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user-inactivated  ·  3450 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: August 12, 2015

Not sure if anyone noticed, but approximately 10 days ago, my comments and posts suddenly became increasingly darker, fatalistic, depressing, and I finally forced myself to stop commenting on things and took a break from the site to avoid it continuing. 12 days later, 2 days after taking the last antibiotic tablet, and suddenly brain is vastly different. I really wish doctors would listen to me when I tell them how hypersensitive I am to medication and the bizarre paradoxical side effects I tend to experience.





lil  ·  3450 days ago  ·  link  ·  

dashn - that's a very important observation. Make sure you note the name of that particular antibiotic and STOP TAKING IT. There are others. Carry the note in your wallet. One day it's just comments on a website. Another day it's jumping in front of a train.

user-inactivated  ·  3448 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thanks. I saved the prescription sticker, along with the other antibiotic the doctor wanted me to take (which I didn't take), have two appointments next week, one to get a second opinion, other with the doctor in which I'm gonna be very vocal in terms of what he tries to prescribe me in the future.

The list of the seemingly common medications I can't take is growing longer each year.

lil  ·  3448 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yes, I'm glad to hear you are being proactive on this.

I wonder, too, if the prescribing pharmacist should have a note in the pharmacy files of meds you are allergic to -- that is if you often go to the same pharmacy.

user-inactivated  ·  3448 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hmmm. I'll look into that.

Cedar  ·  3450 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm glad you're doing better friend :)

Definitely take lil's advice, and write that down -- even if you have to lie and say it's an allergy

user-inactivated  ·  3448 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think that's the hard lesson I learned this time. When asked if I have allergies to any meds, I always answer than I'm hypersensitive to medication and tend to have bizarre paradoxical side effects. But I think from this point on, I'm gonna have to do as you suggested, and say they're allergic reactions. Sucks when you have to lie to your own doctors, which seems counter-intuitive.