That i had this reaction to medicine?

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Long story short, I was at the mental hospital for a week, and well, everyday they would give me medicine, I'm not really sure what it was, I just took it, trusting them.

However, the first night I took it, I became light-headed and dizzy, and then my vision went black as if I had gone blind.
This proceed to happen another 2-3 times before it went away.

I tried to tell the staff what was going on, but they acted like they didn't care, or didn't understand, which bothered me.

Yes, it's normal. 6
No, it's not normal. 5
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  • JD777
    8 years ago

    Mental hospitals dose out some powerful stuff. Patients are often a danger to themselves and others, so they go for strong meds that act fast. And they don't often listen to patient complaints, because, um, often times the patients aren't acting rationally in the first place (why they're in the mental ward!). Unfortunately these strong meds bring along with them some pretty strong side effects. Benzodiazepines (like Lorazepam) can have the side effects you mention and then some. Always ask what meds you're being given and the dose strength, then write it down. If it's a med that you haven't tolerated in the past, tell them and don't take it.

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    • LuxM4G
      8 years ago

      You happen to know this by first hand professional experience? Don't take movies too seriously.

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      • JD777
        8 years ago

        Yes, I've been in healthcare for over 20 years.

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        • Aries
          8 years ago

          That's interesting , do you know anything about my neck muscle injury that physio didn't nothing for or depersonalization . The doctors do not seem to know how to fix either on top of the specialist who claims not to know what is going on with my dysphagia / esophagus issues ... hmmmmmm? those doctors I tell you! :P

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          • JD777
            8 years ago

            Did they do a high def scan to look at all the soft tissue?

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            • Aries
              8 years ago

              No , they did not and I wasn't aware they could! I should mention this to my doctor ? is that what it's called or did you mean MRI?

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        • LuxM4G
          8 years ago

          Sorry, this reply was supposed to be directed to bugs. It gives the health-care system a bad rep and further exacerbates the OP concerns. To think that a psico pharmaceutical would be administered without proper evaluation of the subject and done in a mass scale just to sedate them without caring for the patient health. You see that in movies alot, that's not sure.

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        • Asstastics
          8 years ago

          Hey chief, a couple of weeks ago, you said you had a Ph.D. in physics. All this time, I've been thinking your knowledge of advanced mathematics is on par with mine. What the fuck is your story anyway?

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          • JD777
            8 years ago

            Heheh, now don't get all disillusioned, Ass. I do have a Ph.D. in physics. My specialty is in biophysics and neurophysics. Which is also why I have a good deal of knowledge about the effects of drugs, like Lorazepam, on the OP's nervous system.

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            • asstastics2
              8 years ago

              OK Chief, fair enough. You do that shit, and I'll stick with 4 dimensional Maximum Likelihood Estimation, along with Kalman Filtering for precision military targeting systems.

              As your Ass, let me recommend the Wikipedia article on Kalman Filtering. It's a method that is broadly applicable to a variety of multi-disciplinary problems. Note that its state vectors and co-variance matrices are easily computable in real-time for feedback systems having hundreds of input dimensions.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      8 years ago

      I understand that people in the hospital aren't all mentally stable, but the reason I went was because I was depressed and had thoughts of harming myself. Okay, that's not exactly mentally stable, but I wasn't so unstable that I couldn't think normally and rational, at least compared to the other people there.

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  • [Old Memory]
    8 years ago

    Doesnt sound normal, but it is normal for mental health staff to neglect their patients.
    They give people meds and then let them run out and they sometimes snap and kill everyone.
    I recommend trying to switch doctors until you find one good enough. I will warn you they usually are not.

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  • LuxM4G
    8 years ago

    You were administered an pharmaceutical by the mental hospital psychiatrist who reviewed your cased thoroughly, your medication is customized, applied specifically to your case.

    The secondary effects have been taken into account regarding your profile. The staff probably don't possess the technical knowledge to elucidate you, so they ignored you as the regulations dictate.

    You have the right to know what you were administered. If they didn't asked you for official permission it's because you didn't possessed judgment authority to concede it.

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  • DolphinAngel
    8 years ago

    Medicine can have some serious side effects... My guess would be that they gave you something to "calm down" at a high dose which made your blood pressure get pretty low and therefore you felt dizzy, tired and had problems with your vision...

    May have been something completely different though, I'm not a doctor :D

    I suggest you look for another doctor if they won't explain to you what they are giving you and don't care if you have problems with the medicine...

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  • sugartits
    8 years ago

    never take the drugs in the looney bin! thats how you become crazy especially if you don't know the name of it and the amount being dosed out to you

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