I hate the meds I'm on

[retrorussell]

Go to the doc!  Get better Brother Trev!

[Trevor]

How are you feeling?  Have you been to see your doctor?

I'm feeling OK thanks, BrotherAHD - I will be going to see my doctor within the next two weeks. 

[Andrew]

Go see the doctor sooner if you keep feeling this way.

Having a reaction to medication can really upset everything you feel.  I've seen people have psychotic episodes, depression, and engage in self-injury due to medications.  Once the problem was figured out and the medication stopped, and had time to clear their system, they went right back to feeling their normal selves.

[Trevor]

Go to the doc!  Get better Brother Trev!

Thanks BrotherRussell 

[Trevor]

Go see the doctor sooner if you keep feeling this way.

Having a reaction to medication can really upset everything you feel.  I've seen people have psychotic episodes, depression, and engage in self-injury due to medications.  Once the problem was figured out and the medication stopped, and had time to clear their system, they went right back to feeling their normal selves.

Thanks, BrotherAndrew: the thing with me was that I was feeling "off" - but not ill - from about October last year. A few tests later, my doctor told me that my thyroid was inactive and this was making me feel like a pile of #2 now and then. She put me on these meds - one tablet per day - which work OK for a while and then I get panic attacks, intense paranoia and suicidal thoughts.

No way am I staying much longer on these bloody things: the same things happened with my anti-depression meds and those got flushed down the toilet in 2009.

[Trevor]

These meds make me feel like this sometimes: 



 

[ER]

How're you feeling these days, Trevor? Much better I hope.

[Trevor]

How're you feeling these days, Trevor? Much better I hope.

Hugs and thanks  

I stopped taking the second batch of meds - Eltroxin or something like that - they made me feel even sicker than the first lot.  

I thought: I feel OK when I am not on meds so why be on the things? Yesterday I walked almost ten miles to work (no buses) and all that ached after that were my feet. If I am so sick as my doctor claims, why do I have a lot of energy?

Nah: the hell with the meds - I take vitamins, natural supplements, don't smoke, don't drink, get exercise and try and eat correctly. I am not sick.  

[ER]

I meant to say yesterday, Trevor, how glad I am to hear you're feeling so good!

[Trevor]

author=ER link=topic=143030.msg535041#msg535041 date=1409974722]
I meant to say yesterday, Trevor, how glad I am to hear you're feeling
so good!

Awww, thanks: I walked two miles to a mall this morning for my breakfast
 - but no way am I walking back with a full tummy.  

[RCMerchant]

I take thyroid meds too,Trev-I take Levothyroxine-they keep my s**t balanced. No side affects at all.
I am depressed and suicidal-but no more than I have always been. 

[Javakoala]

Trevor, if you don't mind, could you list the medications the doctor is pushing at you?

Basic thyroid medication shouldn't cause you the trouble you are having unless they are overdosing you. It sounds like they may be giving you something else that is having a bad interaction. Either that, or they need to do a more thorough blood test, serum and whole blood. Based on what you are saying about your side effects indicates something else is out of whack in your blood chemistry and the thyroid medication is exacerbating issues.

But remember: it's never lupus. (Sorry, had to toss in some House humor.)

[Trevor]

Trevor, if you don't mind, could you list the medications the doctor is pushing at you?

In my case, Dr House is right - it is lupus.  

I can't remember the first batch of meds I was put on but the second batch was Eltroxin: both of these were worse than the other.

I am also supposed to be on meds for anxiety and depression so I would be taking too many meds which would most likely work against each other in trying to bring my moods under control and in all seriousness, I would probably get addicted and wind up in a bad way or worse.

No: other than vitamins, exercise, no smoking, no drinking, no boom boom with soul brother or sister, no more meds for me.  

[Javakoala]

Indications are that your thyroid med is too high of a dose, or you could be having a reaction to certain ingredients in the pills.

As far as anxiety pills...umm, send them to me. God knows I go through what my doctor prescribes without much relief.

[RCMerchant]

Or send them too me-and I'll take them to just get high-or sell them to hillbilly drug addicts.
Im Kidding-I KID!
Only drug I do is booze and pot.