God, yes! It's funny, at the time she gave it to me, I hadn't really been on anything heavy for years and was just anxious to have something to make me sleep. Addictive, who cares? Didn't really think that one through. I'm trying to get back to that place, where I'm not relying on more and stronger meds to counteract the affects of the others, you know?
I recently had a very bad reaction to an upped dosage of Norvasc (blood pressure medication). My feet swelled up, and it wasn't like water-retention bloating. When I pressed my finger on a swollen area, it left a depression, like memory foam. YUCK!!
Oh, yikes! Those things are damned scary!
Well, naturally, I went off the Norvasc, but the swelling didn't go down for a week. In fact, it didn't go down until my Thai massage therapist did some "lymph work" or something like that.
Figures. (And oh, but that sounds nice, to have a massage therapist! Mmmm!) I dunno, things really are so dangerous now, it really seems to me that people are about 5 times as likely to get side affects as they were ten years ago. Maybe it's the mixing of meds or the way we eat, but, damn!
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on 2006-09-01 06:28 pm (UTC)God, yes! It's funny, at the time she gave it to me, I hadn't really been on anything heavy for years and was just anxious to have something to make me sleep. Addictive, who cares? Didn't really think that one through. I'm trying to get back to that place, where I'm not relying on more and stronger meds to counteract the affects of the others, you know?
I recently had a very bad reaction to an upped dosage of Norvasc (blood pressure medication). My feet swelled up, and it wasn't like water-retention bloating. When I pressed my finger on a swollen area, it left a depression, like memory foam. YUCK!!
Oh, yikes! Those things are damned scary!
Well, naturally, I went off the Norvasc, but the swelling didn't go down for a week. In fact, it didn't go down until my Thai massage therapist did some "lymph work" or something like that.
Figures. (And oh, but that sounds nice, to have a massage therapist! Mmmm!) I dunno, things really are so dangerous now, it really seems to me that people are about 5 times as likely to get side affects as they were ten years ago. Maybe it's the mixing of meds or the way we eat, but, damn!
Big hugs!
Peace, Ghani