Morning Habits Gone Wrong

[Corona688]

I have two different prescriptions. One of them is mediction for my ADD. The other is a blood-pressure-lowering drug to help me sleep at night. This morning I stumbled over to the kitchen to take my medication as soon as I thought I was coherent because I wanted an early start, but my calibration must have been off by a few millimeters. I remember thinking 'gee, this usually isn't this hard' showing that at least part of me knew what it was doing and was actually rebelling against my cerebellum's mistaken directions, but after a brief battle between me and common sense I won.

I'm now wandering around in a state not unlike an extra from night of the living dead. I'll be recovered before class begins, I really hope. I feel stupid. I feel tired. I can't remember my legs. Anyone else done anything like this?

[livius drusus]

I'm not exactly sure what happened, Corona. Did you take the wrong medication or more than you should? The only time I've forgotten my legs Percocet was involved.

[Corona688]

I'm not exactly sure what happened, Corona. Did you take the wrong medication or more than you should? The only time I've forgotten my legs Percocet was involved. wrong medication. I'm in no danger other than walking into things :p forgotten my legs is a strongbad reference.

[livius drusus]

Phew. Okay then. I can now giggle at your jellylegs without guilt. :giggle: So hey, what do you think would happen if you walked around the house blindfolded whistling Flight of the Bumblebee?

[Corona688]

I'd have more mess to pick up later? I dunno.

[RevDahlia]

Glad to hear you're OK, Corona.

The other day I woke up stupid. Frighteningly stupid. My short-term memory was shot, I found myself staring into the freezer for five minutes before I remembered why I was there, I didn't recognize my dad's voice on the phone and forgot my hubby's cell number, and so on. I freaked out, thinking that years of drug and alcohol abuse had finally caught up with me, or else that I'd had a catastrophic brain injury in the night. So I ran screaming to my acupuncturist/Eastern medicine guy, who also happens to be my next-door neighbor, and he shone a light in my eyes and looked at my tongue and proclaimed that I wasn't brain-damaged, just dehydrated. "A dry brain is a slow brain," he said. I drank a bunch of Pedialyte and smartened up immediately. It was really weird.

[Ex-zombie]

I'm just not a morning person even on the best of days. One morning I woke up with a nasty sinus headache and went to the kitchen to grab a couple of extra strength Tylenol. The bottle was always kept on top of the frig. Grabbed a couple and in my sleepy stupor and pain chucked them down without water. My spouse startled the shit out of me by saying, "What are you doing!?!"

Turns out I had just downed Midol. Damn pills didn't do a thing for my headache.

[Beth]

Midol has ibuprophen in it. It should have helped. For my headaches, ibuprophen usually works better, although I have read that ibuprophen does not work as well on women as it does on men.

[viscousmemories]

I've never heard of taking a blood-pressure lowering drug to help you sleep at night, but I've never had any problem sleeping at night. Is typically how anti-insomnia drugs work?

[Beth]

I've never heard of taking a blood-pressure lowering drug to help you sleep at night, but I've never had any problem sleeping at night. Is typically how anti-insomnia drugs work?THis puzzles me as well; many high blood pressure medications are beta blockers, which help to inhibit sleep. But I'm sure there is a decent reason for it. Doctors often prescribe medications intended for one use to treat something totally different; my zoloft was first prescribed by my neurologist to treat migraine, rather than depression.

[Seven of Nine]

I've never heard of taking a blood-pressure lowering drug to help you sleep at night, but I've never had any problem sleeping at night. Is typically how anti-insomnia drugs work?

No, it isn't. Unless Corona's ADD med raises his blood pressure, I can't account for his being prescribed this for insomnia. It seems like an odd approach to me, vm.
Prescription sleeping meds are all downers, so they all have undesired side effects of one kind or another when taken with any regularity, some not unlike Corona's experience today when (if I understand this correctly?) he lowered his blood pressure too far.

Corona? Are you sure you're okay?

[pescifish]

...Corona's experience today when (if I understand this correctly?) he lowered his blood pressure too far. Low blood pressure could explain the sorts of symptoms he described.

And ditto on the "are you ok?" part. Try not to pass out, drink lots of fluids? Feel better, Corona!

[Corona688]

I've never heard of taking a blood-pressure lowering drug to help you sleep at night, but I've never had any problem sleeping at night. Is typically how anti-insomnia drugs work?

No, it isn't. Unless Corona's ADD med raises his blood pressure, I can't account for his being prescribed this for insomnia. It seems like an odd approach to me, vm. It may seem an odd approach, but it
Works, and works well
Is certainly not unheard of -- I've encountered several other people online who've been prescribed clonidine for insomnia
Has no narcotic or addictive effects whatsoever, since it works by lowering blood pressure rather than screwing with my neurologyIt may be that clonidine is unique, since I haven't heard of other blood pressure drugs being used this way. I don't doubt that it could be dangerous if I had exceeded the the listed dose, but had I done that, I would have called poison control, not joked about it here.Prescription sleeping meds are all downers, so they all have undesired side effects of one kind or another when taken with any regularity, some not unlike Corona's experience today when (if I understand this correctly?) he lowered his blood pressure too far. My adverse side effects were not due to me 'lowering my blood pressure too far', but because I took it by accident at a time when I did not want to fall asleep :DCorona? Are you sure you're okay? Yup, 100% A-OK now, the ordeal is over. Though that nearly became my first instance ever of literally falling asleep in class.