[BeyondtheRainbow]

For weeks now my head hasn't been quiet. I have hyperacuity so I hear everything that is going on even remotely near me and then my brain takes everything I hear and turns into part of the soup I keep hearing--snippets of music, words, conversations, thoughts, all blended together and playing all the time. I am so tired of it. I've been avoiding as much as possible but now my neighbors are playing music at what seems to me to be probably a quite loud volume and so I have even more getting stuck in my head.

Tomorrow I will have taken my new dose of clozapine and will probably sleep through much of the day. I may finally get a break. But I'm scared that I'm now going to hear another month worth of the music they are playing. I am so tired I don't want to get my earplugs and it's already stuck in there anyway. I think there are 2 neighbors playing music so it's all mixed up, country and pop. Must.get.earplugs.

I hate increasing the med but I really do just want to go to sleep (and that isn't happening without drugs).

[liveforsummer]

I hope you get much needed sleep tonight!

[Victoria'smom]

I'm sorry your head has so many noises in it right now. I'm sorry you need more meds to get relief. Treat yourself kindly right now.

[xRavenx]

So sorry. I get something similar when approaching mania, where I am hypersensitive to sound and hear music too as one of the things that is noisy in my head. Unfortunately, but fortunately, it took drugs to bring me down. I hope this runs its course for you soon.
(((Hugs)))

[Nammu]

I haven't had that problem since I started Latuda 4 years ago. I utterly sympathize, it's horrible.

[BeyondtheRainbow]

Originally Posted by Nammu

I haven't had that problem since I started Latuda 4 years ago. I utterly sympathize, it's horrible.

Yes, it is. I live in the country and even the night noises are bugging me. No med has ever taken this away; perhaps enough clozapine will. I don't remember if it did on a higher dose when I was first on it because I barely remember that time, just that I was so tired all the time. I will take the extra med soon, just waiting to get a little tired to help it work.

I'm glad Latuda helped you with it. I hope someday something does for me as it is an awful symptom.

[UpDownAround]

I have the other hyperac- (twins that are both evil?) hyperacusis. I don't hear everything, but I startle and feel pain that I would swear is physical from certain sounds. I can be watching a movie with the volume fairly high and someone closes a hardback book with "that sound" and I will practically levitate even if it is at a lower decibel level than the movie.

If I go too loud with the movie, my left ear will get a crackling sound and the audiologist says that isn't physical either. When I go to an action movie at the theater, I plug my ears and get a closed caption device.

I only get hyperacusis when hypomanic.

Since starting lamictal, my "center" has moved up a few notches from very slightly depressed to very slightly manic. I like this change because I smile and laugh a *lot* more. I just have to watch out for inappropriate comments and put up with the hyperacusis. I carry adjustable earplugs (they have a small inner hole that you plug or unplug) to deal with it; not sure if that is an option for you.