Posted by B2chica on February 22, 2004, at 14:34:57
In reply to Re: is my pdoc nuts, putting the wrong meds togeth » B2chica, posted by zane on February 21, 2004, at 20:54:14
> >>Anyway he started me on strattera and symbyax (zyprexa and prozac in one).
>
> Be careful with the strattera is you have high blood pressure or asthma. I ended up in the emergency room when I took one puff of an albuterol inhaler for an asthma attack two weeks after starting strattera. My blood pressure shot up off the charts to some "life threatening" number making me think that I was having a heart attack-Wow, thanks for the heads up. i use albuterol also! luckily my asthma is not bad i usually only need it when i have a cold. however when/if i need it i don't want that side effect.
> The strattera also made me spacey, and made me noticeably forgetful. Within a week of starting strattera I forgot numerous passwords that I had been using EVERY DAY for months, and some that we were using EVERY DAY that hadn't been changed in over a year.-I don't know if it's the strattera or the symbyax but i am terribly exhausted i slept till 1:30 today and still tired. the forgetfullness and other stuff you mentioned was my problem to begin with. My pdoc said it will help me to focus and be less forgetful (i don't think i could get any worse) i have to write everything down as it is...and many times i loose the paper i wrote things down on. i created a spreadsheet for all the passwords i need to remember.
> Good luck on it, I've heard that it works wonders for some, and there are no triplicate pharmacy forms.
>-Thanks Zane!
c.
poster:B2chica
thread:316358
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20040218/msgs/316515.html