Groggy symptoms and conditions

I think this works best for me of all the others I've tried. Most longer acting sleep aids, make groggy or I can't get out of bed...Sonata has a very short acting period of 4 hours. So if I toss and turn for hours I can still get up and take it because I have enough time. It's definitely saved me from a lot of sleep deprived misery and I am thankful for that. I did experience some memory loss problems, usually because I didn't go straight to bed and lay down. This pill hit me in 5 minutes once....unbelievable. I've never been ab le to fall asleep in under an hour.

After exactly 2 hours of ingesting the Avelox 400mg. pill, I suddenly felt a sensation of vertigo as I was standing in my kitchen talking with my young daughter. This was followed by extreme dizziness. I had to lie down for the next hour and a half as I had no balance. I felt slight nausea as well. I spoke to the pharmacist on the phone and she said these symptoms were fairly common (2-5%) and I should try to continue taking the drug the next day, "if I could stomach it." It was very hard speaking to her as I was also experiencing severe confusion; it was hard to form my thoughts and to string them together into a sentence. I went to bed feeling groggy but slept okay for most of the night; only slight insomnia in the early morning hours. The next day, I felt physically and mentally disoriented; I was incapable of driving my daughter to school and my mind felt completely "zonked out of it" -- "stupid" -- like my mind was almost a blank. It's a shame because my sinuses and bronchitis felt a bit clearer already -- but I simply could not go through that experience again -- I have a life to lead and can not spend 9 more days incapacitated, lying on a couch and incapable of looking after my 4 year old daughter. I usually take medicines just fine and am not prone to side effects, so this experience took me totally by surprise.

I took this yesterday after suffering with asthma problems off and on the past couple of months. After two trips to the doctor, the final consensus was that I had a sinus infection, and that the continuous dripping into my chest was causing the chest congestion.
Anyway, within one hour of taking avelox, I had a full-blown anxiety attack ....I was dizzy, lightheaded, my head felt like it would explode, had diarrhea, couldn't breathe, and thought I was dying. I almost called 911. After about 4 hours of this I took half of a 1 mg lorazepam pill to calm down. I continue to feel completely unwell all evening, shaking and anxious. I finally took a hot bath, and a full lorazepam, which allowed me to sleep. I am telling you that the whole afternoon and evening was a harrowing experience. I am also wondering if the side effects were exacerbated by the Astiliin (nasal spray) I took, since this morning that drug made me feel extremely groggy and tight in the chest.
I will NEVER take this drug again,and now I am so afraid that I am scared to take the zithromax the doctor prescribed in place of Avonex, even though I have used zithromax in the past with no side effects.
At this point, I am ready to consult a naturopath or acupuncturist to help with my condition - most of these new-fangled drugs seem to cause more problems than they "cure".

lots of posts on headaches and muscle spasms, saw some reports of stomach issues, my question is, "Has anyone experienced if you stop taking the pill or miss a day, you feel as if someone gave you a benedryl or tylenol pm. Severely groggy, almost drunk like, severe exhaustion for about 2 or 3 days any idea why its so intense?"

Hey everyone,
I stopped taking the pill now and have been off it for about 2 1/2 weeks (I was on it for about 2 1/2 months). I did try to stick it out like my MD suggested but I couldn't the weight gain was probably the worst. I wasn't even really eating, but gained about 5 pounds (or more) but the worse part was that it was all in my tummy and breasts (the breasts I didn't mind so much). It really looked as if I was pregnant (which luckily I knew I wasn't). Nothing was fitting my tummy. Well, anyway, I already posted about all of that. I am posting now to say that since I have been off the pill, things are getting back to normal. My weight is going back down, although I still have 3lbs or so to loose. But even though I still have some weight, my tummy is shrinking back to normal size. My breakouts have stopped; I am still dealing with what I got from the pill but no new breakouts. And the moodyness/ sadness has seemd to have diminished. I actually have not started any other pill yet. THis is the first time in about 14 years I have not been on any pill! I didn't want to go back to something right away in fear I would have more side effects. So I wanted to let you all know that the symptoms do go away after you stop (at least for me). And since I have not started another pill and have not changed anything except going off the pill, I can pretty certainly say the side effects were from the pill (agian for me at least). Just wanted to make you all aware. I am feeling SOOOO much better since being off the pill. This is the first time I have ever had major issues like this with a pill. I hope people who are trying the BC pill for the first time (any pill that is) and have side effects do not get turned off on the pill in general. I think you just have to find the right one for you. I am glad to see that some people also also writing that they are having good experiences with this pill too, so that people know it really depends on the person. I hope everyone who is having problems get better soon! I am glad this website is here for everyone to share!

My nurse said I had 172 systolic and then the next day that I had 151 BP.
So she put me on this lisinopril.I started with 20mg but after feeling groggy in the mornings was put on 10mg. Two weeks later for a follow up a nurse found I had 134 BP. The doctor concluded that the medication was working. He said people have been taking that for over 10 years without problems and that it was better than Beta blockers. Supposedly this was good to prevent future problems.
Well I still was feeling groggy in the mornings and when I tested my pressure with 3 different home testing kits my BP was around 90 - 110.
I stopped taking Lisinopril but continued to feel withdrawal symptoms the next day. Funny head feelings and not feeling good.
Now I am feeling more normal again. I bought an electronic stethoscope to test my BP myself. There is something fishy about that junk and when you find out Lisinopril was derived from a poisonous snake venom you just have to wonder! I am just saying that for my experience I don't like it and I can control my pressure with better vegetarian diets. My BP went up about 20 points after eating at McDonalds!

Further to my previous post, I'm finding it difficult waking in the mornings, really groggy with puffy eyes when i get up and I'm experiencing a burning sensation in my feet when I'm in bed - like they're right next to a hot flames. It's truely bizarre.

I was prescribed Doxycycline to treat PID - Pelvic Inflammatory Disease - 100mg once daily.

After 5 days, my symptoms were not impoving. I had been bleeding and cramping for 11 days, so I phoned my Doctor back with my complaints and he prescribed an additional antibiotoc - Amoxyllin.

The Doxycycline side effects I've noticed are weird.

First side effect was a tingling in my lower lip, like a fizzy feeling. This wasn't unpleasant, just very strange.
I have also been feeling groggy and lethargic, and am feeling depressed. I'm really teary, my mood is low and have little energy.

My throat feels like it's a bit blocked also.

I have another week to go until I'm finished them, I know I must complete the course, and I'm counting down the days.

Doxycycline is not my friend. :(

Wow... I thought I was just having another of those "I've never heard of someone responding to it that way" reactions to Singulair. I've always had strange reactions to drugs that others find tolerable. I recently started taking Singulair in addition to Allegra-D for chronic allergies and sinusitis. I feel groggy for the first few hours of the day and when I finally snap out of it I feel like biting someone's head off, very intolerant and aggressive. I've tried to take the Singulair twice for about 4 or 5 days each time and reacted the same way. I stopped it because I figured I'd get in trouble by eventually losing my temper with a student. There's some consolation in seeing that others have similar complaints. Aren't there any psychological studies being conducted?

I have been on lithium carbonate for 5 monthes. My hair has just started falling out a few weeks ago and I am not happy about this! I am also about 25 pounds overweight. I am very groggy in the morning- I take my pill at night. I am actually quite tired alot of the time, and thirsty but that isn't too bad, I drink alot of water. I went on lithium for bipolar disorder. I don't feel a change with my usual moods due to life, stress etc, but I am not manic.

I had taken one chewable tablet, within two minutes I became
violently sick and continued to feel very strange.
The next day I still feel groggy and a little ill.
I suspect such a prompt reaction is extremely rare and was unexpected.
I would not use it again.

I used to take Lamictal 150mg at night, no problems, but started feeling anxious in the afternoon/evening. My Dr. Rx'd 300mg lithium at night to see if it would help the anxiety, but I had very fitfil, unrestful sleep to the point where I was not sleeping much and very tired all day. So, the Dr. took me off lithium and substituted Tripletal 300mg in the evening. That worked, but I was still a little depressed & she increased my Lamictal to 200 mg at night. I started waking up after about 4 hours with horrible nightmares. I thought the nightmares were from Trileptal because that was a new med, but even after I discontinued it, I still get the nightmares/panic feeling that wakes me at night. I took 2mg Lunesta for a while to help me sleep, but then I slept too much 10-12 hrs. I take the Lamictal now in the morning & don't get those nightmares & I sleep fine now, but I feel anxious & dizzy and have trouble concentrating, again about 2-4 hours after I take it in the morning. Dr. says I can take ativan to help the anxiety, but I feel like I need to get off Lamictal and try something else. Maybe lithium will help if try to take it now witout the Lamictal.

I have only been on the nuva ring for a week now but ever since the second day i had it in i have been feeling groggy like i don't want to do anything but sleep, i've been getting cramps, headaches, backaches, nasua and dry heaving like i've never expirenced. the pill made me have irregular periods, the shot i was scared of because i never had any period at all, so i thought the ring would be the best solution. do you think this has anything to with with my sensitivity to medicine dosages or the sore throat i seemed to get out of nowhere?

I just started taking it, i was wondering if i can still safely take vicodin for back pain? The info is unclear on what you could take with it or not.

I started taking Mobic 7.5 mg about a year ago like everyone else I'm having some of the same side effects. Skin rash on arms, knee pain that wasn't there, tired and groggy, insomia, and forgetful at times. I have had severe back pain for over two years. Diagnosis, osteoarthritis, osteporosis, degenrative disk disease. They can't even tell me for sure what is causing my pain. Insurance companies like to keep us sick and in pain. Want to do water exercises but there are not many facilities out there.

I began taking Toprol XL 50 mg about one week ago. Since taking it I am tired all the time, my vision seems kind of cloudy and I an constantly groggy. I have also begun having nose bleeds for about the past three days. Has anyone else experienced this? I hate to stop it only after one week, but I may need to try something else.

My dermatologist put me on Doxycycline for an acne problem. By the first or second day of taking the medication I was overwhelmed with nausea and experienced blurred vision that affected me so much I actually had to pull over when driving (around day three) until I regained my vision. The only way I could dull the nausea was by eating a moderately large meal before taking a pill, but it would still take about an hour to an hour and a half for the feeling to pass. I also had trouble breathing and swallowing for the first few days, and a persistent loss of appetite during the entire period I was on the pills. During the time I was taking Doxycycline, I also experienced a groggy, confused feeling that is uncharacteristic of me. I had trouble focusing, which caused me a great deal of stress at work and in school, and couldn't think clearly at all. I also experienced tingling sensations and my skin burned/itched after hardly 15-20 minutes in the sun. After returning inside the redness gradually went away but tingling in my hands (especially my knuckles and fingers) and lips was persistent. Also, after being off of the pills for a few days I experienced extreme irritability and depression. In my opinion, this pill should NOT be prescribed lightly!!! Be warned!

No one has mentioned very vivid dream at night? I also have the fatigue, and wake up groggy even after 10 hours of sleep, but the dreams...weird.
Anyone else have this?

When I took it, it was because I was only able to naturally sleep 1h per night, and after a month of this I was fairly suicidal. It did knock me out, hard, and it kept doing so every night I took it. I slept at least 10h a night and was groggy most of the time. It did decrese my anxiety and my chronic pain though and got me to sleep at night, so all that was good. Plus I do tend to not eat enough, so this increased my appetite, and I agree it increased cravings for sweets, but I needed it since I was working out 5 days a week. Now that I am off it, my shoulder hurts to much to work out at all anymore, and I still have trouble sleeping, but my depression is under control so I'd rather not take it just to sleep better. I will have to find some other way to control chronic pain so I can get back to the gym.

I have recently been prescribed this medication for severe migrain headaches. 25mg per night. I am concerned about taking this medication because it is an anti-depressent. I'm afraid of it affecting my personality. Has anybody noticed this? I tried to start it at night about a week ago, and didn't take another because I was so groggy and tired all day the next day. Does this side effect subside over time?

Originally diagnosed with PMR and was taking prednisone in high doses for 2 years with ok results, except that as I lowered the mg of prednisone the PMR symptoms returned. New doctor diagnosed RA instead and put me on Remicade. After 4 infusions I am having severe muscle pain in my upper right leg. And on occasion the beginning of the same problem in my upper left leg. Affectsmy mobility and I am taking large doses of tylinol & motrin for the pain. Doctor says this is not a side effect of the Remicade. At first I believed him, but now am having doubts. Anyone else have this side effect?

For the nine years I took Lipitor, I awoke every morning feeling groggy/foggy. It took about five hours after waking to feel as if I were really awake and alert. I went through two sleep studies to find out that I was "fine". I wasn't! Finally, just before going to the sleep clinic one more time, I realized that the only thing I hadn't tried was going off the Lipitor. Two days after stopping it I awoke actually feeling alert! The doctor tried me on three other statins and I had the same problem. "Drugged feeling" does not seem to be among the lists of side effects for any of the statins. They mention "sleep problems". I didn't have a sleep problem, I had a waking up problem!

I am on my 7th day of 500mg/once a day clarithromycin, prescribed to me for a sinus infection. On the third day, I read all of the below comments and had a mild panic attack fueled by paranoia. Once I came back to reality, and in touch with my body, I realized which, in fact, of the common side effects I have been experiencing. The most notable is sleeplessnes. I have been having very intense dreams which have been waking me up every 30 to 45 minutes; upon waking my mind is charged and rearing to go. This side effect was attended to by a prescription of Ambien, made to me for this specific incidence. The Ambien has helped, I am now getting a solid 5 hours of sleep, still intense dreams, but sleep. For someone who typically requires 8 -10 hours a night, I find this 5 hour deal amusing. I don't feel particularly tired as a result, although I admit it has only been a week - it could catch up with me. This brings me to the other most obvious side effect, which I can only describe as mania - ready to go go go, constantly up, alert, ambitious (for what, I am not sure). Again, for a groggy girl like me these are actually welcome side effects! Other than that, I am experiencing a small amount of gas, and a slight spacieness (lack of sleep? or just an effect?). For these I have found lots of yougurt, fresh foods, and fluids, all in small servings and at regular intervals, ie: every 1 1/2 - 2 hours, to be allievating. My infection seems to have cleared up, I have a small amount of clear drainage in the morning, no more facial tenderness, headaches, and obviously my sense of fatigue is gone. All in all, I must say I would take this antibiotic again, which is not how I usually feel after most antibiotics I have, as an adult, taken.

very light headed and woozy. Groggy and tired, this is day two of a 5 day supply to clear up a UTI

It took doctors and nurses approximately 7 hours to get me to come out of the effects of Anectine. When I first came to realize I was aware of my surroundings, I was completely paralyzed and was on a respirator. While I laid in recovery after I became aware of my surroundings, a nurse would yell my name and rub my shoulders extremely hard to make me feel pain so I would come out of the effects. Once I did, I gagged on the respirator and it was removed, however, I was groggy for several days and stayed in the hospital. By the way, I was in the hospital for a 15-20 minute surgery to have my throat scrapped (tonsils grew tags or were not removed completely at age 8). I was 18 years old at the time. Talk about a raw throat with a respirator being pulled out of it. I didn't eat anything for 3 weeks. My children are not allowed to have Anectine either, because there is no test that can be performed to see if they would have the same reaction as I. It is not an allergic reaction, but one that is brought on by one gene from my mother and one from my father that caused me to react as I did. I was told if I was to be under an anesthetic longer than 20 minutes and Anectine were used, I would die.