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Medical Mystery: Auditory Hallucinations were just one of her problems WKYC VIDEO COPYRIGHT

She thought she was losing her mind, but a medical mystery was taking her life. Lauren Wells started the pandemic in one of the most vulnerable places in Ohio: a nursing home near Toledo. By the end of May, Lauren had a promotion and move to Sandusky, but two months into her administrator job, strange things started happening. “My skin just felt very wrong, like a film being on it, or it felt sticky, I was also hearing music that really wasn't there, I was lying in bed and I heard seagulls and there were no seagulls,” Lauren said. The music sounded like elevator music, or like she was hearing static and talk radio, but there was no source for the sounds, which kept getting worse. “The hallucinations, auditory and tactile were just like taking over my life. It was all I could think about,” Lauren remembers. Physical symptoms too, including nausea and left side pain. Early one morning she couldn’t take it anymore and drove herself to the ER. Despite dozens of tests, doctors found nothing. “At this point, everyone thought it was psych-related. It was mental illness," Lauren told 3News' Monica Robins.