Prescribed dosage of a medication I've taken for over 20 years suddenly left me with overwhelming desire to sleep. It happened once before and my doctor said at all costs I must stay awake. I did, and learned that the mediction can without warning shoot up in some inidividuals creating toxicity that if it is high enough will lead to coma, then sure death. In the emergency room the next day--I'd waited, since I was unsure I was having a reaction to the medicine, until after that night when I had to force myself awake--my serum level was 9/10ths point away from a point of inducing a coma. Now, I find that I've depleted my stamina and wasted my body through this event, days before toxitcity discovered, now two weeks after while I did without all medication until slowly I could reintroduce it.
My question is this: Do you, for any reason, have a similar experience to relate of a close brush with death due to strong medication, not, please, illicit drug overdoses.
2007-03-25
16:56:09
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Nightwriter21
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