Paranoia symptoms and conditions

I am shocked!! Over the last year I have experienced significant hair loss, mood swings, dizziness, cardiac issues (ended up in an ambulance for a suspected heart attack at age 37) can not go one day without Protonix, if I do I wake up in the middle of the night with horrible reflux and choking sensation. For the last 2 years I have had numerous allergic reactions resulting in shots of steriods and pred-packs..they can not find the cause (mostly when I get hot or flushed and every time I go on vacation). I never thought it could be my BCP. I have taken Yasmin, Yaz and now Ocella for about 2 years. My MD switched me from Yasmin to Yaz....b/c of HA's a year ago, I had a heavy period for 36 days, started back on Yasmin and my MD wanted me to take them continuous to skip my periods b/c of fibroids. My hair started falling out, my skin is dry with dry patches all over my legs and then my hair started falling out..thats when everyone told me I was crazy. I have a cramp in my right side all the time, I suspect from my gallbladder. I am a nurse and really thought of all of the worse things that could cause these symptoms, Thyroid, Cancer, Heart Disease, OCD, Paranoia. I think I will be stopping my Ocella(generic for Yasmin) tonight. I have been on BCP for 13 years straight, I'm scared that my periods will never be normal again? Anyone have any issues once off Yasmin??

WOW! I have NEVER had a ride quite like this trip. LSD and shrooms ain't got nothin' on these awful little buggers! At least when you ingest a hallucinogen intentionally, you are, or should be, somewhat mentally and physically prepared for the ensuing consequences. I really wasn't down with wigging out on antibiotics while sick as hell. I have mild anxiety occasionally, so I picked up on what was happening physically pretty quick. Until I did tho, I was a bit freaked out. Thought I'd write this for those of you who haven't had any experience with the physical/mental "symptoms" that can occur with this drug. Strange thoughts, detachment from physicality and reality, paranoia, anxiety...all of which can/will trigger actual physical side effects like rapid heartbeat, rising blood pressure, headache/migraine, vision distortion, ringing ears, extreme nausea/stomach ache, insomnia, night terrors/strange dreams, etc. Just keep these things in mind...it's not your imagination. It is the drug. It WILL pass, but it may take awhile. Just ride it out and don't let it get you. You'll be okay, but for me it took about 15 hours after only 3 days of dosing. I feel lucky that I'm so intune with my mind/body. It was a bit scary, but it's just knowing the possible side effects are real and not in your head that will make the biggest difference. This doesn't happen to everyone, and I certainly never thought it would happen to me, but I would rather be deathly I'll than deal with that mind screw and physical pain. Ugh. Terrible drug. I never take conventional meds, and this is why. May the force be with you!

I have posted before and have been on the mirena going on three years. My symptoms started about April of this year; severe anxiety with all the symptoms: chills, panic attacks, even in my sleep, insomnia, depression, numbness and tingling in my hands and feet, shortness of breath, chest pain, the works... My doctor put me on celexa and my psychiatrist put me on klonopin to sleep. Note: I had never needed these types of medication or any kind of mental specialist ever, in my life. I have one daughter she is 2 and a half, and a very happy home.
My anxiety has gotten so much better since I have been on the meds. but the paranoia kept me from taking them for at least a month.
I can't say the mirena caused it but my doctor says that it is possible. A hormonal imbalance can be caused by your bc, The longer you take it the greater the risk.(for some women)
I have horrible mood swings still... and my sex drive is ok, but not what is used to be, but she did warn me of this before-hand. The acne and weight are my biggest problems now. I cannot stop eating, and I am not depressed, just so very very hungry even an hour after a big meal. My doctor said this is because of the hormones. Your body thinks its pregnant and will react as such, so as we all know; all of our bodies react differently to a pregnancy, morning sickness, swelling, sex drive, these things are all different for different women. It has not been a picnic for me and for others I know that it may be an ideal bc. I will have mine removed this coming week and will update if I see a change.
Thanks for reading.
emg1223

hair loss, neuropathy in my right leg, complete exhaustion, numbness and tingling, stabbing pain in my back that wraps around my chest, headaches, depression, paranoia, stomach pains, chest pains, tremors in my head, pain down my neck, pain in toes, blurred vision, tearing pains in feet, very weak, moody, pain in face, really bad symptoms week prior to period, cracking sound in joints, -- Have had symptoms for three years and just had a neurologist confirm today that all of these problems have been caused by my doctor prescribing avelox and prednisone!

Was prescribed avelox for bronchitis. Took it for the full ten days. began having diarrhea. It has been 5 weeks since i stopped taking the medication and have continued to have diarrhea, cramping, abdominal pain. The diarrhea is a loose stool. Have had stool tests done and do not have a secondary infection from this.

I noticed that for the past couple months my sex drive has all but disappeared, and I have been having a lot of trouble sleeping. I was thinking it could have been Yasmin, but never got around to checking up on the side effects as my doctor said it was stress from work. After reading these blogs I now realize that so many of the symptoms you guys are experiencing I have also experienced. The back pain, cramps for no reason, tiredness, bad dreams, paranoia........, it's all there. The most recent is the hair loss which I have never ever experienced before. Yesterday was the last day I took Yasmin.

I have had the Mirena for about 3 years now, I first started having noticeable symptoms about 6 months ago. I started having panic attacks out of left field. I am a very happy person, with a good life so I could not understand what was going on with me. I thought I was going crazy. My daughter had to go with my mother for about 2 weeks as I didn't want her to see me the way I was: having panic attacks, paranoia, depression, crying fits. I was put on celexa to help these problems. It worked for the panic attacks, but I'm still moody and can only sleep if I take a 2.0mg of klonopin. I have never had these problems before. I cannot say it was the mirena, but I doubt I have any other reason for it. I recently started getting really bad cystic acne on my face, chest, back, and even on my scalp. I have gained about 25 pounds and cannot get it off for the world. I only have one daughter and a lot of help from my husband and my mother, so I can't understand the feelings of fatigue that plague me. I have a horrible year. Just the anxiety and panic attacks alone have changed me completely. I thought I was abnormal and sometimes just wanted to die. I do feel better, but as I read, I wonder if taking it out will help with the weight, acne and fatigue as my other problems seem to have just vanished after only 2 weeks on celxa, which I thought strange but was thankful nonetheless. I spoke with my doctor today about removal and she gave me a rx for the acne and said we should think about it.... I think I'm all thought out.....

After my kidney transplant I was taking 40mg a day and only weighed slightly over 100lbs. I felt all of the same side effects: trembling, sweating, bloated tummy, paranoia, confusion, horrible acne, insatiable hunger, bad headaches. I started taking the pill and this helped a lot with acne and hair growth that started to appear. Ask your doctor if you can taper down to a more manageable dose. I'm still on prednisone and probably will be for the rest of my life, but I was firm with my doc and got it down to 7.5mg MWF. This level is much easier to deal with, and although I still have a slight "moose hump" (some kind of name) and disappearing eyebrows, my hair loss has evened out and I'm happy with what I have. Like many of you I used to have really thick hair. Things will get better, you just have to be persistent. No one should live that way, it's horrible and I don't think that doctors understand the drastic drop in quality of life that occurs.

My good friend is on Topamax and Trileptal for epilepsy seizures. She has developed severe paranoia. We cant call her on her phone or send her an email as she believes that her phone, computer and house are all "bugged". I have written a letter to her doctor to let him know what is occurring in her personal life as Im sure that he is unaware of her behavior. She lives in a world of fear and her medication needs to be changed.

Well I've been on Yasmin for about 8 months, was on Tri-cyclen (Give me really bad IBS and I had massive stomach aches every morning), The Patch (I was on the patch for about a year to 2 years and I stopped because I got my period and it didn't stop for 2 months) and Alesse (I had a little bit of depression).
So, I'm 21 now and Have been taking birth control since I was 15, I got my period when I was 12 and it was always regular so I just took birth control not to have kids.

So, the major symptom I've been having is depression (anxiety), I feel like I'm bi-bolar. I feel lonely all the time when I shouldn’t be because I’m not alone. Yesterday I had a horrible fight with my b/f for no reason at all. After I calmed down I realized I had accused him of something that wasn’t even plausible and told him several times I was going to kill myself, and I had huge impulses to cut myself like I did when I was depressed at 15. I thought about all this and was like wtf, this isn’t right, this isn’t me. I loved life before and now I just don’t care about anything, don’t want to do anything ever. I don’t even get excited for stuff I used to love.

The second symptom is impulsion and paranoia; My b/f is the sweetest guy ever and has never given me a reason to think he’s doing anything to hurt me but I continue to hurt his feelings by accusing him of stuff he would never even think I’m doing and I think I’m pushing him away. I was never ever like this. I quit smoking about a year ago and don’t need it at all anymore. I see my b/f a lot and I get more than enough time to spend with him, well the other week he wanted to stay home and play some video games alone, well I wouldn’t take no for an answer and ended up going, buying smokes and smoking a lot. I don’t get upset like that.

I’ve been crying at least twice a week for no reason or the stupidest reasons. Before I would cry for a reason when something upset me but I now feel like I’m always on the verge of tears and was never like this before, songs that shouldn’t make people cry make my eyes water. I’m always thinking about myself and woe is me and then I cry about that. It’s stupid I never did that before and don’t want to do it now.

I was 115 lbs from when I was 14 until I was 20 and now that I’ve been on Jasmin I’m 130lbs and look like I gained the weight in my stomach because I’m bloated all the time. It was a very unhealthy weight gain and if this was my only symptom I would be alright with it but it’s not.

I’ve also noticed having frequent urination. It sucks when you’re getting intimate and you have to stop in the middle to make sure you use the washroom so it doesn’t hurt if it pushes on your bladder. Sometimes it feels like every ½ to 1 hour I have to pee, other times it’s more like 4 hours or something more normal.

Well, I’m going to the doctor this week, to switch pills, I’ve been thinking about going on Seasonale or Tri-cyclen Lo, I trust my doctors opinion and will ask him what he thinks, if nothing works I’ll just go off birth control all together and use a condom.

I'm seeing my OBGYN in a few days and will give him a laundry list of problems I've had with this bc. What a nightmare, and just now am I coming out of it. The worst anxiety and paranoia I've ever had, no sex drive, horrible neck aches and migraines, bladder control issues and depression are just some of the side effects. I hate taking anything at all, but was told this was an easy, and mild birth control. I'm never taking BC again after this experience. How this thing is still on the market, I dont know.

Until yesterday, I took 14 days of a 4 week prescription of 100 mg twice a day doxycycline for a tick bite rash. I rarely take any medication. The first week I just had mild side affects. Late in the second week I started to notice that I was becoming increasing anxious for no apparent reason. Even after hard exercise the anxiety seemed to be persistent as if an impending panic attack. Yet, I had no external reason to explain the anxiety.

After two additional days the anxiety seemed to keep ramping up and I began to get very dizzy when I moved suddenly or bent down to pick up items from the floor. The pressure behind my eyes also feel like it was increasing. I was afraid my blood pressure was spiking but in actuality it was probably either cranial pressure or simply an fight or flight anxiety response. I also experience some pretty vivid dreams.

I finally searched online and found no official symptom of anxiety for doxycycline but found people complaining about it unofficially. I spoke with my pharmacist who also said she had no listing of anxiety as a known symptom for the drug. She suggested I stop taking it and see if my symptom subside.

It has been 24 hours since my last dose and the anxiety has reduced substantially but not completely. I feel like I have a hang over today but otherwise I do feel an immediate improvement. I am still a little dizzy but not like yesterday.

Like all drugs, you should be very cognizant of how the drug affects your body - even if a physician tells you otherwise because only you can really tell and everyone has different bio-chemistry which reacts in different ways to different drug compounds.

I am 33 yrs old. One night I was sleeping and about 12am, I woke up with my heart racing and I was having a squeezing feeling in my chest. I went to the ER and my blood pressure was extremely high. However, when they were running tests on me, they found that I hadn't had a heart attack and I was diabetic. The doctor gave me a stack of prescriptions to start taking. A few months later I went to see a different doctor, one that accepts my discount plan, and he took me off everything but metformin and 5 mg/day lisinopril. Since that night, the beginning of March, I am not the same person. I am keeping my diabetes under control, and my blood glucose is always in normal range. My last A1C test was 5.8. However, I am to the point of paranoia concerning the dead tingling feeling that I have in my feet. It is very on and off. There one minute then gone the next. It's not a feeling of numbness, because I can feel the slightest touch. Now from very little research I have already come to a conclusion that its the lisinopril. THE COUGH is enough to make me depressed and moody on its own, but now I'm thinking that my major mood swings are also coming from this drug. I cry all the time because I am worried that the diabetes is effecting my feet and that is what the doctors tell most people. My doctor said that I haven't been diabetic long enough to worry about neuropathy and that the sensation in my feet could be from a million things. Then almost every website I've looked at so far has hardly anything good to say about Lisinopril. I want to stop taking it, but don't have the money to afford an expensive medicine. what should I do? My blood pressure is usually around 102/68-70

I can't even get up to go to church. I feel so weak and so sick. I have been off this awful stuff for 2 days and still feel so ill, I can't function. i just want to throw up. I have no support and no help whatsoever. How can this be happening. Will I make it through this horrific feeling. I can't do anything, not even eat. My whole body feels like someone has punched it all over. I don't know if I can hang in there. Please post, post, post.

Dear lovely people.

Thank you so much for all your postings. This site was literally my salvation. Nobody who knows me believed that I could be so ill for so very long. Family and friends say that I am a very strong person and not phased by anything, but believe me, even I could not overcome the side-effects of this deadly drug. It even resulted in me having hallucinations. It is interesting to note we are not alone in this are we?. You have to have been there to fully understand how truly horrific the side-effects are. It is interesting to note that compared to other drugs listed on this site as to positive side-effects of any drug (most drugs listed have either none or perhaps 1 -2 listings) all 353 of us!!! have been so desperate to know why we have been feeling so very very ill. We have therefore in desperation tapped into this website. We can't all be wrong. Some of you like me were or are in your darkest hour, but please, please hang in there. I took this poison for four weeks as an anti malarial medication for my holiday and it was only last Monday did I feel fully up to strength. I will do everything in my power to stop this medication ever being prescribed ever again. I have had every single one of the side-effects listed on this site. It may take some time, but you will get better and when stronger I hope like me you will try and do something positive about what has happened by actioning why this drug is never taken again by anyone by any one ever again/. Never would I want anyone to feel as ill as this. I promise it may take some time but YOU WILL come through this just like I have. I would welcome any feedback from fellow users as to what action they may also be taking as to stopping the prescribing of this drug.

Keep strong.

Kind regard to you all.

I feel like I am Demon Posessed! I am a Christian woman who loves her husband and children more than life itself, and in the last three weeks I have turned into a crazy person. I had the Mirena put in three months ago. I had a period or spotting for two and a half months but two weeks ago when that stopped the crazy devil woman showed up. I have never suffered from depression, anxiety, poor self image or rage until now. In reality I am 29, 140pounds and have the best husband and two great kids 2 and four months. my life was better than ever and then all of a sudden in my mind my husband did not love me and was not doing his part to fulfill my needs and my children were more than I could deal with, I was getting hostile impatient angry and depressed I felt ugly, soooooo fat and had no control over my life. I also had suicidal thoughts and I tried to leave my husband. I wanted him to know how hard it was and I wanted him to feel what I was going through, because he was living in the rational and I wasn't I was angry, alone and scared. then all of a sudden I couldn't even remember why I was upset and everything seemed fine. I had a bad go with the pill, I was emotional and a little irrational and insecure but when I went off of it I was fine. I am getting this taken out because even though the dose of hormone is supposed to be small I feel as though I am hitting a wall of intense or (nonexistent at times) emotions. I just kept crying to my husband last night, I want me back... I want me back, and he does too. I also had the headaches cramping and discharge, a yeast infection, itching and weight gain, bloating and I feel like I have no energy, I don't mind having sex but it isn't something I Iook forward to. I feel so very ashamed for the way my husband and children have been treated by me and I will be the first to say that nothing is worth loosing your family, your sense of security in yourself and your sanity. The doctor told me that I might be in post pardom or need depression meds.... NO I DON'T! I don't feel like medicating a medication. And thats what I would be doing. This Was NOT for me and it almost ruined my family. My husband is a great man and if it wasn't for his patience and kindness we would not be doing good right now. I am looking forward to having it taken out. I miss myself and who I am is not this woman of constant sorrow!!! One thought in my mind stands out... If I would have committed suicide, would Mirena have been responsible? In all of my life I have never had thoughts like these and It hurts me to think that there are woman out there who could be acting out in response to this birth control. I felt like hurting my children... I felt like leaving my husband... I felt like killing myself. And This IS NOT WHO I AM. My doctor is taking it out today and she isn't charging me because we have no insurance and she is a very good woman. I am thankful that my story is this and that it didn't get much worse. My sister is on it too and she is having the same problems except she is having hallucinations. I am trying to tell her to get it out but the doctor told her that its the breast feeding. I disagree with that because she has breast fed all her children and this has never happened. I didn't breast feed while on this and I am having crazy things happen. Don't let the doctor talk you out of getting it removed it didn't get better for me over time it got worse.

My son was prescribed Biaxin XL for bronchitis. After the first day taking it he began feeling very moody. Crying all the time, not sleeping. Then the paranoia set in. Feelings of wanting to hurt himself. Kept saying he felt like he was losing his mind. Not in touch with reality anymore. Saying he felt like something was eating him from the inside out. Finally after looking up on the computer was able to discover it was this horrible medicine. Had he taken his ten day dosage I am very afraid he would not be here with me today. STAY AWAY FROM THIS HORRIBLE DRUG! IT SHOULD BE TAKEN OFF THE MARKET, AND THE DOCTORS PRESCRIBING IT SHOULD BE MADE AWARE OF THE POTENTIAL HAZARDS THAT COULD HAPPEN BY PRESCRIBING IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I started Chantix back on March 3rd. While I do admit that at the time I was already depressed and feeling overwhelmed by many factors in my life,I could control it all prior to the Chantix. After being on Chantix,I had serious intestinal problems,my depression worsened,paranoia was horrible,I gained a lot of weight in a very short time,ANGER was all but uncontrollable....to the point I threw things at my boyfriend and made a total mess of a wonderful relationship. I stopped taking it about 3 weeks ago. The stomach issues are just starting to go away....I have not had a period since March 2nd though.....My anger and depression are controllable now however I am in therapy. I had these symptoms before so I know they weren't brought on by the Chantix but were certainly worsened by the medication. The medication did help me cut back on the very expensive habit of smoking and the dreams I admit were pretty cool. Ive never in my life had such vivid dreams,not nightmares like I have seen on some post,but just "normal," but vivid dreams.
I would talk in length to your doctor prior to starting this medication if you have any history of depression or anxiety....I was not somebody,anybody wanted to be around while on this medication!

I am 20 and have been on Wellbutrin XL for the past 3 months but two weeks ago my doc increased my dose to the max which is 450mg. Since then my life has been a mess because I am always nervous (the feeling you get before you do something you are not comfortable with like presentation or exam) and I have this feeling all day it initially started with episodes of this nervousness but this week I am noticing that I am always tense. Does anyone feel this way??

My head is spinning, I feel like this quite often (I am gonna try to explain this) as if your brain is shifting L to R and then everything around you starts spinning like for example I was writing an email earlier today and I started feeling like this I literally felt as if the words I was typing were moving back and forth. Does anyone feel anything close to this.

I was just curious if anyone else could relate to how I am feeling :(

anyone feel like drinking a lot? i've been on Yaz for 2 weeks and im absolutely miserable! I don't like my friends anymore, i hate my job and I want to go somewhere to relax but i cant think of a place that doesn't sound depressing to me. Ive never felt like drinking would help a mood swing issue but i find that im drinking every night and i definitely don't want to become an alcoholic because of this stupid pill. Ive smoked for a few years ..no more than a pack a day and now im smoking a lot more which makes my chest hurt then the paranoia comes in and i think i have cancer and all these other things wrong with me and start crying..at work. i yell at everyone and say really mean things then 2 seconds later i want to take it back cause i really didn't mean to say them in the first place. i think i make things up and dwell on them. im psychotic and so insecure now. I cant be satisfied and i cant make decisions. but hey, i cant get pregnant if no one wants to be around me!

My time on Biaxin was one of the most TERRIFYING experiences of my life! (And I’m a cancer survivor, haha).
It all started when a doctor put me on Biaxin (500mg) for having Pneumonia. I was to take one pill at night and one pill in the morning for a week. The 1st day on the Biaxin was fine. Then the second night, I started to experience changes in my behavior. I began to cry and become extremely emotional to minor things.
The 3rd day I woke up and took my pill and started to feel extreme pressure pushing on my brain. I also got very agitated, grumpy, hyper, and over stimulated. That night I took my Biaxin pill and got 0 hrs of sleep. I was up all night paranoid, scared, hallucinating, crying, shaking, nervous energy, pacing back and forth, thinking in my head “what is happening to me!” The next morning, I took my Biaxin pill and then experienced the same horrific side effects. I was calling my family and telling them that something is going wrong in my head and I need help. It was as if I was having a panic attack. My stomach cramped up, my head hurt, and my heart was beating 10x its normal pace. I also felt hopelessness, couldn’t concentrate, shortness of breath, and worst of all the feeling of paranoia and the thought that my mind is being possessed.
Finally, I got on the internet and looked up “side effects of Biaxin”. Thank god I found this website and was able to see I wasn’t alone. I called my family and told them it’s the Biaxin making me crazy. That day I went and saw my doctor and he said, “Yes, Biaxin can cause emotional distress and all of those other horrible things you are going through." He says it is rare to get that many crazy side effects, but it is possible. He said to stop taking it, and go home and rest. I needed to allow my body to recover from what has happened the last 4 days.
I will never take Biaxin again for as long as I live. I literally thought I was going insane. The feelings and thoughts I was having was absolute torture and an emotional rollercoaster. I thank this website and all of you for your posts. This website truly helped me discover that Biaxin is a dangerous drug that is not intended for everybody. Especially not me!!!!!

My mother is on Metoprolol Succ Er 50 MG Taast and Synthroid 100MCB @ 1 a day for thyroid. My stepfather told me he has been concerned about her for a long time. She seems to have episodes of delusion, paranoia & can occasionally be qiute vulgar and profane. These are far from characteristics of my mother. I told my step dad I would see what I could find out. Any info. on this would be greatly appreciated.

Desperate

Extreme FEAR! I totally forgot to mention this side effect in my original post on Lipitor: EXTREME FEAR,paranoia, auditory hallucinations, Coincidentally, my friend (female) in Calif. also had the exact same paranoia: Man in closet wanting to kill us. We could not sleep in our own beds. We had to sleep in living room on couch. Extreme fear. Coincidentally, my neighbor had the same reaction AND the woman who sold me my new condo could not sleep in her bed and she was also taking Lipitor. She sat in a chair in her living room all night. Now this is a total of 4 women. I do not know if men experience these same fears. My Calif. friend and I used to take a mop handle and slam it into the walls of our Master closet looking for the guy who wanted to kill us. Even after we knew he wasn't there, we still couldn't sleep in that room. I quit Lipitor and my fear of this fictitious guy disappeared! Yayyy!

Prescribed for kidney stones and was sent home to pass stone. Slept 3 hours without pain and passed the stone some time later. Took for 2 more days due to pain from stone. Works excellent for relieving pain. Quit taking 2 days ago, as I was experiencing mild paranoia and mood swings, accompanied by heart palpations. Have drank a lot of liquids and performed mild exercising, but effects of the pills have continued, although not as severe. Be very very careful using this medication, and I would suggest only taking if absolutely necessary. Discontinue use asap after pain is manageable.

Please can anyone who has suffered anxiety/panic/depression/suicide on Doxy tell me how long after stopping taking it this went away???