Friday, January 23, 2015

Back in time and ahead to the future...

This isn't the dog park!

Periods of geologic time.

We need our sleep.

Goosebumps on a comet.

The Punisher (Ukrainian grandmother)

7 lies about the American Sniper.  And more.

New police radars can 'see' inside your home.  But of course they would never misuse them....

8 comments:

Steve Bates said...

"We need our sleep."

   I Wandered Sleepless as a Cloud

Modafinil...
No daffodil!

- SB the YDD

(I get very little sleep ever since my continuous band-in-a-brain started up...)

ellroon said...

Geez... I'm sorry for your 24/7 band. Can we do anything to pay off the musicians? Is it new music? Can you write it down?

Enough with the jokes... is there anything that can be done? Is it new medication that's causing this?

Doesn't sound like fun... only hope the musicians are in tune and it's some style you can enjoy....

Steve Bates said...

The band plays in one style (baroque or rococo) and everything is s-l-o-w. The sounds are ugly; sometimes they get even uglier when they're out of tune with themselves. Yuck!

No, there seems to be nothing I can do. It's a relatively rare symptom of serotonin syndrome, and one of the less unpleasant ones. But... it... never... stops...

I intend to schedule another appointment with my doc before long. Wish me luck!

Steve Bates said...

Oh... the cause. Apparently it's one of my old standard prescription meds interacting with an over-the-counter cough medicine called Delsym. Everyone gets different symptoms, the syndrome can in fact kill you, and there's not much of anything to be done about it. It goes away when it feels like, or never.

Steve Bates said...

Scarcely related comment about symptoms... from a commercial on a classic TV station, for services of a lawyer pursuing asbestos exposure compensation:

"If you have experienced [symptom], [symptom], ... [symptom], or death, call 1-800-xxx-xxxx ..."

I guess some dead people are more competent than others!

ellroon said...

That sounds awful. Is this triggered by the cough medicine and then continues even though you've stopped taking it? At least you're getting out of tune music rather than death, but still, it must be more than frustrating.

Hope it fades away and never returns.

Steve Bates said...

ellroon, according to several popular-medical sites, the hallucinations are a side effect of the combination of the cough medicine Delsym and a prescription antidepressant mirtazapine, which I take on an ongoing basis and have been for years... it's gentle and it gives me a steady, calm feeling rather than an exhilaration that I'd just as soon not have.

It occurred to me tonight that perhaps the "wobbly" music occasionally interleaved with steadier music is an indicator of sudden changes in blood pressure. I plan to ask my doc.

And as Galileo is said to have proclaimed as he was led away from his trial, "and yet it moves." The male chorus tracks predominate tonight.

Again I forgot to answer a question: the hallucinations are triggered initially by taking the meds in combination, but once started, they continue for a period of days or weeks varying from one person to another. I'm counting the days...

ellroon said...

At least those who are driven bonkers by cicadas or frogs can plug their ears, but when the harassing noise is inside your head...!!

Hope the doc has good news for you.