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One of my most annoying symptoms, besides from the constantly foggy head and chemical sensitivity is constantly hearing songs/sounds repeating over and over in my head. Does anybody else experience this? This came about a few years ago when I had strep throat and started taking Biaxin which I reacted to horribly. They thought it was an allergic reaction but knowing what I know now, it was probably a pretty strong herx. Anyway, during my herx the music started and it never, ever went away.
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- Very common with lyme. MAGNESIUM HELPS. Explained here:
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I have it too (comes and goes). Except mine doesn't match the pub med description. I basically hear any tune from a recent movie, cd or the radio. Then the song plays over and over, even when I turn over in bed. I can no longer watch American Idol anymore.
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Mine comes from any tune, the catchier it is the worse! It actually makes my life as a musician a little problematic when I'm trying to work on a song and something else is repeating over and over hahah.
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Funny....I couldn't get rid of the tune from the FreeCreditScore.com commercials. Mine wasn't from any Lyme symptoms. Just funny little jingles in those commercials that stick.
You know the one...."Well I was shopping for a new car, which one's me? A cool convertible or an Suv?"......
Anyway.................
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- There is a science behind what you interpret as "funny little jiggles" and others may call "earworms" - ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earworm )
It is not a mistake that these are hard to get out of your head. They are literally designed in extraordinary detail to stick with us.
When jiggles repeat on us in our own space, replace it with other sounds, real music. This usually does the trick.
While much of the auditory stuff many with lyme have goes beyond that (even into the nerve fiber excitation / seizure spectrum - and that's why magnesium helps), it's still nice to add music that one enjoys. Change the focus.
A little movement helps, too. Gets the neurons to shake it all out a bit, so to speak.
And TINNITUS can do this, too. Tinnitus can take on many aspects, making a fan from even the next building sound like a radio that won't quite stay on the station channel. -
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I'm not saying that it may be "innocent" or related to Lyme - but it may be this as well...
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What you have is called musical hallucinations. Very common with LD. Also with people that have LD and a low cd-57 count.
If you do a search on this website and type in musical hallucinations you will find posts and links related to this condition.
It gets better over time.
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- bigstan's sharing that term helps in that many kinds of hallucinations are from the neurons in the brain firing way too fast and furious.
"Hallucinations" need not be a scarey word (even if the experience may be, depending upon the scale of it). IMO, the medical world has not yet come to understand some of the causes of hallucinations, such as:
Toxicity can also cause all kinds of hallucinations (and toxicity causes that neuron "storm"). As we know, lyme is very toxic. This is why liver support is so important - to help reduce the toxic load.
MAGNESIUM is one of the best helpers to calm down that neuron over firing / hyper-excitability. FISH OIL helps, too, as can certain calming herbs.
The Tinnitus Thread has many posts about this kind of hallucination - but it can vary from person to person.
Also be sure to avoid added glutamate or glutamic acid - and certain foods and food additives:
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