Posted by Tori on October 3, 2000, at 3:01:32
In reply to Re: INSOMNIA - Parnate 10 mg bid Thanks!!, posted by curran on October 2, 2000, at 20:23:24
Hi Curran,
Unfortunately I can't take trazodone -- when I was on it I had two horrible thunderclap headaches that i had never experienced in my life before that sent me to the ER-
the first time I came home from a walk, sat down outside, lit a cigarette and the first inhale it happened like that -- BAM! Ambulane was called; my friend at the time gave me some of her percocet which didn't help; I have never been in so much pain in my LIFE. Head felt like it was going to explode, was kicking my legs, howling in pain; took me to the ER and did a scan on my melon and a spinal tap and gave me the right painkillers but didn't find anything;
Second time it happened a week later -- I was brushing my teeth and cleaning my tongue and I gagged and BUH-BAM!!, the headache hit again, ambulance again ....whoohooo whooohhoo whoohoo.... the moronic doctor on duty said it was a migraine (which it wasn't) and left me there for five hours to suffer in pain while he gave me "migraine medicine" which he "knew" would work. So I lay there for that period of time agonizing in pain and you know what? They wouldn't even give me morphine or any painkillers before I went home; he threw me some tylenol 3's (which are like candy to me). They knew I was in the mental unit and I firmly believe that they were discriminating against me, thinking I was someone trying to get attention or some opiate junkie. I hate ER's. Oh yeah, and it took an hour for a nurse to finally give me a blanket after I'm laying under one sheet, freezing my ass off. Thank god we have a health care system in Canada, but it's deteriorating badly (feds won't transfer med payments to provinces, massive cutbacks in services, yadda yadda).
Once I stopped the trazodone they stopped as well and I swore I would never touch the stuff again (as well as Paxil). It also rendered me COMPLETELY unstable and in a vegetative state when I took it, no matter what the dose, and when I was in the mental hospital the night nurses overdosed me on it and the next day I couldn't walk or function whatsoever.
Went to a neurologist after that and he was completely useless. Buddy, it was the trazodone! Trazodone=headaches, no trazodone=no headaches. He was a waste of carbon I'll tell ya that....
I wonder if I can take Zoplicon again (if that's the correct name); only side effect was a horrible taste in my mouth the rest of the day but I heard it can be alleviated by drinking citrus the night before (????).
Today I was so tired at work, I had to sit in the bathroom and go to sleep for about fifteen minutes ... came home at 6 and slept until now, just woke up ... but at least I got those 6 hours!!!! :)
Tomorrow I'll take the Parnate at noon so it would be six hours apart. Let's hope this works. I don't want to be dependent on taking sleeping meds for the rest of my life. It's hard enough being on these drugs ....
Thanks again!
poster:Tori
thread:45633
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20000926/msgs/45731.html