October 8th
2006
7:06 AM
I went to the doctor Friday night worried that I had pink eye. He says "No, your eyes are fine, nothing wrong there, but your cough sounds awful." so he listens to my lungs and says I have bronchitis. Yeah, I had a sinus infection a couple of weeks ago and the cough never went away. So I say, ok, what can you do? I have no insurance, the place I currently work at is cheap. He brings me 5 sample packets of Levaquin, 750 mg. Says to me "These are really good. Take one a day for the next five days. They should do the job, they are $25 a pill." I think, wow, that's some expensive medicine.
ANyway, I come home and take a pill around 8. I have a second job that I work on evenings and weekends, so I have to get up in the morning to go. I can't sleep like usual. I wake up every hour or two. First I am sweating, I get up and turn the heat down. Second time I wake up with tears running down my face, I'd been having a nightmare about one of the kids I watch dying od SIDS (How twisted is that?) Then I just keep waking up.... I go to work yesterday morning and after about 2 hours I start to get real light-headed and nauseous and my ears were burning like someone had embarrassed me to the extreme. I came home after being at work 4 hours. I felt sick to my stomach all day but thought it was because I hadn't eaten. WHen I finally ate, I couldn't stop eating. Then I did, and 2 hours later I was feeling sick again.
Not thinking anything about it being the drug, I took another one last night at 6:30. When I finally went to bed at midnight, the nightmares started all over again. I wake up crying, my body wracked with sobs, tears rolling down my face.
I don't want to keep taking this medicine if it is causing all of this but I don't have the money to go back to the doctor for something else, and I can't afford to still have bronchitis. What am I to do?
October 31th
2005
12:04 PM
Have been on Ambien for 4 nights. On the fifth night, I decided not to take it. That night, I had three very vivid, detailed nightmares that continued for 3 more nights. The nightmares affect my mood the following mornings and I have begun to feel very depressed. On one particular nightmare, I know I am asleep but can't wake up. When I finally got myself to wake up, my whole body was tensed up so badly that everything ached that morning and I felt completely wasted. Last night, I stayed up until 4am afraid to sleep and experience more nightmares. I don't know what I am going to do tonight.
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January 17th
2005
9:49 PM
I've been on Wellbutrin for about five days and have experienced a flu-like haze, headaches, upset stomach, and at the time of this writing (it's 3am), severe insomnia. Worst of all are the dreams and waking feelings of fear I am currently experiencing. I feel like a frightened child in the dark, almost like a panic attack at times. These thoughts and fears are completely unjustified and irrational. I am not using any other drugs in my life now, including alcohol. Worst feelings of fear I've ever felt; like having a nightmare but you're awake.
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June 26th
2007
12:31 PM
im not a member of this website but here's my story. I am 23, healthy, and in good shape. Never really had anything serious. I came down with a sinus infection almost 2 weeks ago and was prescribed amoxicillin, which i immediately had a reaction to. broke out in a rash.. I was then prescribed Zithromax and Prednisone. I was taking prednisone and felt weird then looked up the side effects and decided not to take it. After my Z-max, I was not feeling any better and returned to the doctor yesterday. He prescribed Levaquin and Duramax. I decided to check the side effects BEFORE beginning taking the medicine. I went to medicinenet.com, and no serious side effects were listed. I took the levaquin on an empty stomach, and about an hour later, my mood shifted from Happy/Playful to Zombie-like and confused. I wanted to cry but I wasn't sad about anything. I couldn't sleep that night, and woke up after having a nightmare. I came to work today and researched it and found multiple websites of people complaining about this medicine! What is going on!?
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