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Magnate
Member Since Oct 2003
Location: Chicago
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Mar 05, 2004 at 07:41 PM
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I tried one of my new propranolol pills after my heart went nuts after eating. (Remember, I am getting back into that habit, so eating so much at once shocked my system.) That evening I hallucinated. I had laundry hanging on a drying rack and my socks "came to life". It was really freaky!! I didn't know whether to be scared or entertained. I really don't want to take this particular drug if that is going to happen every time. I looked it up and checked with a pharmacist, hallucinations can be a side effect of this medication. I will continue to try it when I need it and watch if it happens again. Has anyone else heard of or had any experience with this drug or other heart drugs and anything about hallucinating from taking it? I am really hoping it was the drug that made me hallucinate. I think I'd rather change heart meds than to add an anti-psychotic one. I was freaked enough by this experience that I did tell my T about it at the appointment yesterday.
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Mar 09, 2004 at 12:59 AM
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Sorry to hear about your hosiery problems. I took Propranolol for several months in the past year and never experienced one side effect from it. I would have been freaked out too, believe me. Anytime I try a new medication (which is rare) I have to resist looking it up in drug books or online because if I read something like that I'm just sure I'll be one of the very few who will have that reaction. I think it's worth letting the prescribing md know, it might be a drug interaction if you're taking any other meds. If not a different beta-blocker may work just as well for you without giving your socks "happy feet!"
pebs  <font color=purple> The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated--Gandhi Sometimes I lie awake at night in bed and I ask, "Is it all worth it?" And then a voice says, "Who are you talking to?" And another voice says, "You mean, ' To whom are you talking?'" And I say, "No wonder I lie awake at night."--Charlie Brown </font color=purple> __________________ The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated--Gandhi |
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Location: texas
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Mar 15, 2004 at 06:21 AM
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i would encourage you to check into inderal a little more. i took it for quite a while until a psychiatrist went basically nuts and said that one of the side effects of inderal was depression and another hallucinations (both of which i was having problems with). i'm not an expert, don't claim to be, but i'm just sharing my experience. went off the inderal immediately. problems haven't all gone away, but i have gotten some relief; at least the depression and hallucinations aren't being exacerbated by a drug for which there are many alternatives.
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