I have been curious for a while as to why I have side effects to almost every medicine I have used. I didn't know the side effect to the med before it happened so I didn't think it & it happened.

examples:
As a child, my mom gave me asprin & I got sick to my stomach every time.

Codine would cause me to go off in an awful mood & jump on those around me.

I was given Benedryl when bedydine was applied to my skin under my cast which caused it to blister. Later that night, I woke up with my throat swollen closed & had a very hard time breathing.

Penycillan now causes me a rash after using it as a child.

Antidepressants didn't help the depression AT ALL, but caused side effects that I couldn't handle. I ended up with the following side effects: dry mouth, loss of appetite, weight loss, nausea (causing EDNOS (anorexia)), migraines (that ended up being 24/7), pounding heart, dizziness & passing out, joint pain & stiffness (so bad I couldn't move), insomnia, & shakey hands...to name a few.

During that time, I was prescribed the following antidepressants: Paxil, Imipramine, Prozac, Zoloft, amitriptyline, nortriptyline, Wellbutrin, Tranzene, Serzone, Luvox, Effexor, Parnate, Nardil, Remeron, Pamelor, Trazodone, Ludiomil, Resperidone, Depakote, Tregretol, Neurontin, Lithium, Desipramine, Sinequane, Elavil, Asendin, Vivactil, Serax, Thorazine, Seroquel, Celexa, Lexapro, Serentil, Navane, Resperdol, Sinequan, Ludiomil, Desyrel, & maybe more.

I was very suicidal & overdosed on many of the drugs like Serax, Valium, Librium, Prozac, Imiprimine, Wellbutrin, Serzone, tylenol, a combination taken upon discharge from the closed unit that caused me to pass out, go into a coma & end up on a breathing machine.

All these stupid things I did (which didn't seem stupid at the time) make me wonder if they caused the migraine with brain leisons to become a permanent part of my head (24/7) years after it was stopped?

Later, I ended up with a Parkinson's type of symptoms. I wondered if it was a new disease I was going to have to deal with, but it turned out to be a reaction to the compazine I was taking for my migraines & thorazine for my anxiety. Once they were removed, it took about a month to get it all out of my system.

Unfortunately, every migraine med I took, caused heart palpatations which couldn't be tolerated.

Flovent causes me to lose potassium, & at the same time, I was put on Foradil to control my asthma while in the hospital, & ended up losing my voice (it was initially thought to be part of my bronchitis ). When I could only whisper with absolutely no voice it was decided to be a reaction to the med which took days to clear up.

I am now so afraid to put meds into my body that I stopped all my meds. Luckily, my blood tests show no need for the meds I was on. My Psychiatrist wants me to go onto a med for my weight loss but I just can't get myself to do it no matter how much it might help.

Has anyone else had this kind of extreme medicine reactions? I wonder what goes on in my body to cause these extreme reactions?

How strange can I get?
Debbie K