Posted by rina on October 6, 2007, at 16:13:13
In reply to Re: Adderall/chest pain, posted by elanor roosevelt on October 5, 2007, at 21:40:39
A good thing gone horribly bad for me two weeks ago with Adderall. I was suffering with what I thought to be the flu with symptoms of coughing, night sweats, chest pain,fever, dry heaving and nose congestion. My fever peaked at 102 and my husband insisted on an emergency room visit. Good thing we did because my pulse rate was 115 upon my arrival and the chest pain was going down my arm.
During that visit they did blood tests and urine tests but other than the blood pressure and pulse rate, couldn't figure anything else out. So I was released and had an appointment with my primary care the following day. He was also stumped until he went over my meds. He noticed the adderall and said he wanted to run a few tests. He warned they would be frustrating and the frequent blood draws would problably be redundant to me but to trust him and he would try his best to find out more.
His reasoning was that he had one other patient with the same symptoms and the same medication so he wanted to see if there were similarities related. As of today I've had my blood drawn 12 times collected my urine for a 24hr metanephrine fractionated component and catecholamine fraction.
He was so dumbfounded by the results he had to refer me to a hematologist,endocronologist and infection disease specialist to do the same test over again just to make sure he was accurate in his findings. 12 more blood draws and an MRI a galum(wrong spelling)scan as well as blood culture test 3times 2sticks in one arm 1 stick in the other. Results in the short form because it would take more than an email to give you the full version.
Adderall has stimulated my brain so much that it has produced tumors all through my body producing too much hormones and not the TSH hormones most of us think about. I don't deter anyone from adderall or speak Ill of it. I'm just glad that I took the time to take it a step further because it could have cost me my life.
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