Re: Question/Jodi/ALL//LOOONG

[Guest guest]

Hi,

Yes,I guess you could say it was a bit what we needed

to hear.I understand each and every person is

different and what they go through is different but it

still is nice and comforting to know others have been

through similar stuff and understand and are

supportive.I thank you for your post.I know Jodi seems

to be in " the hard time " right now of withdrawal,I am

in a bit of a better or should I say different place.I

am struggling with the mourning of my old body,old

strong self,and trying to find some sort of acceptance

of how things are for me now.Also not knowing how long

all this will last or ever go away at all is enough to

make anyone down.I used to be a very active

person,both mentally and physically.Now I have

psychical trouble doing anything and just regular

household duties let alone other types of stuff like

hiking or taking my dog for a long walk like I used to

enjoy and be able to do.I am more of in a

frustrating,angry place wanting to go and do and

cant,and angry at the doctor that carelessly caused

all this.I feel he should be accountable but don't

know how to go about even that.

I will try to give basics of my story as short as it

is possible:

I have been on and off MANY,MANY different kinds of

meds over about maybe 5-6 years.Basically for mild

depression,just from stress and having things get to

me to a point of bringing me down.But really looking

back on it all I was caught up in the medicine guinea

pig cycle and being jerked around from one to another

so it is no wonder I was having trouble.Anyway,I was

off meds for a pretty good chunk of time at one point

in 05

and was going through a very stressful time.Trying to

sell a house,find another one,and move.LONG

stories,but the stress was getting to me and stupid me

listened to my councilor(at the time)who said maybe

you should go back on melds,it might help,even for a

while,I needed a " jump start " .HA Well,I listened to

her,wish I didn't,went back to the guy(Dr.)in her

office I really never liked from the start.He was the

guy jerking me around on meds for a long time already.

Anyway,in June of 05 he put me on LAMICTAL!He never

should have,there was never enough reason to put me on

such a med.In the first week of taking it my legs were

hurting and I had trouble going up a flight of stairs

when I was at the mall with my kids.I called him,of

course it took 3 calls later to talk to him.He

dismissed me,said " he never heard of that happening "

and advised to keep taking it.Stupid me did,for about

3 months,I then weaned off as I could take the

discomfort anymore and my legs and feet hurt.I was off

by Sept.early Oct.of 05. I started going through

hell,I didn't know at the time what was going on.My

pain was escalating everywhere.My back was killing me

like someone was stabbing me,my face,legs,arm,were

tingling,

things got worse and worse.Long short,I ended up in

the hospital for 5

days,shaking(tremors),stuttering,couldn't walk,muscle

weakness,pain.The doctors didn't know what the hell

was going on,they still don't for that matter even

though now I do.After 5 days I was discharged,they

never did give me a diagnosis but did make psycho

babble

implications like a possible conversion reaction or

disorder.Which I will say is TOTAL crap and I have

read all about it and it isn't me!I was sent home to

lick my wounds,no answers,and struggle to walk and

very slowly

get my strength back.No meds. In Feb 05 I had my

period bad,a migraine headache,cramps,back hurt etc.At

1:30 in the afternoon Feb 2nd I took a 500mg

Hydrocodine.I felt better and laid around all

afternoon.At night it was all getting bad again.At

10:30 at night since I was going to bed and didn't

think I needed anything as strong as before I took a

375mg Naproxin.Went to bed.

I was JERKED AWAKE at 6 am in full anaphalatic shock.

I made it to the kitchen floor,muffled to my son who

was still sleeping.He came out and found me wheezing

on the floor and called 911 BLESS HIS HEART! I made it

to the bathroom and tried to get on the toilet but

couldn't even stay upright.The paramedics found me on

the floor,pants down(how humiliating),laying in my

urine,feces,wheezing on the floor.In the ambulance I

went,some shot slammed in my arm that hurt like hell

and off to ER.Sent home the same afternoon after that

ordeal,cannot take any pain meds at all,no

NASAIDS,only Tylenol.NO MEDS.

I had gone after that back to the doctor who dealt

with me back on Nov.05 for a follow-up from the ER.She

just pushed me off to a allergist.(I have since gotten

my records from her and the page from when I came in

after Feb. said " possible conversion reaction " ?)I

almost flipped as if it wasn't for my son,poor kid 12

at the time,I wouldn't be here!I got a new doctor.(not

much better though)No meds from Feb 06 to September.In

response to my complaints of trouble sleeping,my

doctor gave me 5-7 days of samples of Lunesta.She

wrote a prescription but it never got filled.After

taking it for the 5-7 days,I had no more.All of a

sudden my legs were getting like bricks AGAIN,like

what happened last

November,it scared me and I ran back to my doctor.I

said something is wrong,like what happened last

year.She looked me over,my face was twitching again,my

tongue quivering,fingers twitching back and forth,what

they call fasculations. She then gets on the phone and

speaks to a neurologist on the phone.She was thinking

I had either secondary Parkinson's or early onset

Parkinson's disease.WHATEVER! She put me on

Sinemet!This was just this past October 06.The first

week I had side effect,my neck was killing me,hot

flashes,sweating,BUT the good side effects were the

best " at the time " ,I had total euphoria,high,felt

HAPPY,

was even laughing for no reason and my daughter said

what's so funny Mom " .LOL The withdrawal part when the

meds started to wear off was the worst and worse then

before I was given any,It was upped and upped.I got to

4X's a day every 5 hours and felt good.My legs were

strong,I was cleaning my house,and then was sent to

that stupid Neurologist from the phone. He said to

stop taking the Sinemet one tab a day over 3

weeks.Geesh,so I go home and do as he says.As soon as

I cut out one pill within a day my body was

freaking.My face was twitching,that night after my med

at 10 pm a got a rash on my left leg.I was like

great,here we go again,I hadn't seen that rash in 3

years since I WAS ON EFFEXOR!

I took Benadryl and went to bed.Well,don't ya know I

was JERKED AWAKE AGAIN,the same way like in Feb.My

head was spinning and pounding,I was soaked in sweat

and passed out.I woke again at 6 am with swollen hands

and hives!

Yet I to this day have had 3 doctors say to me " I have

prescribe Sinemet to hundreds of patients and none

ever allergic to it " ! Like they don't believe me or

something!I never took any more.I ended up in October

at the ER 3 times with shortness of breath and

difficulty breathing,heart palpitations and chest

pain.

In November,the last medication I have taken,and the

last one I will ever take as far as I'm concerned,was

Zythromax for a sinus infection,again a side effect of

taking the other med.I took ONE 500 mg tablet and

within an hour had trouble breathing,hour 1/2 chest

pain,diarrhea.This went on for a week or so and

Benadryl was my best friend again and still is.

Here I am,now living with ALL the after math.I have

terrible muscle cramps in my legs,my right worse than

me left,the muscle above my knee is like a rock and is

there hurting 24-7 all the time,nothing relieves it.I

have vision trouble which I never had before Lamictal,

always 20/20 vision and now cant read.My legs do not

have normal strengh and tire very quickly and hurt all

the time.

I could go on and on but I'll spare you any more.This

is where I am now.I am better than last year in

October,but this Sinemet ordeal I feel damaged me more

and set me back all over again.No doctor can even

confirm what is wrong!

Thanks for listening,sorry so long,that's another

reason I dint post it before.

Beth

--- magnoliaig <LEstill491@...> wrote:

>

> >

> > > Thanks Beth I was wondering if there was anyone

> on

> > > this group who was

> > > encouraging. I appreciate that. I too have a

> story.

> > > Typed so many times just can't

> > > do it no more hahaha. I am on 7 days OFF. and I

> > > still feel like crap and have

> > > the brain waves. I will NEVER go on an

> > > antidepressant again. EVER. Still

> > > battling but winning the war. I just wish I knew

> > > when the end would come. Thanks

> > > again. Jodi

> > >

> > >

> > > [Non-text portions of this message have been

> > > removed]

> > >

> > >

> >

> >

> > Owned By:

>

=== message truncated ===

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U2 " Dori " (White Chicken)

CAG " Oliver "

Lovie " Peaches "

Std.Poodle " "

Katrina Mutt " Dixie "

Hubby " " and 2 Rug Rats " Elisha & Ben "

God Bless All Creatures Great & Small,We Too Love Them All!

________________________________________________________________________________\

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[Guest guest]

Hi,

Yes,I guess you could say it was a bit what we needed

to hear.I understand each and every person is

different and what they go through is different but it

still is nice and comforting to know others have been

through similar stuff and understand and are

supportive.I thank you for your post.I know Jodi seems

to be in " the hard time " right now of withdrawal,I am

in a bit of a better or should I say different place.I

am struggling with the mourning of my old body,old

strong self,and trying to find some sort of acceptance

of how things are for me now.Also not knowing how long

all this will last or ever go away at all is enough to

make anyone down.I used to be a very active

person,both mentally and physically.Now I have

psychical trouble doing anything and just regular

household duties let alone other types of stuff like

hiking or taking my dog for a long walk like I used to

enjoy and be able to do.I am more of in a

frustrating,angry place wanting to go and do and

cant,and angry at the doctor that carelessly caused

all this.I feel he should be accountable but don't

know how to go about even that.

I will try to give basics of my story as short as it

is possible:

I have been on and off MANY,MANY different kinds of

meds over about maybe 5-6 years.Basically for mild

depression,just from stress and having things get to

me to a point of bringing me down.But really looking

back on it all I was caught up in the medicine guinea

pig cycle and being jerked around from one to another

so it is no wonder I was having trouble.Anyway,I was

off meds for a pretty good chunk of time at one point

in 05

and was going through a very stressful time.Trying to

sell a house,find another one,and move.LONG

stories,but the stress was getting to me and stupid me

listened to my councilor(at the time)who said maybe

you should go back on melds,it might help,even for a

while,I needed a " jump start " .HA Well,I listened to

her,wish I didn't,went back to the guy(Dr.)in her

office I really never liked from the start.He was the

guy jerking me around on meds for a long time already.

Anyway,in June of 05 he put me on LAMICTAL!He never

should have,there was never enough reason to put me on

such a med.In the first week of taking it my legs were

hurting and I had trouble going up a flight of stairs

when I was at the mall with my kids.I called him,of

course it took 3 calls later to talk to him.He

dismissed me,said " he never heard of that happening "

and advised to keep taking it.Stupid me did,for about

3 months,I then weaned off as I could take the

discomfort anymore and my legs and feet hurt.I was off

by Sept.early Oct.of 05. I started going through

hell,I didn't know at the time what was going on.My

pain was escalating everywhere.My back was killing me

like someone was stabbing me,my face,legs,arm,were

tingling,

things got worse and worse.Long short,I ended up in

the hospital for 5

days,shaking(tremors),stuttering,couldn't walk,muscle

weakness,pain.The doctors didn't know what the hell

was going on,they still don't for that matter even

though now I do.After 5 days I was discharged,they

never did give me a diagnosis but did make psycho

babble

implications like a possible conversion reaction or

disorder.Which I will say is TOTAL crap and I have

read all about it and it isn't me!I was sent home to

lick my wounds,no answers,and struggle to walk and

very slowly

get my strength back.No meds. In Feb 05 I had my

period bad,a migraine headache,cramps,back hurt etc.At

1:30 in the afternoon Feb 2nd I took a 500mg

Hydrocodine.I felt better and laid around all

afternoon.At night it was all getting bad again.At

10:30 at night since I was going to bed and didn't

think I needed anything as strong as before I took a

375mg Naproxin.Went to bed.

I was JERKED AWAKE at 6 am in full anaphalatic shock.

I made it to the kitchen floor,muffled to my son who

was still sleeping.He came out and found me wheezing

on the floor and called 911 BLESS HIS HEART! I made it

to the bathroom and tried to get on the toilet but

couldn't even stay upright.The paramedics found me on

the floor,pants down(how humiliating),laying in my

urine,feces,wheezing on the floor.In the ambulance I

went,some shot slammed in my arm that hurt like hell

and off to ER.Sent home the same afternoon after that

ordeal,cannot take any pain meds at all,no

NASAIDS,only Tylenol.NO MEDS.

I had gone after that back to the doctor who dealt

with me back on Nov.05 for a follow-up from the ER.She

just pushed me off to a allergist.(I have since gotten

my records from her and the page from when I came in

after Feb. said " possible conversion reaction " ?)I

almost flipped as if it wasn't for my son,poor kid 12

at the time,I wouldn't be here!I got a new doctor.(not

much better though)No meds from Feb 06 to September.In

response to my complaints of trouble sleeping,my

doctor gave me 5-7 days of samples of Lunesta.She

wrote a prescription but it never got filled.After

taking it for the 5-7 days,I had no more.All of a

sudden my legs were getting like bricks AGAIN,like

what happened last

November,it scared me and I ran back to my doctor.I

said something is wrong,like what happened last

year.She looked me over,my face was twitching again,my

tongue quivering,fingers twitching back and forth,what

they call fasculations. She then gets on the phone and

speaks to a neurologist on the phone.She was thinking

I had either secondary Parkinson's or early onset

Parkinson's disease.WHATEVER! She put me on

Sinemet!This was just this past October 06.The first

week I had side effect,my neck was killing me,hot

flashes,sweating,BUT the good side effects were the

best " at the time " ,I had total euphoria,high,felt

HAPPY,

was even laughing for no reason and my daughter said

what's so funny Mom " .LOL The withdrawal part when the

meds started to wear off was the worst and worse then

before I was given any,It was upped and upped.I got to

4X's a day every 5 hours and felt good.My legs were

strong,I was cleaning my house,and then was sent to

that stupid Neurologist from the phone. He said to

stop taking the Sinemet one tab a day over 3

weeks.Geesh,so I go home and do as he says.As soon as

I cut out one pill within a day my body was

freaking.My face was twitching,that night after my med

at 10 pm a got a rash on my left leg.I was like

great,here we go again,I hadn't seen that rash in 3

years since I WAS ON EFFEXOR!

I took Benadryl and went to bed.Well,don't ya know I

was JERKED AWAKE AGAIN,the same way like in Feb.My

head was spinning and pounding,I was soaked in sweat

and passed out.I woke again at 6 am with swollen hands

and hives!

Yet I to this day have had 3 doctors say to me " I have

prescribe Sinemet to hundreds of patients and none

ever allergic to it " ! Like they don't believe me or

something!I never took any more.I ended up in October

at the ER 3 times with shortness of breath and

difficulty breathing,heart palpitations and chest

pain.

In November,the last medication I have taken,and the

last one I will ever take as far as I'm concerned,was

Zythromax for a sinus infection,again a side effect of

taking the other med.I took ONE 500 mg tablet and

within an hour had trouble breathing,hour 1/2 chest

pain,diarrhea.This went on for a week or so and

Benadryl was my best friend again and still is.

Here I am,now living with ALL the after math.I have

terrible muscle cramps in my legs,my right worse than

me left,the muscle above my knee is like a rock and is

there hurting 24-7 all the time,nothing relieves it.I

have vision trouble which I never had before Lamictal,

always 20/20 vision and now cant read.My legs do not

have normal strengh and tire very quickly and hurt all

the time.

I could go on and on but I'll spare you any more.This

is where I am now.I am better than last year in

October,but this Sinemet ordeal I feel damaged me more

and set me back all over again.No doctor can even

confirm what is wrong!

Thanks for listening,sorry so long,that's another

reason I dint post it before.

Beth

--- magnoliaig <LEstill491@...> wrote:

>

> >

> > > Thanks Beth I was wondering if there was anyone

> on

> > > this group who was

> > > encouraging. I appreciate that. I too have a

> story.

> > > Typed so many times just can't

> > > do it no more hahaha. I am on 7 days OFF. and I

> > > still feel like crap and have

> > > the brain waves. I will NEVER go on an

> > > antidepressant again. EVER. Still

> > > battling but winning the war. I just wish I knew

> > > when the end would come. Thanks

> > > again. Jodi

> > >

> > >

> > > [Non-text portions of this message have been

> > > removed]

> > >

> > >

> >

> >

> > Owned By:

>

=== message truncated ===

Owned By:

U2 " Dori " (White Chicken)

CAG " Oliver "

Lovie " Peaches "

Std.Poodle " "

Katrina Mutt " Dixie "

Hubby " " and 2 Rug Rats " Elisha & Ben "

God Bless All Creatures Great & Small,We Too Love Them All!

________________________________________________________________________________\

____

Want to start your own business?

Learn how on Small Business.

http://smallbusiness./r-index

[Guest guest]

Hi,

Yes,I guess you could say it was a bit what we needed

to hear.I understand each and every person is

different and what they go through is different but it

still is nice and comforting to know others have been

through similar stuff and understand and are

supportive.I thank you for your post.I know Jodi seems

to be in " the hard time " right now of withdrawal,I am

in a bit of a better or should I say different place.I

am struggling with the mourning of my old body,old

strong self,and trying to find some sort of acceptance

of how things are for me now.Also not knowing how long

all this will last or ever go away at all is enough to

make anyone down.I used to be a very active

person,both mentally and physically.Now I have

psychical trouble doing anything and just regular

household duties let alone other types of stuff like

hiking or taking my dog for a long walk like I used to

enjoy and be able to do.I am more of in a

frustrating,angry place wanting to go and do and

cant,and angry at the doctor that carelessly caused

all this.I feel he should be accountable but don't

know how to go about even that.

I will try to give basics of my story as short as it

is possible:

I have been on and off MANY,MANY different kinds of

meds over about maybe 5-6 years.Basically for mild

depression,just from stress and having things get to

me to a point of bringing me down.But really looking

back on it all I was caught up in the medicine guinea

pig cycle and being jerked around from one to another

so it is no wonder I was having trouble.Anyway,I was

off meds for a pretty good chunk of time at one point

in 05

and was going through a very stressful time.Trying to

sell a house,find another one,and move.LONG

stories,but the stress was getting to me and stupid me

listened to my councilor(at the time)who said maybe

you should go back on melds,it might help,even for a

while,I needed a " jump start " .HA Well,I listened to

her,wish I didn't,went back to the guy(Dr.)in her

office I really never liked from the start.He was the

guy jerking me around on meds for a long time already.

Anyway,in June of 05 he put me on LAMICTAL!He never

should have,there was never enough reason to put me on

such a med.In the first week of taking it my legs were

hurting and I had trouble going up a flight of stairs

when I was at the mall with my kids.I called him,of

course it took 3 calls later to talk to him.He

dismissed me,said " he never heard of that happening "

and advised to keep taking it.Stupid me did,for about

3 months,I then weaned off as I could take the

discomfort anymore and my legs and feet hurt.I was off

by Sept.early Oct.of 05. I started going through

hell,I didn't know at the time what was going on.My

pain was escalating everywhere.My back was killing me

like someone was stabbing me,my face,legs,arm,were

tingling,

things got worse and worse.Long short,I ended up in

the hospital for 5

days,shaking(tremors),stuttering,couldn't walk,muscle

weakness,pain.The doctors didn't know what the hell

was going on,they still don't for that matter even

though now I do.After 5 days I was discharged,they

never did give me a diagnosis but did make psycho

babble

implications like a possible conversion reaction or

disorder.Which I will say is TOTAL crap and I have

read all about it and it isn't me!I was sent home to

lick my wounds,no answers,and struggle to walk and

very slowly

get my strength back.No meds. In Feb 05 I had my

period bad,a migraine headache,cramps,back hurt etc.At

1:30 in the afternoon Feb 2nd I took a 500mg

Hydrocodine.I felt better and laid around all

afternoon.At night it was all getting bad again.At

10:30 at night since I was going to bed and didn't

think I needed anything as strong as before I took a

375mg Naproxin.Went to bed.

I was JERKED AWAKE at 6 am in full anaphalatic shock.

I made it to the kitchen floor,muffled to my son who

was still sleeping.He came out and found me wheezing

on the floor and called 911 BLESS HIS HEART! I made it

to the bathroom and tried to get on the toilet but

couldn't even stay upright.The paramedics found me on

the floor,pants down(how humiliating),laying in my

urine,feces,wheezing on the floor.In the ambulance I

went,some shot slammed in my arm that hurt like hell

and off to ER.Sent home the same afternoon after that

ordeal,cannot take any pain meds at all,no

NASAIDS,only Tylenol.NO MEDS.

I had gone after that back to the doctor who dealt

with me back on Nov.05 for a follow-up from the ER.She

just pushed me off to a allergist.(I have since gotten

my records from her and the page from when I came in

after Feb. said " possible conversion reaction " ?)I

almost flipped as if it wasn't for my son,poor kid 12

at the time,I wouldn't be here!I got a new doctor.(not

much better though)No meds from Feb 06 to September.In

response to my complaints of trouble sleeping,my

doctor gave me 5-7 days of samples of Lunesta.She

wrote a prescription but it never got filled.After

taking it for the 5-7 days,I had no more.All of a

sudden my legs were getting like bricks AGAIN,like

what happened last

November,it scared me and I ran back to my doctor.I

said something is wrong,like what happened last

year.She looked me over,my face was twitching again,my

tongue quivering,fingers twitching back and forth,what

they call fasculations. She then gets on the phone and

speaks to a neurologist on the phone.She was thinking

I had either secondary Parkinson's or early onset

Parkinson's disease.WHATEVER! She put me on

Sinemet!This was just this past October 06.The first

week I had side effect,my neck was killing me,hot

flashes,sweating,BUT the good side effects were the

best " at the time " ,I had total euphoria,high,felt

HAPPY,

was even laughing for no reason and my daughter said

what's so funny Mom " .LOL The withdrawal part when the

meds started to wear off was the worst and worse then

before I was given any,It was upped and upped.I got to

4X's a day every 5 hours and felt good.My legs were

strong,I was cleaning my house,and then was sent to

that stupid Neurologist from the phone. He said to

stop taking the Sinemet one tab a day over 3

weeks.Geesh,so I go home and do as he says.As soon as

I cut out one pill within a day my body was

freaking.My face was twitching,that night after my med

at 10 pm a got a rash on my left leg.I was like

great,here we go again,I hadn't seen that rash in 3

years since I WAS ON EFFEXOR!

I took Benadryl and went to bed.Well,don't ya know I

was JERKED AWAKE AGAIN,the same way like in Feb.My

head was spinning and pounding,I was soaked in sweat

and passed out.I woke again at 6 am with swollen hands

and hives!

Yet I to this day have had 3 doctors say to me " I have

prescribe Sinemet to hundreds of patients and none

ever allergic to it " ! Like they don't believe me or

something!I never took any more.I ended up in October

at the ER 3 times with shortness of breath and

difficulty breathing,heart palpitations and chest

pain.

In November,the last medication I have taken,and the

last one I will ever take as far as I'm concerned,was

Zythromax for a sinus infection,again a side effect of

taking the other med.I took ONE 500 mg tablet and

within an hour had trouble breathing,hour 1/2 chest

pain,diarrhea.This went on for a week or so and

Benadryl was my best friend again and still is.

Here I am,now living with ALL the after math.I have

terrible muscle cramps in my legs,my right worse than

me left,the muscle above my knee is like a rock and is

there hurting 24-7 all the time,nothing relieves it.I

have vision trouble which I never had before Lamictal,

always 20/20 vision and now cant read.My legs do not

have normal strengh and tire very quickly and hurt all

the time.

I could go on and on but I'll spare you any more.This

is where I am now.I am better than last year in

October,but this Sinemet ordeal I feel damaged me more

and set me back all over again.No doctor can even

confirm what is wrong!

Thanks for listening,sorry so long,that's another

reason I dint post it before.

Beth

--- magnoliaig <LEstill491@...> wrote:

>

> >

> > > Thanks Beth I was wondering if there was anyone

> on

> > > this group who was

> > > encouraging. I appreciate that. I too have a

> story.

> > > Typed so many times just can't

> > > do it no more hahaha. I am on 7 days OFF. and I

> > > still feel like crap and have

> > > the brain waves. I will NEVER go on an

> > > antidepressant again. EVER. Still

> > > battling but winning the war. I just wish I knew

> > > when the end would come. Thanks

> > > again. Jodi

> > >

> > >

> > > [Non-text portions of this message have been

> > > removed]

> > >

> > >

> >

> >

> > Owned By:

>

=== message truncated ===

Owned By:

U2 " Dori " (White Chicken)

CAG " Oliver "

Lovie " Peaches "

Std.Poodle " "

Katrina Mutt " Dixie "

Hubby " " and 2 Rug Rats " Elisha & Ben "

God Bless All Creatures Great & Small,We Too Love Them All!

________________________________________________________________________________\

____

Want to start your own business?

Learn how on Small Business.

http://smallbusiness./r-index

[Guest guest]

Hi,

Yes,I guess you could say it was a bit what we needed

to hear.I understand each and every person is

different and what they go through is different but it

still is nice and comforting to know others have been

through similar stuff and understand and are

supportive.I thank you for your post.I know Jodi seems

to be in " the hard time " right now of withdrawal,I am

in a bit of a better or should I say different place.I

am struggling with the mourning of my old body,old

strong self,and trying to find some sort of acceptance

of how things are for me now.Also not knowing how long

all this will last or ever go away at all is enough to

make anyone down.I used to be a very active

person,both mentally and physically.Now I have

psychical trouble doing anything and just regular

household duties let alone other types of stuff like

hiking or taking my dog for a long walk like I used to

enjoy and be able to do.I am more of in a

frustrating,angry place wanting to go and do and

cant,and angry at the doctor that carelessly caused

all this.I feel he should be accountable but don't

know how to go about even that.

I will try to give basics of my story as short as it

is possible:

I have been on and off MANY,MANY different kinds of

meds over about maybe 5-6 years.Basically for mild

depression,just from stress and having things get to

me to a point of bringing me down.But really looking

back on it all I was caught up in the medicine guinea

pig cycle and being jerked around from one to another

so it is no wonder I was having trouble.Anyway,I was

off meds for a pretty good chunk of time at one point

in 05

and was going through a very stressful time.Trying to

sell a house,find another one,and move.LONG

stories,but the stress was getting to me and stupid me

listened to my councilor(at the time)who said maybe

you should go back on melds,it might help,even for a

while,I needed a " jump start " .HA Well,I listened to

her,wish I didn't,went back to the guy(Dr.)in her

office I really never liked from the start.He was the

guy jerking me around on meds for a long time already.

Anyway,in June of 05 he put me on LAMICTAL!He never

should have,there was never enough reason to put me on

such a med.In the first week of taking it my legs were

hurting and I had trouble going up a flight of stairs

when I was at the mall with my kids.I called him,of

course it took 3 calls later to talk to him.He

dismissed me,said " he never heard of that happening "

and advised to keep taking it.Stupid me did,for about

3 months,I then weaned off as I could take the

discomfort anymore and my legs and feet hurt.I was off

by Sept.early Oct.of 05. I started going through

hell,I didn't know at the time what was going on.My

pain was escalating everywhere.My back was killing me

like someone was stabbing me,my face,legs,arm,were

tingling,

things got worse and worse.Long short,I ended up in

the hospital for 5

days,shaking(tremors),stuttering,couldn't walk,muscle

weakness,pain.The doctors didn't know what the hell

was going on,they still don't for that matter even

though now I do.After 5 days I was discharged,they

never did give me a diagnosis but did make psycho

babble

implications like a possible conversion reaction or

disorder.Which I will say is TOTAL crap and I have

read all about it and it isn't me!I was sent home to

lick my wounds,no answers,and struggle to walk and

very slowly

get my strength back.No meds. In Feb 05 I had my

period bad,a migraine headache,cramps,back hurt etc.At

1:30 in the afternoon Feb 2nd I took a 500mg

Hydrocodine.I felt better and laid around all

afternoon.At night it was all getting bad again.At

10:30 at night since I was going to bed and didn't

think I needed anything as strong as before I took a

375mg Naproxin.Went to bed.

I was JERKED AWAKE at 6 am in full anaphalatic shock.

I made it to the kitchen floor,muffled to my son who

was still sleeping.He came out and found me wheezing

on the floor and called 911 BLESS HIS HEART! I made it

to the bathroom and tried to get on the toilet but

couldn't even stay upright.The paramedics found me on

the floor,pants down(how humiliating),laying in my

urine,feces,wheezing on the floor.In the ambulance I

went,some shot slammed in my arm that hurt like hell

and off to ER.Sent home the same afternoon after that

ordeal,cannot take any pain meds at all,no

NASAIDS,only Tylenol.NO MEDS.

I had gone after that back to the doctor who dealt

with me back on Nov.05 for a follow-up from the ER.She

just pushed me off to a allergist.(I have since gotten

my records from her and the page from when I came in

after Feb. said " possible conversion reaction " ?)I

almost flipped as if it wasn't for my son,poor kid 12

at the time,I wouldn't be here!I got a new doctor.(not

much better though)No meds from Feb 06 to September.In

response to my complaints of trouble sleeping,my

doctor gave me 5-7 days of samples of Lunesta.She

wrote a prescription but it never got filled.After

taking it for the 5-7 days,I had no more.All of a

sudden my legs were getting like bricks AGAIN,like

what happened last

November,it scared me and I ran back to my doctor.I

said something is wrong,like what happened last

year.She looked me over,my face was twitching again,my

tongue quivering,fingers twitching back and forth,what

they call fasculations. She then gets on the phone and

speaks to a neurologist on the phone.She was thinking

I had either secondary Parkinson's or early onset

Parkinson's disease.WHATEVER! She put me on

Sinemet!This was just this past October 06.The first

week I had side effect,my neck was killing me,hot

flashes,sweating,BUT the good side effects were the

best " at the time " ,I had total euphoria,high,felt

HAPPY,

was even laughing for no reason and my daughter said

what's so funny Mom " .LOL The withdrawal part when the

meds started to wear off was the worst and worse then

before I was given any,It was upped and upped.I got to

4X's a day every 5 hours and felt good.My legs were

strong,I was cleaning my house,and then was sent to

that stupid Neurologist from the phone. He said to

stop taking the Sinemet one tab a day over 3

weeks.Geesh,so I go home and do as he says.As soon as

I cut out one pill within a day my body was

freaking.My face was twitching,that night after my med

at 10 pm a got a rash on my left leg.I was like

great,here we go again,I hadn't seen that rash in 3

years since I WAS ON EFFEXOR!

I took Benadryl and went to bed.Well,don't ya know I

was JERKED AWAKE AGAIN,the same way like in Feb.My

head was spinning and pounding,I was soaked in sweat

and passed out.I woke again at 6 am with swollen hands

and hives!

Yet I to this day have had 3 doctors say to me " I have

prescribe Sinemet to hundreds of patients and none

ever allergic to it " ! Like they don't believe me or

something!I never took any more.I ended up in October

at the ER 3 times with shortness of breath and

difficulty breathing,heart palpitations and chest

pain.

In November,the last medication I have taken,and the

last one I will ever take as far as I'm concerned,was

Zythromax for a sinus infection,again a side effect of

taking the other med.I took ONE 500 mg tablet and

within an hour had trouble breathing,hour 1/2 chest

pain,diarrhea.This went on for a week or so and

Benadryl was my best friend again and still is.

Here I am,now living with ALL the after math.I have

terrible muscle cramps in my legs,my right worse than

me left,the muscle above my knee is like a rock and is

there hurting 24-7 all the time,nothing relieves it.I

have vision trouble which I never had before Lamictal,

always 20/20 vision and now cant read.My legs do not

have normal strengh and tire very quickly and hurt all

the time.

I could go on and on but I'll spare you any more.This

is where I am now.I am better than last year in

October,but this Sinemet ordeal I feel damaged me more

and set me back all over again.No doctor can even

confirm what is wrong!

Thanks for listening,sorry so long,that's another

reason I dint post it before.

Beth

--- magnoliaig <LEstill491@...> wrote:

>

> >

> > > Thanks Beth I was wondering if there was anyone

> on

> > > this group who was

> > > encouraging. I appreciate that. I too have a

> story.

> > > Typed so many times just can't

> > > do it no more hahaha. I am on 7 days OFF. and I

> > > still feel like crap and have

> > > the brain waves. I will NEVER go on an

> > > antidepressant again. EVER. Still

> > > battling but winning the war. I just wish I knew

> > > when the end would come. Thanks

> > > again. Jodi

> > >

> > >

> > > [Non-text portions of this message have been

> > > removed]

> > >

> > >

> >

> >

> > Owned By:

>

=== message truncated ===

Owned By:

U2 " Dori " (White Chicken)

CAG " Oliver "

Lovie " Peaches "

Std.Poodle " "

Katrina Mutt " Dixie "

Hubby " " and 2 Rug Rats " Elisha & Ben "

God Bless All Creatures Great & Small,We Too Love Them All!

________________________________________________________________________________\

____

Want to start your own business?

Learn how on Small Business.

http://smallbusiness./r-index

[Guest guest]

Hi Beth,

I completely understand. Personally if all that happened

to me I wouldn't go near a doctor until I had a broken bone

or needed some stitches. And I would filter any drug recommended

through my heavy duty bullshit detector before going near any of it.

I very much want you to be better. Maybe do a little before going all out.

I broke my back in the early 90s and it was two years before I could run

25 yards, now I can run several miles.

Before long you might be jogging with your dog again!

There was a study posted here a while back that had exercise as effective or

better

than Zoloft!!

Best,

Jim

Hi,

Yes,I guess you could say it was a bit what we needed

to hear.I understand each and every person is

different and what they go through is different but it

still is nice and comforting to know others have been

through similar stuff and understand and are

supportive.I thank you for your post.I know Jodi seems

to be in " the hard time " right now of withdrawal,I am

in a bit of a better or should I say different place.I

am struggling with the mourning of my old body,old

strong self,and trying to find some sort of acceptance

of how things are for me now.Also not knowing how long

all this will last or ever go away at all is enough to

make anyone down.I used to be a very active

person,both mentally and physically.Now I have

psychical trouble doing anything and just regular

household duties let alone other types of stuff like

hiking or taking my dog for a long walk like I used to

enjoy and be able to do.I am more of in a

frustrating,angry place wanting to go and do and

cant,and angry at the doctor that carelessly caused

all this.I feel he should be accountable but don't

know how to go about even that.

I will try to give basics of my story as short as it

is possible:

I have been on and off MANY,MANY different kinds of

meds over about maybe 5-6 years.Basically for mild

depression,just from stress and having things get to

me to a point of bringing me down.But really looking

back on it all I was caught up in the medicine guinea

pig cycle and being jerked around from one to another

so it is no wonder I was having trouble.Anyway,I was

off meds for a pretty good chunk of time at one point

in 05

and was going through a very stressful time.Trying to

sell a house,find another one,and move.LONG

stories,but the stress was getting to me and stupid me

listened to my councilor(at the time)who said maybe

you should go back on melds,it might help,even for a

while,I needed a " jump start " .HA Well,I listened to

her,wish I didn't,went back to the guy(Dr.)in her

office I really never liked from the start.He was the

guy jerking me around on meds for a long time already.

Anyway,in June of 05 he put me on LAMICTAL!He never

should have,there was never enough reason to put me on

such a med.In the first week of taking it my legs were

hurting and I had trouble going up a flight of stairs

when I was at the mall with my kids.I called him,of

course it took 3 calls later to talk to him.He

dismissed me,said " he never heard of that happening "

and advised to keep taking it.Stupid me did,for about

3 months,I then weaned off as I could take the

discomfort anymore and my legs and feet hurt.I was off

by Sept.early Oct.of 05. I started going through

hell,I didn't know at the time what was going on.My

pain was escalating everywhere.My back was killing me

like someone was stabbing me,my face,legs,arm,were

tingling,

things got worse and worse.Long short,I ended up in

the hospital for 5

days,shaking(tremors),stuttering,couldn't walk,muscle

weakness,pain.The doctors didn't know what the hell

was going on,they still don't for that matter even

though now I do.After 5 days I was discharged,they

never did give me a diagnosis but did make psycho

babble

implications like a possible conversion reaction or

disorder.Which I will say is TOTAL crap and I have

read all about it and it isn't me!I was sent home to

lick my wounds,no answers,and struggle to walk and

very slowly

get my strength back.No meds. In Feb 05 I had my

period bad,a migraine headache,cramps,back hurt etc.At

1:30 in the afternoon Feb 2nd I took a 500mg

Hydrocodine.I felt better and laid around all

afternoon.At night it was all getting bad again.At

10:30 at night since I was going to bed and didn't

think I needed anything as strong as before I took a

375mg Naproxin.Went to bed.

I was JERKED AWAKE at 6 am in full anaphalatic shock.

I made it to the kitchen floor,muffled to my son who

was still sleeping.He came out and found me wheezing

on the floor and called 911 BLESS HIS HEART! I made it

to the bathroom and tried to get on the toilet but

couldn't even stay upright.The paramedics found me on

the floor,pants down(how humiliating),laying in my

urine,feces,wheezing on the floor.In the ambulance I

went,some shot slammed in my arm that hurt like hell

and off to ER.Sent home the same afternoon after that

ordeal,cannot take any pain meds at all,no

NASAIDS,only Tylenol.NO MEDS.

I had gone after that back to the doctor who dealt

with me back on Nov.05 for a follow-up from the ER.She

just pushed me off to a allergist.(I have since gotten

my records from her and the page from when I came in

after Feb. said " possible conversion reaction " ?)I

almost flipped as if it wasn't for my son,poor kid 12

at the time,I wouldn't be here!I got a new doctor.(not

much better though)No meds from Feb 06 to September.In

response to my complaints of trouble sleeping,my

doctor gave me 5-7 days of samples of Lunesta.She

wrote a prescription but it never got filled.After

taking it for the 5-7 days,I had no more.All of a

sudden my legs were getting like bricks AGAIN,like

what happened last

November,it scared me and I ran back to my doctor.I

said something is wrong,like what happened last

year.She looked me over,my face was twitching again,my

tongue quivering,fingers twitching back and forth,what

they call fasculations. She then gets on the phone and

speaks to a neurologist on the phone.She was thinking

I had either secondary Parkinson's or early onset

Parkinson's disease.WHATEVER! She put me on

Sinemet!This was just this past October 06.The first

week I had side effect,my neck was killing me,hot

flashes,sweating,BUT the good side effects were the

best " at the time " ,I had total euphoria,high,felt

HAPPY,

was even laughing for no reason and my daughter said

what's so funny Mom " .LOL The withdrawal part when the

meds started to wear off was the worst and worse then

before I was given any,It was upped and upped.I got to

4X's a day every 5 hours and felt good.My legs were

strong,I was cleaning my house,and then was sent to

that stupid Neurologist from the phone. He said to

stop taking the Sinemet one tab a day over 3

weeks.Geesh,so I go home and do as he says.As soon as

I cut out one pill within a day my body was

freaking.My face was twitching,that night after my med

at 10 pm a got a rash on my left leg.I was like

great,here we go again,I hadn't seen that rash in 3

years since I WAS ON EFFEXOR!

I took Benadryl and went to bed.Well,don't ya know I

was JERKED AWAKE AGAIN,the same way like in Feb.My

head was spinning and pounding,I was soaked in sweat

and passed out.I woke again at 6 am with swollen hands

and hives!

Yet I to this day have had 3 doctors say to me " I have

prescribe Sinemet to hundreds of patients and none

ever allergic to it " ! Like they don't believe me or

something!I never took any more.I ended up in October

at the ER 3 times with shortness of breath and

difficulty breathing,heart palpitations and chest

pain.

In November,the last medication I have taken,and the

last one I will ever take as far as I'm concerned,was

Zythromax for a sinus infection,again a side effect of

taking the other med.I took ONE 500 mg tablet and

within an hour had trouble breathing,hour 1/2 chest

pain,diarrhea.This went on for a week or so and

Benadryl was my best friend again and still is.

Here I am,now living with ALL the after math.I have

terrible muscle cramps in my legs,my right worse than

me left,the muscle above my knee is like a rock and is

there hurting 24-7 all the time,nothing relieves it.I

have vision trouble which I never had before Lamictal,

always 20/20 vision and now cant read.My legs do not

have normal strengh and tire very quickly and hurt all

the time.

I could go on and on but I'll spare you any more.This

is where I am now.I am better than last year in

October,but this Sinemet ordeal I feel damaged me more

and set me back all over again.No doctor can even

confirm what is wrong!

Thanks for listening,sorry so long,that's another

reason I dint post it before.

Beth

--- magnoliaig <LEstill491@...> wrote:

>

> >

> > > Thanks Beth I was wondering if there was anyone

> on

> > > this group who was

> > > encouraging. I appreciate that. I too have a

> story.

> > > Typed so many times just can't

> > > do it no more hahaha. I am on 7 days OFF. and I

> > > still feel like crap and have

> > > the brain waves. I will NEVER go on an

> > > antidepressant again. EVER. Still

> > > battling but winning the war. I just wish I knew

> > > when the end would come. Thanks

> > > again. Jodi

> > >

> > >

> > > [Non-text portions of this message have been

> > > removed]

> > >

> > >

> >

> >

> > Owned By:

>

=== message truncated ===

Owned By:

U2 " Dori " (White Chicken)

CAG " Oliver "

Lovie " Peaches "

Std.Poodle " "

Katrina Mutt " Dixie "

Hubby " " and 2 Rug Rats " Elisha & Ben "

God Bless All Creatures Great & Small,We Too Love Them All!

________________________________________________________________________________\

____

Want to start your own business?

Learn how on Small Business.

http://smallbusiness./r-index

[Guest guest]

Hi Beth,

I completely understand. Personally if all that happened

to me I wouldn't go near a doctor until I had a broken bone

or needed some stitches. And I would filter any drug recommended

through my heavy duty bullshit detector before going near any of it.

I very much want you to be better. Maybe do a little before going all out.

I broke my back in the early 90s and it was two years before I could run

25 yards, now I can run several miles.

Before long you might be jogging with your dog again!

There was a study posted here a while back that had exercise as effective or

better

than Zoloft!!

Best,

Jim

Hi,

Yes,I guess you could say it was a bit what we needed

to hear.I understand each and every person is

different and what they go through is different but it

still is nice and comforting to know others have been

through similar stuff and understand and are

supportive.I thank you for your post.I know Jodi seems

to be in " the hard time " right now of withdrawal,I am

in a bit of a better or should I say different place.I

am struggling with the mourning of my old body,old

strong self,and trying to find some sort of acceptance

of how things are for me now.Also not knowing how long

all this will last or ever go away at all is enough to

make anyone down.I used to be a very active

person,both mentally and physically.Now I have

psychical trouble doing anything and just regular

household duties let alone other types of stuff like

hiking or taking my dog for a long walk like I used to

enjoy and be able to do.I am more of in a

frustrating,angry place wanting to go and do and

cant,and angry at the doctor that carelessly caused

all this.I feel he should be accountable but don't

know how to go about even that.

I will try to give basics of my story as short as it

is possible:

I have been on and off MANY,MANY different kinds of

meds over about maybe 5-6 years.Basically for mild

depression,just from stress and having things get to

me to a point of bringing me down.But really looking

back on it all I was caught up in the medicine guinea

pig cycle and being jerked around from one to another

so it is no wonder I was having trouble.Anyway,I was

off meds for a pretty good chunk of time at one point

in 05

and was going through a very stressful time.Trying to

sell a house,find another one,and move.LONG

stories,but the stress was getting to me and stupid me

listened to my councilor(at the time)who said maybe

you should go back on melds,it might help,even for a

while,I needed a " jump start " .HA Well,I listened to

her,wish I didn't,went back to the guy(Dr.)in her

office I really never liked from the start.He was the

guy jerking me around on meds for a long time already.

Anyway,in June of 05 he put me on LAMICTAL!He never

should have,there was never enough reason to put me on

such a med.In the first week of taking it my legs were

hurting and I had trouble going up a flight of stairs

when I was at the mall with my kids.I called him,of

course it took 3 calls later to talk to him.He

dismissed me,said " he never heard of that happening "

and advised to keep taking it.Stupid me did,for about

3 months,I then weaned off as I could take the

discomfort anymore and my legs and feet hurt.I was off

by Sept.early Oct.of 05. I started going through

hell,I didn't know at the time what was going on.My

pain was escalating everywhere.My back was killing me

like someone was stabbing me,my face,legs,arm,were

tingling,

things got worse and worse.Long short,I ended up in

the hospital for 5

days,shaking(tremors),stuttering,couldn't walk,muscle

weakness,pain.The doctors didn't know what the hell

was going on,they still don't for that matter even

though now I do.After 5 days I was discharged,they

never did give me a diagnosis but did make psycho

babble

implications like a possible conversion reaction or

disorder.Which I will say is TOTAL crap and I have

read all about it and it isn't me!I was sent home to

lick my wounds,no answers,and struggle to walk and

very slowly

get my strength back.No meds. In Feb 05 I had my

period bad,a migraine headache,cramps,back hurt etc.At

1:30 in the afternoon Feb 2nd I took a 500mg

Hydrocodine.I felt better and laid around all

afternoon.At night it was all getting bad again.At

10:30 at night since I was going to bed and didn't

think I needed anything as strong as before I took a

375mg Naproxin.Went to bed.

I was JERKED AWAKE at 6 am in full anaphalatic shock.

I made it to the kitchen floor,muffled to my son who

was still sleeping.He came out and found me wheezing

on the floor and called 911 BLESS HIS HEART! I made it

to the bathroom and tried to get on the toilet but

couldn't even stay upright.The paramedics found me on

the floor,pants down(how humiliating),laying in my

urine,feces,wheezing on the floor.In the ambulance I

went,some shot slammed in my arm that hurt like hell

and off to ER.Sent home the same afternoon after that

ordeal,cannot take any pain meds at all,no

NASAIDS,only Tylenol.NO MEDS.

I had gone after that back to the doctor who dealt

with me back on Nov.05 for a follow-up from the ER.She

just pushed me off to a allergist.(I have since gotten

my records from her and the page from when I came in

after Feb. said " possible conversion reaction " ?)I

almost flipped as if it wasn't for my son,poor kid 12

at the time,I wouldn't be here!I got a new doctor.(not

much better though)No meds from Feb 06 to September.In

response to my complaints of trouble sleeping,my

doctor gave me 5-7 days of samples of Lunesta.She

wrote a prescription but it never got filled.After

taking it for the 5-7 days,I had no more.All of a

sudden my legs were getting like bricks AGAIN,like

what happened last

November,it scared me and I ran back to my doctor.I

said something is wrong,like what happened last

year.She looked me over,my face was twitching again,my

tongue quivering,fingers twitching back and forth,what

they call fasculations. She then gets on the phone and

speaks to a neurologist on the phone.She was thinking

I had either secondary Parkinson's or early onset

Parkinson's disease.WHATEVER! She put me on

Sinemet!This was just this past October 06.The first

week I had side effect,my neck was killing me,hot

flashes,sweating,BUT the good side effects were the

best " at the time " ,I had total euphoria,high,felt

HAPPY,

was even laughing for no reason and my daughter said

what's so funny Mom " .LOL The withdrawal part when the

meds started to wear off was the worst and worse then

before I was given any,It was upped and upped.I got to

4X's a day every 5 hours and felt good.My legs were

strong,I was cleaning my house,and then was sent to

that stupid Neurologist from the phone. He said to

stop taking the Sinemet one tab a day over 3

weeks.Geesh,so I go home and do as he says.As soon as

I cut out one pill within a day my body was

freaking.My face was twitching,that night after my med

at 10 pm a got a rash on my left leg.I was like

great,here we go again,I hadn't seen that rash in 3

years since I WAS ON EFFEXOR!

I took Benadryl and went to bed.Well,don't ya know I

was JERKED AWAKE AGAIN,the same way like in Feb.My

head was spinning and pounding,I was soaked in sweat

and passed out.I woke again at 6 am with swollen hands

and hives!

Yet I to this day have had 3 doctors say to me " I have

prescribe Sinemet to hundreds of patients and none

ever allergic to it " ! Like they don't believe me or

something!I never took any more.I ended up in October

at the ER 3 times with shortness of breath and

difficulty breathing,heart palpitations and chest

pain.

In November,the last medication I have taken,and the

last one I will ever take as far as I'm concerned,was

Zythromax for a sinus infection,again a side effect of

taking the other med.I took ONE 500 mg tablet and

within an hour had trouble breathing,hour 1/2 chest

pain,diarrhea.This went on for a week or so and

Benadryl was my best friend again and still is.

Here I am,now living with ALL the after math.I have

terrible muscle cramps in my legs,my right worse than

me left,the muscle above my knee is like a rock and is

there hurting 24-7 all the time,nothing relieves it.I

have vision trouble which I never had before Lamictal,

always 20/20 vision and now cant read.My legs do not

have normal strengh and tire very quickly and hurt all

the time.

I could go on and on but I'll spare you any more.This

is where I am now.I am better than last year in

October,but this Sinemet ordeal I feel damaged me more

and set me back all over again.No doctor can even

confirm what is wrong!

Thanks for listening,sorry so long,that's another

reason I dint post it before.

Beth

--- magnoliaig <LEstill491@...> wrote:

>

> >

> > > Thanks Beth I was wondering if there was anyone

> on

> > > this group who was

> > > encouraging. I appreciate that. I too have a

> story.

> > > Typed so many times just can't

> > > do it no more hahaha. I am on 7 days OFF. and I

> > > still feel like crap and have

> > > the brain waves. I will NEVER go on an

> > > antidepressant again. EVER. Still

> > > battling but winning the war. I just wish I knew

> > > when the end would come. Thanks

> > > again. Jodi

> > >

> > >

> > > [Non-text portions of this message have been

> > > removed]

> > >

> > >

> >

> >

> > Owned By:

>

=== message truncated ===

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U2 " Dori " (White Chicken)

CAG " Oliver "

Lovie " Peaches "

Std.Poodle " "

Katrina Mutt " Dixie "

Hubby " " and 2 Rug Rats " Elisha & Ben "

God Bless All Creatures Great & Small,We Too Love Them All!

________________________________________________________________________________\

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[Guest guest]

Hi Beth,

I completely understand. Personally if all that happened

to me I wouldn't go near a doctor until I had a broken bone

or needed some stitches. And I would filter any drug recommended

through my heavy duty bullshit detector before going near any of it.

I very much want you to be better. Maybe do a little before going all out.

I broke my back in the early 90s and it was two years before I could run

25 yards, now I can run several miles.

Before long you might be jogging with your dog again!

There was a study posted here a while back that had exercise as effective or

better

than Zoloft!!

Best,

Jim

Hi,

Yes,I guess you could say it was a bit what we needed

to hear.I understand each and every person is

different and what they go through is different but it

still is nice and comforting to know others have been

through similar stuff and understand and are

supportive.I thank you for your post.I know Jodi seems

to be in " the hard time " right now of withdrawal,I am

in a bit of a better or should I say different place.I

am struggling with the mourning of my old body,old

strong self,and trying to find some sort of acceptance

of how things are for me now.Also not knowing how long

all this will last or ever go away at all is enough to

make anyone down.I used to be a very active

person,both mentally and physically.Now I have

psychical trouble doing anything and just regular

household duties let alone other types of stuff like

hiking or taking my dog for a long walk like I used to

enjoy and be able to do.I am more of in a

frustrating,angry place wanting to go and do and

cant,and angry at the doctor that carelessly caused

all this.I feel he should be accountable but don't

know how to go about even that.

I will try to give basics of my story as short as it

is possible:

I have been on and off MANY,MANY different kinds of

meds over about maybe 5-6 years.Basically for mild

depression,just from stress and having things get to

me to a point of bringing me down.But really looking

back on it all I was caught up in the medicine guinea

pig cycle and being jerked around from one to another

so it is no wonder I was having trouble.Anyway,I was

off meds for a pretty good chunk of time at one point

in 05

and was going through a very stressful time.Trying to

sell a house,find another one,and move.LONG

stories,but the stress was getting to me and stupid me

listened to my councilor(at the time)who said maybe

you should go back on melds,it might help,even for a

while,I needed a " jump start " .HA Well,I listened to

her,wish I didn't,went back to the guy(Dr.)in her

office I really never liked from the start.He was the

guy jerking me around on meds for a long time already.

Anyway,in June of 05 he put me on LAMICTAL!He never

should have,there was never enough reason to put me on

such a med.In the first week of taking it my legs were

hurting and I had trouble going up a flight of stairs

when I was at the mall with my kids.I called him,of

course it took 3 calls later to talk to him.He

dismissed me,said " he never heard of that happening "

and advised to keep taking it.Stupid me did,for about

3 months,I then weaned off as I could take the

discomfort anymore and my legs and feet hurt.I was off

by Sept.early Oct.of 05. I started going through

hell,I didn't know at the time what was going on.My

pain was escalating everywhere.My back was killing me

like someone was stabbing me,my face,legs,arm,were

tingling,

things got worse and worse.Long short,I ended up in

the hospital for 5

days,shaking(tremors),stuttering,couldn't walk,muscle

weakness,pain.The doctors didn't know what the hell

was going on,they still don't for that matter even

though now I do.After 5 days I was discharged,they

never did give me a diagnosis but did make psycho

babble

implications like a possible conversion reaction or

disorder.Which I will say is TOTAL crap and I have

read all about it and it isn't me!I was sent home to

lick my wounds,no answers,and struggle to walk and

very slowly

get my strength back.No meds. In Feb 05 I had my

period bad,a migraine headache,cramps,back hurt etc.At

1:30 in the afternoon Feb 2nd I took a 500mg

Hydrocodine.I felt better and laid around all

afternoon.At night it was all getting bad again.At

10:30 at night since I was going to bed and didn't

think I needed anything as strong as before I took a

375mg Naproxin.Went to bed.

I was JERKED AWAKE at 6 am in full anaphalatic shock.

I made it to the kitchen floor,muffled to my son who

was still sleeping.He came out and found me wheezing

on the floor and called 911 BLESS HIS HEART! I made it

to the bathroom and tried to get on the toilet but

couldn't even stay upright.The paramedics found me on

the floor,pants down(how humiliating),laying in my

urine,feces,wheezing on the floor.In the ambulance I

went,some shot slammed in my arm that hurt like hell

and off to ER.Sent home the same afternoon after that

ordeal,cannot take any pain meds at all,no

NASAIDS,only Tylenol.NO MEDS.

I had gone after that back to the doctor who dealt

with me back on Nov.05 for a follow-up from the ER.She

just pushed me off to a allergist.(I have since gotten

my records from her and the page from when I came in

after Feb. said " possible conversion reaction " ?)I

almost flipped as if it wasn't for my son,poor kid 12

at the time,I wouldn't be here!I got a new doctor.(not

much better though)No meds from Feb 06 to September.In

response to my complaints of trouble sleeping,my

doctor gave me 5-7 days of samples of Lunesta.She

wrote a prescription but it never got filled.After

taking it for the 5-7 days,I had no more.All of a

sudden my legs were getting like bricks AGAIN,like

what happened last

November,it scared me and I ran back to my doctor.I

said something is wrong,like what happened last

year.She looked me over,my face was twitching again,my

tongue quivering,fingers twitching back and forth,what

they call fasculations. She then gets on the phone and

speaks to a neurologist on the phone.She was thinking

I had either secondary Parkinson's or early onset

Parkinson's disease.WHATEVER! She put me on

Sinemet!This was just this past October 06.The first

week I had side effect,my neck was killing me,hot

flashes,sweating,BUT the good side effects were the

best " at the time " ,I had total euphoria,high,felt

HAPPY,

was even laughing for no reason and my daughter said

what's so funny Mom " .LOL The withdrawal part when the

meds started to wear off was the worst and worse then

before I was given any,It was upped and upped.I got to

4X's a day every 5 hours and felt good.My legs were

strong,I was cleaning my house,and then was sent to

that stupid Neurologist from the phone. He said to

stop taking the Sinemet one tab a day over 3

weeks.Geesh,so I go home and do as he says.As soon as

I cut out one pill within a day my body was

freaking.My face was twitching,that night after my med

at 10 pm a got a rash on my left leg.I was like

great,here we go again,I hadn't seen that rash in 3

years since I WAS ON EFFEXOR!

I took Benadryl and went to bed.Well,don't ya know I

was JERKED AWAKE AGAIN,the same way like in Feb.My

head was spinning and pounding,I was soaked in sweat

and passed out.I woke again at 6 am with swollen hands

and hives!

Yet I to this day have had 3 doctors say to me " I have

prescribe Sinemet to hundreds of patients and none

ever allergic to it " ! Like they don't believe me or

something!I never took any more.I ended up in October

at the ER 3 times with shortness of breath and

difficulty breathing,heart palpitations and chest

pain.

In November,the last medication I have taken,and the

last one I will ever take as far as I'm concerned,was

Zythromax for a sinus infection,again a side effect of

taking the other med.I took ONE 500 mg tablet and

within an hour had trouble breathing,hour 1/2 chest

pain,diarrhea.This went on for a week or so and

Benadryl was my best friend again and still is.

Here I am,now living with ALL the after math.I have

terrible muscle cramps in my legs,my right worse than

me left,the muscle above my knee is like a rock and is

there hurting 24-7 all the time,nothing relieves it.I

have vision trouble which I never had before Lamictal,

always 20/20 vision and now cant read.My legs do not

have normal strengh and tire very quickly and hurt all

the time.

I could go on and on but I'll spare you any more.This

is where I am now.I am better than last year in

October,but this Sinemet ordeal I feel damaged me more

and set me back all over again.No doctor can even

confirm what is wrong!

Thanks for listening,sorry so long,that's another

reason I dint post it before.

Beth

--- magnoliaig <LEstill491@...> wrote:

>

> >

> > > Thanks Beth I was wondering if there was anyone

> on

> > > this group who was

> > > encouraging. I appreciate that. I too have a

> story.

> > > Typed so many times just can't

> > > do it no more hahaha. I am on 7 days OFF. and I

> > > still feel like crap and have

> > > the brain waves. I will NEVER go on an

> > > antidepressant again. EVER. Still

> > > battling but winning the war. I just wish I knew

> > > when the end would come. Thanks

> > > again. Jodi

> > >

> > >

> > > [Non-text portions of this message have been

> > > removed]

> > >

> > >

> >

> >

> > Owned By:

>

=== message truncated ===

Owned By:

U2 " Dori " (White Chicken)

CAG " Oliver "

Lovie " Peaches "

Std.Poodle " "

Katrina Mutt " Dixie "

Hubby " " and 2 Rug Rats " Elisha & Ben "

God Bless All Creatures Great & Small,We Too Love Them All!

________________________________________________________________________________\

____

Want to start your own business?

Learn how on Small Business.

http://smallbusiness./r-index

[Guest guest]

Hi Beth,

I completely understand. Personally if all that happened

to me I wouldn't go near a doctor until I had a broken bone

or needed some stitches. And I would filter any drug recommended

through my heavy duty bullshit detector before going near any of it.

I very much want you to be better. Maybe do a little before going all out.

I broke my back in the early 90s and it was two years before I could run

25 yards, now I can run several miles.

Before long you might be jogging with your dog again!

There was a study posted here a while back that had exercise as effective or

better

than Zoloft!!

Best,

Jim

Hi,

Yes,I guess you could say it was a bit what we needed

to hear.I understand each and every person is

different and what they go through is different but it

still is nice and comforting to know others have been

through similar stuff and understand and are

supportive.I thank you for your post.I know Jodi seems

to be in " the hard time " right now of withdrawal,I am

in a bit of a better or should I say different place.I

am struggling with the mourning of my old body,old

strong self,and trying to find some sort of acceptance

of how things are for me now.Also not knowing how long

all this will last or ever go away at all is enough to

make anyone down.I used to be a very active

person,both mentally and physically.Now I have

psychical trouble doing anything and just regular

household duties let alone other types of stuff like

hiking or taking my dog for a long walk like I used to

enjoy and be able to do.I am more of in a

frustrating,angry place wanting to go and do and

cant,and angry at the doctor that carelessly caused

all this.I feel he should be accountable but don't

know how to go about even that.

I will try to give basics of my story as short as it

is possible:

I have been on and off MANY,MANY different kinds of

meds over about maybe 5-6 years.Basically for mild

depression,just from stress and having things get to

me to a point of bringing me down.But really looking

back on it all I was caught up in the medicine guinea

pig cycle and being jerked around from one to another

so it is no wonder I was having trouble.Anyway,I was

off meds for a pretty good chunk of time at one point

in 05

and was going through a very stressful time.Trying to

sell a house,find another one,and move.LONG

stories,but the stress was getting to me and stupid me

listened to my councilor(at the time)who said maybe

you should go back on melds,it might help,even for a

while,I needed a " jump start " .HA Well,I listened to

her,wish I didn't,went back to the guy(Dr.)in her

office I really never liked from the start.He was the

guy jerking me around on meds for a long time already.

Anyway,in June of 05 he put me on LAMICTAL!He never

should have,there was never enough reason to put me on

such a med.In the first week of taking it my legs were

hurting and I had trouble going up a flight of stairs

when I was at the mall with my kids.I called him,of

course it took 3 calls later to talk to him.He

dismissed me,said " he never heard of that happening "

and advised to keep taking it.Stupid me did,for about

3 months,I then weaned off as I could take the

discomfort anymore and my legs and feet hurt.I was off

by Sept.early Oct.of 05. I started going through

hell,I didn't know at the time what was going on.My

pain was escalating everywhere.My back was killing me

like someone was stabbing me,my face,legs,arm,were

tingling,

things got worse and worse.Long short,I ended up in

the hospital for 5

days,shaking(tremors),stuttering,couldn't walk,muscle

weakness,pain.The doctors didn't know what the hell

was going on,they still don't for that matter even

though now I do.After 5 days I was discharged,they

never did give me a diagnosis but did make psycho

babble

implications like a possible conversion reaction or

disorder.Which I will say is TOTAL crap and I have

read all about it and it isn't me!I was sent home to

lick my wounds,no answers,and struggle to walk and

very slowly

get my strength back.No meds. In Feb 05 I had my

period bad,a migraine headache,cramps,back hurt etc.At

1:30 in the afternoon Feb 2nd I took a 500mg

Hydrocodine.I felt better and laid around all

afternoon.At night it was all getting bad again.At

10:30 at night since I was going to bed and didn't

think I needed anything as strong as before I took a

375mg Naproxin.Went to bed.

I was JERKED AWAKE at 6 am in full anaphalatic shock.

I made it to the kitchen floor,muffled to my son who

was still sleeping.He came out and found me wheezing

on the floor and called 911 BLESS HIS HEART! I made it

to the bathroom and tried to get on the toilet but

couldn't even stay upright.The paramedics found me on

the floor,pants down(how humiliating),laying in my

urine,feces,wheezing on the floor.In the ambulance I

went,some shot slammed in my arm that hurt like hell

and off to ER.Sent home the same afternoon after that

ordeal,cannot take any pain meds at all,no

NASAIDS,only Tylenol.NO MEDS.

I had gone after that back to the doctor who dealt

with me back on Nov.05 for a follow-up from the ER.She

just pushed me off to a allergist.(I have since gotten

my records from her and the page from when I came in

after Feb. said " possible conversion reaction " ?)I

almost flipped as if it wasn't for my son,poor kid 12

at the time,I wouldn't be here!I got a new doctor.(not

much better though)No meds from Feb 06 to September.In

response to my complaints of trouble sleeping,my

doctor gave me 5-7 days of samples of Lunesta.She

wrote a prescription but it never got filled.After

taking it for the 5-7 days,I had no more.All of a

sudden my legs were getting like bricks AGAIN,like

what happened last

November,it scared me and I ran back to my doctor.I

said something is wrong,like what happened last

year.She looked me over,my face was twitching again,my

tongue quivering,fingers twitching back and forth,what

they call fasculations. She then gets on the phone and

speaks to a neurologist on the phone.She was thinking

I had either secondary Parkinson's or early onset

Parkinson's disease.WHATEVER! She put me on

Sinemet!This was just this past October 06.The first

week I had side effect,my neck was killing me,hot

flashes,sweating,BUT the good side effects were the

best " at the time " ,I had total euphoria,high,felt

HAPPY,

was even laughing for no reason and my daughter said

what's so funny Mom " .LOL The withdrawal part when the

meds started to wear off was the worst and worse then

before I was given any,It was upped and upped.I got to

4X's a day every 5 hours and felt good.My legs were

strong,I was cleaning my house,and then was sent to

that stupid Neurologist from the phone. He said to

stop taking the Sinemet one tab a day over 3

weeks.Geesh,so I go home and do as he says.As soon as

I cut out one pill within a day my body was

freaking.My face was twitching,that night after my med

at 10 pm a got a rash on my left leg.I was like

great,here we go again,I hadn't seen that rash in 3

years since I WAS ON EFFEXOR!

I took Benadryl and went to bed.Well,don't ya know I

was JERKED AWAKE AGAIN,the same way like in Feb.My

head was spinning and pounding,I was soaked in sweat

and passed out.I woke again at 6 am with swollen hands

and hives!

Yet I to this day have had 3 doctors say to me " I have

prescribe Sinemet to hundreds of patients and none

ever allergic to it " ! Like they don't believe me or

something!I never took any more.I ended up in October

at the ER 3 times with shortness of breath and

difficulty breathing,heart palpitations and chest

pain.

In November,the last medication I have taken,and the

last one I will ever take as far as I'm concerned,was

Zythromax for a sinus infection,again a side effect of

taking the other med.I took ONE 500 mg tablet and

within an hour had trouble breathing,hour 1/2 chest

pain,diarrhea.This went on for a week or so and

Benadryl was my best friend again and still is.

Here I am,now living with ALL the after math.I have

terrible muscle cramps in my legs,my right worse than

me left,the muscle above my knee is like a rock and is

there hurting 24-7 all the time,nothing relieves it.I

have vision trouble which I never had before Lamictal,

always 20/20 vision and now cant read.My legs do not

have normal strengh and tire very quickly and hurt all

the time.

I could go on and on but I'll spare you any more.This

is where I am now.I am better than last year in

October,but this Sinemet ordeal I feel damaged me more

and set me back all over again.No doctor can even

confirm what is wrong!

Thanks for listening,sorry so long,that's another

reason I dint post it before.

Beth

--- magnoliaig <LEstill491@...> wrote:

>

> >

> > > Thanks Beth I was wondering if there was anyone

> on

> > > this group who was

> > > encouraging. I appreciate that. I too have a

> story.

> > > Typed so many times just can't

> > > do it no more hahaha. I am on 7 days OFF. and I

> > > still feel like crap and have

> > > the brain waves. I will NEVER go on an

> > > antidepressant again. EVER. Still

> > > battling but winning the war. I just wish I knew

> > > when the end would come. Thanks

> > > again. Jodi

> > >

> > >

> > > [Non-text portions of this message have been

> > > removed]

> > >

> > >

> >

> >

> > Owned By:

>

=== message truncated ===

Owned By:

U2 " Dori " (White Chicken)

CAG " Oliver "

Lovie " Peaches "

Std.Poodle " "

Katrina Mutt " Dixie "

Hubby " " and 2 Rug Rats " Elisha & Ben "

God Bless All Creatures Great & Small,We Too Love Them All!

________________________________________________________________________________\

____

Want to start your own business?

Learn how on Small Business.

http://smallbusiness./r-index