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I (18M) was so sure I had Migraines but my Neurologist who's also a Migraine Specialist says that's not it.
2024.04.22 14:13 HendrikLaments I (18M) was so sure I had Migraines but my Neurologist who's also a Migraine Specialist says that's not it.
I am 18, Male and Indian.
I started seeing a neurologist after having headaches for past 4 years now with these symptoms :- frequent unbearable neck, shoulder and back pain, dizziness, vertigo, Jaw pain, ear pain, pain on the entire right side of my head or the left, and sometimes all over, and often a fog in my vision, along with nausea, vomiting and extremely high heart rate.
During an attack I have sensitivity to mostly sounds and smells (especially deodrants and perfumes), fatigue, inability to think, derealization, my head feels very heavy as though my brain has turned into a ball and is rolling around inside my skull, my hair (or rather scalp) is sensitive to touch, ringing in my ears, etc etc.
I have been suffering from all this for the past four years and it started off as something that would happen for a couple of days in a go and would usually happen every week or so but recently, for the past year, it's worsened and the frequency has increased to 15-20 headache/symptom days as I've been monitoring them through Migraine Buddy.
I'm 18 and my father is extremely toxic and thinks I make them up because of the frequency which resulted in me never getting the treatment or the consultation I required but after much pleading and having become an adult very very recently, my mother agreed to take me to a well known Migraine Specialist of our city.
I told the Neurologist about my symptoms, as many as I could and especially told him about the very recent elevation I noticed in my heart rate during a bath after I felt dizzy and felt my jaw locking and my limbs completely losing the strength, which made me think I was having a heart attack. I think he ignored all the other symptoms and just focused on this one instance which is, to my research, something that can happen due to a Migraine too. This particular Heart Attack Mimicking instance and reading about such symptoms in many other Migraine sufferers was the inciting incident for me going to the doctor too but now I feel dumbfounded.
Here's how the procedure of my Diagnosis took place after my session.
The Neurologist told me to get a few tests, which were :- 1. TCD to check the blood flow of the veins to my brain. 2. CT Scan for ruling out Tumors. 3. A blood test to check for TSH and few other things. 4. A Psych Evaluation by the DASS test and the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale. 5. An EEG Scan. I have no idea why this test was taken but perhaps it was to rule out me getting any Seizures in rhe past.
TCD and CT Scan was completely normal.
My blood tests were the weird part. There's likely something wrong with my liver because I had higher than normal MCH production, extremely high uric acid and extremely high ALT/SGPT (liver enzyme) production which, is probably a result of the high dosages I have been taking of Paracetamol/Naproxen/Aspirin depending on what I have left at home, which is obviously less than ideal but the best I could do with my unsupportive parents.
The Psychiatrist came off like an asshole to me. She sat down with me and my mother, asked us about some general stuff and then asked my mother to step out.
I have trauma from my father's abuse in the childhood and I opened up about it to her after she asked about my household condition. I was also SAed by two different people as a child and I wanted to open up about it to her as I do struggle with PTSD episodes, but lo and behold, she's on her phone and was chatting with someone and then called someone in the middle of the session, then returned back to me and asked the survey questions which I think I couldn't clearly get out to her about.
The psychiatrist diagnosed me with mild depression, moderate anxiety and moderate stress but said I should keep coming in for a few sessions and it'll be good for me, but I felt like her diagnosis was wrong nonetheless, and I beg to differ because she clearly wasn't listening in the last session, when I told her I have lost my will to live, as she ruled it out completely in my diagnostic list that she handed to my mother which said my only problems are stress and anxiety, even though I stated very clearly that I just don't feel good alive and that I feel worthless, guilty and extremely miserable, which again was ruled out in my report, and I was said to not be depressed even though I said I don't even feel like living. I don't know if I want to go and try to open up more and see if we arrive somewhere but I doubt I'd get another chance at therapy so maybe I should go but I'm not sure. What do I do about this?
Now, the weirdest part starts here. I took all my reports and scans and brought them to the neurologist who quickly shuffled through the pages, and only stopped at the Psych Evaluation. He then went on to leave me with the lack of a diagnosis. I wanted him to spell out a disease or anything but he just wrote down some medications (that I have taken before, as a matter of fact) to take for 10 days and told me to revisit in 10 days. When I asked if I'm having migraines, he said that "it's something like migraines but not the classic migraines that we know of" which was confusing as fuck because wtf do I make out of all this then?
These Medications are:- 1. Escitalopeam and Clonazepam to take before sleeping 2. Rabeprazole Sodium and Levosulpride to take before breakfast 3. Naproxen Sodium 550 mg to take in the morning and at night 4. Amitriptyline Hydrochloride and Methylcobalamin Tablets before sleeping 5. Propranolol HCl and Flunarizine Tablets before sleeping 6. Furic 80mg Tablet after breakfast 7. Trifluoperazine and Chlordiazepoxide Tablets before sleeping 8. Paracetamol and Domperidone when I have a headache 9. Clonazepam Mouth Dissolvant when I feel anxious
Why the fuck have I been dying each day for the past year, and why have I not been able to sleep well, or keep up with studies or concentrate on anything but the headaches and the symptoms, or been able give my exams and tests without a throbbing head, and why do I have a slightly lazy eye on the right side at this point, and why is it that I keep throwing up and be unable to get out in the sun without getting a headache?
It's as though all my mental health issues and my physical health concerns were completely invalidated by an irresponsible, inattentive Psychiatrist and a Neurologist who just made me take a bunch of meaningless tests only to tell me that I don't have migraines when I've been dying in the Sun with a headache travelling miles over miles to his clinic to get help, only to not even get a diagnosis and be left with the same medications that I got from a Physician a year ago that resulted in no change!
I'm so fucking devastated and I don't know what to make of any of this.
Am I seriously not ill in any way? Am I being a hypochondriac or being histrionic or dramatic like my dad suggests?
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I started seeing a neurologist after having headaches for past 4 years now with these symptoms :- frequent unbearable neck, shoulder and back pain, dizziness, vertigo, Jaw pain, ear pain, pain on the entire right side of my head or the left, and sometimes all over, and often a fog in my vision, along with nausea, vomiting and extremely high heart rate.
During an attack I have sensitivity to mostly sounds and smells (especially deodrants and perfumes), fatigue, inability to think, derealization, my head feels very heavy as though my brain has turned into a ball and is rolling around inside my skull, my hair (or rather scalp) is sensitive to touch, ringing in my ears, etc etc.
I have been suffering from all this for the past four years and it started off as something that would happen for a couple of days in a go and would usually happen every week or so but recently, for the past year, it's worsened and the frequency has increased to 15-20 headache/symptom days as I've been monitoring them through Migraine Buddy.
I'm 18 and my father is extremely toxic and thinks I make them up because of the frequency which resulted in me never getting the treatment or the consultation I required but after much pleading and having become an adult very very recently, my mother agreed to take me to a well known Migraine Specialist of our city.
I told the Neurologist about my symptoms, as many as I could and especially told him about the very recent elevation I noticed in my heart rate during a bath after I felt dizzy and felt my jaw locking and my limbs completely losing the strength, which made me think I was having a heart attack. I think he ignored all the other symptoms and just focused on this one instance which is, to my research, something that can happen due to a Migraine too. This particular Heart Attack Mimicking instance and reading about such symptoms in many other Migraine sufferers was the inciting incident for me going to the doctor too but now I feel dumbfounded.
Here's how the procedure of my Diagnosis took place after my session.
The Neurologist told me to get a few tests, which were :- 1. TCD to check the blood flow of the veins to my brain. 2. CT Scan for ruling out Tumors. 3. A blood test to check for TSH and few other things. 4. A Psych Evaluation by the DASS test and the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale. 5. An EEG Scan. I have no idea why this test was taken but perhaps it was to rule out me getting any Seizures in rhe past.
TCD and CT Scan was completely normal.
My blood tests were the weird part. There's likely something wrong with my liver because I had higher than normal MCH production, extremely high uric acid and extremely high ALT/SGPT (liver enzyme) production which, is probably a result of the high dosages I have been taking of Paracetamol/Naproxen/Aspirin depending on what I have left at home, which is obviously less than ideal but the best I could do with my unsupportive parents.
The Psychiatrist came off like an asshole to me. She sat down with me and my mother, asked us about some general stuff and then asked my mother to step out.
I have trauma from my father's abuse in the childhood and I opened up about it to her after she asked about my household condition. I was also SAed by two different people as a child and I wanted to open up about it to her as I do struggle with PTSD episodes, but lo and behold, she's on her phone and was chatting with someone and then called someone in the middle of the session, then returned back to me and asked the survey questions which I think I couldn't clearly get out to her about.
The psychiatrist diagnosed me with mild depression, moderate anxiety and moderate stress but said I should keep coming in for a few sessions and it'll be good for me, but I felt like her diagnosis was wrong nonetheless, and I beg to differ because she clearly wasn't listening in the last session, when I told her I have lost my will to live, as she ruled it out completely in my diagnostic list that she handed to my mother which said my only problems are stress and anxiety, even though I stated very clearly that I just don't feel good alive and that I feel worthless, guilty and extremely miserable, which again was ruled out in my report, and I was said to not be depressed even though I said I don't even feel like living. I don't know if I want to go and try to open up more and see if we arrive somewhere but I doubt I'd get another chance at therapy so maybe I should go but I'm not sure. What do I do about this?
Now, the weirdest part starts here. I took all my reports and scans and brought them to the neurologist who quickly shuffled through the pages, and only stopped at the Psych Evaluation. He then went on to leave me with the lack of a diagnosis. I wanted him to spell out a disease or anything but he just wrote down some medications (that I have taken before, as a matter of fact) to take for 10 days and told me to revisit in 10 days. When I asked if I'm having migraines, he said that "it's something like migraines but not the classic migraines that we know of" which was confusing as fuck because wtf do I make out of all this then?
These Medications are:- 1. Escitalopeam and Clonazepam to take before sleeping 2. Rabeprazole Sodium and Levosulpride to take before breakfast 3. Naproxen Sodium 550 mg to take in the morning and at night 4. Amitriptyline Hydrochloride and Methylcobalamin Tablets before sleeping 5. Propranolol HCl and Flunarizine Tablets before sleeping 6. Furic 80mg Tablet after breakfast 7. Trifluoperazine and Chlordiazepoxide Tablets before sleeping 8. Paracetamol and Domperidone when I have a headache 9. Clonazepam Mouth Dissolvant when I feel anxious
Why the fuck have I been dying each day for the past year, and why have I not been able to sleep well, or keep up with studies or concentrate on anything but the headaches and the symptoms, or been able give my exams and tests without a throbbing head, and why do I have a slightly lazy eye on the right side at this point, and why is it that I keep throwing up and be unable to get out in the sun without getting a headache?
It's as though all my mental health issues and my physical health concerns were completely invalidated by an irresponsible, inattentive Psychiatrist and a Neurologist who just made me take a bunch of meaningless tests only to tell me that I don't have migraines when I've been dying in the Sun with a headache travelling miles over miles to his clinic to get help, only to not even get a diagnosis and be left with the same medications that I got from a Physician a year ago that resulted in no change!
I'm so fucking devastated and I don't know what to make of any of this.
Am I seriously not ill in any way? Am I being a hypochondriac or being histrionic or dramatic like my dad suggests?
2024.04.22 14:12 HendrikLaments I (18M) was so sure I had Migraines but my Neurologist who's also a Migraine Specialist says that's not it.
I am 18, Male and Indian.
I started seeing a neurologist after having headaches for past 4 years now with these symptoms :- frequent unbearable neck, shoulder and back pain, dizziness, vertigo, Jaw pain, ear pain, pain on the entire right side of my head or the left, and sometimes all over, and often a fog in my vision, along with nausea, vomiting and extremely high heart rate.
During an attack I have sensitivity to mostly sounds and smells (especially deodrants and perfumes), fatigue, inability to think, derealization, my head feels very heavy as though my brain has turned into a ball and is rolling around inside my skull, my hair (or rather scalp) is sensitive to touch, ringing in my ears, etc etc.
I have been suffering from all this for the past four years and it started off as something that would happen for a couple of days in a go and would usually happen every week or so but recently, for the past year, it's worsened and the frequency has increased to 15-20 headache/symptom days as I've been monitoring them through Migraine Buddy.
I'm 18 and my father is extremely toxic and thinks I make them up because of the frequency which resulted in me never getting the treatment or the consultation I required but after much pleading and having become an adult very very recently, my mother agreed to take me to a well known Migraine Specialist of our city.
I told the Neurologist about my symptoms, as many as I could and especially told him about the very recent elevation I noticed in my heart rate during a bath after I felt dizzy and felt my jaw locking and my limbs completely losing the strength, which made me think I was having a heart attack. I think he ignored all the other symptoms and just focused on this one instance which is, to my research, something that can happen due to a Migraine too. This particular Heart Attack Mimicking instance and reading about such symptoms in many other Migraine sufferers was the inciting incident for me going to the doctor too but now I feel dumbfounded.
Here's how the procedure of my Diagnosis took place after my session.
The Neurologist told me to get a few tests, which were :- 1. TCD to check the blood flow of the veins to my brain. 2. CT Scan for ruling out Tumors. 3. A blood test to check for TSH and few other things. 4. A Psych Evaluation by the DASS test and the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale. 5. An EEG Scan. I have no idea why this test was taken but perhaps it was to rule out me getting any Seizures in rhe past.
TCD and CT Scan was completely normal.
My blood tests were the weird part. There's likely something wrong with my liver because I had higher than normal MCH production, extremely high uric acid and extremely high ALT/SGPT (liver enzyme) production which, is probably a result of the high dosages I have been taking of Paracetamol/Naproxen/Aspirin depending on what I have left at home, which is obviously less than ideal but the best I could do with my unsupportive parents.
The Psychiatrist came off like an asshole to me. She sat down with me and my mother, asked us about some general stuff and then asked my mother to step out.
I have trauma from my father's abuse in the childhood and I opened up about it to her after she asked about my household condition. I was also SAed by two different people as a child and I wanted to open up about it to her as I do struggle with PTSD episodes, but lo and behold, she's on her phone and was chatting with someone and then called someone in the middle of the session, then returned back to me and asked the survey questions which I think I couldn't clearly get out to her about.
The psychiatrist diagnosed me with mild depression, moderate anxiety and moderate stress but said I should keep coming in for a few sessions and it'll be good for me, but I felt like her diagnosis was wrong nonetheless, and I beg to differ because she clearly wasn't listening in the last session, when I told her I have lost my will to live, as she ruled it out completely in my diagnostic list that she handed to my mother which said my only problems are stress and anxiety, even though I stated very clearly that I just don't feel good alive and that I feel worthless, guilty and extremely miserable, which again was ruled out in my report, and I was said to not be depressed even though I said I don't even feel like living. I don't know if I want to go and try to open up more and see if we arrive somewhere but I doubt I'd get another chance at therapy so maybe I should go but I'm not sure. What do I do about this?
Now, the weirdest part starts here. I took all my reports and scans and brought them to the neurologist who quickly shuffled through the pages, and only stopped at the Psych Evaluation. He then went on to leave me with the lack of a diagnosis. I wanted him to spell out a disease or anything but he just wrote down some medications (that I have taken before, as a matter of fact) to take for 10 days and told me to revisit in 10 days. When I asked if I'm having migraines, he said that "it's something like migraines but not the classic migraines that we know of" which was confusing as fuck because wtf do I make out of all this then?
These Medications are:- 1. Escitalopeam and Clonazepam to take before sleeping 2. Rabeprazole Sodium and Levosulpride to take before breakfast 3. Naproxen Sodium 550 mg to take in the morning and at night 4. Amitriptyline Hydrochloride and Methylcobalamin Tablets before sleeping 5. Propranolol HCl and Flunarizine Tablets before sleeping 6. Furic 80mg Tablet after breakfast 7. Trifluoperazine and Chlordiazepoxide Tablets before sleeping 8. Paracetamol and Domperidone when I have a headache 9. Clonazepam Mouth Dissolvant when I feel anxious
Why the fuck have I been dying each day for the past year, and why have I not been able to sleep well, or keep up with studies or concentrate on anything but the headaches and the symptoms, or been able give my exams and tests without a throbbing head, and why do I have a slightly lazy eye on the right side at this point, and why is it that I keep throwing up and be unable to get out in the sun without getting a headache?
It's as though all my mental health issues and my physical health concerns were completely invalidated by an irresponsible, inattentive Psychiatrist and a Neurologist who just made me take a bunch of meaningless tests only to tell me that I don't have migraines when I've been dying in the Sun with a headache travelling miles over miles to his clinic to get help, only to not even get a diagnosis and be left with the same medications that I got from a Physician a year ago that resulted in no change!
I'm so fucking devastated and I don't know what to make of any of this.
Am I seriously not ill in any way? Am I being a hypochondriac or being histrionic or dramatic like my dad suggests?
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I started seeing a neurologist after having headaches for past 4 years now with these symptoms :- frequent unbearable neck, shoulder and back pain, dizziness, vertigo, Jaw pain, ear pain, pain on the entire right side of my head or the left, and sometimes all over, and often a fog in my vision, along with nausea, vomiting and extremely high heart rate.
During an attack I have sensitivity to mostly sounds and smells (especially deodrants and perfumes), fatigue, inability to think, derealization, my head feels very heavy as though my brain has turned into a ball and is rolling around inside my skull, my hair (or rather scalp) is sensitive to touch, ringing in my ears, etc etc.
I have been suffering from all this for the past four years and it started off as something that would happen for a couple of days in a go and would usually happen every week or so but recently, for the past year, it's worsened and the frequency has increased to 15-20 headache/symptom days as I've been monitoring them through Migraine Buddy.
I'm 18 and my father is extremely toxic and thinks I make them up because of the frequency which resulted in me never getting the treatment or the consultation I required but after much pleading and having become an adult very very recently, my mother agreed to take me to a well known Migraine Specialist of our city.
I told the Neurologist about my symptoms, as many as I could and especially told him about the very recent elevation I noticed in my heart rate during a bath after I felt dizzy and felt my jaw locking and my limbs completely losing the strength, which made me think I was having a heart attack. I think he ignored all the other symptoms and just focused on this one instance which is, to my research, something that can happen due to a Migraine too. This particular Heart Attack Mimicking instance and reading about such symptoms in many other Migraine sufferers was the inciting incident for me going to the doctor too but now I feel dumbfounded.
Here's how the procedure of my Diagnosis took place after my session.
The Neurologist told me to get a few tests, which were :- 1. TCD to check the blood flow of the veins to my brain. 2. CT Scan for ruling out Tumors. 3. A blood test to check for TSH and few other things. 4. A Psych Evaluation by the DASS test and the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale. 5. An EEG Scan. I have no idea why this test was taken but perhaps it was to rule out me getting any Seizures in rhe past.
TCD and CT Scan was completely normal.
My blood tests were the weird part. There's likely something wrong with my liver because I had higher than normal MCH production, extremely high uric acid and extremely high ALT/SGPT (liver enzyme) production which, is probably a result of the high dosages I have been taking of Paracetamol/Naproxen/Aspirin depending on what I have left at home, which is obviously less than ideal but the best I could do with my unsupportive parents.
The Psychiatrist came off like an asshole to me. She sat down with me and my mother, asked us about some general stuff and then asked my mother to step out.
I have trauma from my father's abuse in the childhood and I opened up about it to her after she asked about my household condition. I was also SAed by two different people as a child and I wanted to open up about it to her as I do struggle with PTSD episodes, but lo and behold, she's on her phone and was chatting with someone and then called someone in the middle of the session, then returned back to me and asked the survey questions which I think I couldn't clearly get out to her about.
The psychiatrist diagnosed me with mild depression, moderate anxiety and moderate stress but said I should keep coming in for a few sessions and it'll be good for me, but I felt like her diagnosis was wrong nonetheless, and I beg to differ because she clearly wasn't listening in the last session, when I told her I have lost my will to live, as she ruled it out completely in my diagnostic list that she handed to my mother which said my only problems are stress and anxiety, even though I stated very clearly that I just don't feel good alive and that I feel worthless, guilty and extremely miserable, which again was ruled out in my report, and I was said to not be depressed even though I said I don't even feel like living. I don't know if I want to go and try to open up more and see if we arrive somewhere but I doubt I'd get another chance at therapy so maybe I should go but I'm not sure. What do I do about this?
Now, the weirdest part starts here. I took all my reports and scans and brought them to the neurologist who quickly shuffled through the pages, and only stopped at the Psych Evaluation. He then went on to leave me with the lack of a diagnosis. I wanted him to spell out a disease or anything but he just wrote down some medications (that I have taken before, as a matter of fact) to take for 10 days and told me to revisit in 10 days. When I asked if I'm having migraines, he said that "it's something like migraines but not the classic migraines that we know of" which was confusing as fuck because wtf do I make out of all this then?
These Medications are:- 1. Escitalopeam and Clonazepam to take before sleeping 2. Rabeprazole Sodium and Levosulpride to take before breakfast 3. Naproxen Sodium 550 mg to take in the morning and at night 4. Amitriptyline Hydrochloride and Methylcobalamin Tablets before sleeping 5. Propranolol HCl and Flunarizine Tablets before sleeping 6. Furic 80mg Tablet after breakfast 7. Trifluoperazine and Chlordiazepoxide Tablets before sleeping 8. Paracetamol and Domperidone when I have a headache 9. Clonazepam Mouth Dissolvant when I feel anxious
Why the fuck have I been dying each day for the past year, and why have I not been able to sleep well, or keep up with studies or concentrate on anything but the headaches and the symptoms, or been able give my exams and tests without a throbbing head, and why do I have a slightly lazy eye on the right side at this point, and why is it that I keep throwing up and be unable to get out in the sun without getting a headache?
It's as though all my mental health issues and my physical health concerns were completely invalidated by an irresponsible, inattentive Psychiatrist and a Neurologist who just made me take a bunch of meaningless tests only to tell me that I don't have migraines when I've been dying in the Sun with a headache travelling miles over miles to his clinic to get help, only to not even get a diagnosis and be left with the same medications that I got from a Physician a year ago that resulted in no change!
I'm so fucking devastated and I don't know what to make of any of this.
Am I seriously not ill in any way? Am I being a hypochondriac or being histrionic or dramatic like my dad suggests?
2024.04.22 14:00 HendrikLaments I (18M) was so sure I had Migraines but my Neurologist who's also a Migraine Specialist says that's not it.
I am 18, Male and Indian.
I started seeing a neurologist after having headaches for past 4 years now with these symptoms :- frequent unbearable neck, shoulder and back pain, dizziness, vertigo, Jaw pain, ear pain, pain on the entire right side of my head or the left, and sometimes all over, and often a fog in my vision, along with nausea, vomiting and extremely high heart rate.
During an attack I have sensitivity to mostly sounds and smells (especially deodrants and perfumes), fatigue, inability to think, derealization, my head feels very heavy as though my brain has turned into a ball and is rolling around inside my skull, my hair (or rather scalp) is sensitive to touch, ringing in my ears, etc etc.
I have been suffering from all this for the past four years and it started off as something that would happen for a couple of days in a go and would usually happen every week or so but recently, for the past year, it's worsened and the frequency has increased to 15-20 headache/symptom days as I've been monitoring them through Migraine Buddy.
I'm 18 and my father is extremely toxic and thinks I make them up because of the frequency which resulted in me never getting the treatment or the consultation I required but after much pleading and having become an adult very very recently, my mother agreed to take me to a well known Migraine Specialist of our city.
I told the Neurologist about my symptoms, as many as I could and especially told him about the very recent elevation I noticed in my heart rate during a bath after I felt dizzy and felt my jaw locking and my limbs completely losing the strength, which made me think I was having a heart attack. I think he ignored all the other symptoms and just focused on this one instance which is, to my research, something that can happen due to a Migraine too. This particular Heart Attack Mimicking instance and reading about such symptoms in many other Migraine sufferers was the inciting incident for me going to the doctor too but now I feel dumbfounded.
Here's how the procedure of my Diagnosis took place after my session.
The Neurologist told me to get a few tests, which were :- 1. TCD to check the blood flow of the veins to my brain. 2. CT Scan for ruling out Tumors. 3. A blood test to check for TSH and few other things. 4. A Psych Evaluation by the DASS test and the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale. 5. An EEG Scan. I have no idea why this test was taken but perhaps it was to rule out me getting any Seizures in rhe past.
TCD and CT Scan was completely normal.
My blood tests were the weird part. There's likely something wrong with my liver because I had higher than normal MCH production, extremely high uric acid and extremely high ALT/SGPT (liver enzyme) production which, is probably a result of the high dosages I have been taking of Paracetamol/Naproxen/Aspirin depending on what I have left at home, which is obviously less than ideal but the best I could do with my unsupportive parents.
The Psychiatrist came off like an asshole to me. She sat down with me and my mother, asked us about some general stuff and then asked my mother to step out.
I have trauma from my father's abuse in the childhood and I opened up about it to her after she asked about my household condition. I was also SAed by two different people as a child and I wanted to open up about it to her as I do struggle with PTSD episodes, but lo and behold, she's on her phone and was chatting with someone and then called someone in the middle of the session, then returned back to me and asked the survey questions which I think I couldn't clearly get out to her about.
The psychiatrist diagnosed me with mild depression, moderate anxiety and moderate stress but said I should keep coming in for a few sessions and it'll be good for me, but I felt like her diagnosis was wrong nonetheless, and I beg to differ because she clearly wasn't listening in the last session, when I told her I have lost my will to live, as she ruled it out completely in my diagnostic list that she handed to my mother which said my only problems are stress and anxiety, even though I stated very clearly that I just don't feel good alive and that I feel worthless, guilty and extremely miserable, which again was ruled out in my report, and I was said to not be depressed even though I said I don't even feel like living. I don't know if I want to go and try to open up more and see if we arrive somewhere but I doubt I'd get another chance at therapy so maybe I should go but I'm not sure. What do I do about this?
Now, the weirdest part starts here. I took all my reports and scans and brought them to the neurologist who quickly shuffled through the pages, and only stopped at the Psych Evaluation. He then went on to leave me with the lack of a diagnosis. I wanted him to spell out a disease or anything but he just wrote down some medications (that I have taken before, as a matter of fact) to take for 10 days and told me to revisit in 10 days. When I asked if I'm having migraines, he said that "it's something like migraines but not the classic migraines that we know of" which was confusing as fuck because wtf do I make out of all this then?
These Medications are:- 1. Escitalopeam and Clonazepam to take before sleeping 2. Rabeprazole Sodium and Levosulpride to take before breakfast 3. Naproxen Sodium 550 mg to take in the morning and at night 4. Amitriptyline Hydrochloride and Methylcobalamin Tablets before sleeping 5. Propranolol HCl and Flunarizine Tablets before sleeping 6. Furic 80mg Tablet after breakfast 7. Trifluoperazine and Chlordiazepoxide Tablets before sleeping 8. Paracetamol and Domperidone when I have a headache 9. Clonazepam Mouth Dissolvant when I feel anxious
Why the fuck have I been dying each day for the past year, and why have I not been able to sleep well, or keep up with studies or concentrate on anything but the headaches and the symptoms, or been able give my exams and tests without a throbbing head, and why do I have a slightly lazy eye on the right side at this point, and why is it that I keep throwing up and be unable to get out in the sun without getting a headache?
It's as though all my mental health issues and my physical health concerns were completely invalidated by an irresponsible, inattentive Psychiatrist and a Neurologist who just made me take a bunch of meaningless tests only to tell me that I don't have migraines when I've been dying in the Sun with a headache travelling miles over miles to his clinic to get help, only to not even get a diagnosis and be left with the same medications that I got from a Physician a year ago that resulted in no change!
I'm so fucking devastated and I don't know what to make of any of this.
Am I seriously not ill in any way? Am I being a hypochondriac or being histrionic or dramatic like my dad suggests?
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I started seeing a neurologist after having headaches for past 4 years now with these symptoms :- frequent unbearable neck, shoulder and back pain, dizziness, vertigo, Jaw pain, ear pain, pain on the entire right side of my head or the left, and sometimes all over, and often a fog in my vision, along with nausea, vomiting and extremely high heart rate.
During an attack I have sensitivity to mostly sounds and smells (especially deodrants and perfumes), fatigue, inability to think, derealization, my head feels very heavy as though my brain has turned into a ball and is rolling around inside my skull, my hair (or rather scalp) is sensitive to touch, ringing in my ears, etc etc.
I have been suffering from all this for the past four years and it started off as something that would happen for a couple of days in a go and would usually happen every week or so but recently, for the past year, it's worsened and the frequency has increased to 15-20 headache/symptom days as I've been monitoring them through Migraine Buddy.
I'm 18 and my father is extremely toxic and thinks I make them up because of the frequency which resulted in me never getting the treatment or the consultation I required but after much pleading and having become an adult very very recently, my mother agreed to take me to a well known Migraine Specialist of our city.
I told the Neurologist about my symptoms, as many as I could and especially told him about the very recent elevation I noticed in my heart rate during a bath after I felt dizzy and felt my jaw locking and my limbs completely losing the strength, which made me think I was having a heart attack. I think he ignored all the other symptoms and just focused on this one instance which is, to my research, something that can happen due to a Migraine too. This particular Heart Attack Mimicking instance and reading about such symptoms in many other Migraine sufferers was the inciting incident for me going to the doctor too but now I feel dumbfounded.
Here's how the procedure of my Diagnosis took place after my session.
The Neurologist told me to get a few tests, which were :- 1. TCD to check the blood flow of the veins to my brain. 2. CT Scan for ruling out Tumors. 3. A blood test to check for TSH and few other things. 4. A Psych Evaluation by the DASS test and the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale. 5. An EEG Scan. I have no idea why this test was taken but perhaps it was to rule out me getting any Seizures in rhe past.
TCD and CT Scan was completely normal.
My blood tests were the weird part. There's likely something wrong with my liver because I had higher than normal MCH production, extremely high uric acid and extremely high ALT/SGPT (liver enzyme) production which, is probably a result of the high dosages I have been taking of Paracetamol/Naproxen/Aspirin depending on what I have left at home, which is obviously less than ideal but the best I could do with my unsupportive parents.
The Psychiatrist came off like an asshole to me. She sat down with me and my mother, asked us about some general stuff and then asked my mother to step out.
I have trauma from my father's abuse in the childhood and I opened up about it to her after she asked about my household condition. I was also SAed by two different people as a child and I wanted to open up about it to her as I do struggle with PTSD episodes, but lo and behold, she's on her phone and was chatting with someone and then called someone in the middle of the session, then returned back to me and asked the survey questions which I think I couldn't clearly get out to her about.
The psychiatrist diagnosed me with mild depression, moderate anxiety and moderate stress but said I should keep coming in for a few sessions and it'll be good for me, but I felt like her diagnosis was wrong nonetheless, and I beg to differ because she clearly wasn't listening in the last session, when I told her I have lost my will to live, as she ruled it out completely in my diagnostic list that she handed to my mother which said my only problems are stress and anxiety, even though I stated very clearly that I just don't feel good alive and that I feel worthless, guilty and extremely miserable, which again was ruled out in my report, and I was said to not be depressed even though I said I don't even feel like living. I don't know if I want to go and try to open up more and see if we arrive somewhere but I doubt I'd get another chance at therapy so maybe I should go but I'm not sure. What do I do about this?
Now, the weirdest part starts here. I took all my reports and scans and brought them to the neurologist who quickly shuffled through the pages, and only stopped at the Psych Evaluation. He then went on to leave me with the lack of a diagnosis. I wanted him to spell out a disease or anything but he just wrote down some medications (that I have taken before, as a matter of fact) to take for 10 days and told me to revisit in 10 days. When I asked if I'm having migraines, he said that "it's something like migraines but not the classic migraines that we know of" which was confusing as fuck because wtf do I make out of all this then?
These Medications are:- 1. Escitalopeam and Clonazepam to take before sleeping 2. Rabeprazole Sodium and Levosulpride to take before breakfast 3. Naproxen Sodium 550 mg to take in the morning and at night 4. Amitriptyline Hydrochloride and Methylcobalamin Tablets before sleeping 5. Propranolol HCl and Flunarizine Tablets before sleeping 6. Furic 80mg Tablet after breakfast 7. Trifluoperazine and Chlordiazepoxide Tablets before sleeping 8. Paracetamol and Domperidone when I have a headache 9. Clonazepam Mouth Dissolvant when I feel anxious
Why the fuck have I been dying each day for the past year, and why have I not been able to sleep well, or keep up with studies or concentrate on anything but the headaches and the symptoms, or been able give my exams and tests without a throbbing head, and why do I have a slightly lazy eye on the right side at this point, and why is it that I keep throwing up and be unable to get out in the sun without getting a headache?
It's as though all my mental health issues and my physical health concerns were completely invalidated by an irresponsible, inattentive Psychiatrist and a Neurologist who just made me take a bunch of meaningless tests only to tell me that I don't have migraines when I've been dying in the Sun with a headache travelling miles over miles to his clinic to get help, only to not even get a diagnosis and be left with the same medications that I got from a Physician a year ago that resulted in no change!
I'm so fucking devastated and I don't know what to make of any of this.
Am I seriously not ill in any way? Am I being a hypochondriac or being histrionic or dramatic like my dad suggests?
2024.04.22 13:54 HendrikLaments I was so sure I had Migraines but my Neurologist who's also a Migraine Specialist says that's not it.
I (18M) was so sure I had Migraines but my Neurologist who's also a Migraine Specialist says that's not it.
I am 18, Male and Indian.
I started seeing a neurologist after having headaches for past 4 years now with these symptoms :- frequent unbearable neck, shoulder and back pain, dizziness, vertigo, Jaw pain, ear pain, pain on the entire right side of my head or the left, and sometimes all over, and often a fog in my vision, along with nausea, vomiting and extremely high heart rate.
During an attack I have sensitivity to mostly sounds and smells (especially deodrants and perfumes), fatigue, inability to think, derealization, my head feels very heavy as though my brain has turned into a ball and is rolling around inside my skull, my hair (or rather scalp) is sensitive to touch, ringing in my ears, etc etc.
I have been suffering from all this for the past four years and it started off as something that would happen for a couple of days in a go and would usually happen every week or so but recently, for the past year, it's worsened and the frequency has increased to 15-20 headache/symptom days as I've been monitoring them through Migraine Buddy.
I'm 18 and my father is extremely toxic and thinks I make them up because of the frequency which resulted in me never getting the treatment or the consultation I required but after much pleading and having become an adult very very recently, my mother agreed to take me to a well known Migraine Specialist of our city.
I told the Neurologist about my symptoms, as many as I could and especially told him about the very recent elevation I noticed in my heart rate during a bath after I felt dizzy and felt my jaw locking and my limbs completely losing the strength, which made me think I was having a heart attack. I think he ignored all the other symptoms and just focused on this one instance which is, to my research, something that can happen due to a Migraine too. This particular Heart Attack Mimicking instance and reading about such symptoms in many other Migraine sufferers was the inciting incident for me going to the doctor too but now I feel dumbfounded.
Here's how the procedure of my Diagnosis took place after my session.
The Neurologist told me to get a few tests, which were :- 1. TCD to check the blood flow of the veins to my brain. 2. CT Scan for ruling out Tumors. 3. A blood test to check for TSH and few other things. 4. A Psych Evaluation by the DASS test and the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale. 5. An EEG Scan. I have no idea why this test was taken but perhaps it was to rule out me getting any Seizures in rhe past.
TCD and CT Scan was completely normal.
My blood tests were the weird part. There's likely something wrong with my liver because I had higher than normal MCH production, extremely high uric acid and extremely high ALT/SGPT (liver enzyme) production which, is probably a result of the high dosages I have been taking of Paracetamol/Naproxen/Aspirin depending on what I have left at home, which is obviously less than ideal but the best I could do with my unsupportive parents.
The Psychiatrist came off like an asshole to me. She sat down with me and my mother, asked us about some general stuff and then asked my mother to step out.
I have trauma from my father's abuse in the childhood and I opened up about it to her after she asked about my household condition. I was also SAed by two different people as a child and I wanted to open up about it to her as I do struggle with PTSD episodes, but lo and behold, she's on her phone and was chatting with someone and then called someone in the middle of the session, then returned back to me and asked the survey questions which I think I couldn't clearly get out to her about.
The psychiatrist diagnosed me with mild depression, moderate anxiety and moderate stress but said I should keep coming in for a few sessions and it'll be good for me, but I felt like her diagnosis was wrong nonetheless, and I beg to differ because she clearly wasn't listening in the last session, when I told her I have lost my will to live, as she ruled it out completely in my diagnostic list that she handed to my mother which said my only problems are stress and anxiety, even though I stated very clearly that I just don't feel good alive and that I feel worthless, guilty and extremely miserable, which again was ruled out in my report, and I was said to not be depressed even though I said I don't even feel like living. I don't know if I want to go and try to open up more and see if we arrive somewhere but I doubt I'd get another chance at therapy so maybe I should go but I'm not sure. What do I do about this?
Now, the weirdest part starts here. I took all my reports and scans and brought them to the neurologist who quickly shuffled through the pages, and only stopped at the Psych Evaluation. He then went on to leave me with the lack of a diagnosis. I wanted him to spell out a disease or anything but he just wrote down some medications (that I have taken before, as a matter of fact) to take for 10 days and told me to revisit in 10 days. When I asked if I'm having migraines, he said that "it's something like migraines but not the classic migraines that we know of" which was confusing as fuck because wtf do I make out of all this then?
These Medications are:- 1. Escitalopeam and Clonazepam to take before sleeping 2. Rabeprazole Sodium and Levosulpride to take before breakfast 3. Naproxen Sodium 550 mg to take in the morning and at night 4. Amitriptyline Hydrochloride and Methylcobalamin Tablets before sleeping 5. Propranolol HCl and Flunarizine Tablets before sleeping 6. Furic 80mg Tablet after breakfast 7. Trifluoperazine and Chlordiazepoxide Tablets before sleeping 8. Paracetamol and Domperidone when I have a headache 9. Clonazepam Mouth Dissolvant when I feel anxious
Why the fuck have I been dying each day for the past year, and why have I not been able to sleep well, or keep up with studies or concentrate on anything but the headaches and the symptoms, or been able give my exams and tests without a throbbing head, and why do I have a slightly lazy eye on the right side at this point, and why is it that I keep throwing up and be unable to get out in the sun without getting a headache?
It's as though all my mental health issues and my physical health concerns were completely invalidated by an irresponsible, inattentive Psychiatrist and a Neurologist who just made me take a bunch of meaningless tests only to tell me that I don't have migraines when I've been dying in the Sun with a headache travelling miles over miles to his clinic to get help, only to not even get a diagnosis and be left with the same medications that I got from a Physician a year ago that resulted in no change!
I'm so fucking devastated and I don't know what to make of any of this.
Am I seriously not ill in any way? Am I being a hypochondriac or being histrionic or dramatic like my dad suggests?
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I am 18, Male and Indian.
I started seeing a neurologist after having headaches for past 4 years now with these symptoms :- frequent unbearable neck, shoulder and back pain, dizziness, vertigo, Jaw pain, ear pain, pain on the entire right side of my head or the left, and sometimes all over, and often a fog in my vision, along with nausea, vomiting and extremely high heart rate.
During an attack I have sensitivity to mostly sounds and smells (especially deodrants and perfumes), fatigue, inability to think, derealization, my head feels very heavy as though my brain has turned into a ball and is rolling around inside my skull, my hair (or rather scalp) is sensitive to touch, ringing in my ears, etc etc.
I have been suffering from all this for the past four years and it started off as something that would happen for a couple of days in a go and would usually happen every week or so but recently, for the past year, it's worsened and the frequency has increased to 15-20 headache/symptom days as I've been monitoring them through Migraine Buddy.
I'm 18 and my father is extremely toxic and thinks I make them up because of the frequency which resulted in me never getting the treatment or the consultation I required but after much pleading and having become an adult very very recently, my mother agreed to take me to a well known Migraine Specialist of our city.
I told the Neurologist about my symptoms, as many as I could and especially told him about the very recent elevation I noticed in my heart rate during a bath after I felt dizzy and felt my jaw locking and my limbs completely losing the strength, which made me think I was having a heart attack. I think he ignored all the other symptoms and just focused on this one instance which is, to my research, something that can happen due to a Migraine too. This particular Heart Attack Mimicking instance and reading about such symptoms in many other Migraine sufferers was the inciting incident for me going to the doctor too but now I feel dumbfounded.
Here's how the procedure of my Diagnosis took place after my session.
The Neurologist told me to get a few tests, which were :- 1. TCD to check the blood flow of the veins to my brain. 2. CT Scan for ruling out Tumors. 3. A blood test to check for TSH and few other things. 4. A Psych Evaluation by the DASS test and the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale. 5. An EEG Scan. I have no idea why this test was taken but perhaps it was to rule out me getting any Seizures in rhe past.
TCD and CT Scan was completely normal.
My blood tests were the weird part. There's likely something wrong with my liver because I had higher than normal MCH production, extremely high uric acid and extremely high ALT/SGPT (liver enzyme) production which, is probably a result of the high dosages I have been taking of Paracetamol/Naproxen/Aspirin depending on what I have left at home, which is obviously less than ideal but the best I could do with my unsupportive parents.
The Psychiatrist came off like an asshole to me. She sat down with me and my mother, asked us about some general stuff and then asked my mother to step out.
I have trauma from my father's abuse in the childhood and I opened up about it to her after she asked about my household condition. I was also SAed by two different people as a child and I wanted to open up about it to her as I do struggle with PTSD episodes, but lo and behold, she's on her phone and was chatting with someone and then called someone in the middle of the session, then returned back to me and asked the survey questions which I think I couldn't clearly get out to her about.
The psychiatrist diagnosed me with mild depression, moderate anxiety and moderate stress but said I should keep coming in for a few sessions and it'll be good for me, but I felt like her diagnosis was wrong nonetheless, and I beg to differ because she clearly wasn't listening in the last session, when I told her I have lost my will to live, as she ruled it out completely in my diagnostic list that she handed to my mother which said my only problems are stress and anxiety, even though I stated very clearly that I just don't feel good alive and that I feel worthless, guilty and extremely miserable, which again was ruled out in my report, and I was said to not be depressed even though I said I don't even feel like living. I don't know if I want to go and try to open up more and see if we arrive somewhere but I doubt I'd get another chance at therapy so maybe I should go but I'm not sure. What do I do about this?
Now, the weirdest part starts here. I took all my reports and scans and brought them to the neurologist who quickly shuffled through the pages, and only stopped at the Psych Evaluation. He then went on to leave me with the lack of a diagnosis. I wanted him to spell out a disease or anything but he just wrote down some medications (that I have taken before, as a matter of fact) to take for 10 days and told me to revisit in 10 days. When I asked if I'm having migraines, he said that "it's something like migraines but not the classic migraines that we know of" which was confusing as fuck because wtf do I make out of all this then?
These Medications are:- 1. Escitalopeam and Clonazepam to take before sleeping 2. Rabeprazole Sodium and Levosulpride to take before breakfast 3. Naproxen Sodium 550 mg to take in the morning and at night 4. Amitriptyline Hydrochloride and Methylcobalamin Tablets before sleeping 5. Propranolol HCl and Flunarizine Tablets before sleeping 6. Furic 80mg Tablet after breakfast 7. Trifluoperazine and Chlordiazepoxide Tablets before sleeping 8. Paracetamol and Domperidone when I have a headache 9. Clonazepam Mouth Dissolvant when I feel anxious
Why the fuck have I been dying each day for the past year, and why have I not been able to sleep well, or keep up with studies or concentrate on anything but the headaches and the symptoms, or been able give my exams and tests without a throbbing head, and why do I have a slightly lazy eye on the right side at this point, and why is it that I keep throwing up and be unable to get out in the sun without getting a headache?
It's as though all my mental health issues and my physical health concerns were completely invalidated by an irresponsible, inattentive Psychiatrist and a Neurologist who just made me take a bunch of meaningless tests only to tell me that I don't have migraines when I've been dying in the Sun with a headache travelling miles over miles to his clinic to get help, only to not even get a diagnosis and be left with the same medications that I got from a Physician a year ago that resulted in no change!
I'm so fucking devastated and I don't know what to make of any of this.
Am I seriously not ill in any way? Am I being a hypochondriac or being histrionic or dramatic like my dad suggests?
2024.04.16 01:45 CrowBrainSaysShiny Can I Take DayQuil??
28F. Non-smoker. 174lbs. 5'6". No significant medical history. United States.
Only medication is Amitriptyline HCL 25mg SID for insomnia. I was prescribed this two weeks ago and it has worked wonders for me. I wasn't really given much information about the medication, unfortunately.
I have a nasty virus of sorts. Fever of 99.5. I haven't taken any cold medicine because I read that Amitriptyline can risk Serotonin Syndrome and other complications when mixed with decongestants and other cold medicines.
I was wondering if this was the case for me even if I'm on it for such a low dose. Can I take DayQuil or NyQuil or is it too risky? What can I actually take for this. My head is pounding and I feel awful.
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Only medication is Amitriptyline HCL 25mg SID for insomnia. I was prescribed this two weeks ago and it has worked wonders for me. I wasn't really given much information about the medication, unfortunately.
I have a nasty virus of sorts. Fever of 99.5. I haven't taken any cold medicine because I read that Amitriptyline can risk Serotonin Syndrome and other complications when mixed with decongestants and other cold medicines.
I was wondering if this was the case for me even if I'm on it for such a low dose. Can I take DayQuil or NyQuil or is it too risky? What can I actually take for this. My head is pounding and I feel awful.
2024.04.01 00:36 2019418mcs My medicated indoor cat has been missing for almost a week and I'm not sure what to do
(TLDR: Our 10 year old anxious cat has ran away and we have not gotten any leads despite exhausting every piece of advice we get)
We suspect that on 3/26 at around 10pm, our cat may have slipped out the door into our neighborhood. She has been an indoor cat for her entire 10 years of life up until now. It has been almost a week now and we have not had ANY leads or ANY sightings. Here’s what we have been trying so far:
We are having trouble leaving food out because of the raccoons. I feel like we are just training them to come back every night, which is probably keeping our kitty away. It has also been rather cold (not much above freezing), so it is hard to do long walks or stakeouts. In addition, our town has an ordinance preventing us from hanging fliers on telephone poles. We did what we could and hung them on the trees in our front yard.
Please, any additional advice or tricks would be greatly appreciated. We are worried sick. She is a nervous girl and was on Amitriptyline HCl (an anti-depressant drug) before she ran away. She is likely going through drug withdrawals too. We are not giving up, but we all have full time jobs and searching from dusk til dawn isn’t sustainable. We just don’t know what else to do to bring her home. Here are some uncertainties I have:
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We suspect that on 3/26 at around 10pm, our cat may have slipped out the door into our neighborhood. She has been an indoor cat for her entire 10 years of life up until now. It has been almost a week now and we have not had ANY leads or ANY sightings. Here’s what we have been trying so far:
- daily patrols (both at day and at night) quietly calling for her. Sometimes shaking a treat bag
- left blankets, a cat bed, her favorite catnip toys, heated blankets, our sheets, and our clothes out to try and attract her.
- Tried the litter box for a night but took it inside after other advice
- Left both wet food, dry kibble, and smelly tuna out
- Set a live trap
- Bought multiple Wyze cameras to monitor our property
- Left our garage and back porch open
- Hung fliers, contacted vets and animal shelters
- Asked to search neighbors backyards and stopped passerby’s to see if they’ve seen her
- Sat outside in the backyard just talking Even stuck her sister in a carrier and took her outside to see if she would call out to her
We are having trouble leaving food out because of the raccoons. I feel like we are just training them to come back every night, which is probably keeping our kitty away. It has also been rather cold (not much above freezing), so it is hard to do long walks or stakeouts. In addition, our town has an ordinance preventing us from hanging fliers on telephone poles. We did what we could and hung them on the trees in our front yard.
Please, any additional advice or tricks would be greatly appreciated. We are worried sick. She is a nervous girl and was on Amitriptyline HCl (an anti-depressant drug) before she ran away. She is likely going through drug withdrawals too. We are not giving up, but we all have full time jobs and searching from dusk til dawn isn’t sustainable. We just don’t know what else to do to bring her home. Here are some uncertainties I have:
- Is it possible she has not yet left hiding? If she has left, why wouldn’t she come back to the house that smells like home? We haven’t seen her on our cameras at all
- Should we stop putting out food to try and prevent the raccoons from showing up? We’ve tried to scare them but they just come back
- Do they return to the same hiding spot every day? Or could she be mobile and changing areas of the neighborhood daily?
2024.03.29 16:24 CrowBrainSaysShiny Amitriptyline Experiences
I've seen a few posts, but none specifically discussing if these symptoms let up:
I was prescribed 25mg of Amitriptyline HCL for my severe insomnia. She told me to take it one hour before bed. Now, I slept. I slept hard. And it was lovely. But I feel like an absolute zombie today at work. Barely human. I could fall asleep as we speak if I just closed my eyes.
I take no other medications. I am 28F. I was planning to take the med at 9pm-ish since I usually go to bed at 10pm. I wake up at 6:45am for work.
Will the brain fog and grogginess lessen as I continue the medication nightly? Or is this just what is expected? Because I may try Trazodone instead to avoid this dragging sensation.
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I was prescribed 25mg of Amitriptyline HCL for my severe insomnia. She told me to take it one hour before bed. Now, I slept. I slept hard. And it was lovely. But I feel like an absolute zombie today at work. Barely human. I could fall asleep as we speak if I just closed my eyes.
I take no other medications. I am 28F. I was planning to take the med at 9pm-ish since I usually go to bed at 10pm. I wake up at 6:45am for work.
Will the brain fog and grogginess lessen as I continue the medication nightly? Or is this just what is expected? Because I may try Trazodone instead to avoid this dragging sensation.
2023.12.04 13:34 cinammon54 I want to be better but don't know how?
TL;DR
I struggle with mental illness along with cognitive and physical problems as well as dissociation. Psych meds help me with mental issues but cognitive and physical problems as well as dissociation still persist. Currently working on reducing my raised b12 at 962 pg /ml and vitamin d at 118 ng / ml
My problems
I am 28. Male, 5'6", 67 Kg. Non-smoker, non-drinker University grad. Not currently working (reasons will be clear in this post).
So all this started in 2013 as far as I can remember. I had just finished high school and wanting to get into college. In India where I am from we generally have entrance test to get into engineering. I decided to do engineering course as my grandfather had been jobber( basically who oversees a factory unit in a clothing mill ). I didn't want a desk job. I performed poorly in test and had to settle for a less reputable college.
So the first day of my college I get shit scared in my classroom and started crying and wanted to leave my course and seek out other options. I was scared of numerous high tension electricity towers that were on the way to my college and my college atmosphere which was very dry. I was so scared of it that I used to get sweaty thinking about going to college next day. I also found engineering field, my trade electrical engineering very dry and my college very subpar. I attended the college crying for another month while simultaneously trying for other colleges in different trades and fields. But unfortunately admission season was over and I would have to wait for another year for the same. I then wanted to study for another year and give SAT's once again next year trying myself once again with better clarity and motivation. I was denied by my father for the same and taken to a psychologist counsellor who convinced me to try for civil services as my desired career option. I started
During enginnering course in 2016 I happen to watch a trailer of a Bollywood movie called 'mohenjo daro' and remember feeling abnormal. It felt as if my whole life was a lie and I didn't really know who I was. This is also the time that my apathy, cognitive decline and general disinterestedness in life started
Come May 2017 I graduated from college but couldn't find placement in industry due to my poor academic performance and my low grades. Later in August of same year I joined a fellowship in a non profit working for improving governance at grass root levels as I was interested in such a cause and thought it will add value to my CV ( Résume ) if I want to go for civil services in future. During my 3 days in introductory lecture I was felt totally disconnected classroom. I was having hard time concentrating on the lecture as well as trouble grasping what was taught. I can say I was feeling extremely dry in the course of the 3 days that I attended the program. I had been feeling the same since the movie incident in 2016.
Come October of 2017 I was taken to psychiatrist by dad due to my situation in life. I was prescribed fluoxetine 10 mg an olanzapine 5mg. I did take the medicine but it did not not cure my dry feeling or nor it did other problems such as mental physical and cognitive decline that started in June of 2016 after seeing that trailer for movie.
In 2017 I had another surreal experience where I felt my private part was cut while watching a cultural movie. After this I started studying and exploring more about religion and traditions on internet as well as social media. In 2019 while researching about Hinduism I again had a bodily experience where I felt as if my heart had gone weak and I started dissociating. It was really a surreal experience I have yet to recover from this in addition to my earlier symptoms. After 2017 I have changed many medical experts and I started going crazy( for e.g; I used laugh with myself when no one was in the same room). I am currently currently taking Lurasidone 80 mg, trihexyphenidyl HCl 2 mg, Amitriptyline 12.5 mg, lithium 400 mg
Psych meds definitely help with my mental problems but I still struggle with low physical and cognitive abilities. Also the meds do not help me with my dissociation where I feel disconnected from my body and surroundings and feel like my experience of life is shallower and less vivid than before the dissociation started.
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I struggle with mental illness along with cognitive and physical problems as well as dissociation. Psych meds help me with mental issues but cognitive and physical problems as well as dissociation still persist. Currently working on reducing my raised b12 at 962 pg /ml and vitamin d at 118 ng / ml
My problems
- heart feels weak
- feel always agitated, don't feel relax
- dissociated 24/7
- life feels less immersive, less vivid than before
- feel less virile ( beard and body hair feels softer than it was before)
I am 28. Male, 5'6", 67 Kg. Non-smoker, non-drinker University grad. Not currently working (reasons will be clear in this post).
So all this started in 2013 as far as I can remember. I had just finished high school and wanting to get into college. In India where I am from we generally have entrance test to get into engineering. I decided to do engineering course as my grandfather had been jobber( basically who oversees a factory unit in a clothing mill ). I didn't want a desk job. I performed poorly in test and had to settle for a less reputable college.
So the first day of my college I get shit scared in my classroom and started crying and wanted to leave my course and seek out other options. I was scared of numerous high tension electricity towers that were on the way to my college and my college atmosphere which was very dry. I was so scared of it that I used to get sweaty thinking about going to college next day. I also found engineering field, my trade electrical engineering very dry and my college very subpar. I attended the college crying for another month while simultaneously trying for other colleges in different trades and fields. But unfortunately admission season was over and I would have to wait for another year for the same. I then wanted to study for another year and give SAT's once again next year trying myself once again with better clarity and motivation. I was denied by my father for the same and taken to a psychologist counsellor who convinced me to try for civil services as my desired career option. I started
During enginnering course in 2016 I happen to watch a trailer of a Bollywood movie called 'mohenjo daro' and remember feeling abnormal. It felt as if my whole life was a lie and I didn't really know who I was. This is also the time that my apathy, cognitive decline and general disinterestedness in life started
Come May 2017 I graduated from college but couldn't find placement in industry due to my poor academic performance and my low grades. Later in August of same year I joined a fellowship in a non profit working for improving governance at grass root levels as I was interested in such a cause and thought it will add value to my CV ( Résume ) if I want to go for civil services in future. During my 3 days in introductory lecture I was felt totally disconnected classroom. I was having hard time concentrating on the lecture as well as trouble grasping what was taught. I can say I was feeling extremely dry in the course of the 3 days that I attended the program. I had been feeling the same since the movie incident in 2016.
Come October of 2017 I was taken to psychiatrist by dad due to my situation in life. I was prescribed fluoxetine 10 mg an olanzapine 5mg. I did take the medicine but it did not not cure my dry feeling or nor it did other problems such as mental physical and cognitive decline that started in June of 2016 after seeing that trailer for movie.
In 2017 I had another surreal experience where I felt my private part was cut while watching a cultural movie. After this I started studying and exploring more about religion and traditions on internet as well as social media. In 2019 while researching about Hinduism I again had a bodily experience where I felt as if my heart had gone weak and I started dissociating. It was really a surreal experience I have yet to recover from this in addition to my earlier symptoms. After 2017 I have changed many medical experts and I started going crazy( for e.g; I used laugh with myself when no one was in the same room). I am currently currently taking Lurasidone 80 mg, trihexyphenidyl HCl 2 mg, Amitriptyline 12.5 mg, lithium 400 mg
Psych meds definitely help with my mental problems but I still struggle with low physical and cognitive abilities. Also the meds do not help me with my dissociation where I feel disconnected from my body and surroundings and feel like my experience of life is shallower and less vivid than before the dissociation started.
2023.11.28 22:19 W1ck3dF0ck3r Couple of Allergies, No big deal
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2023.11.18 02:29 terib225 Trying to decode findings for my dad(67M)
My dad is 67 and has Becker muscular dystrophy(milder version of Duchenne MD), high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and COPD. He is on Amitriptyline HCl - 50 MG Oral Tablet; once daily · Atorvastatin Calcium 40 MG Oral Tablet; TAKE ONE TABLET BY MOUTH EVERY DAY · Glycopyrrolate TABS · Metoprolol Tartrate 50 MG Oral Tablet; TAKE ONE TABLET BY MOUTH EVERY DAY and then a multivitamin daily.
This week the doctor did normal blood work and then as a result, said he wanted a hepatitis panel done as well as a RUQ ultrasound with focus on the liver. He had it done today and this is the results. FINDINGS: Maximum abdominal aorta diameter 2.4 cm. IVC patent.
Pancreas limited due to bowel gas.
Liver length 16.9 cm. In the left lobe is a 2.2 cm cyst. In the right lobe is a 7 mm echogenic nodule probably representing hemangioma. Also in the superficial right lobe is an oval 1.2 cm cyst. Additional probable cystic lesion in the right lobe measuring 2 cm. No intrahepatic or extrahepatic biliary dilation. Common bile duct diameter 3.2 mm.
No gallstones or sonographic findings of acute cholecystitis.
Right renal length 11 cm. Echogenic 1 cm lesion in the inferior right renal cortex could represent angiomyolipoma, calculus or artifact. There may be an additional 6 mm echogenic lesion in the mid pole right kidney. No hydronephrosis.
No right upper quadrant ascites.
IMPRESSION:
Can someone explain a bit of what exactly is going on? I googled the terms and have a general idea of what these things are but didn’t know about all of them together if it meant anything.
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This week the doctor did normal blood work and then as a result, said he wanted a hepatitis panel done as well as a RUQ ultrasound with focus on the liver. He had it done today and this is the results. FINDINGS: Maximum abdominal aorta diameter 2.4 cm. IVC patent.
Pancreas limited due to bowel gas.
Liver length 16.9 cm. In the left lobe is a 2.2 cm cyst. In the right lobe is a 7 mm echogenic nodule probably representing hemangioma. Also in the superficial right lobe is an oval 1.2 cm cyst. Additional probable cystic lesion in the right lobe measuring 2 cm. No intrahepatic or extrahepatic biliary dilation. Common bile duct diameter 3.2 mm.
No gallstones or sonographic findings of acute cholecystitis.
Right renal length 11 cm. Echogenic 1 cm lesion in the inferior right renal cortex could represent angiomyolipoma, calculus or artifact. There may be an additional 6 mm echogenic lesion in the mid pole right kidney. No hydronephrosis.
No right upper quadrant ascites.
IMPRESSION:
- Cystic appearing lesions in the liver as well as an echogenic 7 mm nodule in the right lobe which could represent a cavernous hemangioma.
- Echogenic 1 cm right renal lesion. This could represent an angiomyolipoma, calculus or artifact.
Can someone explain a bit of what exactly is going on? I googled the terms and have a general idea of what these things are but didn’t know about all of them together if it meant anything.
2023.10.14 03:37 Top_Gift_4585 serotonin syndrome concers
I (26f weight 212) take the following medications: I just started phentermine hcl 37.5 mg today, propranolol 40mg as needed,cetirizine hcl 10mg, omeprazole 40mg delayed release, metoprolol succinate er 25mg extended release twice a day, azelastine hcl 137mcg twice a day, ipratropuim bromide 0.06% twice a day, amitriptyline hcl 10mg two tablets at night, lamotrigine 100mg, Gabapetin 300mg, Hydroxyzine hcl 150mg at night and when needed, alprazolam 0.5 mg as needed, ondansetron 8mg as needed. When I picked up the medication (phentermine) the pharmacist told me to be cautious about Serotonin syndrome and to keep an eye for for any symptoms. My question is a rough estimate of how long it would take for symptoms to show? I read that 30% that get it happens within an hour of taking it. 60% happens within 6 hours and nrarly all cases happen within 24h. How true is that? Another question I have is let's say after today I still have no symptoms does that mean I'm in the clear or that can serotonin syndrome can come at any moment. As you can tell from the medication I take I have anxiety disorder so I'm concerned and want to know as much as I can about this potential risk. Thank you for reading and answering.
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2023.10.12 01:31 LazyOldBroad60 Compound Creams.
Has anyone tried a compound cream for nerve pain? Gabapentin 5%/ Amitriptyline HCl 2%/ Lidocaine 2%
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2023.09.08 16:52 IntrepidMinimum5480 Are people who has had sepsis more likely to get it again?
Sex: F
Age: 21
Ht & wt: 135lbs 5’7”
Non-smoker, rarely drinks
Past medical hx: Septic Shock, disseminated histoplasmosis, large gastric ulcer that hemorrhaged and caused a GI bleed in November, DIC acute kidney failure and a current AKI, acute liver failure, pericarditis with tamponade, and bilateral toe amputations of 9 toes (6 months post-op). collapsed lungs, blood clots in lungs, bilateral pneumonia.
Current Medications: folic acid 1mg x1, Women’s one a day x1, Omeprazole 40mg x2, Mirtazapine 15mg x1, Seroquel 25mg x1, Amitriptyline HCL 25mg x1, Tylenol Extra strength 500mg x1, Itraconazole Oral Solution 20mg/mL x2
Title basically. Last year got super sick and got sepsis that progressed to shock. Coma 10 days, lots of co-morbidities and was not expected to survive. Almost a year later, my lab work is still a little messed up (CBC is fine). And I’m obviously still “sick” as I have disseminated histo. I was a prior healthy (like no medical conditions at all). It was from what they believe was undiagnosed strep, but I had been dealing with reoccurring pneumonia, and at the time of presenting to the ER, it was bilateral with “massive” pleural effusions on both sides, with a partially collapsed right lung. As the season approaches…I’m stuck wondering if it’s going to happen again. This year, I’ll be working in the IMC at the hospital, so I’m likely to be a bit exposed to something…what are the chances of going septic again for someone who has already had it?
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Age: 21
Ht & wt: 135lbs 5’7”
Non-smoker, rarely drinks
Past medical hx: Septic Shock, disseminated histoplasmosis, large gastric ulcer that hemorrhaged and caused a GI bleed in November, DIC acute kidney failure and a current AKI, acute liver failure, pericarditis with tamponade, and bilateral toe amputations of 9 toes (6 months post-op). collapsed lungs, blood clots in lungs, bilateral pneumonia.
Current Medications: folic acid 1mg x1, Women’s one a day x1, Omeprazole 40mg x2, Mirtazapine 15mg x1, Seroquel 25mg x1, Amitriptyline HCL 25mg x1, Tylenol Extra strength 500mg x1, Itraconazole Oral Solution 20mg/mL x2
Title basically. Last year got super sick and got sepsis that progressed to shock. Coma 10 days, lots of co-morbidities and was not expected to survive. Almost a year later, my lab work is still a little messed up (CBC is fine). And I’m obviously still “sick” as I have disseminated histo. I was a prior healthy (like no medical conditions at all). It was from what they believe was undiagnosed strep, but I had been dealing with reoccurring pneumonia, and at the time of presenting to the ER, it was bilateral with “massive” pleural effusions on both sides, with a partially collapsed right lung. As the season approaches…I’m stuck wondering if it’s going to happen again. This year, I’ll be working in the IMC at the hospital, so I’m likely to be a bit exposed to something…what are the chances of going septic again for someone who has already had it?
2023.09.05 20:59 marikim3 Medication for insomnia/night mares.
Have you tried Amitriptyline HCL to with sleeping? I was wondering if it helped anyone. If so, how long have you been taking it for and did you have any side effects. Really interested in your experience. I also suffer from night mares and my Dr recommended me topiramate. Has anyone tried this? Did it help with reducing your nightmares?
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2023.08.31 09:34 rizochem Scribd
What is Amitriptyline HCL 25mg Tablet utilized for?
Amitriptyline HCL 25mg Tablet is used to treat symptoms of horror. Amitriptyline is in a class of remedies called tricyclic antidepressants. It works by extending the proportions of explicit typical substances in the fundamental psyche to stay aware of mental balanceIs Amitriptyline HCL 25mg Tablet a resting pill?
The medication amitriptyline (by and large called Amitriptyline HCL 25mg Tablet or by the brand names Elavil, Endep, Entrip, and Trepiline) is one of a class of drugs that are not fundamentally napping tablets yet rather can be utilized ‘off-mark’ to treat absence of rest. This is considering the way that amitriptyline can adversely impact people who take it.How does amitriptyline cause you to feel?
Amitriptyline is from a gathering of prescriptions called tricyclic antidepressants. They are remembered to work by expanding a synthetic called serotonin in your cerebrum. This can work on your temperament. This can likewise have an impact on the way that your nerves get torment flags so torment disappears.side effects of Amitriptyline HCL 25mg Tablet
- Normal after effects
- stoppage.
- unsteadiness.
- dry mouth.
- feeling languid.
- trouble peeing.
- migraine.
What amount of time does it require for Amitriptyline HCL to kick in?
It works by growing levels of a compound called serotonin to you. This can chip away at your perspective. You could start to feel far better following 1 to around fourteen days anyway it can expect 4 to about a month and a half for amitriptyline to work totally. Coincidental impacts, for instance, a dry mouth and stoppage are ordinary.For what reason do you need to take Amitriptyline HCL before 8 p.m.?
Amitriptyline is taken in tablet or syrup structure reliably. It has a quiet effect and may make you drowsy, so you should accept it a short time before bed, but no later than 8 pm. Your PCPs will provoke you about the right part. Commonly you will start on 5-10 mg and little by little augmentation it to 20 mg ordinary.What sort of torment does Amitriptyline HCL treat?
Amitriptyline is a tricyclic catalyst that is by and large used to treat constant neuropathic torture (torture in view of nerve hurt). It is recommended as a first-line treatment in a long time. Neuropathic torture can be treated with energizer prescriptions in measurements under those at which the drugs go about as antidepressants.We are a Global seller and exporter molded in India that reliably works in more than five nations, including the United Emirates of Arab, New Zealand, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, New Zealand, and so forth. If you’re looking for a particular brand or thing, go here.
2023.08.31 09:32 rizochem What is Amitriptyline HCL 25mg Tablet utilized for
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2023.08.26 02:52 IntrepidMinimum5480 When to start worrying about ALP level?
Question at the bottom with context
Sex: F
Age: 21
Ht & wt: 135lbs 5’7”
Non-smoker
Past medical hx: Septic Shock, disseminated histoplasmosis, large gastric ulcer that hemorrhaged and caused a GI bleed in November, acute kidney failure and a current AKI, acute liver failure, pericarditis with tamponade, and bilateral toe amputations of 9 toes (6 months post-op).
Current Medications: folic acid 1mg x1, Women’s one a day x1, Omeprazole 40mg x2, Mirtazapine 15mg x1, Seroquel 25mg x1, Amitriptyline HCL 25mg x1, Tylenol Extra strength 500mg x1, Itraconazole Oral Solution 20mg/mL x2
So a very brief summary here:
Since April, my ALP has been steadily increasing.
April - 119 U/L (normal)
May - 144 U/L (abnormal)
June - 163 U/L (abnormal)
July - 166 U/L (abnormal)
August - 205 U/L (abnormal)
I’m also having issues with diarrhea/loose stools since April, and I’m not sure if they are related. I’ve taken a 500lg Tylenol ever night since weaning off of opiate medication in April. I also talked to my ID doctor who said, though the Itraconazole oral solution can cause liver enzymes to elevate, it’s not normally ALP, so he believes it’s something else. My other lab results have been unremarkable, only other thing that is consistently elevated is my glucose (very slightly elevated, same range each time) and thats prob bc I chug juice or coffee before I get my blood drawn. WBC count is normal, hemoglobin is normal, sed rate is normal, everything except those two.
When I look back to my lab work during the time they found out I was in acute liver failure, my ALP was normal at 135 U/L…while my AST was 7,437 and my ALT was 2,119.
So I’m just wondering if I should look further into this/does this seem like a problem?
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Sex: F
Age: 21
Ht & wt: 135lbs 5’7”
Non-smoker
Past medical hx: Septic Shock, disseminated histoplasmosis, large gastric ulcer that hemorrhaged and caused a GI bleed in November, acute kidney failure and a current AKI, acute liver failure, pericarditis with tamponade, and bilateral toe amputations of 9 toes (6 months post-op).
Current Medications: folic acid 1mg x1, Women’s one a day x1, Omeprazole 40mg x2, Mirtazapine 15mg x1, Seroquel 25mg x1, Amitriptyline HCL 25mg x1, Tylenol Extra strength 500mg x1, Itraconazole Oral Solution 20mg/mL x2
So a very brief summary here:
Since April, my ALP has been steadily increasing.
April - 119 U/L (normal)
May - 144 U/L (abnormal)
June - 163 U/L (abnormal)
July - 166 U/L (abnormal)
August - 205 U/L (abnormal)
I’m also having issues with diarrhea/loose stools since April, and I’m not sure if they are related. I’ve taken a 500lg Tylenol ever night since weaning off of opiate medication in April. I also talked to my ID doctor who said, though the Itraconazole oral solution can cause liver enzymes to elevate, it’s not normally ALP, so he believes it’s something else. My other lab results have been unremarkable, only other thing that is consistently elevated is my glucose (very slightly elevated, same range each time) and thats prob bc I chug juice or coffee before I get my blood drawn. WBC count is normal, hemoglobin is normal, sed rate is normal, everything except those two.
When I look back to my lab work during the time they found out I was in acute liver failure, my ALP was normal at 135 U/L…while my AST was 7,437 and my ALT was 2,119.
So I’m just wondering if I should look further into this/does this seem like a problem?
2023.07.23 23:24 Hello906 Mom's finger was reatchhed 20 years ago after an accident. Bad pains but can't visit ER.
46 Year old female (09/19/1976)
Non smoker no recreational drugs
Amitriptyline HCL - 25mg daily at night for the past 15 years or so for migraines/cluster headaches.
Omeprazole - 30mg as needed for gastric reflux for the past 20 years or so. Not daily maybe once or twice a week.
No other consistent medications and no new medications that could explain this.
FINGER INCIDENT------------------‐--------------------
Around 20 years ago in Nepal my mom was cutting some wood or something and chopped off her pinky..?? Not sure exactly what happened but her finger fell to the ground and she went to the hospital where they reattached it.
Randomly it'll swell and be sore to the touch and extremely sensitive to touch, water being the only exception.
Her pinky can't bend straight at all its kinda locked in place (pics below)
Current problem ________________________________________________
It's swollen and it's hurting really bad but she doesn't have insurance right now and we can't afford another er visit.
Any comments whether doctor or nurse or even someone googling for us (google scares me medically tbh) would be appreciated.
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Non smoker no recreational drugs
Amitriptyline HCL - 25mg daily at night for the past 15 years or so for migraines/cluster headaches.
Omeprazole - 30mg as needed for gastric reflux for the past 20 years or so. Not daily maybe once or twice a week.
No other consistent medications and no new medications that could explain this.
FINGER INCIDENT------------------‐--------------------
Around 20 years ago in Nepal my mom was cutting some wood or something and chopped off her pinky..?? Not sure exactly what happened but her finger fell to the ground and she went to the hospital where they reattached it.
Randomly it'll swell and be sore to the touch and extremely sensitive to touch, water being the only exception.
Her pinky can't bend straight at all its kinda locked in place (pics below)
Current problem ________________________________________________
It's swollen and it's hurting really bad but she doesn't have insurance right now and we can't afford another er visit.
Any comments whether doctor or nurse or even someone googling for us (google scares me medically tbh) would be appreciated.
2023.07.23 03:43 Remarkable_Run_606 What does my abnormal EEG mean?
(I apologize for how long this post is)
I am F27, 5’0, (120lbs? I think, I’m not sure tbh) who has been battling depression for the past 7 years now. I do not do drugs, don't smoke, and very rarely drink.I am currently daily taking 225mg venlafaxine (Brand Name: Effexor XR), 54mg methylphenidate HCl ER (Brand Name: Concerta), along with 180mg Allegra (fexofenadine HCl), 2 sprays of fluticasone propionate nasal spray 50 mcg (Flonase) in each nostril, 4000 IU vitamin D, 1200mg calcium, and 5000 mcg vitamin B12. In the past, I have tried many, many other medications (ex: sertraline, fluoxetine, desvenlafaxine, duloxetine, Viibryd, Trintellix, buproprion, adderall, modafinil, amitriptyline, imipramine, aripiprazole, Resulti). I have had two rounds of TMS, ketamine infusions (more than 30), and I am currently receiving ECT. Thankfully the ECT seems to be working. I have currently finished the acute phase of ECT where I was coming in 3 times a week. Beginning on Monday, the plan is to start the “maintenance” phase where I come in only once a week and ideally space the ECT sessions as far apart as possible.I was scheduled to have an MRI and EEG before starting ECT, but I was only able to have the MRI beforehand due to scheduling conflicts. Since the MRI showed nothing out of the ordinary or irregular, the doctor thought it was fine to have the EEG wait. So I did not have the EEG until July 19th a few days ago.I should also mention I am dealing with hypersomnia. I had previously attributed my excessive sleepiness to my depression, and it wasn't until I saw improvement in all my other depressive symptoms except the excessive daytime sleepiness.
I ended up going in for a sleep study where I was diagnosed with sleep apnea. I slept 94% of the time during the overnight study and there were no instances of myself stopping breathing. My polysomnogram indicated if anything I had a very good night of sleep. On the other hand, I had a mean sleep latency during the MSLT of 7.8 minutes, and I fell asleep for all five naps. I did not meet the criteria for narcolepsy; I didn't have any SOREMPs. I don't think I have narcolepsy, but I also don't think I have sleep apnea either. I tried using a CPAP machine, which I did not find helpful at all, and I had a hard time keeping up with maintaining it. I currently have an oral appliance which I have been consistent in using, but again I have not found it to be helpful. I am still just as sleepy as I always have been.
These are the results of the EEG:
Would love some explanation, thanks
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I am F27, 5’0, (120lbs? I think, I’m not sure tbh) who has been battling depression for the past 7 years now. I do not do drugs, don't smoke, and very rarely drink.I am currently daily taking 225mg venlafaxine (Brand Name: Effexor XR), 54mg methylphenidate HCl ER (Brand Name: Concerta), along with 180mg Allegra (fexofenadine HCl), 2 sprays of fluticasone propionate nasal spray 50 mcg (Flonase) in each nostril, 4000 IU vitamin D, 1200mg calcium, and 5000 mcg vitamin B12. In the past, I have tried many, many other medications (ex: sertraline, fluoxetine, desvenlafaxine, duloxetine, Viibryd, Trintellix, buproprion, adderall, modafinil, amitriptyline, imipramine, aripiprazole, Resulti). I have had two rounds of TMS, ketamine infusions (more than 30), and I am currently receiving ECT. Thankfully the ECT seems to be working. I have currently finished the acute phase of ECT where I was coming in 3 times a week. Beginning on Monday, the plan is to start the “maintenance” phase where I come in only once a week and ideally space the ECT sessions as far apart as possible.I was scheduled to have an MRI and EEG before starting ECT, but I was only able to have the MRI beforehand due to scheduling conflicts. Since the MRI showed nothing out of the ordinary or irregular, the doctor thought it was fine to have the EEG wait. So I did not have the EEG until July 19th a few days ago.I should also mention I am dealing with hypersomnia. I had previously attributed my excessive sleepiness to my depression, and it wasn't until I saw improvement in all my other depressive symptoms except the excessive daytime sleepiness.
I ended up going in for a sleep study where I was diagnosed with sleep apnea. I slept 94% of the time during the overnight study and there were no instances of myself stopping breathing. My polysomnogram indicated if anything I had a very good night of sleep. On the other hand, I had a mean sleep latency during the MSLT of 7.8 minutes, and I fell asleep for all five naps. I did not meet the criteria for narcolepsy; I didn't have any SOREMPs. I don't think I have narcolepsy, but I also don't think I have sleep apnea either. I tried using a CPAP machine, which I did not find helpful at all, and I had a hard time keeping up with maintaining it. I currently have an oral appliance which I have been consistent in using, but again I have not found it to be helpful. I am still just as sleepy as I always have been.
These are the results of the EEG:
This is an abnormal adult EEG in the awake, drowsy and asleep states, due to diffuse theta > delta slowing of the awake state. No epileptiform abnormalities were present.I don't understand any of the jargon written here. When I tried looking stuff up about abnormal EEGs it was usually talking about people who suspected epilepsy. Since I didn't have any indications of epilepsy, I don't know what any of the above means.
COMPARISON: No prior EEG available
INDICATION: 27 year old female with refractory depression, hypersomnia, cognitive slowing, and memory impairment, receiving ECT.
PERTINENT MEDICATIONS: No anti-seizure medications
METHOD: Standard 10-20 electrode placement, single lead EKG andcontinuous video.
DETAIL: The EEG recording was continuous and symmetric. The awake backgroundconsisted of diffuse 3-7 Hz, 30-80 uV theta > delta activity. At best,there was fair anterior-posterior organization, and a poorly formed 20-30uV, 6-7 Hz posterior dominant rhythm was present. Drowsiness was characterized by relative paucity of eye blink artifact, decrease in muscle/motion artifact and generalized theta/delta slowing. Stage II sleep was characterized by K complexes and symmetric sleep spindles.
EPILEPTIFORM ABNORMALITIES: No epileptiform abnormalities were appreciated.
PROVOKING MANEUVERS: Photic stimulation was performed and produced no significant response.Hyperventilation was not performed.
EKG: Regular rhythm at ~70-80 beats per minute.
Would love some explanation, thanks
2023.07.02 07:11 IntrepidMinimum5480 Is it okay to eat spicy food/snacks with a stomach ulcer?
Sex: F
Age: 21
Ht & wt: 135lbs 5’7”
Non-smoker
Past medical hx: Septic Shock, disseminated histoplasmosis, large gastric ulcer that hemorrhages and caused a GI bleed in November, kidney failure and a current AKI, liver failure, pericarditis with tamponade, and bilateral toe amputations of 9 toes (4 months post-op). In the last 3 months weened of long term opioids (norco), started and weened off gabapentin (went up to 1800mg), started Amitriptyline 10mg, switched from itraconazole capsules (tolsura) to itraconazole oral solution, takes 500mg Tylenol every night.
Current Medications: folic acid 1mg x1, Women’s one a day x1, Omeprazole 40mg x2, Mirtazapine 15mg x1, Seroquel 25mg x1, Amitriptyline HCL 10mg x1, Tylenol Extra strength 500mg x1, Itraconazole Oral Solution 20mg/mL x2
So I’m craving hot Cheetos so bad rn lmao. I used to eat them a lot before getting sick, def my favorite snack ever. My mom keeps telling me I can’t have anything spicy since I have a stomach ulcer (which hemorrhaged while in the ICU causing a GI bleed in November). Google is telling me I can, so idk what to believe. Can someone tell me if I am able to snack a little bit on spicy food like hot Cheetos? Obviously I’m not going to binge eat them or anything, I just wanna taste them again.
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Age: 21
Ht & wt: 135lbs 5’7”
Non-smoker
Past medical hx: Septic Shock, disseminated histoplasmosis, large gastric ulcer that hemorrhages and caused a GI bleed in November, kidney failure and a current AKI, liver failure, pericarditis with tamponade, and bilateral toe amputations of 9 toes (4 months post-op). In the last 3 months weened of long term opioids (norco), started and weened off gabapentin (went up to 1800mg), started Amitriptyline 10mg, switched from itraconazole capsules (tolsura) to itraconazole oral solution, takes 500mg Tylenol every night.
Current Medications: folic acid 1mg x1, Women’s one a day x1, Omeprazole 40mg x2, Mirtazapine 15mg x1, Seroquel 25mg x1, Amitriptyline HCL 10mg x1, Tylenol Extra strength 500mg x1, Itraconazole Oral Solution 20mg/mL x2
So I’m craving hot Cheetos so bad rn lmao. I used to eat them a lot before getting sick, def my favorite snack ever. My mom keeps telling me I can’t have anything spicy since I have a stomach ulcer (which hemorrhaged while in the ICU causing a GI bleed in November). Google is telling me I can, so idk what to believe. Can someone tell me if I am able to snack a little bit on spicy food like hot Cheetos? Obviously I’m not going to binge eat them or anything, I just wanna taste them again.
2023.05.03 20:59 XxMoonPuppetxX Amitriptyline HCL
Anyone take amitriptyline to treat stomach issues?
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2023.03.27 20:19 Density131 How to consolidate data based on certain values
Hello, I am looking to see if it's possible to consolidate a table based on certain values. Please see the table below.
Medication 6 Month Combined Par (Bottles) 6 Month Combined Par Pill/Tablets/Caps
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ACYCLOVIR 400MG #40 16.0 640.0
ALBUTEROL SULFATE 90MCG HFA AER AD 8.5GM #1 8.0 8.0
ALPRAZOLAM 0.5MG #30 4.0 120.0
ALPRAZOLAM 0.5MG #60 8.0 480.0
AMITRIPTYLINE HCL 100MG #30 6.0 180.0
AMITRIPTYLINE HCL 10MG #30 14.0 420.0
AMITRIPTYLINE HCL 10MG #60 4.0 240.0
AMITRIPTYLINE HCL 25MG #30 28.0 840.0
AMITRIPTYLINE HCL 25MG #60 2.0 120.0
AMITRIPTYLINE HCL 50MG #30 8.0 240.0
In this table, Column B shows the total number of bottles we have of a specific medication and it's bottle size. B2 basically says that we have 16 x 40 count bottles of Acyclovir 400mg and C2 show's the amount we have in "pill" form. 16 bottles x 40 pills per bottle = 640 pills.
What I am wondering is, can I add a column or a pivot table that adds the values in column C for each medication type regardless of it's bottle size and add's it's pill counts together? For example, Alprazolam 0.5MG is listed in 2 bottles sizes, 30 and 60 count, I would need to add both of their Column C values, in this example the combined total would be 600 (120 + 480).
Sorry if the way I explained it was confusing!
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Medication 6 Month Combined Par (Bottles) 6 Month Combined Par Pill/Tablets/Caps
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ACYCLOVIR 400MG #40 16.0 640.0
ALBUTEROL SULFATE 90MCG HFA AER AD 8.5GM #1 8.0 8.0
ALPRAZOLAM 0.5MG #30 4.0 120.0
ALPRAZOLAM 0.5MG #60 8.0 480.0
AMITRIPTYLINE HCL 100MG #30 6.0 180.0
AMITRIPTYLINE HCL 10MG #30 14.0 420.0
AMITRIPTYLINE HCL 10MG #60 4.0 240.0
AMITRIPTYLINE HCL 25MG #30 28.0 840.0
AMITRIPTYLINE HCL 25MG #60 2.0 120.0
AMITRIPTYLINE HCL 50MG #30 8.0 240.0
In this table, Column B shows the total number of bottles we have of a specific medication and it's bottle size. B2 basically says that we have 16 x 40 count bottles of Acyclovir 400mg and C2 show's the amount we have in "pill" form. 16 bottles x 40 pills per bottle = 640 pills.
What I am wondering is, can I add a column or a pivot table that adds the values in column C for each medication type regardless of it's bottle size and add's it's pill counts together? For example, Alprazolam 0.5MG is listed in 2 bottles sizes, 30 and 60 count, I would need to add both of their Column C values, in this example the combined total would be 600 (120 + 480).
Sorry if the way I explained it was confusing!