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by frostfern » Fri Mar 21, 2014 11:26 pm
I accidentally took three times my normal dose (60mg instead of 20mg) and experienced a ridiculously deep black depression that lasted all of 90 minutes. Depression is an understatement for what I felt. This was outright grief. Imagine someone close to you dieing! That's what I felt! All I could do was run around outside sobbing and yelling. It felt like my life was over! I couldn't sit or do anything to distract myself from it. I felt this utter mental exhaustion/weariness, this thick fuzzy "fog" in the front of my brain, like a weight lodged between my eyes, but at the same time I literally couldn't sit still! I couldn't stop crying! I had to abuse my Ritalin to put an end to it. I took 60 mg of Ritalin (I normally take 30) and I was 90% better within 20 minutes.
I feel like throwing the crap away. It's supposed to be a "mood stabilizer"/"non-sedating atypical anti-psychotic" that I was prescribed mainly for anger and meltdowns. I refused to take a lot of the others in the same category of the same out of fear of weight gain.
Please tell me I'm not alone in having this experience from that particular medication!
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by Oliveira » Sat Mar 22, 2014 11:38 am
Did you inform your doctor about your accidental overdose of both Latuda and Ritalin?
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by frostfern » Sat Mar 22, 2014 3:45 pm
I haven't seen him yet. None of what I took was outside the therapeutic range so nothing was a dangerous overdose in terms of physical health risks. I just have to adjust any medication very slowly due to being extra-sensitive to changes. Any rapid change can have serious consequences.
It's just very very concerning when I get wild mood fluctuations not listed anywhere as side effects. I've had a history of bad reactions to medications and I tend to get extremely frustrated and defensive when psychiatrists act as if they don't believe me. I just need to know I'm not alone in having these extreme reactions to medication changes.
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