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Aug 13, 2019, 12:25 PM
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Member Since: Jul 2019
Location: Downtown Vibes, California
Posts: 15,701
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By far, the worst experience (side effect) I've had was from Seroquel. I gained 130lbs. over a seven-year period on that poison. My standard weight before Seroquel was 107lbs.
But the most recent, and very odd, experience I've had with a psych med was this past week-end. I was doing somewhat better on 3mg. of Navane. So my pdoc increased the dose to 7mg.
90 miuntes after taking the Navane I became sleepy. I mean, sleepy as in, I fell asleep while walking across the room. I awoke as I started to fall to the floor, made it back to the bed, and slept for the next day and a half. Or possibly 2 days. I don't know, because the hours got messed up and confused. I would manage to get up for 5 or 10 minutes max to feed the cats, go to the bathroom, eat a small snack, or drink water. Then falling asleep again, back to bed.
The strangest part was...I think I remember feeling extremely overheated, as if my core temperature was on overdrive. I was asleep in bed, then I awoke in the shower, partly standing under a cold shower half-dressed.  Wow. I thought, WHAT am I doing in here?! But all I could possibly manage to do was peel off my wet clothes and go back to sleep.
I lost track of the days...it was a freaky experience. I'll see my pdoc today; I hope she takes this reaction seriously and suggests a different med, not just dropping the Navane down.
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