TL;DR: title says it all. Venlafaxine and escitalopram are effective for the problem but are otherwise bad. I have tried several peaty supplements, with not much success. If I ever find a non-harmful supplement that does the job I'll be infinitely thankful.
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I have already made some posts about my craniofacial discomfort problems. But I want to deal with the particular issue of listening to music. I'll attempt to be brief and clear.
I don't know of another forum where it would make sense to vent about this health problem and expect to be read by people who know their stuff and can maybe give helpful advice. I have made similar threads before, but I need to get this out.
Listening to music makes me feel nervous. Intensifies the feeling of discomfort on my face as well as my slight disjointedness while walking if I leave the house right afterwards. My face feels as if my teeth arches were all over the place, like a surrealistic painting. Sometimes it feels like the left side of my face is all teeth. Closing my left eye feels like closing a mouth with teeth on it.
The cavities corresponding to each eye feel large, loose, like the whole sides of my face were one big droopy eye-hole, particularly the left side, but the feeling seems to change places. It's as if there were force fields right over my face, indeed like the morphogenetic fields that give the the face its shape, competing among them, one over each eye and one over my nose and mouth and cheeks. Like there's borders between the fields and they're trying to encroach on one another. I can see the fields as dim colors when I close my eyes. The shapes are fluid. It sort of feels like I don't have a face.
This started, as I said in another posts, when I got my braces removed in the beginning of 2007. But here is the thing: for I think one or two years I used Samsung stereo speakers connected to a cheap PC speaker as my computer sound setup. Eventually one speaker started emitting louder sound than the other. So I attributed the onset of the discomfort to that. I also attributed it, superstitiously, to mysterious transcendent causes. Only ten years later would I realize many people had undergone similar problems to mine after having used orthodontic braces. It seems obvious to me now that having the shape of one's dental arches artificially changed could cause chronic craniofacial discomfort. I wish it would have occurred to me back then.
I have contacted the clinic recently and they have discarded the files pertaining to old patients, so I can't get a mold of my old teeth and see how the shape of my teeth has been changed.
In the end of 2008 I went to a psychiatrist for unrelated issues and she prescribed me venlafaxine. I took it and in less than ten minutes the discomfort had vanished. I have low metabolic inertia, for sure. I thought I had found the cure. I started listening to music on my mp3 player during bus rides to and from college. I listened to a lot of music. I took venlafaxine on and off until 2012, until the hair loss began. In 2014 I was dealing with serious anxiety and high blood pressure and went to another doctor. He prescribed me escitalopram and I reluctantly tried it. The discomfort was wonderfully gone again, my face and head felt completely normal. It was even more efficacious than venlafaxine. That day I watched a movie on the laptop with headphones and it didn't cause me any trouble.
It also made me lose significant weight in only two days, as noticed by my sister, the one in the family with a keen eye for these things. And it made me lose more hair than usual. But the craniofacial discomfort? Gone.
I've been off SSRIs for years. I have been listening to very little music. This makes me sad. I have tried peaty alternatives. Glycine, cyproheptadine, pregnenolone. Glycine seems to help somewhat. Vitamin D3 helps somewhat too. The feeling subsides a bit when I take them. But they're not as effective as the SSRIs. They only make me feel slightly better.
So then. What is it about the SSRIs? Why do they work so well for this issue? It's come to the point that I'm slightly contemplating shaving my head, forgetting about the hair loss and just getting on escitalopram. I don't even like how escitalopram makes me feel, it definitely gives me an artificial happiness and calm that is very different from the wholesome vigorous feeling that the Peat diet gives me. But peating doesn't help with the discomfort at all.
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I have already made some posts about my craniofacial discomfort problems. But I want to deal with the particular issue of listening to music. I'll attempt to be brief and clear.
I don't know of another forum where it would make sense to vent about this health problem and expect to be read by people who know their stuff and can maybe give helpful advice. I have made similar threads before, but I need to get this out.
Listening to music makes me feel nervous. Intensifies the feeling of discomfort on my face as well as my slight disjointedness while walking if I leave the house right afterwards. My face feels as if my teeth arches were all over the place, like a surrealistic painting. Sometimes it feels like the left side of my face is all teeth. Closing my left eye feels like closing a mouth with teeth on it.
The cavities corresponding to each eye feel large, loose, like the whole sides of my face were one big droopy eye-hole, particularly the left side, but the feeling seems to change places. It's as if there were force fields right over my face, indeed like the morphogenetic fields that give the the face its shape, competing among them, one over each eye and one over my nose and mouth and cheeks. Like there's borders between the fields and they're trying to encroach on one another. I can see the fields as dim colors when I close my eyes. The shapes are fluid. It sort of feels like I don't have a face.
This started, as I said in another posts, when I got my braces removed in the beginning of 2007. But here is the thing: for I think one or two years I used Samsung stereo speakers connected to a cheap PC speaker as my computer sound setup. Eventually one speaker started emitting louder sound than the other. So I attributed the onset of the discomfort to that. I also attributed it, superstitiously, to mysterious transcendent causes. Only ten years later would I realize many people had undergone similar problems to mine after having used orthodontic braces. It seems obvious to me now that having the shape of one's dental arches artificially changed could cause chronic craniofacial discomfort. I wish it would have occurred to me back then.
I have contacted the clinic recently and they have discarded the files pertaining to old patients, so I can't get a mold of my old teeth and see how the shape of my teeth has been changed.
In the end of 2008 I went to a psychiatrist for unrelated issues and she prescribed me venlafaxine. I took it and in less than ten minutes the discomfort had vanished. I have low metabolic inertia, for sure. I thought I had found the cure. I started listening to music on my mp3 player during bus rides to and from college. I listened to a lot of music. I took venlafaxine on and off until 2012, until the hair loss began. In 2014 I was dealing with serious anxiety and high blood pressure and went to another doctor. He prescribed me escitalopram and I reluctantly tried it. The discomfort was wonderfully gone again, my face and head felt completely normal. It was even more efficacious than venlafaxine. That day I watched a movie on the laptop with headphones and it didn't cause me any trouble.
It also made me lose significant weight in only two days, as noticed by my sister, the one in the family with a keen eye for these things. And it made me lose more hair than usual. But the craniofacial discomfort? Gone.
I've been off SSRIs for years. I have been listening to very little music. This makes me sad. I have tried peaty alternatives. Glycine, cyproheptadine, pregnenolone. Glycine seems to help somewhat. Vitamin D3 helps somewhat too. The feeling subsides a bit when I take them. But they're not as effective as the SSRIs. They only make me feel slightly better.
So then. What is it about the SSRIs? Why do they work so well for this issue? It's come to the point that I'm slightly contemplating shaving my head, forgetting about the hair loss and just getting on escitalopram. I don't even like how escitalopram makes me feel, it definitely gives me an artificial happiness and calm that is very different from the wholesome vigorous feeling that the Peat diet gives me. But peating doesn't help with the discomfort at all.