I'm amazed you could go through an entire life with 'singing on the brain'. Have you ever consulted a doctor about it? It's certainly true that it stops when I am doing puzzles, or a game like Scrabble, that involves full attention and thought, but as soon as I stop, it starts up again! Even Beethoven gets to be a bit much on the hundredth repetition! I have asked several doctors about this, including psychiatrists and neurologists but they don't seem to have any idea how to deal with it - short term distractions are fine, but being a retired person with maybe too much down time and too many other health problems (teaching was pretty full time brain work, but no hope of returning to that!) there are long gaps filled with irritating rubbish! I'm working on trying to fill them, but my favorite activity, reading, is limited by headaches......... Thanks for taking the time to respond - let me know if you come up with a great new way of dealing with it!
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Originally Posted by BreatheInBreatheOut
well, I'm not sure this will help much, but I've ALWAYS had this sort of thing. Whatever musical thing I hear last I hear repeated over and over and over again until the next musical thing. OK for something like, say, Beethoven. Not so OK when it's the jingle to three's company or something like that.
I don't know what to make of this in you, though, since it's apparently new and more intrusive than my version of things. I'm sorry. I did read an article about ridding oneself of musical plagues like this and it said to do anagrams (5 letters) or some other engaging puzzle or brain task. I suppose that would help. Say the alphabet backwards. See if you can, and see if that helps.
If nothing else, it will provide information for your neurologist.
I'm sorry you're going through this, especially right after surgery. Good luck.
BIBO
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