Every time I come home from work and try to relax, no matter where I am in the house, I start hearing this rapid beeping/shrieking noise. I asked my boyfriend about it and he said he couldn’t hear anything. I thought maybe an electronic device had been left on and was making noise, but I’ve checked everything and even flipped the breaker to kill it, but it’s always there.
I recently switched from seroquel to abilify, and as I was tapering the seroquel, I started hearing it. Accompanied by the noise is a fear that someone is watching me, and the noise is from a signal because they’re broadcasting my thoughts. I don’t want to go off this medication, and I can’t go up in dosage because of the side effects (akathisia) I experience. I’m losing weight with this med, and I can work 8 full hours a day for days and it’s no problem. This is something I’ve never experienced before.
I used to think the Japanese TV crew were responsible for the beeping noises on my scanner-even though I could clearly hear them setting up somewhere outside my house, it turned out to be the keyless entry/alarm in every darn vehicle that the neighbors owned.
Check to see if the fridge doors are open, the smoke detectors need new batteries, the computer/laptop sound is off, cell phone batteries charged…battery back-up going dead?
I have had ringing in my ears and it didn’t sound like that. It may be something external but it also may be a hallucination since it coincided with a med change. That’s great that you can work 8 hours for several days! I wish I could do that. I understand about having to keep the med dose manageable to avoid akathisia. I have the same problem. I still have delusions but the higher dose causes unbearable side effects. I hope you figure out what is causing the noise.