Posted by shellie on July 12, 2000, at 20:33:44
It's been a really confusing week. After trying the provigal I became extremely tired. My pdoc said she thought it was probably my reaction to the provigal and agreed that I should stop. She said it should clear my body in about three days.
Five days later I was still as tired, or more tired. It felt like an impossible task to get to the grocery store. It still felt like a drug thing--no other symptoms besides tired mind and body, and very dry mouth. But I was sure I had chronic fatigue syndrome or epson-barr.
Thank goodness for the internet. I could rule out both chronic fatigue and epson-barr because I had no swollen glands or sore throat. But I was so down and confused and couldn't get any work done. Then I had this flash that when I picked up the provigal, I had also picked up my aderex prescription (for allergy and sleep), and the pharmacy had changed generic brands.
Sure enough I returned the rest of my pills, and they gave me my old generic and today I feel so much more normal. (Still tired in the pm: that is my normal, but not all the time) So I guess I didn't really do a provigal trial--although it certainly didn't help the tiredness. Now I have ritalin to start tomorrow and I wondering if I should try the provigal again, or just skip right to the ritalin. Probably will choose the later.
And now I'm very scared of generics, so I got the brand name of ritalin. (I can always change later). I had always heard, "watch out for generics, but this was the first time I had any bad effects from one, and if I hadn't realized it---I would be making an appointment with my internist for a workup. And everything would have been fine and it could have set up a whole chain of specialists, etc., all because they changed my generic. That's pretty scary. I only wish my "flash" had come a bit earlier.
shellie
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