I am a veteran in 2002 I realized I had a problem when I was fired for crying at work and running out of the job. I realized then and there I was embarking on something I needed help with. Well before my insurance was to run out I went to a psy doctor who suggested Lexapro so I reluctantly said ok I will try it. I really needed help I had triplets on the way and I did not want this to bother them.
I started to have some crazy chest pains I could not describe. I just know they hurt I had an EKG come back abnormal and my blood pressure was elevated but not much to think of I did go to the ER just in case I had some sort of asthma attack. They could not explain the pains and sent me home. they did the full cardiac work up and still nothing.
Three years ago I went to the VA because my Lexapro was becoming to expensive as my ins was canceled with my wife's company. Lexapro was not in their formulary list so they started Zoloft. Right away I started having weird chest pains in my chest that radiated into my left arm with a cold yet burning tingle sensation. As time went on I was told I was making it up and move on. I then started to have headaches all the time the tylenol stopped working. I then started some serious diarea all the time then I started to go to the bathroom and still wet my pants all the time. this still happens a lot. after talking to my regular doctor he started blood work my triglycierides were out of control he started telling me I needed to eat better. I gained over 80 pounds I do not know why i did not eat any more. I became a complete baskit case crying all of the time for no reason.
Then. It became the time of year when I was assaulted as a kid and this year was just particularly harder on me like no business. One afternoon I just started to think about it and my chest started racing so fast I was scared my chest was going to explode. So I remembered my doctor telling me I could increase my dosage on my own if I felt so. I took the max dose. of 200 mg I was only taking 1/2 of 100 mg every so often. I realize this was crazy but at the time i just wanted the attack to stop.
That night I felt horrible crying spurts, fever, throwing up, dry mouth, chills, stomach pains, sweats, swelling in my legs pains in my grown, head spasms, I felt someone was in the room when no one was. dazed into space for ever my wife said. Saying off the wall stuff that made no sense to my wife. taking baths over and over my wife said I took six baths in less than two hours when she asked me about them I did not remember taking any at all.
I had dreams of getting a gun and shooting my self and that gave me an idea to really think about several time throughout the next two weeks these thoughts were there I told my wife about them and she removed the gun from my reach.
I did not go to the Doctor because My wife and I are all alone with no help for our children who are young and I just kept thinking it would be too hard on her if I had to go in the hospital. thoughts of killing myself and then thinking of what it would do to her if i did was the only thing that kept me going.
It has been 8 weeks and I still get the head ache, the dizziness, stomach pains, the diarea, the peeing in my under ware, the cold yet burning sensation in my left arm, the blurriness, the snappy-ness from sudden sounds, the aggravation level is at an all time high. the diarea is getting worse, the belching is horrible, I will belch so fast and so hard I can not get my mouth open fast enough it catches in my nose, I will throw up after eating without even a warning.
I did try to call my Doctor she will not see me untill the 23 of aug
I started to have some crazy chest pains I could not describe. I just know they hurt I had an EKG come back abnormal and my blood pressure was elevated but not much to think of I did go to the ER just in case I had some sort of asthma attack. They could not explain the pains and sent me home. they did the full cardiac work up and still nothing.
Three years ago I went to the VA because my Lexapro was becoming to expensive as my ins was canceled with my wife's company. Lexapro was not in their formulary list so they started Zoloft. Right away I started having weird chest pains in my chest that radiated into my left arm with a cold yet burning tingle sensation. As time went on I was told I was making it up and move on. I then started to have headaches all the time the tylenol stopped working. I then started some serious diarea all the time then I started to go to the bathroom and still wet my pants all the time. this still happens a lot. after talking to my regular doctor he started blood work my triglycierides were out of control he started telling me I needed to eat better. I gained over 80 pounds I do not know why i did not eat any more. I became a complete baskit case crying all of the time for no reason.
Then. It became the time of year when I was assaulted as a kid and this year was just particularly harder on me like no business. One afternoon I just started to think about it and my chest started racing so fast I was scared my chest was going to explode. So I remembered my doctor telling me I could increase my dosage on my own if I felt so. I took the max dose. of 200 mg I was only taking 1/2 of 100 mg every so often. I realize this was crazy but at the time i just wanted the attack to stop.
That night I felt horrible crying spurts, fever, throwing up, dry mouth, chills, stomach pains, sweats, swelling in my legs pains in my grown, head spasms, I felt someone was in the room when no one was. dazed into space for ever my wife said. Saying off the wall stuff that made no sense to my wife. taking baths over and over my wife said I took six baths in less than two hours when she asked me about them I did not remember taking any at all.
I had dreams of getting a gun and shooting my self and that gave me an idea to really think about several time throughout the next two weeks these thoughts were there I told my wife about them and she removed the gun from my reach.
I did not go to the Doctor because My wife and I are all alone with no help for our children who are young and I just kept thinking it would be too hard on her if I had to go in the hospital. thoughts of killing myself and then thinking of what it would do to her if i did was the only thing that kept me going.
It has been 8 weeks and I still get the head ache, the dizziness, stomach pains, the diarea, the peeing in my under ware, the cold yet burning sensation in my left arm, the blurriness, the snappy-ness from sudden sounds, the aggravation level is at an all time high. the diarea is getting worse, the belching is horrible, I will belch so fast and so hard I can not get my mouth open fast enough it catches in my nose, I will throw up after eating without even a warning.
I did try to call my Doctor she will not see me untill the 23 of aug
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For one I hated Lexapro it made me think about killing myself. The symptions that you are describing Im not too sure about, but when you were on Zoloft and uped yourself to 200 mg could have killed you. I was in an instution and they had to gradually up my dose to 150 mg. it took a week and I was told that that wasnt very safe in its own. Please dont do that again. and it sounds like the Zoloft is not for you. you may need a different medication. It sounds like you had a panic attack when you uped your dose, I have thoes all the time, you need to get on an anti anixity medication for thoes attacks. You were on only 50 mg of zoloft every once in awhile you have to take that medicine every day for a month before you actually feel any diferent, it is a every day medicine not when you have an episode. But about your symptions, all I want to ask is there anything that happened to you? Something very bad? sometimes you can have physical symptions with some mental illnesses. I am so sorry. I had to go away for a couple of weeks to get myself better, I had to leave my 3 children and husband, it was hard but I feel much better and was happy that I did that. Your children and wife need your love and well they just need you. please see the dr and tell her every thing if you dont tell her everything you are only hurting yourself, and you wont get the help you despertely need.
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Thank you very much for your reply. You are so right. I was actually under the impression that it was an as needed basis medication because that is what the prescription says, Go figure. Boy was I wrong. Anyway things seem to be getting better. The Dr changed my meds to Xanax and something else for depression. She was treating me for bipolar but realized I am Post traumatic stress disorder instead. I feel much better now and I am just trying to get all of the other physical things under control. I really hope there was no permanent damage from the zoloft. That was the scariest time of my life. Even when I almost lost my triplets in the NICU due to prematurity was not as horrible as this was. Because at least I would have been there for the end result of that situation but this one I could only see one devastating end. That was so extremely hard. Your words were very helpful Thank you so much.
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