Question: My problems started with what was diagnosed as an occular migraine which I never had before in my life. i have had migraines but never one with an XXXXXXX I am an early riser but its being ignore that the day this happen I woke up at almost 11am instead of 7am. My Dr sent me to the ER to rule out a stroke. I had a CT, Bloodwork, MRI, EEG, BAER, VNG and Sonograms done of my neck and head. All normal. I am currently on a regimin of Topomax 100mg OD at HS. Taking Cambia at the onset of an intense headache and getting shots in my neck every 2 weeks at this point because since this day of the ER visit I have had headaches everyday. If I wasnt feeling pain in my head I has an insane sensitivity to light where I was wearing sunglasses indoors. In the more recent weeks the headaches are not as intense but still there but I am having other symptoms. I have looked them up online to come up with names which seem made up but here it goes. Exploding head syndrome. When I am trying to go to sleep I hear extremely loud bangs and crashes that jar me awake thinking they are real and in my room. I ask my husband who is wide awake and he didn't hear a thing. I started my search on auditory hallucinations because I was hearing things like music playing which I couldn't really tell what the song was or people having a conversation rooms away because I couldn't make out the conversation or who it even was. The kicker was a few mornings ago arounf 5am I woke up because I heard without a doubt the theme to The Price Is Right. I thought I was going crazy and asked my family who in the world was up watching TV that early in the morning. No one was up and I even went as far as asking if anyone had that as their ringtone. I should add that about 5 years ago I suddenly lost part of my hearing in my left ear mysteriously. Went to a number of Drs for that as well and no one could find the cause or solution. I have about a 40% loss and have a constant sound of white noise in that ear at all times too. I almost feel like I am going crazy at this point and do not know where to turn. I am currently seeing a Dr that I think this is out of her scope. I don't know who to go to or what tests to even go for or what is even wrong with me. What should I do?

Thank you so much for getting back to me so quickly. I have had the auditory happen before without the medication. Not often enough to even give a second thought until now. It seems now to be much more intense and more frequent. This morning I actually gave up trying to go back to sleep because the loud sounds I continually heard as I was falling to sleep kept waking me. I was so aggrivated. I understand that Botox helps the headaches. I am a type of person that believes that if your body is saying "ouch" its for a reason. Mine is doing this out of no where for no reason all. I have had no changes to anything. I need to know what the cause is as well as stopping it because I am honestly affraid there is something really wrong. I am also affraid if I just put a "bandaid" on it (botox) and make the pain go away then I am not ignoring the actual cause which could be serious. The Topomax has made me very tired but I have seems to adapt a little better to it lately. I have had only 8 headaches in the last 14 days so it seems to be helping a bit at 100 MG. I did have another XXXXXXX migraine (without any pain) in this 14 days but this one only lasted about 15-20 minutes and the XXXXXXX was in one eye, unlike the first one that lasted about 45 minutes and the XXXXXXX was in both eyes. Do you besides any other medication regimen have a seuggestion of any other tests that could possibly tell where the daily headaches (and at times migraines), light sensitivity, fatigue and now auditory hallucinations are coming from?