I'm pretty new to all of this - but, my husband was prescribed Mirtazapine and it had the most awful effect on him almost immediately. He was up in the night, very disorientated, saying odd things and he has never been the same since. I wanted the GP to report it
View 4 RepliesI've been on Ramipril (10mg) for about 10 months now and a couple of my BP checks were 140/90 which I thought was quite a good reading for my age (64) and better than the 170/90 that it was in the beginning.
I've just recently had a real bad cold that has lasted nearly 4 weeks so been dosing myself up on Lemsip Max. Only just found out that it's not advised for people on BP medication or with high BP so stopped taking it.
Finally went to doc for Antibiotics for Sinus headache and on doing a routine BP she said it was 160/90 and just wrote out a prescription for Amlodipine to be taken with the Ramipril. No discussion, no re-test. I thought that was a bit hasty. The GP who started me on the Ramipril took a lot more time to decide what would be best for me and to explain about it.
Took my first Amlodipine 2 days ago early evening and not long after felt really nauseous and sleepy. Couldn't bring myself to take the Ramipril as well so thought missing a night wouldn't hurt. Woke up in the morning feeling dizzy and disorientated. Felt "muzzy" headed all day. Took another one yesterday evening but still didn't add the Ramipril because I don't feel right. Have a tight feeling in my chest, nausea and anxiety.
After reading all this about Amlodipine I think I'm going to give them a miss and just continue with the Ramipril.
I posted in epilepsy earlier. I couldn't find the sleep boards. I am suspicious I have epilepsy but I wanted to see if anyone else has experience with this. I have severe sleep myoclonus that occurs every night all night. It causes me and jerk and I usually see a flash of light and hear a clicking sound. This occurs over and over so I hardly ever sleep. Does anyone have any experience with this?
View 1 RepliesI have just started on the 30m Mirtazapine and it's my 3rd night taking them ans i have read up on a lot of different forums that there are patients gaining weight off these? well i would like to know what the odds are of gaining weight because i have always had problems with weight gain, i can never put on any weight, no matter how much i eat, i have a fast metabolism and i am wondering, will the mirtazapine surpass my high metabolism. also in some cases i've heard it slows your metabolism down too.. but it would actually be a benefit for me to gain some extra weight.
View 5 RepliesFor the first time in a very long time, I'm finally in a good enough place to make the step in coming off my Anti-depressant. I've been on Mirtazapine 45mg for the last 4/5 years and before that a string of various of medications.
Despite my anxiety been kind of excessive at the moment, after a discussion with my GP, he was happy to let me begin tapering down the dose. The problem is with my anxiety I feel it mainly physically rather than mentally so it makes me a little oversensitive to any changes that take place in my body.
I guess what I am searching for is some reassurance so I can stop driving myself up the wall, exhausting google search on mirtazapine withdrawal. 6 nights ago I started my first reduction so 45 mg to 30mg. In all honesty it's not been that bad, a few waves of nausea, headaches and random aches and pains. Those I was expecting so don't mind too much. The trouble is that for the last 3 days, I've found myself a little short of breath for most of the day. It's nothing that's outwardly noticeable at the moment, but it's there and is slightly concerning. Has anyone else experienced this when tapering?
I'm kind of freaked out a little because one of my fears that's arisen since the mirtazapine is the that i will develop random allergies and my brain is wondering if I've suddenly developed an allergy to my meds (ridiculous, I know!) The other thing is that the rest of my family has had either viral chest problems lately so maybe I've just picked up that and it's a coincidence? Or it could just be the anxiety.
I'm totally spinning myself in circles at the moment so any wise words are most welcome at this point. If I know it is just withdrawal and nothing that can actually hurt me then I'm fine with whatever effects it throws at me.
I am going away for a conference on the 20th of Feb and dreading the thought of what I am going to eat. It is a full day event and my boss is planning on taking the team out for a meal afterwards which I cannot get out of since we are all travelling together. What kind of things could I eat? I was thinking maybe a salad with dressing on the side?
View 1 RepliesI'm a first time mom, is there anything wacky I should know about the 3rd trimester? :)
View 11 RepliesMy friend that has HIV has cut his hand but instead of using a band-aid he left his cut uncovered. He has used my computer (keyboard and mouse) for a while and has served drinks. The cut is not that big, it was a small cut at his finger, should I be worried?
What are the chances of getting HIV from drinking small drops of his blood?
Is it risky to type using the keyboard?
How long the virus survive in the outside environment?
I was told many years ago I had a hemorrhoid. Lately it's been bleeding a lot more. It's an oval shape it's hard and has good size hole in it. Sometimes string like things come out of it when I wipe. It seems like it's on the inside of the butt cheek, not on the anal wall. It's near it though.
View 1 RepliesI get anxiety when people or things change.... even people I do not know. Today at work I heard that a child who is two years old is on her last days due to numerous problems. I felt anxiety shoot through my body even though I do not know this child. I know we all feel sad when we hear something like this but I cannot understand my body reaction to this. Another example is that there is a house behind me which is now sold and I feel anxiety that they are leaving even though I have never met them and I dont even know their names. What is this....I don't understand my feelings.
View 4 Replies3 days ago I decided to stop taking mirtazapine 45 mg but since then I have not had any appetite for any foods at all. Is this a normal symptom.
View 1 Repliesi've been having weird problems i have been getting extremely depressed lately and i've been hearing things in my head which makes me lose my mind because its painful to think about it and i just end up having a panic attack and i don't know what to do. i don't even know what's wrong with me but i feel like im suffering can anybody help me. if there's anything wrong what should i do. if theirs a treatment please help me because it's killing me more and more inside i am also a 17 year old male and i have a history of high blood pressure.
View 2 RepliesThe reason I'm here is because every time I'm having a conversation with anybody (and even while i'm on my own) my mind keep thinking about a lot of other things, making me lose focus on what's going on in the moment and making me forget important stuff due to the fact that while I was being told these important details, my mind was just jumping to other less relevant issues.This situation has been a big problem in my life recently and I'm wondering if this is a common situation and how to treat/solve it?
View 1 RepliesI just wondered if any of you guys see things in the corner off your eyes like flashes and things going across the room and floaters..
View 11 Repliesi had my last period at the beginning of the year and although I'm happy to see the back of them I have since had numerous flare ups and the itching has been ridiculous, it has me demented through the night. Has anyone else had the same experience.
View 8 RepliesI know this sounds weird but my chronic sinusitis has me completely bedridden and has been for almost 2 years now and I haven't been able to work etc. anyway, my last CT scan showed massive inflammation and infection on the left side of my head primarily in the maxillary sinus.
It seems since I've been using the Neti bottle every day that I've gotten so much worse and consequentially my fatigue and weakness has been absolutely debilitating. My question is, has anybody ever heard of the Neti bottle or Neti pot making their sinus infection worse?? Thanks for reading.
I am a 57 yr old male not currently on any medication. I have recently been having very short term memory loss.By recently I mean the last several weeks. For example I needed to move my sons car. I walk into the house to get the keys. By the time I walk into the house I have forgotten why I went in. I have to pause for a few moments to think why I came into the house. That is just one example. This happens to me many times a day. At work I need another tool from my truck or tool bag. I move across the room to my tool bag or walk to my truck and I have to think what I needed. I mean, I have forgotten what I needed within seconds of moving to get the object. This is becoming very annoying. Can diet have anything to do with this. I don't often get to eat breakfast and just something quick for lunch. Though I do have a full dinner. Although this happens whether I have eaten or not. I am planning on calling my doctor this week to see if he can point me in a direction for help but I was just very curious to see what people had to say about this and whether they have had any of these problems also.
View 2 RepliesMy physician hasn't been very helpful on the matter of brain fog. I can't focus. I am constantly losing my train of thought and half the time can not speak without sounding like I just had something along the lines of a stroke. I sometimes can't form a complete thought. I've had Fibromyalgia since I was a child and I'm used to the pain, it's just a part of my life now, but the fog seems to be worsening. It's hard to even write this because I keep losing track of the topic.
It's putting my job on the line. I can barely function. I'm feeling like I can't do anything right. I have a hard time processing what people are saying to me and everyone is so tired of having to repeat themselves, and people are always yelling at me for constantly forgetting things and it's like I'm in a constant state of confusion. It's like my brain is tired. I had to make a PA a while back to the customers at work and I had to have someone help me because I couldn't think, and I couldn't get the words out and I told them, very slowly, "help please make this PA, I can't do words right".
Before I forget what my point was, I'm asking if there's something that can be done, on my own. I'm barely functioning, and need some advice. My doctor wasn't very helpful at all, and he won't hear me out. He won't refer me to pain management because he wants to take care of this himself, which he isn't doing. He has me on Tramadol and while it helps take the pain from a 9 to a 4, it definitely makes the fibro fog worse.
Is anyone else dealing with this? What do you do to help it? I'm only 22 and I feel like fibro fog is going to destroy my future.
Does this sound like how anxiety works to you? I feel like I become so afraid of the things that have made me feel scared in the past. And, of course, with anxiety, the things that have made me feel scared form a very long list.
This then is what keeps anxiety going. For example, "once I had a panic attack while waking up, now I always feel scared when getting up in the morning".
Does this sound familiar?
So I've had constant pain in my wrist for the last 6 months, more often when I bowl, it's very sharp pain and the more i bowl the more it hurst, it also hurts when I lift things as well.
View 1 RepliesI'm 18 and have a lot of issues with some tendons and joints and dealing with pain, especially in my left wrist. I've never injured it. It developed so that there was nothing actually holding my thumb in place and was pretty much dislocated, so I had an operation to take tendon from my arm and use it to stabilize my thumb. That worked fine, now my thumb is better.
However, the wrist has always had problems to. Being in a cast for over two months made all of the problems worse. My wrist got so stiff, most of my physical therapy time was used to try and loosen it up.
I had an X-ray today and my doctor said it's actually gotten a lot worse. There's this moon / crescent shaped bone, and it's dislocating on it's own. It's very out of place now. None of bones in my left wrist look normal. They just grew to be this way.
Anyway, I have three options. One is to just leave my wrist as is and wear my brace, but I don't want to just leave it because when I take the brace off and try to move my wrist around and stretch/strengthen it, it hurts so so much. Another options to take out a couple of bones and form a new joint, which will help a little bit with pain and leave me with some mobility (but not much). Even if I do this, I'll have to get a total wrist fusion in about 10 years. Third option is to just get the wrist fusion surgery now, which will solve the pain problem but my wrist will never move up and down again.
My mother wants me to get the surgery where they form a new joint that leaves some mobility. She said that would be best, since they're always coming up with new technology and surgery and "in 10 years, you might not even need the fusion because they figured out something new!" (Her words, lol)
I don't really agree with her. I now just want to get the fusion surgery over-with already. It'll probably be easier to adapt because I'm a teen, but if I wait, I'll be in my late twenties and needing a full fusion.
Yet, I'm worried that having my wrist fused will prevent me from doing simple little things I like, such as playing video games, sculpting, lifting my niece, get my first job, etc. Will I be able to do stuff like this? I know it seems dumb, but I'm worried about it.
Anyone else have problems like mine? My doctor think all my problems are connect and I might have a genetic condition(s) that caused my body to develop this way. My wrist is messed up, my elbow doesn't extend all the way, one knee is very slightly higher than the other, knee pain, extremely high arches in my feet and hammer toes, etc. It all causes pain, but I can still function. I only take an over-the-counter pain med, but I'm certain it's all going to get worse as I get older. Walking around the store makes my feet swell up and my knee throb. As of right now, slight movements in my wrist cause a lot of pain. That bone that is dislocating itself sort of "catches" on something in there and hurts a lot.