Posted by bulldog2 on April 29, 2008, at 10:18:03
In reply to Nardil : Help -suddenly I am very sick, posted by 4WD on April 28, 2008, at 22:58:38
> Everything was great Saturday. Occasionally waking too early and occasional spells of low blood pressure. Then Sunday all hell broke loose.
>
> I went to bed Saturday night at 10 and woke up Sunday at 3:30 am. My blood pressure was so low I couldn't see or hear and had to walk with my head between my legs to the kitchen to get coffee. I was nauseated and after having the coffee I had severe diarrhea. I felt like crap all day. Diarrhea, nausea and low blood pressure. I only took two Nardil that day. I was afraid to take more.
>
> Then today it got worse. I went to bed last night at 9 (exhausted) went right to sleep and woke up at 1:30. I got up drank one cup of coffee, decided I couldn't make it. My blood pressure was even lower than Sunday. Again with the nausea and diarrhea. At 2:15 I took 1.5mg Xanax and went back to sleep from 3:30 to 5 when Iwoke again with extremely low blood pressure and nausea.
>
> I have been sick all day. I have taken three 1hour naps, and every time I get up I have the low blood pressure. I began to feel better about 8pm.
>
> I called my pdoc and asked for some sleep med that I could take if I woke up at 2am again. Also I thought it ought to be another med than the trazadone I've been using since trazadone can lower blood pressure and causes me to wake up with a hangover if I don't get 8 hours. AGain I took only 2 Nardil today.
>
> Something is suddenly very, very wrong. I called my pdoc and he called me in some Ambien. I asked what could be going on and he said perhaps an interaction between the Nardil and the Geodon I take since Geodon has some 5ht raising properties. But wouldn't that make my blood pressure higher not lower? And why would it start overnight?
>
> I am scared to death. I am scared of taking only 30mg of Nardil - pdoc said "but aren't you feeling more depressed?" when I told him I had lowered the dose? But I can't go on with this low blood pressure/nausea/waking up at 3 every morning. I don't know what to do.
>
> Should I just quit the trazadone? But then I'll definitely wake up too early. Should I continue at 30mg of Nardil instead of 45? But then I may get depressed again. And what's with the nausea?
>
> Meds:
>
> am: 15mg Nardil
> 20mg Geodon
> .75mg Klonopin
> 5mg Valium
>
> 4or 5 hours later : 15mg Nardil
> An hour after that: 20 mg Geodon
> .75 Klonopin
> 5 mg Valium
>
> And up to now 3pm 15mg Nardil
>
> Bedtime 100mg trazadone
> 40mg Geodon
>
> What's wrong with me? What's going on? How quickly will I lose my remission if I stay on 30mg of Nardil instead of 45? Why am I suddently nauseated? Why did my blood pressure suddenly get so extrememly low?
>
> And what should I doI am already tapering one med - Klonopin - and don't think I can taper Geodon at the same time as my pdoc suggested. Help...
>
> MarshaI looked up trazadone and dizziness and low blood pressure are listed as side effects. Perhaps drop trazadone and look for another sleep aid. This plus nardil may be causing some of your problems.Don't know about your other meds.
poster:bulldog2
thread:826173
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20080420/msgs/826230.html