Posted by utopizen on December 5, 2005, at 18:24:59
Okay, for over a year now I've had urinary retention (difficulty urinating fully, in one time, etc.)
Now with Aricept, I get to add on a MUCH worsened case of dry mouth, to the point where drinking a liter of water each hour seems to be the only way of not waking up at 3 or 5 A.M. with severe dry mouth.
This is WITH 4x/daily dosing of Evoxac, a dry mouth med, which is actually typically dosed 3x/day, but now doesn't even last into the night after bedtime dosing.
It use to be Evoxac controlled the dry mouth from amphetamines (I've tried 'em all, use to use Adderall, now on Desoxyn, and urinary hesitation began on Adderall, so don't blame one over the other).
I know several on this board have mentioned long-term use of amphetamines tend to lead to this, but my G.P. went through all my meds, one by one, and couldn't find any prostate complications as side effects of any on her medical system database.
I'm not saying that means anything, but it does suggest amphetamine-associated urology complications are bit more obscure in literature than perhaps should be.
I've put off a urology eval, missed my first one, but finally am set to see one in a couple of weeks.
I've heard from one poster here amphetamine use led him to simply take an alpha blocker.
I asked my G.P. about that, and she goes, "uh-uh, I am not even giving you a prostate check-- I can't do all the tests an urologist can do. I'm referring you to a specialist in the hospital's system."
She also dismissed the notion of an alpha blocker, saying that's for "enlarged prostate," but it seems that it's either enlarged with the amphetamine in my system or tiny when I add Klonopin (which I am suppose to take 1mg, 3x/day).
Also, I read on Google "Duvoid" is a drug given for urinary hesitation.
Well, lately it's become a full-blown case of urinary incontinence as well at times.
It's like the amphetamines, which I began after a few months of Ritalin at 18 before moving on to mostly Adderall (a brief stint with Dexedrine) for two years and then later some back-and-forth with Ritalin, Adderall and Desoxyn has somehow left my blood vessels down there so manipulated, it can't properly contract normally.
I'm a male 22 year old. Why the heck is this happening to me with just 4 years of prescribed stimulants, and not apparently more common in kids my age(?)
Maybe it's just my body being more sensitive to it, or my height, being 6'3," or a combination of factors-- but one poster has mentioned "oh, I take an alpha blocker, no problem, it's all good" or something way back when.
Um, this isn't right. There's surgeries for urology. If it is minimal enough, I wonder, if I'm asked about it, if surgery could somehow be more preferable.
It's annoying I'm already on Aricept 5mg/day, Desoxyn 20mg/day, Lexapro 30mg/day, and Evoxac 30mg 4x/day (for dry mouth from Aricept + Desoxyn).
Now yet another drug for a side effect? I've noticed, be it Lexapro or just maturity, my social anxiety just isn't there when I go off Desoxyn for a couple of days, and Klonopin too.
I'm completely calm. So it's like, I'm beginning to see Klonopin as a drug for a side effect, too.
I hate this.
I shouldn't complain-- Aricept, or whatever my mind is doing, has somehow led me to become so poetic my friends are very proud, I wrote a hard-hitting letter to my college newspaper that really seemed to nail some sense into a controversy, and my prose is incredible on my poetry/prose site.
Should I attribute Aricept to it? Somewhat, definitely. The dreaming at first for 2 months was so crystal clear, I knew it was really encoding memories in a completely different dimension I was use to. Words now flow not mechanically, like amphetamines can seem responsible for causing, but with seamlessly integrated, cohesive thoughts when I talk or write.
Oh, don't include this as a writing example =)
I'm just, um, psycho-babbling.
I basically am looking for anecdotes from others, so I feel a bit comforted to know I am not like a novel case study for my urologist to see when I first meet him two weeks from now.
Of course, I'll let you all know if he stops half-way during his eval, with my pants down, and yells out to all 40 of his student interns:
"Students, come quick! There's a 22 year old with urological maladies I've yet to see in my geriatric patients! You, grab that camera of yours, this is going to be presented at the next Conference!!"
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thread:585851
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