Posted by medlib on June 29, 2001, at 21:41:30
In reply to What is This?? Anybody?, posted by tina on June 29, 2001, at 9:40:40
Hi Tina--
What you describe sounds like pure hell! Assuming that you've had no recent med changes that might be triggering these waking nightmares, it might be time for a neurologist consult.
Am I remembering rightly that this is a particularly high stress time for you? High stress can trigger many disorders, including:
- a PTSD episode (if you've suffered from that in the past) which can manifest as visual hallucinations/unreality, or
- SSE (Subsyndromal Epilepsy). Dr. Bob's Tips includes a good indicator/prediagnostic questionnaire you might want to check out at:
http://www.dr-bob.org/tips/isse.html
If this seems like a possibility to you, you'll want to check it out with a neurologist who specializes in epilepsy. Have you ever taken Depakote as an antidepressant? It's prescribed frequently for SSE or partial seizures.I've recently survived an 11 day period of severe twice daily anxiety/panic attacks accompanied by EPS (extrapyramidal symptoms) which were triggered by a trial of Geodon. Each attack lasted about an hour. Never having experienced anything like that before, I wasn't all that confident that I could survive them--and, after having several, I wasn't sure that I wanted to. Now, even though they're finally over, I still feel exhausted and traumatized.
I hope that you're able to find something that can halt the horror. You're in my thoughts---medlib
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