stargirl6878
27-07-08, 02:37
Well, first of all i will explain from when all of this started...
about 8 months ago (december) i got a sinus infection that finally went away but left me with a whooshing sound in my right ear that was at first pretty constant then it would come and go weekly (meaning the sound of the whooshing would be lower or not audible)...then it would come back and it was usually loudest at night...
I went to a walk-in clinic doc to find out what could be causing this and because i was having chest pain and palpitations again (something i had a year before and was in the hospital, they did stress tests and said i was fine and diagnosed me with GERD)...he said i had a secondary sinus infection and prescribed antibiotics...
i started a new job in january and was pretty stressed out but fine and able to deal with the new stress...i was still experiencing the ear whooshing...
when my insurance kicked in i went to a new GP doc to find out why my heart was palpitating (they did an ekg there and said my heart was fine)
he then prescribed me a betablocker (for the heart palpitations), a steriod nasal spray (for polyps in my nose from my sinus issues), wellbutrin (for antidepressant and to help me quit smoking), and a statin (for my high cholesterol)...i started taking the wellbutrin, started feeling really dizzy and lightheaded from it or the betablocker which the doc said could happen (made a mistake in googling it, found out about strokes and seizures from it) and found out all these crazy things about wellbutrin...i had an incident at work where my nose started bleeding out of nowhere...(i rarely if ever get a nose bleed)...turns out the nasal spray i was on could cause nose bleeds if too high a dose...
so i freaked out, i stopped taking the wellbutrin (i was taking it for like 1 week, even though the doc told me to keep taking it)...
then the next week started experiencing a tightness in my throat (like my throat was closing up, like a choking sensation)...so now i have the throat thing and the ear thing still...
so i went to an ENT doc to find out what the ear whooshing was and what the throat thing was...she did a bunch of tests on me...carotid ultrasound (normal), CT, MRI and a Swallow test...according to her everything was normal except the swallow test...even though reading through the test results a few weeks later i found that it did state on the ct scan or the mri (i dont know which one) that there was a mass at the base of my right skull...even though she never said anything about this...
the swallow test came back and that i had a muscle spasm in my throat and that some muscle (i think Crico-pharyngeal) was not relaxing like it should...so she told me i needed to go to a GI doc...
the GI doc will be doing an endoscopy on my on 7/29...hopefully he can fix the problem and finally diagnose the GERD appropriately...i now take 80 mg a day of Omeprazole for the acid reflux...but i dont think it helps all that much...since i still get the chest pain...
the night before i had my appt. with my new GP, i had a real scare where my heart was pounding, chest pain and left arm tingling, i just tried to ignore it even though i was really scared but i had felt the sensations before and every time my heart was fine...so i went the next day to the new GP and told her that i was anxious and that i had chest pain and tingling/numbness in my left arm...she did an ekg...everything was fine with my heart...she then prescribed me zoloft 50mg...i also asked her if she could prescribe me something that i could take when i was feeling anxious that would work right away like ativan and she said she did not like prescribing drugs like that...do you guys think maybe she wouldn't prescribe ativan or xanax to me because i was a new patient and possible just wanted the drugs to abuse? all she told me was to stick it out and wait until the zoloft started working which would be 2 - 4 wks...
so, i started taking the zoloft that night before bed...the next day at work i was dizzy, nauseous and i felt completely stoned...didn't know what was causing it...had to be the zoloft...called the doc and she said keep taking it because sometimes people experience those side effects at first...and if the side effects did not go away by monday to call and they can see about changing the prescription to something else...
i took the zoloft 5 times and still felt the same so i stopped taking it and called the doc, they changed the prescription the next day to venlafaxine (generic for effexor)...before i started taking the effexor, i was a mess at work...i couldn't focus, i kept getting heart palpitations, hot flashes, dizziness and nausea...does anyone think that could be from withdrawal from the zoloft? remember i only took it 5 times though...is that possible?
ok so as for the anxiety...i went to the ER this past week with once again tightness in my chest...like a burning tightness above my left breast area...and anxiety...because i was starting to feel very anxious from all of this...
the ER prescribed me 9 ativan 1.0 mg...and my new GP had prescribed the effexor so i hoped that would work...the doc there also was wondering if the heart palpitations i was experiencing could be from a thyroid problem...
yesterday i went to work and started feeling anxious, jittery, fearful and butterflies in my stomach and heart racing, i took the one ativan that i brought with me to work and it started working but i didnt feel completely relieved of the anixety...i went home on lunch and took another one...before that one started to work, i fell apart, i couldnt go back to work, i called work crying telling them i was not coming back in...they seem like they understand...i cant lose my job, if i lose my job i lose my insurance and then i am really screwed...
last night after the 2 ativan started working, i felt a little bit better so i took the effexor for the first time and then i fell asleep...when i woke up like 2 hours later, i swear it was like a flash back to when i used to trip on acid...everything was dancing around on the walls, the ceiling was swirling around, if i closed my eyes i saw a circus of colors and lights...i felt so high...and not in a good way...
so i think i am going to start taking the effexor as close to bed time as i can...so hopefully the trippyness goes away before i wake up...
oh and the ear whooshing has gotten extrememly lower lately...within the past 2 weeks or so...which is a good thing but has me worried that it progressed to something worse...
monday i have an appt. with my doc and will bring her the thyroid test results and hopefully we will see what is wrong with me...
i hate taking all these meds...i think that is part of the reason why i am getting anxious all the time...
well i said a mouthful...thanks for reading if you got all the way to the bottom... :)
any question or advice would be welcome...:wacko:
about 8 months ago (december) i got a sinus infection that finally went away but left me with a whooshing sound in my right ear that was at first pretty constant then it would come and go weekly (meaning the sound of the whooshing would be lower or not audible)...then it would come back and it was usually loudest at night...
I went to a walk-in clinic doc to find out what could be causing this and because i was having chest pain and palpitations again (something i had a year before and was in the hospital, they did stress tests and said i was fine and diagnosed me with GERD)...he said i had a secondary sinus infection and prescribed antibiotics...
i started a new job in january and was pretty stressed out but fine and able to deal with the new stress...i was still experiencing the ear whooshing...
when my insurance kicked in i went to a new GP doc to find out why my heart was palpitating (they did an ekg there and said my heart was fine)
he then prescribed me a betablocker (for the heart palpitations), a steriod nasal spray (for polyps in my nose from my sinus issues), wellbutrin (for antidepressant and to help me quit smoking), and a statin (for my high cholesterol)...i started taking the wellbutrin, started feeling really dizzy and lightheaded from it or the betablocker which the doc said could happen (made a mistake in googling it, found out about strokes and seizures from it) and found out all these crazy things about wellbutrin...i had an incident at work where my nose started bleeding out of nowhere...(i rarely if ever get a nose bleed)...turns out the nasal spray i was on could cause nose bleeds if too high a dose...
so i freaked out, i stopped taking the wellbutrin (i was taking it for like 1 week, even though the doc told me to keep taking it)...
then the next week started experiencing a tightness in my throat (like my throat was closing up, like a choking sensation)...so now i have the throat thing and the ear thing still...
so i went to an ENT doc to find out what the ear whooshing was and what the throat thing was...she did a bunch of tests on me...carotid ultrasound (normal), CT, MRI and a Swallow test...according to her everything was normal except the swallow test...even though reading through the test results a few weeks later i found that it did state on the ct scan or the mri (i dont know which one) that there was a mass at the base of my right skull...even though she never said anything about this...
the swallow test came back and that i had a muscle spasm in my throat and that some muscle (i think Crico-pharyngeal) was not relaxing like it should...so she told me i needed to go to a GI doc...
the GI doc will be doing an endoscopy on my on 7/29...hopefully he can fix the problem and finally diagnose the GERD appropriately...i now take 80 mg a day of Omeprazole for the acid reflux...but i dont think it helps all that much...since i still get the chest pain...
the night before i had my appt. with my new GP, i had a real scare where my heart was pounding, chest pain and left arm tingling, i just tried to ignore it even though i was really scared but i had felt the sensations before and every time my heart was fine...so i went the next day to the new GP and told her that i was anxious and that i had chest pain and tingling/numbness in my left arm...she did an ekg...everything was fine with my heart...she then prescribed me zoloft 50mg...i also asked her if she could prescribe me something that i could take when i was feeling anxious that would work right away like ativan and she said she did not like prescribing drugs like that...do you guys think maybe she wouldn't prescribe ativan or xanax to me because i was a new patient and possible just wanted the drugs to abuse? all she told me was to stick it out and wait until the zoloft started working which would be 2 - 4 wks...
so, i started taking the zoloft that night before bed...the next day at work i was dizzy, nauseous and i felt completely stoned...didn't know what was causing it...had to be the zoloft...called the doc and she said keep taking it because sometimes people experience those side effects at first...and if the side effects did not go away by monday to call and they can see about changing the prescription to something else...
i took the zoloft 5 times and still felt the same so i stopped taking it and called the doc, they changed the prescription the next day to venlafaxine (generic for effexor)...before i started taking the effexor, i was a mess at work...i couldn't focus, i kept getting heart palpitations, hot flashes, dizziness and nausea...does anyone think that could be from withdrawal from the zoloft? remember i only took it 5 times though...is that possible?
ok so as for the anxiety...i went to the ER this past week with once again tightness in my chest...like a burning tightness above my left breast area...and anxiety...because i was starting to feel very anxious from all of this...
the ER prescribed me 9 ativan 1.0 mg...and my new GP had prescribed the effexor so i hoped that would work...the doc there also was wondering if the heart palpitations i was experiencing could be from a thyroid problem...
yesterday i went to work and started feeling anxious, jittery, fearful and butterflies in my stomach and heart racing, i took the one ativan that i brought with me to work and it started working but i didnt feel completely relieved of the anixety...i went home on lunch and took another one...before that one started to work, i fell apart, i couldnt go back to work, i called work crying telling them i was not coming back in...they seem like they understand...i cant lose my job, if i lose my job i lose my insurance and then i am really screwed...
last night after the 2 ativan started working, i felt a little bit better so i took the effexor for the first time and then i fell asleep...when i woke up like 2 hours later, i swear it was like a flash back to when i used to trip on acid...everything was dancing around on the walls, the ceiling was swirling around, if i closed my eyes i saw a circus of colors and lights...i felt so high...and not in a good way...
so i think i am going to start taking the effexor as close to bed time as i can...so hopefully the trippyness goes away before i wake up...
oh and the ear whooshing has gotten extrememly lower lately...within the past 2 weeks or so...which is a good thing but has me worried that it progressed to something worse...
monday i have an appt. with my doc and will bring her the thyroid test results and hopefully we will see what is wrong with me...
i hate taking all these meds...i think that is part of the reason why i am getting anxious all the time...
well i said a mouthful...thanks for reading if you got all the way to the bottom... :)
any question or advice would be welcome...:wacko: