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Originally Posted by ~Christina
Morning Blue 
Maybe the new dose has dropped your blood pressure to low ? Normally a lower blood pressure has a calming effect. I was put on Minipress it’s another lowdose blood pressure med to help me sleep but it’s also shown to decrease ptsd nightmares. Well it dropped my blood pressure too low and my body reacted by keeping me up and moving,on high alert “ fight or flight mode” not nearly as awful as what your going through.... but maybe the increase is having an opposite reaction too?
Honestly I have no idea why you are unable to get freaking Cogentin ! It’s not a benzo, it’s not a scheduled drug, it’s a freaking Med for tremors from Parkinson’s disease etc and it is very often a needed Med if a person is on old school Haldol , Thorazine and practically all APs going.
Pdoc 101 is give Inderal and if no help add Cogentin if that doesn’t help then the offending Med just isn’t doable.
I have personally never heard of a bad reaction to Cogentin I’m sure it could cause something of course but it’s honestly in general a Med that will either help or do nothing at all.
I hate seeing you suffer this way for so long  I’d like to slap your Pdoc |
I think it did drop my blood pressure too low. I was feeling dizzy earlier today, so I ate a ton of lays chips because they’re so salty. (We have free snacks at work.)
I don't know why we can't do cogentin either. I literally had to describe the problem to his assistant, who is a complete dolt, because I can never talk to him directly. And who knows what the hell she told my pdoc the first time, but for whatever reason, he didn't want to see me. I wish I did have an appt so that I don't have to play phone tag and talk to someone who asks me questions like, "mmmkay... and how do you spell that med you're on? P-r-o-e... Wait, No... p-r-o-p-a-n-e-l-o-l? Or is it not that way?" No, you idiot. It's not propane!!