DEAR DR. GOTT: I have a problem I have never read about in any of your columns and I have read all of them. I am ashamed to go to my doctor because I am under a lot of stress right now. My husband of 64 years of marriage is in a nursing home with Alzheimer’s. Sometimes he knows me and other times he doesn’t. So here is the problem. I hear music in my head. It’s about to drive me mad. I even wake up in the morning with it. It’s a church hymn! What is causing it? Will it ever go away?
I am 87 years old and live alone. My daughter is a Godsend to me and lives about 30 minutes away. I do not have the nerve to tell her my problem. I figured I would tell you first because you have been a great help to me.
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