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 Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 2:46 am
Ho ho ho, so I'm getting the runaround by Kaiser.
Apparantly my tryglyceride count is way too high for someone my age (pointing towards a genetic problem), and so they put me on this medication.
At first it was really great! I could breathe a lot easier while running up and down the hills on campus (we're located in the middle of a forest on a big hill), and things were good.
Last night, however, I was powerwalking to meet my fiancee, and when I was almost to his class, I suddenly felt nauseus, my kidney area started hurting like hell, and my legs buckled underneath me. Luckily I didn't throw up.
I had to go to the bathroom and sat on the toilet for about a half hour shaking uncontrollably and crying a little.
My fiance grabbed me when I got out of the bathroom and a friend of mine drove me back to his house where he promptly put me in bed and made me stay there while he doted on me all night.
This morning, however, I was still very depressed and got really upset really easily. When I was talking to my professor about my paper, and he didn't seem sympathetic, I almost started crying, and started feeling like I should just die (which is quite uncharacteristc of me).
The depressing feelings kept with me all day long, even though I stopped taking the medication immediately, and called Kaiser (but my doctor didn't call me back). It was only when I was talking to my grandmother on the phone that she made me call them back and make an 'urgent' request to talk with a doctor. So I did, but I was only told what I already knew: "keep hydrated, don't take the pills anymore, go to the emergency room if your symptoms worsen, etc."
I started feeling a little better after work, but I'm still a little down and out.
Could it be possible that this depression could have been triggered by this medication? The doctor I talked to said it was "unlikely" but I don't think it's too terribly unlikely.
Anyway, I'm in some more pain right now, so I have to lay down. My abdominal area and my neck and my kidney area are still bothering me a little from time to time, but it's not as severe.
I just don't really know what to do....the closest Kaiser around here is about an hour North of Santa Cruz, over a mountain and is not a fun drive to make.
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Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 12:35 pm
It's possible with any medication that something won't work quite right with an individual's body and cause depression or other bad things.
I don't really know what to say other than the things the doctors told you. I hope that you feel better soon... heart
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Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 2:42 pm
I know some medications, including birth control, have depression listed as a side effect.
I'd really suggest talking to your doctor, or whoever gave you the medication, and asking. Or at the very least, reading the little information booklet that came with your medication, if there was one.
Or try looking it up online.
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Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 5:38 pm
Oni-Angel Ho ho ho, so I'm getting the runaround by Kaiser. Apparantly my tryglyceride count is way too high for someone my age (pointing towards a genetic problem), and so they put me on this medication. At first it was really great! I could breathe a lot easier while running up and down the hills on campus (we're located in the middle of a forest on a big hill), and things were good. Last night, however, I was powerwalking to meet my fiancee, and when I was almost to his class, I suddenly felt nauseus, my kidney area started hurting like hell, and my legs buckled underneath me. Luckily I didn't throw up. I had to go to the bathroom and sat on the toilet for about a half hour shaking uncontrollably and crying a little. My fiance grabbed me when I got out of the bathroom and a friend of mine drove me back to his house where he promptly put me in bed and made me stay there while he doted on me all night. This morning, however, I was still very depressed and got really upset really easily. When I was talking to my professor about my paper, and he didn't seem sympathetic, I almost started crying, and started feeling like I should just die (which is quite uncharacteristc of me). The depressing feelings kept with me all day long, even though I stopped taking the medication immediately, and called Kaiser (but my doctor didn't call me back). It was only when I was talking to my grandmother on the phone that she made me call them back and make an 'urgent' request to talk with a doctor. So I did, but I was only told what I already knew: "keep hydrated, don't take the pills anymore, go to the emergency room if your symptoms worsen, etc." I started feeling a little better after work, but I'm still a little down and out. Could it be possible that this depression could have been triggered by this medication? The doctor I talked to said it was "unlikely" but I don't think it's too terribly unlikely. Anyway, I'm in some more pain right now, so I have to lay down. My abdominal area and my neck and my kidney area are still bothering me a little from time to time, but it's not as severe. I just don't really know what to do....the closest Kaiser around here is about an hour North of Santa Cruz, over a mountain and is not a fun drive to make. well, i kwno im proably younger then you, grante dby the fiance thing.. but my senior english class jsut went over a topic like this in class for a writing thigny. it was how the majority of college students and those just leaving highschool abuse precripition drugs and anti-deperesants. now i know your not doign that, wink but it also mentioned that, if the person in question is allergic to the medicine the they can have the opposite affect with teh med in question, rather than have the suspected affect one migth have if they aren't allergic to it. if that made any sense to you what so ever, check with your psychian...if thats how you spell it.......well check with your doctor, and see if you have any allergic tendancies towards every ingrediant in the meds that your taking. causes that occur don't nessasarily have to be visable as most know, but this kind of thign isn't very commonly known that thes allergic reactions don't become a progressive pattern, they continue and conitnue from whence they start. so..check with your doctor for saftey, cause it seriously coudl be a possibility that your a allergic to somethign in the med.
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