DS1 was in tears last night at bedtime, he says he keeps hearing someone shouting his name in his head!!!!!

[MegaLegs]

Freaked me out slightly. He came into bathroom where I was bathing DS4 and asked me why I kept calling him. Told him I hadn't. He responded by clapping his hands over his ears, bursting into tears and telling me "It's horrible, I can hear a voice shouting my name in my ears and it won't stop!"

Calmed him and tried to reassure him that as he had just had a bad cold and has always suffered very severe glue ear after a cold it was probably the gunk in his ears moving about.

Have booked appointment at hearing clinic.

He is usually very calm and straight forward - quite unusual for him to be like this.

Maybe a tinitus sort of thing? I'm pretty sure he's not posessed!.

This is one of those threads where I shall just wonder aloud isn't it ?

Would be interested to hear if anyone has experienced similar though.

Poor ds. Bump for you

I haven't experienced this before, but I have had an ear infection and can say it one of the most painful and disorientating things I have ever suffered.

Had he just woken up when he said this to you? If so, could he have been dreaming?

Can I ask how old he is?

He is 8.

ILTMIMI - No he was wide awake, just before bedtime.

Megalegs, my dd1 has on 2 occasions complained about voices in her head as well. This was when she was really tired, had a very busy time at school (just started in year 1); she said someone in her head was talking to her and being mean.

I have to admit it did worry me slightly. I did the same as you, tried to calm her, talked about it (which helped), told her not to worry and to tell us if it happened again (which it did, once).

I'm still not 100% sure what happened, but there did seem to be a link with her mind being in overdrive, what with all the new experiences she was going through. I am keeping an eye open for this kind of thing though.

DOn't know if this helps, but thought I'd let you know.

Thanks julen. It's not something I have evre come across before so I feel quite stumped by it.

I don't really want to post this but you asked for general opinions and I would feel bad for not mentioning it.

This happened to my younger cousin but over a long period of time - aged 6 to about 9.

Over time and a number of tests they diagnosed that he had a small brain tumour which was pressing on part of his brain and causing the voices.
I must stress that he had an operation to remove the tumour and is now 16 years old and in fantastic health.

I only mention it because when I read your op it struck a chord with me.

If this is a one off or only happens once or twice, then I would definitely think julen's advice is correct.

I really don't want to worry you I promise you that. I hope it's just a one off and linked to his cold. Which I'm sure it will be.

Shit - that is quite scarey. What other symptoms did your cousin have?

That's the thing, his voices were coupled with very bad headaches and he would hear them a lot. I think now we know what it was, it was quite obvious from the combination of symptoms that it was something more serious.
When he was younger he couldn't articulate what was happening very well but as he got to 8/9 it was quite regular and he could clearly explain what it was like and when it was happening.

That leads me to think that for your ds it really was linked to his cold and it was a one off.

If you want anymore advice or info I can speak to my aunty for you.

But honestly I don't want to worry you I truly don't think it is that serious for your ds.

My dd used to say she was hearing voices in her head aournd this age .She described it as someone shouting at her in a really fast way.
She got them when she was worried about something.

She stopped getting them eventually and now at 16 I don't think she hears anything.

whar does the voice sound like? is it nasty to him? i am a developing medium and i hear of experiences like this a fair few times on mn. the best thing to do is keep calm when he tells you and ask for as much detail as you can. keep a diary and go to your nearest spiritualist church. he is not going mad so please don't worry and do also go to your docs to rule out any physical causes, then go to the s/church. to find your nearest one, visit www.snu.org.uk

good luck xxx

He says it sounds like my voice, but echoey and it sounds like I'm saying his name which is a sort, single syllable word. Says it's not a nasty voice. It has happend at school today. I'm not going to mention it again to him and see if he says anymore about it.

No unusual headaches. I'm pretty sure it's gunky ears after his cold. He has had many probs in past with glue ear and wax build up. Clinic can see him next week.

He seems to be his usual laid back cheery self. I don't think anything is worrying him.

short not sort.

GS started saying this a few weeks ago - turned out it was just when he was daydreaming or thinking about something and my calling him draged him out of his own little world.

I used to get this a bit when I was younger. I'd get it as I was resting or drifting off to sleep. It would snap me out of my dream/daydream rather rapidly (and annoyingly).

I dont get it now (well - very VERY rarely).

I dont know what to say really except to seek advice from the GP if it keeps on, or there are other problems/symptoms.

I suffer with tinitus and I have the same thing happen to me. Lately though it has not been words that I can hear, but DD (7 weeks) crying.
It is odd, especially as she is sometimes asleep in my arms at the time. I find it gets worse if I have a cold or blocked ears.

any chance he has this horrible flu bug? I have it and was convieced I was being sick all over my bed!! I ended up searching for it, pulling covers back etc. Maybe its that

Yes, I get tinitus sometimes, especially if I have been out in cold wind. It's as if I can still hear the wind blowing mixed with a sort of clicking rumbley noise.

lisa - he had the horrible flu bug over Christmas and it left him really bunged up which usually results in the glue ear prob.

I used to get this too - a bit older than your ds - about 13. I used to hear a voice of a woman shouting at me (and I could almost see her too - she looked a bit like Olive Oyl!). She was horrible and she used to come when I was stressed at school.

I grew out of it - these sort of things always sound worrying but in my case it didn't mean anything.

Megalegs - I agree with Julen, as ds2 did this for about three years, off and on. He could hear someone shouting in ihis head, sometimes at him, sometimes at another vouce. He would describe it as being on the edge of hearing so that he could almost understand what was said, but not quite. As he was going through a very stressful time at school at the time we were very worried that it was a mental symptom, but it all faded away in time. TBH I think it was related to stress, but he had grommets as a toddler for very severe glue ear and temporary total hearing loss, so it may be that his inner ear construction is similar to your sons. With the greatest respect to Fransmom and to all mediums, I am totally certain that this may happen again from time to time but he will grow out of it, as other posters have said. We found that by not allowing ds to get stressed about the voices it went away more quickly. HTH