flatline
13-07-18, 09:21
Hey guys. Currently recovering from a bad reaction to haldol and was wondering your opinions.
here's a timeline for anyone confused:
tuesday - around 1am go to the ER for unknown headache fatigue and neck pain. I was given a shot of haloperidol to treat it. around 20 minutes later I start having an extremely bad reaction
I feel like I always have to keep moving, I was thrashing in the bed I was in, all these things. Ended up pacing the hallway as I tried not to pass out. me and the two other nurses decided that it was most likely a panic attack triggered by me looking up drug interactions
so they let me go. About an hour later I'm lying in bed trying to go to sleep and I still can't with all the Tremors and shit. I go back again and they give me lorazepam and Cogentin, which does help with my thrashing and twitching immensely. I get discharged
wake up the next day around 6 or so, feeling okay but still a bit shaken up and groggy from my legs being on fire so much. Take my Sertraline like normal, about 20 minutes later I have the same symptoms come on again. go back to the ER, get some blood tests done
by the time I went back in my pulse was 140 and my blood pressure was like 140 over 105. So serious ****ing numbers. I had to wait in the waiting room for like an hour and a half to get a room
I finally get a room, the doctor ordered some more tests and does a physical, and He suggests to keep me overnight for observation and then this is where my memory gets a bit fuzzy as to what actually happened when
okay so it looks at like 3 a. m. I got a sandwich for dinner. this is where I started losing memory because I was just tired and dozing off so much but eventually I wake up and find out they actually took some more blood in my sleep
the test they were looking at specifically, ck blood, is one of the indicators they use for serotonin syndrome although it's not a complete diagnosis if it's high. The one they took when I was just in the ER was like 650 and the one they got while I was sleeping was about 400. normal range is about 200
so I get some crappy chicken and rice from the hospital restaurant (they had spaghetti and pizza and shit it was kind of crazy) and promptly passed out again. I woke up at like 4: 30 I think and my phone was dead this entire time otherwise I would have been shitposting
and so I got discharged around 5: 30. The plan was to go back to smash club and just chill out, but I noticed my heart rate was still pretty high (120s) so I went back to the ER. they didn't see much cause for alarm but they did some more blood tests to rule out anything else
nothing seemed alarming so here I am back at home. I don't feel too sick or anything, but I do feel a bit hot and groggy. just trying to relax and taking my temperature occasionally x)
I think they should have kept me in the hospital for another day TBH but I'm going to call the ER people and see which thing exactly I should be worried about and what I should do from here
that ER call left me with a few more questions than answers. basically she just told me to follow up with my primary doctor tomorrow and call and see what they think about it. if it was NLS then I need to watch out for muscle stiffness and a fever, like a very high fever
which is one of the worst things to tell me in terms of watch and wait because I will be always on the watch, but this is a relatively rare side effect in the first place so hopefully it doesn't end up happening. The question I have is what even happened in the first place??
Sorry for TL. Just couldn't simplify any more. All this on my birthday, too x.x
here's a timeline for anyone confused:
tuesday - around 1am go to the ER for unknown headache fatigue and neck pain. I was given a shot of haloperidol to treat it. around 20 minutes later I start having an extremely bad reaction
I feel like I always have to keep moving, I was thrashing in the bed I was in, all these things. Ended up pacing the hallway as I tried not to pass out. me and the two other nurses decided that it was most likely a panic attack triggered by me looking up drug interactions
so they let me go. About an hour later I'm lying in bed trying to go to sleep and I still can't with all the Tremors and shit. I go back again and they give me lorazepam and Cogentin, which does help with my thrashing and twitching immensely. I get discharged
wake up the next day around 6 or so, feeling okay but still a bit shaken up and groggy from my legs being on fire so much. Take my Sertraline like normal, about 20 minutes later I have the same symptoms come on again. go back to the ER, get some blood tests done
by the time I went back in my pulse was 140 and my blood pressure was like 140 over 105. So serious ****ing numbers. I had to wait in the waiting room for like an hour and a half to get a room
I finally get a room, the doctor ordered some more tests and does a physical, and He suggests to keep me overnight for observation and then this is where my memory gets a bit fuzzy as to what actually happened when
okay so it looks at like 3 a. m. I got a sandwich for dinner. this is where I started losing memory because I was just tired and dozing off so much but eventually I wake up and find out they actually took some more blood in my sleep
the test they were looking at specifically, ck blood, is one of the indicators they use for serotonin syndrome although it's not a complete diagnosis if it's high. The one they took when I was just in the ER was like 650 and the one they got while I was sleeping was about 400. normal range is about 200
so I get some crappy chicken and rice from the hospital restaurant (they had spaghetti and pizza and shit it was kind of crazy) and promptly passed out again. I woke up at like 4: 30 I think and my phone was dead this entire time otherwise I would have been shitposting
and so I got discharged around 5: 30. The plan was to go back to smash club and just chill out, but I noticed my heart rate was still pretty high (120s) so I went back to the ER. they didn't see much cause for alarm but they did some more blood tests to rule out anything else
nothing seemed alarming so here I am back at home. I don't feel too sick or anything, but I do feel a bit hot and groggy. just trying to relax and taking my temperature occasionally x)
I think they should have kept me in the hospital for another day TBH but I'm going to call the ER people and see which thing exactly I should be worried about and what I should do from here
that ER call left me with a few more questions than answers. basically she just told me to follow up with my primary doctor tomorrow and call and see what they think about it. if it was NLS then I need to watch out for muscle stiffness and a fever, like a very high fever
which is one of the worst things to tell me in terms of watch and wait because I will be always on the watch, but this is a relatively rare side effect in the first place so hopefully it doesn't end up happening. The question I have is what even happened in the first place??
Sorry for TL. Just couldn't simplify any more. All this on my birthday, too x.x