Stop THAT MUSIC | ADHD Information

I have been treated for ADHD for 10 years. I'm 53, was diagnosed when I was 43. I do well on Ritalin but after a while it becomes ineffective and I have to go off for a while. Currently I'm taking Straterra, but having a hard time adjusting the dosage.

The real problem is humming tunes in my head! IT'S DRIVING ME NUTS!!! I will hear something and hum a few bars of it over and over all day! Is anyone else bothered by this? Does anyone have help????? I hate to hear some stupid little Jingle on the way to work because it plays over in my head ALL DAY!!!!!

ltcmom38491.3724305556A lot of music an a lot of thoughts are always going on in my head, unless something stimulating takes its place...bottom line, my brain is never on idle unless I sleep I guess. [QUOTE=goldenmoment]bottom line, my brain is never on idle unless I
sleep I guess.[/QUOTE]

lol. Agreed if you take sleep as the 20 minutes of sleep after waking up
and filling two or three pages in your notebook.

Btw. the greatest idea ever is the "pensive" as described in some harry
potter book. Take thoughts out of your head and put them into some
cup. That would be the bestseller among adders :)ADHiDsBest38491.7111458333Usually my brain gets hijacked so easily by a song that it is easy to replace it with another. When I was a kid though, I once had the theme song for a brand of shoes in my head for at least three years. I can't remember the artist but the song is called "catch my disease" I think and the catchy part is "that's the way i LIKE IT"
Ben somethingorother.
I caught his damn disease for days. Anyone else hear this?
[QUOTE=ltcmom]

Only *ONE* day? You LUCKY! ;-)

Mine usually last from 2 days to 2 WEEKS!

I try to boot it out by listening to some of my fav

tunes, but it's utterly futile. Once the real music

stops, the "music in my head" come instantly back.

I wouldn't mind it so much if it wasn't always tunes I HATE!

Sometimes it's not even music, just sounds, or a series of

sounds. One time It was the "beep - beep - beep" of my

microwave (done heating instant coffee) that lasted 4 days.

I'd LOVE to find a way to make it stop, but it NEVER does.

One goes away, and another one takes it's place. As I

type this I have, "Baby it ain't over til it's over" playng

non stop for day #2. DISCO!!!! AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In the name of all that witch is holy! SOMEONE MAKE IT STOOOOOOOPPPPP!!!

Peace, (Yea right!)

Mark

same trouble here. the workaround i've found is to listen to some hypnotic music, dub, drum, jazz, tekno... as they don't have these bothering lyrics...