Medication thoughts
Feb. 17th, 2011 09:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stephbgI am currently enjoying nausea and headache, after a day of balance problems. Not dizzy, just lurching a bit. Can't think too well, but need to record.
This morning I changed back to chemist's brand of fluoxetine at the same dose I've been taking it under the brand name Lovan. It shouldn't make a difference - they're both in capsule form - but I'm reacting now like I have reacted before to a drop in medication. Nausea at the end of a more productive day than previously. Also heavy sweating in the usual side-effect spots on the face.
Why try to change even this trivial thing? I've been very very sleepy and it wasn't gong away by itself. Doc had a theory (by no means anything my pharmacist believed) that I might absorb Lovan differently. The evidence would suggest that I absorb the fluox in Lovan better than the fluox in Chemist's Brand and have been getting a higher dose. Too high it would seem.
Hate nausea :-(
This morning I changed back to chemist's brand of fluoxetine at the same dose I've been taking it under the brand name Lovan. It shouldn't make a difference - they're both in capsule form - but I'm reacting now like I have reacted before to a drop in medication. Nausea at the end of a more productive day than previously. Also heavy sweating in the usual side-effect spots on the face.
Why try to change even this trivial thing? I've been very very sleepy and it wasn't gong away by itself. Doc had a theory (by no means anything my pharmacist believed) that I might absorb Lovan differently. The evidence would suggest that I absorb the fluox in Lovan better than the fluox in Chemist's Brand and have been getting a higher dose. Too high it would seem.
Hate nausea :-(
