side effects

[MommaMia]

Just out of curiosity...

What are the most annoying or curious side effects that you have experienced from taking a medication?   Sometimes when I am watch TV and I see an ad for a medication and they start listing all the possible side effects...the side effects are far worse than the original problem!

One medication (can't remember which one) I took caused me to yawn.  I couldn't stop!  I wasn't even tired!  But I would get this funny feeling in my jaw muscles and try as I might, I couldn't keep myself from yawning!  I thought it was a coincidence until I looked up the know side effects and yup, there it was... Yawn!

Most recently, the pain med Propoxyphene N (Darvicet) caused hiccups!  They hit me hard and often!

[wiininkwe]

I've been thinking and thinking, and the side effects that I get are never funny.  I vomit from codein, break out in hives from sulfa, fall asleep with antihistamines, and my inhaler with albuterol makes my heart pound and my hands shake.   Nope, nothing funny.  hmmmmm
T

[MommaMia]

I've been thinking and thinking, and the side effects that I get are never funny.  I vomit from codein, break out in hives from sulfa, fall asleep with antihistamines, and my inhaler with albuterol makes my heart pound and my hands shake.   Nope, nothing funny.  hmmmmm
T

You are right... nothng funny there... But I said annoying or curious and yours sure are annoying. I get the Sulfa hives (forced to scrub my body with a hairbrush the first time I had a reaction), Demerol makes me nuts (more than usual), Tetracycline makes me puke.  But those are all typical for those meds.  I am looking for the weird ones.

[NightOwl]

side effects?  You want funny side effects.  Well, one time my mother was visitng us in Ann Arbor.  She was always great about pitching in and getting involved in whatever needed to be done so I didnt think too much of it when she began to vacuum the whole downstairs one night after dinner  and then got busy dusting.  About 11 PM, I went up to bed to read before before going to sleep and about 11:30 there was a tap on the door.  Momma.  I got up and went out  to the hallway and she said, "I cant find your mop."   "Did you spill something, Mom?"  "No, Honey, I was just thinking how nice the kitchen floor would look in the morning all nice and shiny."  Well, we had 2 kids and 3 dogs, but the floor was pretty decent and this seemed to be going just a bit too  far.  

I took a close look.  Mom's big brown eyes were all lit up and very merry looking, and   her voice was very lively and cheery for 11:30 at night after all that work.  OOPS!  She has been  having some allergy symptoms and was taking an anti-histamine called Triaminic.  We got out the bottle and looked.  Sure enough, it said that in some people the stuff could  cause:  excitement, hyperactivity,  insomnia, hypertension, etc.  I took her pulse.  It was really racing along.  I took her blood pressure.  It was up.  I prescribed a nice warm bath and  a dull book.  She finally went to sleep.
Mom stopped the Triaminic and  (thankully) gave the mop a rest.  (And me, too:J)

[towrod]

side effects?  ...she began to vacuum the whole downstairs one night after dinner  and then got busy dusting.  ...about 11:30 ...mop....

WOW I need some Triaminic around my house - that stuff sounds awesome!!! :J

[wiininkwe]

My daughter Amanda was prescribed Triaminic for allergies when she was very young.  She also was very wide awake and cheery, but along with that, we caught her talking to the pictures on the walls.  Worse yet, they seemed to be answering her.   When we called the pediatrician to tell him what was going on, he asked us to wait on the line while he "checked some things".  When he came back to the phone he told us to not give her any more of that (DUH) and mumbled something about it not yet having been approved for small children.  As soon as the stuff wore off, she was fine, but it was very eerie watching your child have a meaningful conversation with a picture of a sailing sloop on the wall.  

T

[NightOwl]

T,  Mom didnt talk  to the  pictures on the wall, but if she  had  I'm sure  she would have  INSISTED on dusting  them while visiting with them.  

Years ago while on  a tricyclic antidepressent, our 21 yr old YDD, saw monsters standing by her bed.  She KNEW perfectly well they were an hallucenation but said she was unable to keep from talking to them.  She even told them she knew they weren't real and please go away.  Even though the situation was far from funny, she was able to laugh about it.  (It was the only stuff available then  and it got her through a tough time but it had so many side effects, we were sure glad when she could stop taking it. :S)

[mowalker]

I hate the ones that really work, you know the pain relievers.  Suddenly you are no longer in pain and think you can conquer the things you weren't recently able to do.  Then when it wears off you are in more pain than you were in orginally.  I recently experienced that.  I had no extra energy, was just pain free for a few hours.
 
I agree while spending time home with the TV on has been an experience, I can't believe the side effects of some of these new drugs, they are far worse than the original symptom they are meant to cure.  How did they ever get approved by the FDA...or did they?:confused:
 
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[springer02]

When I had a permanent IV /central line for a staph infection two years ago, one of the gazillion antibiotics I was on made my skin where the infection was feel like there were bugs crawling on it.  Not all over, thankfully, just right where the infection was.  Maybe the antibiotic was working??  At that same time, I was given a sleeping pill that caused the worst dreams I've ever had, I flushed them after the second night.

DH was put on a steroid last summer for a horrible case of poison ivy and he was miserable from the drugs, depression, insomnia, the works.  He said the poison ivy would have been better than the reaction from the meds.

This is a very interesting thread, I guess I don't pay attention to the drug ads on television.

Tena

[Camperroo]

I've taken some prescriptions that have made me feel really dizzy.  I take a beta blocker everyday and when I first took it, even though it was a small dose, I felt very tired for about a week while adjusting to it.  Erythromycin does some not so nice things to my stomach, so I won't take it anymore.  When I first started having muscle spasms the doc prescribed Flexeril which completely knocked me out and he wanted me to take it twice a day...yea right!!!

When you hear some of these ads...may cause stroke, blood clots or bleeding.....you really wonder if the cure is worth the risk!!

[jpreiser]

Lets see... Anything with codine make me break out in hives, while having chemo I not only lost my hair  from the chemo but the steroids made me " crazy" I was up all night and hearing voices!! Yep I was a mess.. Thank goodness all of that is over...

when my daughter was a baby she was put on steroids for the croup... after her first dose she started biteing her hand or anything that moved in front of her... I called the Dr and stopped the meds. the inhaler caused her to be up all night and running around in her walker like a drag racer!!!


Once I took ambien and a gas relief pill at the same time i fell asleep at the computer in a matter of a few mins!!

[brainpause]

I used melatonin a few times, when I worked nights, to help me sleep. I started hearing voices with that. That made me feel very strange.

I get sleepy with almost anything. Even if I have a headache or other ache/pain, and I take 200mg of Ibuprofen, I get sleepy. How annoying. So, at work, I either have to live with the headache (which I get often), or get sleepy with the meds.

When I was in college, I had a severe sinus problem (more severe than usual) my sophomore year. One of the meds I took caused me to lose my appetite...almost COMPLETELY. I really didn't have much weight to lose. Besides, in college, you WANT to eat with your buds!

Larry

[angelsmom10]

I've taken so many rx's in my life, and the only one I ever had trouble with was just several years ago was vicodin.. for a while, I would just start vomiting and we didin't know why, but finally we realized it was only when I took the vicodin, and when I stopped taking it, the symptoms disappeared. I can take other meds with codeine and no problems, but not vicodin.
 
The DD's have allergic reactions to sulfa & penecillin. Our youngest, give her a benadryl and she's out for 12hrs. Our oldest can't take cephzyll, she was put on it in HS and developed such an itchy rash, she couldn't stand clothes on and it lasted for over 2 weeks.
 
Now on a lighter side..... and not to make fun of you DD Toni, I'm making fun of mine

we caught her talking to the pictures on the walls. Worse yet, they seemed to be answering her. ....it was very eerie watching your child have a meaningful conversation with a picture of a sailing sloop on the wall.
T

If our oldest ever did this, we would never have caught her... we always would hear her talking in her room, and when we asked who she was talking to, she would say just herself... she carried on long conversations with herself. We often wondered about her, but then again she's blond :eyecrazy: