Well, that was dumb of me

This happened last night. Was a bit embarrased, but now I see what I did wrong, and it's my own fault. I figured this warranted a separate thread from the new doctor one.

I finally get a doctor to listen to me and give me something for relief. I took the new meds (flexeril 10mg and tramadol 50mg, meds I've taken before btw), along with my usual psych meds (including klonopin, remeron, and ambien) and a lower dose (30 instead of my usual 50mg) of melatonin at bedtime.

Well. This is one time I'm glad I live with my mother. When I started getting sleepy, I got up to tell her goodnight, and passed right the hell out. No dizziness, no room going white, no warning, just dropped in place midsentence. Orthostatic hypotention (I get that 3-4 times a week normally, it was in the letter I gave the doc, but usually I get a little dizzy when I'm first getting up from a sitting position, I sit back down, and it passes) combined with the fact that this genius right here managed to somehow between the pain, the nervousness about the dr's appt, the drs appointment itself and the aftermath, the 50 mile round trip, dealing with the pharmacy, other errands I had to run during the day, and just not being hungry had not eaten all day. I drink water and diet sodas, so the only calories I had the entire day was the sugar I had in my coffee in the morning.

Evidently my knees just buckled and I went straight down and landed on my backside, then my right shoulder. No lumps or bruises on my head, thank goodness. Mom's an RN, and once the blood pressure recovered when I was flat on the floor, I came to. And now my behind, sacral and lumbar really hurt. She did a neuro check once I came around and I was fine.

So I got something in my stomach, reassured mom I hadn't OD'ed, I had only taken 1 of each, went to bed and slept for 2 hours before the pain woke me up, and I couldn't get back to sleep. Got these brand new scrips in front of me, and I don't want to take them contrary to directions since it took so long to get them, so now... I hurt worse than before. I expect it to get better in the next couple days, if not, I'll have to call the nice man and explain that his patient was an idiot and ask for suggestions. No permanent damage I think. Just extra soreness.

It's always something.

Wow...glad you are ok!!!

I would think spacing out the medication is a much better idea...Since you were adding two sedating medications at once, and then adding them to Ambien and Melatonin....it could have been much worse!...

So, I would think that your Dr. would be ok with you not taking them all at the same time.

I have been on Flexeril for a long time and never take them within 4 hours of taking my Ambien at night. Same thing with my last dosage of pain meds....

I'm sure you will be a bit more sore for the next few days to a week and but hopefully day by day with adding in these two new medications will help with the pain...

Thanks for sharing as it's a good lessen for all of us and especially those new to PM who read this!

Glad you didnt get seriously hurt with that incident. Sounds like a close call.

david

That was a pretty big medicine hit. It would have put me in the hospital.

3 of them raise serotonin - enough to have made me turn as red as a beet and needing treatment. Look them up.

Your dose of melatonin was 10 times what I need (3 mg) to make me sleepy. I can't even imagine taking 50 mg! I would try cutting that down. It takes a half hour to work, so be patient.

I hope you are telling your doctor, and your mom, about ALL the meds you are taking on top of what he is prescribing.

With crohns disease my eating habits are really restrictive most of the time. I live on fold over peanut butter sandwiches alot, lol. This works great especially when needing something in the stomach to take meds. Sometimes I eat toast with peanut butter on it, pretty tasty. LC I am real bad about letting myself run on empty as you did. Hope you get over the fall soon.......Susie

I was just rereading some of the earlier posts. I actually text my mom what I am taking when I am taking it, even though she's in the next room, so if something happens like that again, she has a record, and (heaven forbid) she has to call an ambulance, it's recorded for them. I've got a pile of pill bottles, but I don't take everything at once. It's easier to weed out what was actually taken that way. And they don't have to treat me like I took everything in my medicine drawer.

As far as the melatonin, both of my (psych and med) doctors have said, if it works for you, and you are suffering no ill effects from it, take it. But now that I'm on some kind of pain relief, I can cut the dosage back to 20mg and get good results. If I were to only take 3 mg of the stuff, I might as well save my money.