Have I been misdiagnosed once again?

[StonerStuart]

Hi everyone,

So to give you all the break down from my past diagnosis;

I was in a serious motorcycle accident and sustained a bit of brain tissue scarring.
I battled with everyday tasks and I had a very bad short term memory; long term memory was fukked.
I saw many doctors and even went on a 'trial' of different meds for six weeks. It was extremely unpleasant!

I was then diagnosed with adults ADHD.
So the doctor fist prescribed me 10mg methylphenidate instant release.
I had huge issues with the short term effects and went to see to doc again.

He then prescribed me with 54mg methylphenidate (Concerta) slow released over a twelve hour period.
That stuff worked wonderfully and I found myself doing thing I would never have been able to do post the motorcycle accident.

But I found that I was getting extremely overloaded with work and huge amounts of pressure from all my superiors.
I then was prescribed 1mg Alprazolam, but that stuff made me very sleepy and my speech was slurred.
Back to the doc again, He took me off of the Alprazolam and prescribed me with 10mg Diazepam to take three times a day. Before work then every six hours.
The diazepam made me happy and made me very alert and kind of energetic!

I found this very strange since the Alprazolam and the Diazepam were very structurally similar and part of the same group of Benzodiazepines. So the one made me sleepy and the other one made me very active now this was in combinations with Concerta. I was flying through tasks and completing them in such a short time I could handle all the work load and all the pressure I was under with such ease. I could stop in the middle of tasks and do a quick task then jumped straight back into what I was doing with no loss of focus or any issues.

I stayed on that combination for a long time and it was working fine until I had a few “episodes” and then I was put on to Seroquel in combination with the diazepam and Concerta.
I was fine and functioned at a pace of an athlete not physically but a mental athlete 
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But then two days ago I went to see the doctor to get my scripts and he changed all my medication…
Took me off all of it and put me on this hard-core schit!!!
1) Pregabalin (Lyrica) 150mg twice at night
2) Yelate (duloxetine) 60mg once in the morning

I feel disgusting!!!!!!!!!!
I am dehydrated, my mouth is dry, I have a constant headache and I cannot focus my eyes correctly.
It’s almost as if I'm squinting to see the monitor and then **poof** I'm out like a light switch!
Woke up exactly nine hours after ingestion and kept taking hour long naps!
Since writing this post I have had four naps!

Has anyone one had any experience with Pregabalin?
I don’t know if this is normal or if I am having a bad reaction to it.

I have absolutely no idea why he took me off the Concerta!!!

 

[buyeye]

Speak to your doctor?

 

[Arthur]

Sorry to hear about your miserable condition. As a lifelong biker I especially sympathise.

But you can't seriously ask this sort of question in this sort of forum. This is a matter between you and the medical experts you choose to engage. Any comments or opinions here on the merits of the medical diagnosis and prognosis must be fatuous. This requires detailed knowledge of your case and the medical issues involved, and no-one absolutely no-one on this forum can possibly comment in any useful way. Those who don't know will give either useless or bad advice, and those who might know will refuse to give any advice.

Rather, get the sympathies and empathies you need here. And sort out the medical stuff with real doctors, face to face.

 

[maumau]

Is the doc a neurologist stoner?

You're entitled to a second opinion but in any case you need to tell a doctor how the meds affect you.

 

[biometrics]

Why not just go back to what worked for you. Surely you have a say in this.

 

[Nicci]

Wow that is a lot of medication What is that stuff anti depressants and stuff? If you have scarred brain tissue how does that make you depressed or how?

 

[Beachless]

Did he give you any reasons for changing the medication?
If it was working for you then there has to be a good reason for changing the medication. Maybe go see another doctor and ask for his opinion.

 

[StonerStuart]

Sorry to hear about your miserable condition. As a lifelong biker I especially sympathise.

But you can't seriously ask this sort of question in this sort of forum. This is a matter between you and the medical experts you choose to engage. Any comments or opinions here on the merits of the medical diagnosis and prognosis must be fatuous. This requires detailed knowledge of your case and the medical issues involved, and no-one absolutely no-one on this forum can possibly comment in any useful way. Those who don't know will give either useless or bad advice, and those who might know will refuse to give any advice.

Rather, get the sympathies and empathies you need here. And sort out the medical stuff with real doctors, face to face.

I appreciate your post but i'm not looking for empathy nor sympathy, I am merely asking if anyone has had experience with Lyrica.
And if they had, was the effects similar to mine or not.

Thanks tho and I will definately be calling my doctor in the morning.

 

[StonerStuart]

Is the doc a neurologist stoner?

You're entitled to a second opinion but in any case you need to tell a doctor how the meds affect you.

No, he has my neurologists file on the scan thingy in that tube thing, cant think of the name now.
he has all the notes on what the neurologist found and noted.

I will be telling him that these meds are crap and how they make me feel.
In my opinion it is not a normal reaction when I look up the meds side effects.

Why not just go back to what worked for you. Surely you have a say in this.

I will Bio, Luckily I still have what's left of my previous meds for a week or so. I don't know if I have a say in this. Im not sure on that, but I am sure I can refuse the current meds by simply not taking them. I have absolutely no idea why he changed what was working fine.

Wow that is a lot of medication What is that stuff anti depressants and stuff? If you have scarred brain tissue how does that make you depressed or how?

I know, its not a nice lifestyle having to take medicine to be "normal"!!!
The meds are not for depression but they do create a euphoric state where my depression subsides and i feel normal, well, kinda normal The one called Seroquel is an antipsychotic which i don't really take anymore, since my outbursts have stopped for a while now. I stopped it on my own without his 'consent'!

The scarred tissue was what lead my neurologist to the fact that I may have ADHD and they did all these tests on me and it turns out that I do have ADHD! I am not sure if scarred brain tissue makes you depressed but it does imply a certain level of 'brain damage'!

Did he give you any reasons for changing the medication?
If it was working for you then there has to be a good reason for changing the medication. Maybe go see another doctor and ask for his opinion.

He never gave me any reason at all... Which makes me think that Pfizer or whoever is trying to push meds through his practice. That could just be the paranoia talking but that is what I think!

 

[Beachless]

He never gave me any reason at all... Which makes me think that Pfizer or whoever is trying to push meds through his practice. That could just be the paranoia talking but that is what I think!

Fact checking is never being paranoid always ask for reasons especially when your health is at stake. A second opinion wont cost much.

 

[bin3]

Read some interesting articles a while back on ADHD ...

SPIEGEL: In the 1960s, mental disorders were virtually unknown among children. Today, official sources claim that one child in eight in the United States is mentally ill.

Kagan: That's true, but it is primarily due to fuzzy diagnostic practices. Let's go back 50 years. We have a 7-year-old child who is bored in school and disrupts classes. Back then, he was called lazy. Today, he is said to suffer from ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). That's why the numbers have soared.

SPIEGEL: Experts speak of 5.4 million American children who display the symptoms typical of ADHD. Are you saying that this mental disorder is just an invention?

Kagan: That's correct; it is an invention. Every child who's not doing well in school is sent to see a pediatrician, and the pediatrician says: "It's ADHD; here's Ritalin." In fact, 90 percent of these 5.4 million kids don't have an abnormal dopamine metabolism. The problem is, if a drug is available to doctors, they'll make the corresponding diagnosis.
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/adhd.asp#gpcRjij3VmVmUPEk.99

http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/adhd.asp

 

[Venomous]

Hi Stoner,...


I would rather recommend that you see a decent neurologist. Yes, you need to book 3months+ in adcance, but it could mean the world of a difference.

(due to dealing with someone that has experienced similar symptoms, I recommend/suspect)

You could have peti-mal epilepsy. It sends most memory for a ball of schyte.

How bad can it be?
You can have a convo with someone, even respond right now. While suffering an attack.
Then later you might or might not remember having the convo and maybe not even know what it was about.

And that can happen coz your brain cannot absorb info when short circuiting, meaning with severe instances you miss as many as 8 outa 10 words.

severe purely means very regular in this instance, but is refered as severe coz it can play havoc in your life.

Epilepsy does not mean you have to fall down and shake. Those are grand-mal attacks.
People often have one or the other, and very rarely both.

Please go see a neurologist asap instead of head-guessing docs.

There are different meds, and each person reacts differently to them. Let the right type of neuro doc guide you through the process.

And yes epilepsy can, and is often caused by head injuries.

a few silly questions...

do you grind your teeth while sleeping?
how often do you forget mid sentence what topic you were discussing?
Do you find that you sometimes struggle to remember how you walked from point a to b, as the middle part is forgotten?
Do you have mood swing due to frustration coz you cannot remember stuff?

there are more questions. point one on its own is cause for concern.

 

[Aquila ka Hecate]

My partner is on Lyrica for a displaced nerve, and it seems to have given him many of your symptoms.
He's frequently sleepy and sometimes gets blurred vision as well.

I have no idea why Lyrica would be substituted for Valium, but then I'm not a medical doctor either. Valium concerns me as it's highly addictive, is all.