Posted by Rick E. on April 20, 2000, at 23:14:01
In reply to Re: Question for Rick (Remeron Side effects), posted by caroline on April 20, 2000, at 14:34:09
> >Rick
> >
> > How are you? Did you get your test results back? Are they OK? I really hope they are.
> >
> > Hope to hear from you soon
> >
> > Caroline
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> P.S. I've already sent out this post addressed to Greg by mistake - and I called you Greg! A thousand apologies. I haven't been sleeping too well recently and my brain has stopped listening to my instructions to it!Caroline,
Thanks so much for asking...yes, my blood count came back good, though I don't know what it was. I tested positive for strept throat, which may explain the fever/sore throat I was experiencing, although I am not personally 100% convinced that Remeron did not play a part in my sore throat. I am also not convinced that Remeron is doing much of anything for me except give me a strange "psychotic" feeling that I don't like much. I say this because before I started cutting my 15 mg doses in half, I was experiencing horrible nightmares every night, and they have just about completely subsided now that I put myself on 7.5 mg.
For the strept throat I am taking amoxicillin 500 mg twice daily, and except for the horrible stomach aches, I don't think that it has interfered much with my pmeds. Although, strangely enough, I had the 2nd worst panic attack that I have ever had tonite, after almost a month of practically no anxiety. I had weaned myself off the ativan, and even stopped carrying it with me...and I got caught in a pittsburgh hospital with no pills and panicing like the world was ending. I was there to visit my girlfriend's mother...and 90 miles away from my pills...and of course, nobody there could do anything for me...my girlfriend even asked the nurse if there was any way I could get an ativan, and of course, the answer was no...so I suffered in the waiting room until they were ready to go...I guess I learned my lesson...will start carrying my pills with me everywhere I go...there is nothing worse, I have found out, then knowing that there is a way out of a panic attack, and not being able to get it...ugh, what a night...
Sorry for rambling so much, just feels like I am in good company when I am here at psycho-babble. Thanks for caring!
Rick E. (Since there appears to be another Rick posting here now!)
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