Posted by Extreme on October 8, 2008, at 16:20:40
In the omega-3-thread I told of a strange reaction to a fishoil-supplement I tried and rskontos replied to that later saying:
" You'd be surprised by what all I have found out researching my own issues."
This sparked the idea of a thread which can cover strange effects/side effects of medicines/drugs/supplements. Feel free to define "strange" as you like and speculate all that you want! I will start out with two very strange reactions.
1. Benzo: During the first 6 years of my IBS (irritable bowel syndrome) and fibromyalgi-like pain (which lead to sleeping problems and very serious trouble relaxing at all) in the body I would on benzo experience enormous IMPROVEMENT in vision. Yea.. I got better eye-sight during influence! No kidding! No small changes either... the stronger benzo, the better vision-improvement. This strange effect vanished when my pain in my body got better after about 6 years. I miss that effect I can say! Have anyone in here experienced something like this? I actually know of persons who I have known that would get some of these vision improvements but I think I was "the worst".
Possible explanation: Overproducing several substances naturally that speeds up the process in the visual part of the brain... then "forcing" it down with benzo which acts in several parts of the brain as an organizer among neurotransmitters.. and whoa.. we got "supervision"!
2. Effexor XR 75 mg: Two hours after ingesting one capsule I lost just about every emotion that exists in me. I could no longer see facial expressions in others, I could no longer hear the tone of others voices if they were sad or happy or anything. This lasted some 18 hours I remember. I got this medicine because a doctor believed I had ADHD. I guess he was more surprised than me. Some years later I tried another capsule just to try.. got half of the strange effect that I got the first time. Somewhat more normal I assume. Still thought it was terrible.
Possible explanation: Extremely high dopamine-level at that time.
Feel free to talk about your strange "encounters" and conclusions!
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