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stephbg ([personal profile] stephbg) wrote2011-02-17 09:53 pm
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Medication thoughts

I 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 :-(

[identity profile] redbraids.livejournal.com 2011-02-17 01:57 pm (UTC)(link)
that sucks!! :( Could it be come different preservative, or something even from the box lining or something?

[identity profile] stephbg.livejournal.com 2011-02-17 02:16 pm (UTC)(link)
That's the theory. I'm a sensitive creature. One day that will be an asset.