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[QUOTE]Originally posted by LOA: [QB] I need to post more often... Daniel, Compazine reactions like ours are rare, but certainly not unheard of, according to my Neuro - I had a less freaky, but still uncomfortable, reaction to Reglan when I was in the hospital once - there I just felt, literally, like I was crawling out of my skin, and my doc told me that Reglan is very similar to Compazine, so that's likely why. I won't take either of them now, no thank you! Phenergan is my nausea med of choice - Vistral if I'm mixing it with Percocet, as the Vistral somehow manages to take away the itchiness from the Perc.... As for the Modafinil (Provigil), you're right, it's not an amphetamine stimulant like my Adderall is, but it's also not a med they typically mix with Adderall. Usually it's one of the other. We talked about trying it instead of the Adderall, but opted against it - Many narcoleptics do VERY well with Provigil and enjoy the lack of related side effects that come with it, however in my case it has one MAJOR side effect that we can't chance - it screws with birth control, which I use to regulate my hormones as another method of migraine prevention. As such, Provigil isn't an ideal option for me.... Topamax, one of my other preventatives, also screws with b/c big time, ans as a result we've had to go to MAJOR extremes changing up my b/c to super potent stuff as a way to try and overcome the Topa. It's a nightmare... Right now my migraines are doing really well and I haven't had to change the dose of either preventative med in months - this is a miracle of sorts. On the narcolepsy front, we're still trying to fine-tune that process - I'm taking Xyrem at night to help me sleep, and I've had a LOT of health problems come up since I started that - coincidence or related, hard to say - the list of potential side effects with Xyrem is unbelievable, but we're running a ton of bloodwork to find out for sure. Sleep is a ton better though! I get about 4-5 hours of GOOD sleep a night. That's phenomonal! Also, my headaches are hardly existant, and when they appear, I need 1/2 as much medication to treat them and just a fraction of the recovery time. So if we could just figure out the stumbling block of how to get my weight under control (I've lost 40 lbs now and can't stop loosing...) and fix my other new issues (which I truly DO believe are Xyrem-related and ultimately will come back to adding simple supplements in my diet to treat them), life would be almost perfect...we'll get there, just gotta be patient. I'm not complaining because I'm still so much better than I was, and the docs are working quickly to figure out what's going on with me to cause the weight loss/other symptoms I'm having so they can rule out secondary causes and properly advise me on what vitamins to take to offset the nutrients Xyrem is stripping from me (it's a MAJOR diuretic, plus it screws with some pretty important chemicals in the brain that relate to food, appetite, and metabolism...) so that I can tailor my diet and my vitamins to the medication and put some meat back on my bones. I can't afford to keep buying clothes because of weight loss - I've bought too many this year, and most of them I've only worn for a few weeks. It's TOO EXPENSIVE!!!!! I should get more test results tomorrow... yipee! ~Liz [/QB][/QUOTE]
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