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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:24pm on 2006-03-01 under

I've spent the last two days feeling hung-over. Considering how long it's been since I've had any alcohol (and the smallish quantities I consume when I do drink), this is grossly unfair. I actually feel worse today than yesterday.

Feeling hung-over without having done anything to earn it is just wrong. If I'd been drinking it would still suck but at least I'd feel like I'd done it to myself.

[A long time ago, one of the meds I was given for fibromyalgia made me feel like this. I was taken off it as soon as I reported that symptom. I wonder whether anything I've eaten lately can cause this feeling, or if it's just my body being randomly annoying.]

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posted by [identity profile] kathrynt.livejournal.com at 10:28pm on 2006-03-01
98% of the time, when I feel like that, I'm either dehydrated or courting a migraine.
 
posted by [identity profile] sjo.livejournal.com at 10:33pm on 2006-03-01
Seconded.
 
posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 10:33pm on 2006-03-01
I've followed a large serving of orange juice at breakfast with taking frequent gulps of Gatorade since, because of the dehydrated feling.

Given how [expletive]ing often I've experienced various migraine symptoms lately (with and without the telltale skull-crushing pain), incipient migraine wouldn't be surprising ...

... but would still be equally frustrating.
 
posted by [identity profile] kathrynt.livejournal.com at 10:36pm on 2006-03-01
How much liquid do you currently drink? I have a doctor-set goal of two or three liters of water a day. Mind you, that's artificially high for me because of my, er, condition ;-) but it's amazing how much better I feel.
 
posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 10:50pm on 2006-03-01
I haven't been keeping track, but I do make sure to keep liquids handy (including Gatorade next to the bed) so I can drink something whenever I feel the least bit thirsty. Some days it's more than two liters for sure, other days I'm not certain (because I'm taking a little from the bedside stash, a little from a big bottle of (non-caffeinated) soda on the kitchen table, a little from stuff in the fridge, etc.) When I wake up in the middle of the night, I usually take a drink.

Lately I've also been trying to humidify the house a bit. I've finally gotten it so that petting Perrine doesn't produce crackling sounds. (Surprisingly, she doesn't seem to care much, even when a spark happens at an ear-tip.)
 
posted by [identity profile] blumindy.livejournal.com at 12:54am on 2006-03-02
I also get that hung-over feeling -- or what I imagine a hangover to be like since I don't know.

I hate Gatorade and I don't much like plain water (except when I do, which is a whole other story.) Lately, I've been drinking Propel (yes, a Gatorade product but without the gag flavors, horrific added colorings and Propel has almost no sugar) when I am able to shlep it home. I also drink tea both with and without caffeine but none of that really seems to do much for the "hangover."

What med gave you this side effect? I think the closest I had was Elavil but I wasn't thinking of it as 'hungover' so much as zombified (no human carnage, though ;)

{{Hugs}} Hope you feel better soon.
 
posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 01:48am on 2006-03-02
It wasn't an antidepressant (that just made me a lump -- not even animated enough to be a zombie). I'm pretty sure it was either the muscle relaxant or the benzodiazepine ... unless the muscle relaxant was a benzo and I've forgotten a drug. One of them made me feel hung-over (a counterproductive side effect), and the other made me wake up with the taste of coffee grounds in my mouth every morning (that wasn't a bad enough side effect to discontinue that drug for by itself, but my doctor said it was a sign that we couldn't safely increase the dosage, and the dosage I was taking wasn't doing enough good, so it was time to try something else).

Then there was the summer I kept losing my temper and yelling at people and punched a hole in a wall, and the psychiatrist I went to suggested anti-anxiety meds, and it turned out thatthe drug I was already taking for the fibromyalgia was (by primary use) an anti-anxiety drug, so she took me off of that and I became myself again. I really, really thought I was going crazy then, until I stopped taking that.

I haven't had much luck with central nervous system drugs like that. But most of the meds they use to try to regulate sleep for fibro are just that sort of thing (usually starting with the antidepressants, often at what, a tenth of the psychiatric dose? Enough to screw me up though.).
 
posted by [identity profile] kara-h.livejournal.com at 02:15pm on 2006-03-02
I got that with an anti-seizure med. Outside of maybe a toast or two, I have
not drank alchohol since I was in college more than a decade ago. Not a
headache, but having every muscle in my body decide to take a holiday.
Real fun trying to walk around. Now I will never live down a rep at work
of having drunk my breakfast a few days.

Yes, the doc is in the process of changing my meds right now.

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