Posted by Abaigeal on October 29, 2011, at 20:23:10
So I had been taking amitriptyline for about 2 years for chronic migraines, and recently went to a psych doctor for severe anxiety. She put me on zoloft, so I had been taking them together for about 4 or 5 months. During those months I didn't realize it but I had been getting black outs, confusion and severe depression/anxiety. A few weeks ago I for some reason thought it would be a good idea to cut my leg up with a knife, long story short. Got sent to a psych ward, stayed there for about 4 days because I wasn't actually suicidal. They decided it would be a good idea to up my dose of amitriptyline and zoloft. About 5 days after getting out on the higher doses, I was feeling like complete sh*t, couldn't get out of bed, couldn't do anything. I slept for 3 days straight. When I woke up I still was feeling very sick.. that night I started hallucinating, like really bad vivid hallucinations, I couldn't even walk straight, was falling into everything. The next day I didn't hallucinate, but was still very sick. Fever, chills, shaking, ataxia, headache, nausea. The next morning, however, I immediately started throwing up when I woke up, shaking, hallucinations, couldn't see or hear things right, couldn't walk. I started hyperventilating I guess. I had exhaled so much carbon dioxide that my arms and legs seized and turned rock hard. Everything tingling, my brain felt like it was literally going to explode. My jaw hurt, my chest hurt, my hands and feet were WHITE, nonstop vomiting, I couldn't move anything. My boyfriend somehow got me into the car and drove as fast as he could to the hospital. I didn't even have shoes. I walk in, they ask how they can help me, and the words stumble out of my mouth "I can't move" And the jack *ss nurse says, yeah I can see that. Sits me down, asks my boyfriend if I've done any drugs, of course assuming I did this to myself. He said I was taking amitriptyline, and the doctor goes, "Oh.." and gets me a bag to breath into. My heart rate was over 150 for 3 days. Nonstop hallucinations, I was basically sedated 90% of the time and was still hallucinating. There was a very good chance that I was going to die. Anyway.. now I'm on ativan, no more hallucinations, but when I miss a dose I get insanely sick, severe chest pains, nausea, my head hurts constantly, nothing relieves the pain. I can't talk as well as I used to, I stumble a lot. It's been almost a week since I was released, and I'm still feeling like complete sh*t. Am I always going to feel the effects of serotonin syndrome?
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