I was on antidepressants and the made me hallucinate. I had never had any for of hallucinations before being on the medication. Could the hallucinations have just been hidden, and once I was on the medications it brought them forward? I've been off the meds for about 2 weeks and still am having visual hallucinations on an almost daily basis. It's only little things like bugs, no people like it was before. However, obviously I shouldn't still be going through withdrawal of a pill I only took for a little over a week! None of my current medications [mood stabalizers, anxiety, and one antidepressant Trazodone] should be making ma hallucinate or so my psychiatrist told me. So yeah, any ideas?
2007-11-09 12:34:39 · 6 answers · asked by Melissa 2 in Health ➔ Mental Health
I just started getting help for my depression. This has been my third medication change in 2 months.
2007-11-09 12:46:43 · update #1
The medication they gave made me suicidal, hallucinating, and just completely out of my head! The first [lexapro]ended me up in the hospital psych ward. They changed my meds [to cymbalta] while in there, everything seemed okay for a few days. About 4 days after getting out I started hallucinating and cutting my arms again. So they took me off that as well. I was taking trazodone for sleeping the whole time but they have kept me on that the whole time. I'm currently on Lamcital and Clonazepam. This week she put me on Lithium until the Lamcital has time to build up. I didn't think I should still be seeing things. At first I thought it was just my imagination but it's happening nearly everyday again. I just wasn't sure if the medication could have made underlying conditions surface or not.
2007-11-09 13:36:12 · update #2
Hallucinations doen't automatically mean you have schizophrenia, some people have hallucinations as part of Major Depression or Bipolar Disorder.
If you got totally off the medication for two weeks it doesn't sound like the medication could have caused it.
It may just be a coincidence that the hallucinations started after you started taking the meds.
Three medication changes in two months? Why? That makes me think you haven't tried any of them long enough to know if they really work or not. You need to follow your doctor's directions or there's no way it's going to help.
Be sure and tell your doctor about the hallucinations, if you haven't already.
2007-11-09 13:22:01 · answer #1 · answered by majnun99 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well I don't feel you would still be having this effect if it was caused from the medication if you stopped taking two weeks ago. I think it is highly likely that you are having your first symptoms of schizophrina. Schizophrina symptoms (hallucinations, and such) usually start to appear during teen years or early twentys. I would recommend you talk to your psychiatrist as soon as possible for a definitive diagnosis. Good luck!
2007-11-09 12:51:12 · answer #2 · answered by "McRib" NREMT-P 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry old chap but that bit of hallucination is down to me, he was over at Smythe Hall wailing and blubbering his little piggy eyes out about some miscreant, a bounder, a cad and an all round jolly bad egg was rogering his good wife. Well you could have knocked me down with a feather as I had been sampling her wares last year just after Ascot. Knowing full well who was imbibing his sausage at the moment I decided that he could do with a stiff drink. So I gave him a bottle of Culbertson's elixir of life. You know the stuff, half sweet sherry and half methylated spirits. Well I didn't think the damned fool would hoover the damned bottle off in one go did I? As a result I had Cuthbertson take him away and dump him at one of your less than salubrious clubs. Well being unconscious from drinking meths would hardly be noticed outside of your establishment. Didn't think the blighter had the where with all to get himself out of the gutter and into your club. Seeing an elephant? its a wonder he didn't see a whole herd. Still he survived thats the main thing.
2016-04-03 04:45:36 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
your best bet is to talk with your doctor as some tablets have very very rare side effects that sometimes are not listed on the information leaflet and it maybe that with you changing medications you have somehow, inadvertently mixed two things that are giving you these side effects. Your first step should be talking with your doctor and try to detail what you take when these side effects are at their strongest
2007-11-09 12:50:52 · answer #4 · answered by John P 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that you should talk to a doctor and stop taking those pills for awhile because it gives you hallucination
2007-11-09 12:43:47 · answer #5 · answered by Sakura Drops 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Talk to your psychiatrist sounds like schizophrenia to me!
2007-11-09 12:41:18 · answer #6 · answered by Lunaeclipz 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋