some song playing in my head, but find it is more constant if I am hearing music a lot.  Recently I started to listen to songs in the car and that has triggered a persistent run with no relief that I don't deliberately work on.  I hear specific versions as sung.  It always stops when I am listening to music by the way.  Today it's Danny's song, which I hate.  I'm sure it is related to the ability to "hear" music in your head, which is wonderful and we wouldn't want to lose that!  I used to be able to remember most of Beethoven's 5th and ALL the pieces from the movie Fantasia!  As Monk would say, it's a blessing and a curse

[headfullofsnow]

I found this site because I was searching for an answer to my "songs in my head problem." It's always there lately, but went away for a number of years. It first happened to me years ago, I had just gotten stoned and ran into my dad who really yelled at me and fraked me out quite a bit. It started after that and I had never heard of anything like that before. It took maybe two years but it went away. I had problems with other substances before the original incident and after, and afetr it went away too. Then, three months ago the same exact situation happened, and boom, "hear we go again." My doctor says it is neurology and anxiety, and probably I have a scar on my brain from a lot of stimulant use in my past. I live a happy clean life but this thing is distracting. Is time the only answer, like with so many other things. And Lyme disease, are you kidding? Klonopin, neurontin and sometimes Clonodine if there is a lot of stress. Here is a question--- IF ONE WERE TO RESTIMULATE A PART OF THE BRAIN THAT HAD BEEN STIMULATED BEFORE, COULD THAT MAKE THIS STOP. THERE SEEMS TO BE A BIPLOAR CONNECTION DEFINETELY.

[panbimbo25]

Your mind is not at peace, this is why you repeat stuff in your head. Your over stimulated. TV has a lot of overstimulation with the flashes and the noise and the colors, etc... This is why when you watch it it quiets down. What you need to do is calm your mind. I have been practicing meditation for 8 years and its an excellent way to ease your mind. However, it take practice and with time you can quiet down these repetetive thoughts in your mind.

I also suggest prayer which is also a form of meditation, pray so your mind is still and focus on just the prayer. This is a form I believe of cognitive behavioral therapy.

[Angel19386]

Yo tenia estos sintomas y gracias  Dios en su misericordia todo ha mejorado significativamente, la ansiedad es un factor importante en la medida en que me tranquilice, y confie en Dios todo mejoro

[Angel19386]

Yo tenia estos sintomas en la medida que deje la ansiedad y confie en Dios todo mejoro significativamente

[hummer2006]

I have had music in my head for six years.  Not only that, but I feel the muscles under my tongue and throat sub-vocalizing the words which leads to great pain in my throat and neck and sometimes I feel like I'm choking!  It's terrible.

[ash_361]

I recently have not been able to stop repeating music/lyrics in my head. Whenever I wake up, I'll notice I am still repeating certain songs/lyrics before I even get my first thought in. I have also realized that at the same time that this has happened, I have developed symptoms of OCD. Is it possible that this inability for us to stop repeating music OCD? Because it certainly isn't getting a song stuck in your head, I used to have that and be normal, this is something much more severe. I mean, waking up in the middle of the night and still repeating music? Come on, thats strange...any info much appreciated.

[ggreg]

Dear Ash,
I'll just jump in real quick here and give some general thoughts.  I think this post and the other one in this forum suggest that lyme disease, which comes from little deer ticks in wooded areas, can cause this auditory hallucination.  Medications can do this too, some gaba drugs will stimulate the music part of the brain.  This suggests, too, another idea posted that said could be toxic chemicals have somehow gotten in the body.  And I suppose could be something in the brain isn't working right, could be a neurologist could do a brain scan and see if that's the case.

Apparently there's a lot of people that have this, and I have auditory hallucinations from some gaba drugs I take, but it's not constant.  But it suggests that there is a biochemical thing that happens (like lyme disease, medications, toxic chemicals, even something wrong with a particular part of the brain).  I'm just restating what all I've just read here in the two posts, to sort of direct you to where to look for answers.
GG