Posted by crabwalk on June 16, 2006, at 22:20:34
In reply to Re: Anyone tried Tianeptine? » crabwalk, posted by blueberry on June 16, 2006, at 16:27:29
Well, when I say weird I actually mean nightmarish, cause it literally gave me nightmares as a side effect. It actually altered my consciousness in general similarly to a hallucinogenic like lsd or mushrooms (without hallucinations though), which isn't that hard to believe since these drugs all act on serotonin in some way--the initial effects of prozac bore a similarity to tripping as well, but different than tianeptine. This felt like coming off of lsd, which is usually an interminable and uncomfortably weird experience, wish i could describe it better.
Somehow it also dried out my skin and hair in a weird way and my skin seemed to have a different pallor, amost jaundiced looking--I thought I might be getting liver damage, but my blood tests were fine. I had this general, strange 'cold' sensation too, like ice in my veins in my limbs.
Ugh, yeah it was totally bizarre and, looking back, it kind of makes me shudder cause it was quite scary. The nightmares especially, they were sort of half awake states of fear. This over a total of about 48 hours, after which I cut the dose back down and all the weirdness subsided.
This being said, I'm not saying this to scare anyone and I really wouldn't read this as anything but a one in a million anomaly, more a point of interest than reference. Pretty much all of my drug trials have been an unmitigated disaster in some way, I am just extremely unlucky when it comes to bad side effects. I've never heard of a reaction to tianeptine that sounded anywhere close to mine. It's usually either good or null.
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