Posted by Brainbeard on September 5, 2010, at 8:14:35
I'm experiencing dissociative effects since a while. It started after I raised my clomipramine from 150 to 187.5mg. I felt weirdly disconnected from my physical reality. Like not being there, yet being there. (Or the other way around.) While picking nervously at my nails, as I usually do, it felt like I wasn't feeling myself. I had had a cup of coffee and first tried to blame the caffeine.
But now, about a week later, I began experiencing these dissociative effects on a new level of intensity after smoking marijuana one night. Boy, I felt like being on the verge of getting sucked into a tunnel starting at whatever point I would be focusing on. I had to make conscious efforts not to drift away into.. Yeah, into what?
Time seemed to shift aberrantly, running wildly into the unreal.The day after, the dissociation came back. We visited a zoo. Everything seemed so unreal. When I looked at the ground I felt like being soaked into blankness. Now it's two days later. I've had another raise; I'm taking 225mg now. The dissociative effects are still there.
Well, I don't mind feeling spacey all that much, but I'm worried that maybe this is the prologue to having a seizure or something. Does anybody recognize these experiences? Would it be the TCA causing it? Or the marijuana? I had smoked marijuana about two weeks before I first experienced the dissociation. Personally I suspect that marijuana merely potentiates a side-effect of one of my meds.
Current meds: clomipramine 187.5mg, fluvoxamine (Luvox) 50mg, bethanechol 25-50mg.
PRN: modafinil, oxazepam, dextro-amphetamine, Concerta/Ritalin (methylphenidate), gabapentin (Neurontin).
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