Body experience symptoms and conditions

I have been taking Wellbutrin 150 generic bupropion 2x daily for one month. I have been experiencing very noticeable and disconcerting hair loss (a la 'male pattern baldness'). RAPID. I took the shears to my head because I was going crazy at the amount of hair I was losing (that seems to have slowed the process!)

Also, extreme memory loss. I forget the names of friends and family; sometimes myself. I will call people the wrong name by accident. More than a few times, I've stopped mid-sentence in conversation, forgetting what I was talking about. Almost like I've been put on 'pause' for 15 seconds. The crappy thing is that I'm sure that the person can see that I'm struggling.

I am very scared to drive: 35 mph seems like I'm playing a drugged up video death game. There have been episodes where I feel like I've been sleep-driving. Sort of like an out of body experience. Which freaks me out because I manage to make myself aware of the danger in the situation but the body/brain connection seems impaired.

I am/was an avid reader (3-4 books per month) but I have completely lost interest and the couple times that I have tried, I couldn't read half a page before quitting. I read the same sentence over and over without making any connection. The same with my writing. It has become a chore.

Also, extreme impatience at the smallest things which before I would have not been bothered by. Sometimes even seething anger, which is very out of character. Since I've been on Wellbutrin, I can no longer tolerate the "cuteness of children" antics and such. There are no 'minor' annoyances anymore.

I told the doctor of the symptoms I was having, not attributing them to the Wellbutrin (which I now call 'Zombie') and I was completely dismissed. The hair loss and memory problems he attributed to stress, and he wanted to up the dosage to 300mg and prescribe Xanax (which I call 'Mind Eraser' from previous juvenile dalliances).

I don't like ANY medications...Which reminds me...I forgot why I'm even taking it...the doctor suggested I should take it after telling him I felt like crap after a bout of Lyme Disease. I laugh at the completely unnecessary BS I've put myself through for a month!!!

I feel like I have little choice other than to wean myself off. I will most certainly NOT keep my 3.5 GPA this next semester if I continue taking this drug. I am glad I found this site, because the doctor looked at me like I was crazy when describing the symptoms. Now I know what to blame/quit.

***ON A VERY IMPORTANT NOTE, I WAS ABLE TO QUIT A PACK A DAY CIGARETTE HABIT AFTER TWO WEEKS!!! After 10+ YEARS of trying patches, gums, lozenges, and even chewing tobacco (ick) I've been able to go two weeks without smoking. Wellbutrin has made me FORGET about the habit.

Please stay away from this drug if you are not already addicted to it. I have tried unsuccessfully to get off of it many times by "Weaning" into another drug, but the side effects are unbearable. I have memory loss too, but what really gets me is how physically sick I feel if I haven't taken it for 2-3 days. I get nauseous and VERY dizzy, to the point where it makes me sick to even turn my head too quickly. I've had to miss work/school until I had a prescription refill.

I didn't realize the memory loss I have been experiencing may be due to Paxil, but it makes sense. I have forgotten the year on numerous occasions, and cannot recall names of people I used to have no problem recalling. It seems to be getting worse. I am only 27 years old, and my friends don't seem to have these issues...

I am a 23 year old female. I was prescribed Avelox for a sinus infection for 14 days. by the 5th day, i started feeling severe back pain and tingling throughout my entire body. I have stopped taking it on the 7th day. Now..i am restless...twitching...anxious all the time...and feel like i am literally having an out of body experience. My nerves are all over the place. It is hard for me to pay attention at work. This is the worst drug i have ever taken and this should be taken off the market immediately. my lips are numb, my back is in so much pain. WHY IS THIS ON THE MARKET! If this doesn't go away, i will sue...

UGGG!!!! You all have helped clear up my confusion. I had my mirena put in July 2008. I didn't seem to have any adverse effects...at least not anything big enough to question the mirena. I had acne and a little weight gain, and then my knees started hurting. Then over the last month I started getting this stomach!!! It's huge!! I look 6 months pregnant. I also noticed that I was getting a lot of headaches, and extreme mood swings. Then it got harder and harder for me to read the TV from the couch. I was wondering last night if I should go get my eyes checked. I also find myself wondering who has taken over my body. I get all angry and mean!! I can't believe the stuff that comes out of my mouth, and my husband is looking at me like I've lost my mind. I feel thirsty all the time, and I have dry skin and chapped lips a lot. I've also experienced constipation, chest pain, pain in my right breast, extreme abdominal pain, like when you ovulate. After I got it in I bled for a month straight and I haven't bled since...not one period. I thought it was a perk, but now I feel so strange. It's like an out of body experience. I also struggle to find energy for anything, I'm tired all the time. I feel like I'm falling apart. I had to pay for the mirena out of pocket because it was the beginning of the fiscal year for our insurance, and so I(because of the expense) decided I should leave it in. I appreciate your comments, no amount of money is worth what I'm experiencing!

So I have only been on the NuvaRing for about 3 weeks and just took it out. I feel SO down but I didn't feel down till about a week ago. Would the depression hit that fast? I keep getting in fights with my boyfriend and I'm feeling like we aren't going to last even though before this we've never had any real issues and I was positive he was the one I would marry. Now I feel like I'm doubting us but I have no reason at all to doubt us, nothing has happened except I started using the NR. I keep denying that it's the ring but the more I look back on it I feel like it could be since only a few days after I started using it I felt very irritable. I guess it's time to switch again? I don't like feeling like this and I don't want birth control of all things to be the reason our relationship fails. I feel so down and depressed but it isn't constantly, it just comes on randomly and stays till I go to sleep pretty much. Has this happened to anyone? Do you think that the effects would happen that soon after starting the NR? Any help would be great! Thanks!

I posted about two months ago after having my Mirena inserted (after years and years of being on the pill successfully but wanting something without a user-error aspect). Although the insertion was the most painful and out-of-body experience of my life (which I recovered from after a few hours), I now love the Mirena. I have had it for 2 months, and the only side effect I have is irregular spotting/periods (no acne, hair loss, headaches, mood swings, weight gain, nothing). I can tell that this IUD does not work for a lot of women, but I just wanted to post this so women contemplating it could see that it does work for some people. I recommend it.

FINALLY I FEEL LIKE I AM NOT INSANE!!!!!!!!!
I am 27 years and had my Mirena inserted 2 months after my son was born. It has been over a year and I feel so crappy at times I don't know how i get through the day. I have been feeling apprehensive about removing it and thought maybe all of these symptoms have nothing to do with Mirena. I feel dizzy at times like I am drunk, mood swings, my hair is thinning out, i look like I am 9mon pregnant especially when i am PMSing, and have gained weight around the middle section, I don't feel attractive anymore, i don't feel good wearing clothes I once looked good in and always have to wear girdles which do not always work. I have always had acne but now it is ten times worst. I was a very sexual person but now it sucks. It hurts sometimes and I am very dry down there and that is not like me. I have leg cramps every now and then. I am gassy constantly and bloated, which I thought was because of my acid reflux (which existed before mirena). My breast hurt and gets swollen, sometimes one even looks bigger than the next. I just basically feel like I am having an out of body experience and not in a good way. My boyfriend has been nagging me to remove it if I feel so bad, but I am sacred that if I do and the symptoms still persist then what. I have spoken to my gyn so many times about this and he keeps insisting it is not the mirena. He has recently sent me for some lab work related to my breast pain and prescribed some medication to dry out my breast milk, but I have decided against it. Now after reading this site, I definitely am not going to waste money doing this, I am just going to be adamant about it and go get it removed. To think I am a nurse I should know better but I guess I am a woman first. I AM HAPPY I DO NOT FEEL ALONE ANYMORE. CAN ANYONE OUT THERE WHO HAS THIS REMOVED AFTER ALL THOSE SYMPTOMS TELL ME HOW THINGS HAS CHANGED FOR YOU. PLEASE SEND ME A PRIVATE MESSAGE.

SINCERELY,
WANNA GET RID OF MIRENA IN THE VI

0This is a followup to an email I sent on July 22nd about my mirena experiences. see samsmom on on July 22 for original email.)

I AM SO HAPPY!!!!!

I got in early with my ob/gyn, she had a cancellation!! WOO WOO!!

That was on Monday, July 28th. I cannot tell you how good it felt to get out. No really, when they pulled it out it cramped for a second, but it felt like my body breathed after that. You know what it feels like when you get a kernel of popcorn out off your teeth and how relieved your gums feel after you finally get it out. Well that was the feeling!!

My hand to GOD--by Tuesday, the fogginess I was feeling in my head was gone. I sneezed all night long Monday night and my nose ran like the dickens, but I think that the sinusitis I started to get (never had it before mirena) was actually draining itself out of my head. NO longer did my face feel like there were rocks in it, no longer did I feel like I was walking around in an out of body experience type state. I even felt less mean and moody. These were my instant results.

I am looking forward to weight loss again, this is the biggest I have ever been (excpet pregnancy 143), I am now 130. But I am not as VORACIOUSLY hungry anymore--and the sweets craving is gone.

I forgot to post this, but I also noticed when mirena was in that I was getting facial hair on my chin (like a guy). Not like a beard, but a few stray whiskers here and there that seemed to grow back like weeds. Unfortunately I cannot say that getting rid of mirena stopped the whiskers, because I got them lasered---but that was how bad it was. A lot of unusual hair pattern growth issues in women are linked to hormones. Also what I find interesting is how can the progestine time release in mirena be a one-size-fit-all for women. I mean you have women who are 6 feet and 150 lbs and 4.5 feet women who weigh 90. Does that mean there bodies are equipped to handle the same dosage? HMMMMMM Questions I should have asked.

I hope you consider getting yours removed. I hope that you see results like mine. I feel more in tuned to life, my son and my husband. More energy, less anxious and stressful, the night time nausea and dizziness is totally gone!

Take care!

I took this medication as a malarial prevention whilst traveling through India.
Never EVER again. My boyfriend had suffered from depression in the past and we had heard bad things about Larium in relation to anxiety and insomnia so we specifically asked our doctor for the malarial tablets with the least amount of side effects associated with that kind of stuff. He reassured us that there was no record of Doxcycline ever having caused those sorts of effects.
So off we went- we followed the instructions exactly and began our trip.
A week or so into India I began to notice shortness of breath and stomach pain- I put it down to typical India travelers upset and thought no more about it. A bit later I began to suffer moments of anxiety that were really out of character ( I've never suffered from anxiety or depression). I'm very well traveled ( I work in the travel industry and have traveled extensively in the Americas, Africa, Australasia and se Asia) and so although this was my first trip to India- i knew my anxiety had nothing to do with India itself. ( people kept telling me this but I loved India)
It came to a head on a overnight bus from Goa to Hampi- I was feeling really anxious, sweating and clammy, I couldn't sleep and my breathing was really tight. Eventually I had a full blown panic attack that was almost like a out of body experience- I couldn't see and I couldn't breath. The whole bus had to stop ( embarrassing!) at 3am in the morning. Eventually I managed to get back on and make it to the next town ( although not as far as Hampi) so we could take stock.
I was petrified and had no idea whatsoever what was going on. It never occurred to me it could be the malaria tablets as we had been so clear and our doctor so confident they didn't have these kinds of side effects.
I was worried about being on buses, trains even planes again since I didn't know what caused the attacks and I was terrified another one would happen. I had no valium or any other sort of thing that might have helped. In the end we had to cut our trip short and make it back to Mumbai - In Mumbai I suffered from another two panic attacks- one where I could see the walls closing in in our cheap hotel room. Shortness of breath, tightness all through my body, hysteria, blurry vision - it was awful! And also this ongoing pain and upset in my stomach.
I ended up cutting short a RTW trip that my boyfriend and I had been saving for for over a year and coming home to Australia 2 months early.
It was devastating and I still had no idea what was causing it. Finally a friend said her doctor had mentioned sleeplessness and anxiety as a rare side effect of this drug when she was taking it for some problems to do with vaginal bleeding and spotting. I started searching on the internet and was amazed to find loads of sights with people experiencing heaps of the side effects that I'd been told were never a problem with this drug!
Obviously Malaria is really serious but if I had been properly informed I could have made the decision to come off the drugs and look at alternate medication. For now - Im taking the risk of no malaria tablets at all for my next couple of trips (to Borneo- so not a major risk anyway) and will actually research much harder before taking anything again!

With IV administration of Vasodilan, I had a near death experience. A code blue was called when I was given the drug to stop my pre-term labor (at 30 weeks gestation). The IV drug actually made me 'die' - I distinctly remember my consciousness leaving my body, and when revived by the code blue team at the hospital, I was 'slammed' back into my body. My guess is that I went into cardiac arrest: I remember hearing my last reading of my blood pressure being 60/40 when I had the out of body experience.

I began taking this drug in May 2007. It lowered my BP immediately and both my Doctor and I thought it would work out. In the beginning it had few side effects that I could notice (maybe a bit more difficult to get out of bed in the morning) but I figured that came with the territory.

As the summer progressed I noticed that my skin around my Belly and Forehead were very hot to the touch, like on fire. Yet I had not fever at all. I had night sweats on and off but not consistent. 4 weeks ago I thought I came down with a bug because I was extremely fatigued and as tired as I've been in my entire life. That feeling would not go away. Then came the dizziness and hot flashes. At one point I fell to the floor to keep from passing out. I have never felt so sick, yet my temperature is normal, I have an appetite, and I can sleep at night. The other symptoms I notice are a general felling of fuzziness like I am not really taking everything in at normal speed and my eyes seem dry/buggy. It is hard to look at someone or focus on something for more than a few seconds.

I quit taking this med one week ago, and am not feeling as tired and the dizziness is gone. But the vision problem is still here and it is bugging me. How long does it take for this to wear off??

Thanks and good luck to all of you.

This thread is astonishing.
I have been complaining to MY doctors for months about ALL these symptoms and they told me it was NOT Lipitor.
In fact when I suggested that they fill out a side effect report I was told , " There is no point doing that as no one else has reported those effects.!"
I am constantly enduring what I can best describe as , 'an out of body experience'.
My wife found this forum and I am VERY glad she did. I will be giving a printout to each of my doctors.
So the drugs are ZILCHED pronto and I am going to try Chocolate and fizzy drinks instead instead.......after all I took those for over 50 years with only a fat belly as any side effect.

Hi ladies! I am in complete shock at what I am reading on this site! I thought I was going crazy but now I know I wasn't and I am not alone!!! I was on Yaz for two months and in the first month, I noticed that my libido went from moderate (sex 3-5x a week) to completely non-existent- like a light switch. Then at the end of my second pack, which was this past week, I experienced breast tenderness, non-stop headaches (bordering on migraines) and my abdomen was extremely bloated. Also, throughout this past month, I have noticed my joints have been achy and my muscles have been sore. I have been weak and tired all the time on top of feeling anxious and restless. These premenstrual symtoms are completely uncommon for me to have. This past month in particluar has been oddly confusing and almost like an out of body experience. Now, in retrospect and after reading about others' experiences with Yaz, I am convinced that all those symptoms were/are side effects of Yaz. I hope this posting is helpful to some, in the same sense that other postings were helpful to me. Good Luck!
Kara

okay, so today was the first day i started my topamax, within 1 hour my face and arms and hands started to severly tingle, not fun, its very bothersome, i feel like i had some very bad botox, LOL. I'm not sure if i'm gonna increase from 100 to 200 mg, i'll see what happens within a week.

I took lisinopril and immediately felt a overwhelming sense of panic and doom. I fought to maintain conciousness inasmuch as this is a side effect-- that of fainting-- that can go away during treatment. Then I felt a sense of heaviness in my chest and felt very tired and fatiqued. I didn't feel like I was in my body for awhile. I was having an out of body experience . I didn't take the drug again.