Theory: Nasonex is the devil.
Hypothesis: Nasonex is ruining my life. (Hypothesis because it isn't tested yet. Experiment begins now.)
After about two days on the spray I started getting minor nosebleeds. I've NEVER gotten a nosebleed in my life. I linked it immediately to the Nasonex, but I didn't care much. It seemed like a small price to pay for being able to breathe.
After the fourth day (or so) I started having fucked up nightmares. As I wrote in my previous post, in the throes of an anxiety attack, I was afraid of going to sleep the night before because I was reading about sleep paralysis. I'm pretty irrational, but not so irrational that simply reading about something would have me panicking. I should have been suspicious then.
Within the last couple of weeks insomnia ensued (causing more anxiety attack), as did depression, heart palpitations, social alienation, etc. etc.. This was all stuff I attributed to "winter doldrums".
This morning I got a pretty bad nosebleed, so out of curiosity I checked online to see whether this was normal. What I read was a long list of side effects that matched almost exactly what I've been dealing with for the last month I've been on Nasonex.
I consulted my aunt, a doctor, partially because I wanted counsel without copay, but mostly because I had a feeling my doctors would be skeptical. (I've heard a lot of stories from people where that's the case. Somehow, it can NEVER be the pharmaceutical's fault.) Her advice was to stop taking it. Apparently these things are not even remotely unheard of, which I can see just by doing a Google search; I have a feeling any doctor with a financial interest in my treatment wouldn't condone this form of self-diagnosis.
Other side effects that don't scare me as much: headaches (constant), hives on my legs, blurry vision, decrease in ability to taste/smell (which a lot of people complain about).
http://www.askapatient.com/viewrating.asp?drug=20762&name=NASONEX
I don't remember Flonase (which also has a generic equivalent that is FUCKLOADS CHEAPER than Nasonex, which doesn't) ever giving me anywhere near this much shit.
After about two days on the spray I started getting minor nosebleeds. I've NEVER gotten a nosebleed in my life. I linked it immediately to the Nasonex, but I didn't care much. It seemed like a small price to pay for being able to breathe.
After the fourth day (or so) I started having fucked up nightmares. As I wrote in my previous post, in the throes of an anxiety attack, I was afraid of going to sleep the night before because I was reading about sleep paralysis. I'm pretty irrational, but not so irrational that simply reading about something would have me panicking. I should have been suspicious then.
Within the last couple of weeks insomnia ensued (causing more anxiety attack), as did depression, heart palpitations, social alienation, etc. etc.. This was all stuff I attributed to "winter doldrums".
This morning I got a pretty bad nosebleed, so out of curiosity I checked online to see whether this was normal. What I read was a long list of side effects that matched almost exactly what I've been dealing with for the last month I've been on Nasonex.
I consulted my aunt, a doctor, partially because I wanted counsel without copay, but mostly because I had a feeling my doctors would be skeptical. (I've heard a lot of stories from people where that's the case. Somehow, it can NEVER be the pharmaceutical's fault.) Her advice was to stop taking it. Apparently these things are not even remotely unheard of, which I can see just by doing a Google search; I have a feeling any doctor with a financial interest in my treatment wouldn't condone this form of self-diagnosis.
Other side effects that don't scare me as much: headaches (constant), hives on my legs, blurry vision, decrease in ability to taste/smell (which a lot of people complain about).
http://www.askapatient.com/viewrating.asp?drug=20762&name=NASONEX
I don't remember Flonase (which also has a generic equivalent that is FUCKLOADS CHEAPER than Nasonex, which doesn't) ever giving me anywhere near this much shit.