Posted by Ritch on January 10, 2005, at 10:10:48
In reply to Re: The radio inside my head » D minor, posted by sdjeff on January 9, 2005, at 19:26:55
> > I seem to have two forms of similar phenomina. When I'm depressed I have these repeating thoughts that just loop over and over. Sometimes they were very unpleasant. Seroquel helped to clear those up.
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> > When I'm hypomanic I feel like I have a radio inside my head, but its more like radio garble. You know, just snatches here and there in static. I think these may qualify as racing thoughts.
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> > What is your diagnosis? How much Zyprexa are you on? What other meds are you taking?
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> > dm
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> Thanks for your reply dm,
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> My Diagnosis is Major Depression with psychotic features. I take 15 mg of the Zyprexa and 60 mg of Cymbalta. The funny thing while my depression, voices and other hallucenations are helped by meds, this radio issue is not. I wonder if my issue could be a problem with racing thoughts as well, rather than a hallucenation.Serotonergic AD's (while helping with depression and anxiety) tend to cause a repetitive music thing in my head that's not an OCD thing or even necessarily unpleasant and not a hallucination either, but I think it has something to do with a temporal lobe activation from the AD. Stuff that I've found that dampens that particular set of symptoms down really well are anticonvlsants, esp. depakote, trileptal, or neurontin.
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