Re: head noise

[Guest guest]

I have the same problems and really know where you are coming from.

For me I think its from a combination of high levels of Mercury and

Copper from having Silver Amalgam Fillings (which are ~50% mercury and

are high in copper as well) all of my life. I just got 10 removed back

in febuary following a stict protocol to reduce exposure to mercury

vapor. No improvement in the noise sensitivy yet though, but it has

been a lifelong problem for me and I relaly hope it goes away (I'm

only 20 btw).

I have recently read autistic kids are extremely sensitive to sounds

and many people have had much improvement by supplementing there diet

with a lot of magnesium. I have recently tried supplementing with

magnesium but it may take a while for it to correct it if its going to.

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> I don't know if this is just me, but thought I would see if anyone has

> some suggestions. How can I stop the stuff in my head that is constantly

> there mostly at night when I am trying to sleep---my own thoughts about

> whatever (usually I am analyzing things to death) and if I listen to any

> music the last song I heard sticks and I hear it before I go to sleep

> and when I wake up.sigh. I make my husband change in the morning in a

> different room and use the hall bathroom because the noise from that

> really jolts me. I get so upset because he doesn't seem to be able to

> open or close a door softly and I can hear every little thing, esp. the

> stupid coffee grinder he insists on using every morning and then

> clanking around the kitchen which has hardwood floors so everything

> echoes up the stairs. I will note that my son wakes me up at least twice

> a night to nurse, so I am sure that plays into it somewhat, but I have

> the hardest time getting back to sleep cause even the sound of dh

> breathing is irritating. I find that I may just drift off to sleep and

> something jolts me awake and my heart starts racing and all these things

> in my head come rushing in and I get super cranky.this used to be a lot

> worse so I know I have been doing something right with changing my diet

> over the last year and a half. I have always had a hard time relaxing

> and I am trying to keep my stress level down, but it's not easy.

>

> amanda

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

>

> I don't know if this is just me, but thought I would see if anyone has

> some suggestions. How can I stop the stuff in my head that is constantly

> there mostly at night when I am trying to sleep---my own thoughts about

> whatever...

> amanda,

Sounds like low serotonin to me.

B.

[Guest guest]

Just FYI, the song that runs over and over through your head is

called an " earworm " . Try telling someone you've got an earworm and

see how they react!

I think it's hard when you've got little ones waking you at night;

what I heard is adults need sleep in segments of 3 contiguous hours

to complete the whole cycle. When your cycles get broken, like by

nursing little ones, it can make you more sensitive and irritable

than normal.

I had the same problem with my husband's little noises at night when

my kids were babies; finally he suggested he sleep in the other room

because he was tired at work from me and the baby getting up & down

and waking him. It really worked out well for us, then I only had

to deal with the baby waking me. And it didn't detract from our

marriage in the least, if anything we got along better since we were

less irritated with each other.

They grow up; it passes.

>

> I don't know if this is just me, but thought I would see if anyone

has

> some suggestions. How can I stop the stuff in my head that is

constantly

> there mostly at night when I am trying to sleep---my own thoughts

about

> whatever (usually I am analyzing things to death) and if I listen

to any

> music the last song I heard sticks and I hear it before I go to

sleep

> and when I wake up.sigh. I make my husband change in the morning

in a

> different room and use the hall bathroom because the noise from

that

> really jolts me. I get so upset because he doesn't seem to be able

to

> open or close a door softly and I can hear every little thing,

esp. the

> stupid coffee grinder he insists on using every morning and then

> clanking around the kitchen which has hardwood floors so everything

> echoes up the stairs. I will note that my son wakes me up at least

twice

> a night to nurse, so I am sure that plays into it somewhat, but I

have

> the hardest time getting back to sleep cause even the sound of dh

> breathing is irritating. I find that I may just drift off to sleep

and

> something jolts me awake and my heart starts racing and all these

things

> in my head come rushing in and I get super cranky.this used to be

a lot

> worse so I know I have been doing something right with changing my

diet

> over the last year and a half. I have always had a hard time

relaxing

> and I am trying to keep my stress level down, but it's not easy.

>

> amanda

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

The Thyroid and the Mind and Emotions

The psychiatric disturbances which accompany hyperthyroidism and

hypothyroidism, the two commonest thyroid disorders, mimic mental

illness. People with an overactive thyroid may exhibit marked anxiety

and tension, emotional lability, impatience and irritability,

distractible overactivity, exaggerated sensitivity to noise, and

fluctuating depression with sadness and problems with sleep and the

appetite.

Reference:-

http://www.thyroid.ca/Articles/EngE10F.html

[Guest guest]

> about eating a potato before bed to raise

> serotonin levels. Has anyone

> heard of this or the book/method from

> which the site was created,

> " Potatoes not Prozac? "

yes, I used that program to heal depression and a 40 year binge

disorder.

> But is low serotonin always associated with depression? I feel I

have

> conquered this with diet change and supplements, but maybe these

other

> symptoms are also a result if I have low levels.

I agree with Wanita, could be magnesium first.

There are all kinds of depression and all kinds of serotonin.

The " Potatoes not Prozac " program is good for healing the kind of

depression you get when you pound down the sugars whites and alcohol

for years or are recovering from trauma and comfort eating (lifestyle)

> Potato may work but only to satiate

> sugar craving keeping the brain awake.

> Wanita

NFW, not related to sugar craving, it's a timed, controlled insulin

rise that helps tryptophan cross the blood-brain barrier. It's not a

giant baking potato - only a golf-ball size works for most people;

and it's done in the context of adequate protein at regular intervals

without insulin spikes all day, so there is tryptophan floating

around 3 hours after dinner, and the timing of the potato optimizes

serotonin production during REM sleep.

Connie

[Guest guest]

....But is low serotonin always associated with depression? I feel I have

> conquered this with diet change and supplements, but maybe these other

> symptoms are also a result if I have low levels.

,

I'm not thinking depression but the OCD-type symptoms. Your

description of the obsessing mind, it hurts just reading about it. I

hope you start feeling better asap. If Connie and Wanita say

magnesium, try that. I take extra magnesium, too fwiw.

B.

/miss low-serotonin 2006

[Guest guest]

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>I don't know if this is just me, but thought I would see if anyone has

>some suggestions. How can I stop the stuff in my head that is constantly

>there mostly at night when I am trying to sleep---my own thoughts about

>whatever (usually I am analyzing things to death) and if I listen to any

>music the last song I heard sticks and I hear it before I go to sleep

>and when I wake up.sigh.

I recommend _The Insomnia Answer_, by Glovinsky and Arthur

Spielman. It's not the be-all and end-all, but it covers a lot of

issues that nobody's mentioned, such as bright light exposure and

blue light exposure, and it offers a number of useful

techniques. There's a newly discovered type of receptor in the

retina, for example, which is directly involved with sleep and our

circadian rhythms -- it detects blue light, and when blue light stops

hitting it, you begin to enter the sleep phase, produce melatonin,

etc. True red and yellow light -- the type produced by fire and

incandescent bulbs -- doesn't stimulate these receptors nearly as

much as TVs, computer monitors and fluorescent lights, though for

some people any blue light hitting those receptors will be a

problem. The authors recommend that some people wear wraparound

blue-blocking amber glasses during the evening hours, all the way up

to bed, and for others (those whose sleep cycle is extremely delayed

but who nonetheless have to get up very early) they actually suggest

wearing them first thing in the morning.

Don't ignore nutrition, though -- it's possible that you're not

getting enough of certain nutrients or that you're eating too many

carbs, for example.

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[Guest guest]

You know, it might not hurt to try increasing your salt intake as

well. Natural salt like celtic or RealSalt. It has a lot of trace

minerals and from my reading since starting the salt/c protocol for

lyme I'm finding salt is pretty good for a lot of things.

Since I'm soon going to get a reputation here for telling everyone

they might have lyme, I won't even mention that a lot of people with

lyme have sensitivity to sounds. Of course, lyme messes with

digestion so it could just be a mineral deficiency or nutritional

deficiency like low serotonin that does it.

Rooibos tea contains something that is a serotonin reuptake

inhibitor but evidently not addictive or harmful. It works wonders

for some people with anxiety problems. Best source I've found is

www.strandtea.com.

I've also read that if you eat something with tryptophan in it for

supper, then a potato before bed, the potato ties up most of the

aminos leaving the tryptophan free to flood you with sleepiness. It

works on my son.

>

>

>

> ,

> I'm not thinking depression but the OCD-type symptoms. Your

> description of the obsessing mind, it hurts just reading about it.

I

> hope you start feeling better asap. If Connie and Wanita say

> magnesium, try that. I take extra magnesium, too fwiw.

> B.

> /miss low-serotonin 2006

> ***You all are wonderful for responding and trying to help me with

this!

> You do not even know how I have suffered with this my whole life

and I

> always thought it was because I have a perfectionist father who

keeps a

> notepad by his bed so when he wakes in the night he can write down

> what's going through his mind (who in my opinion has a lot of the

same

> stuff I am dealing with but refuses to admit he's in need of

healing and

> refuses to believe that fat is essential to survival), or that I

was

> just born this way and being an artist somehow was to blame..

Sometimes

> my brain used to just race and race and I couldn't stop it! I have

been

> through a ton of stress in the last two years (actually my whole

life,

> but I don't like to look back at all that nastiness) and I

depleted all

> my mineral stores and it makes total sense that I would be

deficient in

> magnesium. I am working on my adrenals, as well, and after some

research

> about noise sensitivity and mag. I am realizing that I need to get

more

> of it. The sad thing is that I have sheltered myself for years

because

> my anxiety was so overwhelming and I find myself trying to protect

my

> toddler from the things that really get to me thinking he will end

up

> the same as me. I hate snapping at people or trying to explain that

> there are certain things they do that I can't handle because not

only do

> they not understand, but I end up not being able to enjoy life all

the

> time. My husband really doesn't understand because he says nothing

> affects him and he would venture to say he is in near perfect

health

> (not by my standards, lol) but at least he does try to help create

an

> atmosphere in our home that I can live in.

>

> I have definitely seen improvement over the last year

or so

> from my switch to NT and addition of crucial supplements because

we live

> on a very busy street and the traffic noise used to be a complete

> nightmare, but I find that I can sleep and don't notice it as much

and I

> can even venture out to the back or front and not feel

so " attacked " .

>

> amanda

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

You just keep on fighting the good fight .

Lots of good wholesome NT food, omega3s, and you will keep getting

better.

Stress and trauma deplete neurotransmitters like serotonin as well as

minerals BTW.

I have heard a rule of thumb - completely unsubstantiated - that it

takes one year of wonderful nutrition for every 5 years of horrible

stress and poor nutrition, to balance out.

Connie

>

>

>

> ,

> I'm not thinking depression but the OCD-type symptoms. Your

> description of the obsessing mind, it hurts just reading about it. I

> hope you start feeling better asap. If Connie and Wanita say

> magnesium, try that. I take extra magnesium, too fwiw.

> B.

> /miss low-serotonin 2006

> ***You all are wonderful for responding and trying to help me with

this!

> You do not even know how I have suffered with this my whole life

and I

> always thought it was because I have a perfectionist father who

keeps a

> notepad by his bed so when he wakes in the night he can write down

> what's going through his mind (who in my opinion has a lot of the

same

> stuff I am dealing with but refuses to admit he's in need of

healing and

> refuses to believe that fat is essential to survival), or that I was

> just born this way and being an artist somehow was to blame..

Sometimes

> my brain used to just race and race and I couldn't stop it! I have

been

> through a ton of stress in the last two years (actually my whole

life,

> but I don't like to look back at all that nastiness) and I depleted

all

> my mineral stores and it makes total sense that I would be

deficient in

> magnesium. I am working on my adrenals, as well, and after some

research

> about noise sensitivity and mag. I am realizing that I need to get

more

> of it. The sad thing is that I have sheltered myself for years

because

> my anxiety was so overwhelming and I find myself trying to protect

my

> toddler from the things that really get to me thinking he will end

up

> the same as me. I hate snapping at people or trying to explain that

> there are certain things they do that I can't handle because not

only do

> they not understand, but I end up not being able to enjoy life all

the

> time. My husband really doesn't understand because he says nothing

> affects him and he would venture to say he is in near perfect health

> (not by my standards, lol) but at least he does try to help create

an

> atmosphere in our home that I can live in.

>

> I have definitely seen improvement over the last year

or so

> from my switch to NT and addition of crucial supplements because we

live

> on a very busy street and the traffic noise used to be a complete

> nightmare, but I find that I can sleep and don't notice it as much

and I

> can even venture out to the back or front and not feel

so " attacked " .

>

> amanda

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Since my implant and activation nearly 2 yrs ago I occasionally get a

fainrly loud hum in the implanted ear that lasts for an hour or

sometimes 2 or 3. I'm sure it's tinnitus. It can be days or weeks

apart or on successive days. I don't know if something triggers it or

not. I suppose so but have no idea what it would be.

I've had a very low, constant tinnitus in my unimplanted, deaf ear for

years that I only hear in a very quiet situation but never had it in

my implanted ear before.

Virg

> Hi i need help with this i am a bilateral and the left ear is the

> most recent implant with a freedom. I had better hearing in this

> ear but had the left done first my decision. I started getting

> this very loud one key organ soundon my left side. It was not so

> often and since it's happening sometimes twice a day and sometimes

> lasting over a hour. And sometimes it happen before i go to bed so

> that reallya hard one to hear. I can take the processor off and

> still have it the sounds. Has anyone had a integerity test that

> cochlear puts out? My husband just talked to my audi at U OF M and

> she say they don't think it's the implant or processor they think

> it could be from a reaction from some meds. I take currently. I

> also have autoclerosis it both ears. I am taking and low dose of

> high blood pressure and a low thyroid pill. I usually leave my

> volume on around 5-6 and with this head noise i have to put it on

> Zero and still it's way too loud. I really need feedback on this

> subject if anyone has had this happen or maybe it's something in

> my diet or meds. reaction. It just starts up like a light switch

> turned on and progresses. It just started in Feb. and was only

> once in a while now it's just about everyday. Thanks for reading

> this and hope someone out there has a answer. linda

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

It sounds like tinnitus to me, linda.

Ted F.

>

> Hi i need help with this i am a bilateral and the left ear is the

> most recent implant with a freedom. I had better hearing in this

> ear but had the left done first my decision. I started getting

> this very loud one key organ soundon my left side. It was not so

> often and since it's happening sometimes twice a day and sometimes

> lasting over a hour. And sometimes it happen before i go to bed so

> that reallya hard one to hear. I can take the processor off and

> still have it the sounds. linda

>