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Side Effects Again

I don’t think I will ever stop talking about side effects!  lol…

so for a long time i’ve been feeling a tickling sensation in my throat and each time it happens i have to cough to try to get past it.  it wasn’t really making sense to me why it was happening and just out of the blue for no reason, but hey, i just chalked it up as 1 of those mysteries of life.  G kept saying that it was the damn MS doing something but this time i actually wasn’t convinced.

1 of the tablets i take is mailed to me and it always comes packaged with the drug facts and information etc.  They say u should read it each time and i do for the most part but never really put 2 and 2 together until a couple months ago.

One of the side effects is:

irritation in your nose and throat!
well hell!  that must be it then…it’s really odd, it’s not painful but it feels like a small piece of hard plastic just stuck there and i have to cough to get rid of it.  Doesn’t happen a whole lot, but of course, it’s good to finally have an explanation.

The New Drug

Oye!

Not sure if i have figured out the last pill as yet. 

  • Sometimes it makes me sleepy (altho not as much as the first time) other times – nothing
  • the past 2 days, it’s been making me dizzy (only for a few minutes), before yesterday – nothing
  • Once or twice, it made me feel kinda sick (again only for a few minutes) – but that’s only been once or twice


Sheeeiit – i just don’t know.  As usual, is it helping?  who the *^*!! knows.  i thought it was at first; now? not so much.  i was supposed to take 1/2 a tablet for a week (started 2 weeks ago) and then increase to a whole one.  Needless to say i’m still taking 1/2 because I’m a little afraid of what an entire 1 would do..more to come i suppose…

EFFIN Side Effects

I spoke too soon…the side effects are not from the new drug (thank God!) – it’s the Spasticity medication.  I started in March at 10mg, 3x a day…I’ve slwoly increased the dosage and on Monday, it was increased to 20mg, 3x daily.  Well!  HMPH!!  I won’t bore u with the details, but suffice it to say that I had a rough Monday nite and I was going crazy!!!!  I had NO IDEA what the hell was going on!  Good thing that G had her thinking cap on and reminded me that the dosage of that drug was increased.  Prior to this I had no side effects.

We pulled out our  “medical degrees” (from the internet) and did the research and i as it turns out I was experiencing classic side effects!!  I must say that I was thrilled to finally understand what was going on and immediately contacted my Dr.’s office.  Just before I’d increased to 20, i was taking 15mg and that was tolerable AND i was benefitting from it (10 mg wasn’t doing shit for me).  They have taken me back down to 15 and I am happy to report that I had a good nite’s sleep last nite (I was worried at first, but that was totally uncalled for).

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