User talk:Vickiec51

I was given one dose...one pill of tricor...only 1...just repeating it so you will realize what has happened. I am a person who has high cholesterol and high triglycerides..but really is just now having pre-diabetes counts..which i have lowered still keeping the high cholesterol. It is genetic. I have been tried on differernt statins only to get off with much pain..however the muscle pain goes away within a few days...recently I had a 3rd seizure but as a result of getting off an antidepressant I was put on yrs ago after a hysterectomy. I couldnt take premarin an estrogen..it was found later after me testing on me that I was allergic to horses and of course premarin has that in it. so, instead of trying another estrogen I was put on an antidepressant because the drs I was seeing thought oh its not the premarin that was causing the problems its me..im depressed over the fact I had a hysterectomy. I have 5 kids. If i was depressed, I wasnt able to experience it becuase I was so ill. I do know how depression feels and this wasnt it. they sent me to shrinks who would tell me in the end that depression wasnt my problem..that the other gyn dr were passing the buck because they didnt know what was wrong. I went to another female specialist and she ran one simple blood test and found out what it was. however, by that time the original drs put me on the antidepressant desipramine..of which thy said to take for yrs or the rest of my life..the new female specialist put me on an estrogen that worked..estrace...a simple estrodiol. well, over the yrs I tried to get off the antidepressant and each time having a seizure until I am on keppra and now getting off the antidepressant again but staying on keppra. ok with all this in mind...recently my dr put me on tricor as I cant take the statin drugs...after a few hours my spine got tight..then my head or my brain..then my liver felt that way on the left side..well, it was only tight not painful. I went to bed and couldnt sleep because of the tightness in the brain but eventually did. I woke early because my body by then was experiencing pain in the lower back and a little higher upward. I noticed then that the back of both my legs and the insides of my muscles of my arms..were hurting. I went to pee as normally i have to pee from sleeping at night. I went to pee and had to sit there for awhile until it came down. I noticed then that my bladder was hurting. wow. I had a drs apt that day later after lunch. I drank and drank to get myself back up because I felt dehydrated. I did begin to pee ok and noted dry mouth all day. it is hot weather here but I had to drink more than usual. I also noted that my bowels were a very light yellow. I didnt have diahrea but the bowel was that light yellow and..i had horrible cramps..that lasted for 3-4 days..this is the 5th day. I have noticed no pain in the muscles but..tightness in all of my muscles including my heart. I have a little trouble breathing..I have some mucous in my chest but that isnt unusual, I am 58 and moved with my husband to a different city which allergies are present. I went to see my dr and told her abt my side affects and she said yes those are side affects and esp the light yellow stool color. it has changed..my stool has as of yesterday changed to a lighter brown, thank God. well, when I went to see her she bypassed the muscle pain and tightness and talked abt the high blood pressure. my blood pressure on occasion was high but mostly getting there like 136/80...when i saw her that day it was 145/100, wow that took me by surprize. also note that this dr...is new to me..this was the 2nd time I ever saw her. she dosent know I have white coat anxiety, and esp with her as she is a flat liner...if you want to know what that is email me at vickiec51@hotmaiil.com. she is nice on appearance however. well, she is a dr and is trying actually she is an internest DO...ok with the high blood pressure that she got the first time from me she instantly wanted to put me on high blood pressure pills..I told her I dont want that and this could be from the tricor..of which I believe is the case because its affecting the muscles of the heart..and the white coat thing..well, I got the pills but have yet to take them ..also she told me that i was to continue the tricor because my cholesterol 304 was so bad mind you my bad cholesterol is 218..ouch..i know that is awful but I have had 376 before and took provachol along with zetia and within 2mos it was down to 276 ....drop 100 pts..that is all I could take as my muscles hurt so bad...ok with that part and back to the seizure part..my 3rd seizure caused me to see a nuerologist who...didnt care abt his patients...I get them dont I, and he wouldnt answer my calls to him. He put me on keppra which I had taken before at 1000 a day ..500 x2 a day..morning and night..to equal the 1000 for the day..that worked fine while staying on my half dose of the antidepressant that caused the seizures..when I would get half way down off the antidepressant I would have a seizure and I discovered that..no dr did. ok, that dr tried to put me on his theraputic level of 2000 mgs of keppra...well, I called as he made me go up as the side affects became worse and worse..mood swings I had a hard time dealing with and muscle pain and then weakness to the point that i dropped 25lbs in 4 wks..I was near death and my husband hauled my body into his office and once they saw me..they knew their goose was cooked and took me bk there after waiting over an hr for my emergency apt with them..he said well, looks like you cant take keppra...I said I could at 1000mgs with no seizures he said that wasnt good enuf...well, he changed me to lamictal of which i had this funny feeling abt. I said I do have depression in my history but not manic depression and he said it also treats seizures. I said ok what do i know..I took it and within 2 days couldnt go to sleep at all. I was exhausted from muscle wasting and the awful side affects and now having to get off keppra while getting on lamictal...my brain wouldnt go down..it jumped when i tried to sleep..and I nearly passed out many times but my body would jump up..this went on for another 4 wks. got desperate and only had some old xanax and took a tiny piece of it and slept..but not much..I then got myself on xanax to sleep and told him and he said ok. well, I didnt want to take xanax forever ..so I got off and realized this wouldnt go away while being off keppra..so i went in again with more wasting..and he put me on trileptal...with trileptal ..it would only work 6 hrs then all my muscles would hurt..it was crazy..so I over dosed on that taking it 4 times a day almost destroying my kidneys as i called emergency and asked them what to do because my heurologist wouldnt call me bk..they said whatever you do get off the two extra doses.i finally goet my neuro and he said..ok take zanax to sleep...I did that again and then one day said to myself this guy is goign to kill me unless I stop him. so, I made an apt and went in and with all the umph I had left..told him..you put me bk on keppra only at 1000 mgs and I will get back on my antidepressant and then get off keppra as it seems the antidepressant is what keeps me from having seizures or having them from getting off. he agreed..we moved and I saw another neorologist over here where we live now and she said she couldnt see me if I got off the seizure drug ...so i thought abt it and then decided to get off the antidepressnat and stay on the keppra..she told me...that..1000 mgs was fine for me that she doesnt use the same scale that most neurologists do..what works is the scale...so I am now on 75 mgs and am fine with no seizures and on 1000mgs keppra...no other meds...except for the tricor which i only took 1 pill of..and am now having muscle tightness and some aching...I have started walking 15minutes a day..I carry a walking stick and do only 15 situps using the helper to do so..no strain at all..and before taking the tricor...I could walk 30 minutes and do 50 situps..i had started doing th at to get my cholesterol down.I was a couch potato..I have this swelling in my fingers telling me i am having some edema...and then I get the chills..i have a little rough time breathing trying to lift my chest to breath ...I cant tell if that is my heart muscle or anything else...I am worried abt having that side affect...abdomylosis ...sorry abt the spelling..I hope that I am ok and its just something that will go away...I know that keppra does hook onto other meds..but i didnt take it with keppra..I took it like 3-4 hrs before it and then took a tiny piece of acid reducer which Im getting off..and then my antidperessant..almost 2 hrs before it...if its taking awhile to get out of my body..then that is one thing..but...if it is causing me that type of problem with that side affect..please let me know that this will go away...Im urinating ..I have gone to the bathroom and have stopped having severe cramps...after 5 days...but all my muscles are tight and it is affecting my blood going thru my body and breathing etc...I did walk and was able to..but couldnt go as much as I use to go...how long will it take to get out of my system and please let me know how to findout if that is a problem with having that abdomylosis or what its called in this site...help ..my email again vickiec51@hotmail.com