Good luck, Elf!

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Good luck with your tests today, Susie. Let's hope for a better answer

than IAIYH! If you do get that kind of explanation again, you know what

my advice is.

Your experiences with Elavil and Ativan and other related drugs are

similar to what Joanne described with Wellbutrin, Ativan, and Phenergan.

Pretty scary. Stay away from that stuff and make a list of what you

can't take! Keep that list with you and give a copy to your loved ones

so that kind of thing doesn't happen again in the ER.

I wouldn't characterize you or anyone here as " nutty, " but I will say

that my mail is rarely boring thanks to you and others.

Sorry for the extremely late response on this one, but I'm taking the

5th on the question you asked as " Anonymous " about my echocardiogram

tape and how often I watch it. I have to keep some secrets about both my

nerdiness and my love life.

Re: [ ] Marge - Sleep and smoking

> Hey ya'll... The Elavil did me same. The really weird thing was not

> normal dreams. Very Vivid and Scary (Nightmare) type dreams. I mean,

> wake up THINKING " it " was really gonna get ya'! And I have never been

> spooky type person. I would get up and check door locks, etc! And for

> years, I had worked nights alone most of my life and was not spooked

> person! In some really spooky desolate places, and was NEVER afraid or

> scary type person! Until I took these type drugs the Nutty RA Dr. was

> trying to get me to take. (Oh...he said it PROVED I had " issues "

because

> I THOUGHT I could not take them, and the anti depressants because of

> same symptoms!)

> I did this nightmare dreaming for about a week on elavil, then next

> thing I knew, I seemed to have that " restless leg " type stuff. I mean,

> drove me nuts. I paced the floor like a caged Raccoon! It felt like

> things were literally crawling on my legs, and hurt! They were like in

> spasms and HAD to move.

> So that was when I stopped it after 2 more nights of that. I even

> started the Itching all over when the leg thing started.

> Got very paranoid also.

> But I can't take Elavil, or Atavan or any Valium type drug. They all

> make me nutty and crazy. Paranoid and trapped feeling. They just by

> accident, gave me big ol' shot of the Atavan (sp?) when I went to

> hospital ER last week. I went NUTS. I was literally fighting them to

let

> me out. Boy...I feel like such a dunce now! They did not think I was

> nuts thank goodness...but they did realize, too late, they gave me

> something I should not have been given! It took me a few days to get

> " normal " in the head again... Ha! Ask ! She was the first I

" tried "

> to email when I got home! If I had not had my SENT folder, I would not

> have even known I wrote her! Poor ... nutty women seeking her out!

> They even said I signed and consented to a Spinal Tap. Don't even

> remember doing that!

> So as for my experiences, I haven't got much good to say about those

> types of drugs.

> Susie

> P.S. ... I decided to go for the rest of the tests today they

> ordered when I was in hospital last week. Go at 2:00 to Savannah.

So....

> here I go again... " its all in your head " .