Umm, I can't feel my toes

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I just started this new medication and the toes on my right foot have gone all white and I can't feel them, I've called my doctor but he isn't calling back does anyone have any tricks for increasing blood circulation?

― Nellie (nellskies), Friday, 13 August 2004 04:24 (twenty-one years ago)

please? I tried running them under cold water.
I don't want to have to amputate.

― Nellie (nellskies), Friday, 13 August 2004 04:25 (twenty-one years ago)

That really doesnt sound good - if it goes blue maybe go to another clinic or an emergency room? Try walking around the room to get the blood going maybe.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 13 August 2004 04:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah they're back thank fuck
I put them in a warm bath and that helped. Thanks for the advice Trayce.
My doctor still hasn't gotten back to me which is disturbing, I'm glad there wasn't a real emergency

― Nellie (nellskies), Friday, 13 August 2004 04:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, if I called my doctor in a panic about weird side effects, and he didn't call me back, I'd be shopping for a new doctor!

― Layna Andersen (Layna Andersen), Friday, 13 August 2004 04:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Nellie - Id still follow this up with a doctor. Any meds causing a circulation problem is not a good sign, you dont want to risk blood clotting! See yr doc and let him know what happened!

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 13 August 2004 04:52 (twenty-one years ago)

(it might have been a coincidence... but best to be sure)

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 13 August 2004 04:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Well I don't think it's a coincidence cause it's never happened to me ever before in the world. and I was taking this cold medicine which had pseudoephedrine in it and i found out today that you're not meant to take pseudoephedrine with it even though I ASKED the pharmacist and he made me shout out to the world what I was taking. I'm glad it wasn't herpes medication or something.

― Nellie (nellskies), Friday, 13 August 2004 04:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I took sudafed with effexor once and I thought I was gonna have a fuckin heart attack, it gave me such an anxiety attack. Never again! Thatll learn me not to obey warnings on packs :/

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 13 August 2004 05:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Did you have trouble with anything else with Effexor, Trayce? I had a horrible reaction last week after drinking a bunch of grapefruit juice (I had no idea there'd been warnings issued about it!). Pseudoephedrine doesn't seem to bother me at all, nor does Flonase (thank fuck).

― Bryan (Bryan), Friday, 13 August 2004 05:17 (twenty-one years ago)

effexors a nightmare though, that rips holes thru your stomach lining. I could feel my pulse going mental last night, my hands couldn't stop shaking and my pupils were so dilated i looked like a manga character.

― Nellie (nellskies), Friday, 13 August 2004 05:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't had the stuff, but everyone I know who's been on effexor had horror stories about it. It sounds like shit.

― spittle (spittle), Friday, 13 August 2004 05:20 (twenty-one years ago)

11111111!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― Vic (Vic), Friday, 13 August 2004 05:23 (twenty-one years ago)

So far the only things I haven't liked about it have been weird changes in my sleeping patterns, drinking isn't fun anymore, and I get the shakes from time to time. As an antidepressant it seems quite nice actually, for me anyway.

― Bryan (Bryan), Friday, 13 August 2004 05:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Bryan: dont recall any specific food reactions, but its been some years since I was on it. I do know it gave me these rushy, almost E-like attacks quite often tho, that I had a lot of trouble coping with. Hence the psuedoephedrine not agreeing with me. Seem to recall bad reflux as well. But yeah it did do some good, I think. I had to stop in the end tho, the anxiety was too much to handle.

Turns out I am naturally quite wound-up anyway, so... meh.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 13 August 2004 05:36 (twenty-one years ago)

It's helped with the depression but not as well with the anxiety I was having, but it's only been a few days since I increased my daily dose up to 150 mg. Turns out the grapefruit warning applies to tons of medications. Very odd.

― Bryan (Bryan), Friday, 13 August 2004 05:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow I never knew that. Cheese with the old style meds sure, but not grapefruit juice. Weird.

Yeah I have that bad catch-22 of anxious depression, which is hard to treat without worsening one or the other. Which is why I just load up on codiene and w33d instead. Yeah, thats doing me good :/

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 13 August 2004 05:47 (twenty-one years ago)

The one thing I really need to be doing is getting more therapy work done. I'm still overeating and I haven't gone back to work. Lots to do but at least I'm alive.

― Bryan (Bryan), Friday, 13 August 2004 05:52 (twenty-one years ago)

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