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 ;)
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.).
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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.
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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.).