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On October 5th 2007 I experienced auditory hallucinations but the...

Posted at 6:29 AM on Oct 22, 2007 by doreilly, #24491
On October 5th 2007 I experienced auditory hallucinations but their different than the others. I hear my thoughts directly outside of my head and they repeat the thought continuously until another thought happens. Sometimes their are thoughts that I have previously thought of and they won't go away. It starts from the moment I wake up in the morning until I go to sleep in the evening. Sometimes they sing like a choir and sometimes they talk my thoughts. Children's, women, men, and one old man. Sometimes it's a mechanical voice. I started taking Lamicatal in August. I started with 25 mg. for two weeks. Then I increased it to 50mg for two weeks. Then I increased it to 75 mg for two weeks. Then I increased it to 100mg for two weeks. Then I increased it to 125mg and I took this for one week and that's when these auditory hallucinations got worse. Now I only take 50mg and the auditory hallucinations will not go away yet. Before I started taking Lamictal I was on Cymbalta 20mg. I needed to stop taking this medication as that it caused abdominal pains, severe headaches, nausea, I started hearing other peoples thoughts and conversations. I was only Cymbalta for one year. I never was able to hear peoples thoughts before taking Cymbalta and I never heard hallucinations before taking Lamictal. Years ago I was taking Paxil 20mg and this medication increased the abstract visual dreaming and the zoning out. The reason I started taking Lamicatal was that in the evening while I was sleeping I would sometimes get startled in the middle of the night with abstract visual dreaming and it hurt my head. Also I was zoning out occasionally during the day. Kind of like daydreaming but no visual dreams. Lamicatal did stop this but this side effect is driving me insane.
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Reply over 2 years ago on Oct 22, 2007 by cookiecndy, #2526

Maybe it's been the medications all along, since you stated most of these symptoms started after medication introduction. Have you ever looked into alternative methods like Omega 3 fish oils for brain function and chammomile tea for it's calming effects? Not to mention clean diet and no drugs/alcohol and good nutrients.

If it is a medication type of brain damage you have, the good news is they found the brain can actually grow new neuros in time. It may take some patience and also extreme care in taking care of one's health and stress levels for optimum healing. Good luck.

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Reply about 1 year ago on Feb 14, 2008 by 6kidscrazymom, #4842

I hope you've had relief since your posting. Have you had a doc try Seroquel or Zyprexa? Sounds like maybe you need something a little more than anti-depressant or mood stabilizer. Zyprexa causes awful weight gain, but works like magic and sometimes you can take it for only a week or so. Seroquel is supposed to be weight neutral, but I think it makes us a little hungrier than usual, but it is also a big help when mania tips to extremely jangled. I'd guess when you hear all this you're pretty frazzled. Hard for me to imagine it's Lamictal.

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