I'm Alive!!!!

[Guest guest]

Oh guys,

I am still saying prayers I am alive this morning.

I TOOK MY FIRST NORTRIPTYLINE PILL last night before bed. A low does

at that (10mg).

I laid in bed sort of awake with the TV on and after sometime I began

to feel it work. EXCEPT... I felt it was giving me an out of body

experience. It was like a scary disconnect feeling. Like my brain was

spliting from reality.

I can't explain it....but by the middle of the night I swear I was

hallucinating. The dreams I could make money and sell to Speilberg

for a horror movie. The nightmares were horrific. My body was asleep

and I swear my brain was awake. At one point my heart was ponding so

hard I could feel the bed rocking...but I was powerless to wake up.

Or should I say I couldn't wake my body up to match my brain. Around

3:30 in the morning I managed to get out of bed. I thought if I ate

something it would calm things down. As I walked down my hall I

coulnd't tell if the hall was in my dream still... or if I was really

awake.

WEIRD..WEIRD...WEIRD...

I am embarresed to call my doctor today. I mean, he was convinced

that this medicine has been around a long time... is safe.. has the

least side effects and is the drug of choice for fibro.

NOW WHAT?

Logic says... How can I judge this by one pill...my inner self

says... if you take another one tonight it may be your last.

Anybody... is this normal. Can a pill do this?

If this is what anti-depressants do I rather suffer with sore muscles.

At least I was living in a real world.

The lorazapam never did this to me. It works real well. Why can't I

just take that? I felt good on the lorazapam.

Again.. thanks for your help and input.

Well.. I am hitting the send button for this post...if I see it here

later I will know I really typed this and I'm in the real world

again! LOL LOL

Love to all.

(gold_morning)

[Guest guest]

***Comment from Co-Owner: You always have the right to talk to your dr about a

situation that concerns you that you don't feel you can talk to the nurse about.

When you call the dr's office let the staff know that you really need to talk to

your dr. If the nurse says " I'll take a message to the dr for you and get back

to you " let her know that you don't want the nurse to take a message to the dr,

that you want to talk to the dr.

I had this happen to me just recently where I ended up talking to the nurse for

my dr and she gave me some info. Well, it's a good thing I called back the next

week to leave a message to have my dr call me to ask the questions I had next

b/c I ended up getting what I wanted when it came to the medication for one of

my other health issues. But if anyone tells you that you can't talk to the dr

even though they are in the office pls know that yes you can talk to the dr.

This is why with the particular dr that I just told the story about I call early

in the a.m. so that she can call me at her convience.

Kristy ***

Hi ,

All antidepressents have side effects. this is one of the side

effects of Nortripyline:

Psychiatric:

Confusional states (especially in the elderly) with hallucinations,

disorientation, delusions; anxiety, restlessness, agitation;

insomnia, panic, nightmares; hypomania; exacerbation of psychosis.

Evidently this is what happened to you and you should call your

doctor, there are many more antidepressents without these side

effects, and that is a much older antidepressent. Don;t be afraid to

call just tell the nurse what happened and ask that he prescribe

another and take you off that one.

Doctors know about side effects and most of the time most people can

take medications with out these problems but there are some of us

that do have side effects that we can't live with. Your doctor is

well aware of this and if he doesn't want to change this medication

then you need to find another doctor. I hope you will be pleasently

surprised. Usually you only talk to the nurse and she talks to the

doctor and then they just call in another prescription or that is the

way it has always worked with me.

good luck

Diane

-- In Fibromyalgia_Support_Group , " Gold "

wrote:

>

> Oh guys,

>

> I am still saying prayers I am alive this morning.

>

> I TOOK MY FIRST NORTRIPTYLINE PILL last night before bed. A low

does

> at that (10mg).

>

> I laid in bed sort of awake with the TV on and after sometime I

began

> to feel it work. EXCEPT... I felt it was giving me an out of body

> experience. It was like a scary disconnect feeling. Like my brain

was

> spliting from reality.

>

> I can't explain it....but by the middle of the night I swear I was

> hallucinating. The dreams I could make money and sell to Speilberg

> for a horror movie. The nightmares were horrific. My body was

asleep

> and I swear my brain was awake. At one point my heart was ponding

so

> hard I could feel the bed rocking...but I was powerless to wake up.

> Or should I say I couldn't wake my body up to match my brain.

Around

> 3:30 in the morning I managed to get out of bed. I thought if I ate

> something it would calm things down. As I walked down my hall I

> coulnd't tell if the hall was in my dream still... or if I was

really

> awake.

> WEIRD..WEIRD...WEIRD...

>

> I am embarresed to call my doctor today. I mean, he was convinced

> that this medicine has been around a long time... is safe.. has the

> least side effects and is the drug of choice for fibro.

> NOW WHAT?

>

> Logic says... How can I judge this by one pill...my inner self

> says... if you take another one tonight it may be your last.

>

> Anybody... is this normal. Can a pill do this?

> If this is what anti-depressants do I rather suffer with sore

muscles.

> At least I was living in a real world.

>

> The lorazapam never did this to me. It works real well. Why can't I

> just take that? I felt good on the lorazapam.

>

> Again.. thanks for your help and input.

>

> Well.. I am hitting the send button for this post...if I see it

here

> later I will know I really typed this and I'm in the real world

> again! LOL LOL

> Love to all.

> (gold_morning)

>