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maddening broken record in head for 4 days

maddening broken record in head for 4 days

I have autism which I have read often overlaps with OCD and it may very well be that I'm suddenly experiencing OCD for the first time in my life. I just went off Abilify. It took 2 mos to titrate down from 15 mg to zero.

Since Saturday, I hear the first few notes of a song over and over, like a broken record that skips. Sometimes, it just says "buh-bi, buh-bi, buh-bi."It's obviously driving me crazy. I've had songs stuck in my head before and this is not that. This is relentless repetitive noise, loud, like a chorus singing, in my head. I've called my psychiatrist's office x3 and left messages. I called the nurse hotline last night and she told me to plug my ears and chew gum. That didn't work at all. I'm beginning to feel nauseous from this and it will not let up.

What can I do? I'm already on zoloft, wellbutrin, lamictal and propranolol. Do I need a neurologist referral?
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Probably all it is, when you get off medicines like Amblify, you're going to experience withdrawals for another couple weeks beyond when you got to zero on your doses.  Withdrawals can cause a person to not sleep well, and thus annoying stuff like the rhythmic music in your head will disrupt your normal thoughts more than they usually would.  

I would suggest you drink extra water, to help continue to wash the toxins out of your body from the Amblify; also exercise more than normal, to where you break a sweat, so you'll hopefully sleep a little more soundly; and distract your attention from your inner thoughts by doing outward things, like rent a couple good movies and watch those, or read a book that will hold your attention, or do puzzles or artwork.

Since your psych doc hasn't called back, you can call the Crisis Intervention number and just start talking to those people about it, that'll help you calm down a little if it gets crazy.  But in the end, it's a matter of time, you have to wait it out, becuz it WILL go away.  Autism makes it double hard to get thru something like that, becuz my understanding is your disorder interferes with filtering and organizing sensory input, which is how come I said to find something to distract yourself.  Hang in, I feel for you, but you'll make it.
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