Posted by Chloe on March 9, 2002, at 17:13:14
In reply to Re: medication compliance with painful S.E's? » Chloe, posted by Ritch on March 8, 2002, at 23:26:08
> Well, I don't know if I mentioned it or not, but I am sort of "dose-limited" on Neurontin myself. I take 100mg tid, but if I try to increase it I get chondroital type pain in my ribs and get chest wall muscle spasms from it. What a drag-it works the best of *anything* for my head....I am glad I am not alone in that there is a good med, but the dose can't be pushed too high. Though, I decreased the N by 100 mgs last night, and I had a horrible day today. About 5 hours after my morning dose of N, I got the shakes and felt so irritable and panicky (I don't usually have "panic" type issues). So I took a 2.5 valium and tried to proceed with my job at the store. As the slow hours passed, I felt worse and more shaky, sweaty and teary.
All the while my scalp is burning like crazy cause I gave that scalp oil another two day trial. And I think the steriod makes my head burn worse. Not to mention the massive hair loss I had over the last two morning in the shower when I washed it out. God, i couldn't be more depressed and agitated. I can't relax, I feel lilke I am on speed. And I only went down only 100 mgs on the N. I wish I could just take my damn meds and not worry about side effects. Today I would swear I am in hell. I apologize for the desperateness of my post. I guess I need more valium if I am going to survive the night. I feel awful. And I wish I had some solution to my mystery scalp pain...I don't have dry skin, but I have desperately dry scalp/hair with pain that no NSAID will touch. How does this make sense??? Would a "pain specialist" think I am nuts if I made an appointment? I just don't know how to address the pain, so I can stay on my meds...> You (since you have the iron gut), seem to tolerate Lithium a lot better than I do. Maybe it would be a good idea to increment the Lithium a notch and decrement the Neurontin a notch and see how that goes for a few days?
I am scared the li will dry my burning scalp too...but it might be the way to go. Though I don't know if li will quiet this shaky/panicky feeling I have. Do li and N work on the same receptors? My mind can't think that clearly now...Would li help with N withdrawal?
> Well, so far it doesn't seem to be retriggering any dysphoria or insomnia that the Wellbutrin obviously was doing. One nice thing I noticed today-I wasn't in a hurry... about anything. Very odd-I just flowed from one task to another and didn't have this feeling of pressure that I had to get everything done all at *once*. I didn't necessarily feel all that *focused*-I just felt that everything had a priority or queue of sorts that could be patiently followed with a *plan*. I spent a lot more time sitting doing things instead of pacing around thinking *about* doing them. Almost an anxiolytic like feeling.I know that "rushed" feeling and I hate it. I am glad you had a day without it! I get that pressured feeling from too much ssri(or not enough MOOD STABILIZER!). I feel like I have to do fifty things at once, and I literally get out of breath trying to get everything done. Which of course I don't...Not rushed but a little unfocused sounds ok for now. You can work on honing your attention to detail as the days pass...I would just try to enjoy the anxiolytic feeling while it lasts :)
Thanks for listening, I apologize for my desperation.
Chloe
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