#clonidine

[weirdstrangeandawful]

TW: medical

People who’ve been successfully medicated for POTS, please help!

I tried methyldopa and it made all my symptoms worse so I switched to clonidine a day ago and whilst I know it’s only supposed to drop my blood pressure for the first couple weeks, it’s already hell a day in. I even had to take the afternoon off work because I fell asleep on my keyboard. My other options right now are midodrine 2-3 times a day which causes supine hypertension so I wouldn’t be able to lie down all day (impossible for me with ME and EDS), or fludrocortisone which I’m not against but might not work if I can’t eat/drink enough and also might drop my potassium which I’ve already had problems with in the past.

Has anyone tried any of these and can give me some ideas of how to deal with the initial hell and/or continuing side effects? I’d go to the ER for IV fluids but I’m too exhausted to fight plus they don’t let me lie down. Even just general advice appreciated.

[vorems]

anyone taking clonidine feel like their paranoia is heightened a bit and chest feeling very hollow? like....? whats that about .??

[lovelyfirebouquet]

Early morning Clonidine dreams are fucking BIZARRE apparently.

-Held and cuddled a guinea-pig-sized jumping spider (I'm terrified of spiders)

-Met an anthropomorphic Ant man (very humanoid in form, nearly faceless except big black eyes, wings on the back of his calves that did nothing)

-Had weird monster sex with said Ant Man [HIS REPRODUCTIVE CYCLE IS WEIRD. WOULD GO INTO DETAIL IF ANYONE IS CURIOUS]

-mpreg

-We have a weird hybrid child? Top half baby girl, bottom half just ant butt and legs. Ant centaur.

-Their species is skilled with a bow and arrow straight out the ant.

-She has the strength and intelligence of an ant creature and the stubbornness of her human mom. She's a handful and she bickers with me a lot.

-Despite this, she likes a lot of my favorite things and we're similar in nature.

-Some evil guy doesn't like ant husband and I. Tries to trick daughter into poisoning us.

-Doesn't work. Daughter and I make up.

Random Additional Info

-Daughter loves eating tiny food, picked that up from her mom. Uses tiny silverware and eats out of tiny tins and boxes.

-Ant husband picked this habit up when he's stressed. Specifically will eat a small cup of rocky road ice cream with a tiny spoon or a tiny can of tuna.

-Ant and I have a friend, Moth woman, who lives nearby. She gets stuck in capitalistic loop of buying things and we convince her to give it up and be happy living in her empty house cave again.

[drpedi07]

Clonidine Drug

Medical information for Clonidine on Pediatric Oncall including Mechanism, Indication, Contraindications, Dosing, Adverse Effect, Interaction, Renal Dose, Hepatic Dose.

[purpleflameb0i]

I'M FINALLY GETTING ADHD MEDS YALL

(It's clonidine !!)

Also the person who has been working with me and my meds for years has said that she definitely sees ADHD in me O.O

So that was nice :33

[rabbitindisguise]

so I'm taking a bunch of my "as needed" anxiety medications to tamp down symptoms and it's a very interesting experience of being:

drowsey

incredibly functional and alert

able to think easier

calmer

slowed down

all at the same time. It's like, the intended effect? It's just surprising that it works because I'm used to tiredness making my emotions and symptoms harder to manage instead of eaiser. Regardless, nice. I feel somewhat like myself and not like hell warmed over.

[growntourettesmemes]

[gilettefusion5]

My stress dream last night was about cutting open an avocado to make toast only to realize I already had an open avocado in my fridge, which meant I now had four avocado halves that wouldn’t last more than two to three days and I had to eat them all immediately. I actually went and checked my fridge when I woke up because I was worried about it. Being an adult is stupid.

[cvsette]

Went to urgent care and then was referred to a walk-in MENTAL HEALTH URGENT CARE THAT IS FREE/SLIDING SCALE??? THIS SHOULD BE A THING EVERYWHERE HELLO?? because I have not been able to sleep well or eat much for the past week due to Crushing Anxiety/Panic and it doesn’t seem to be getting better. and everyone was so so nice to me and genuinely sad they couldn’t prescribe me Xanax. I know there are a lot of bad ones out there but wow good mental healthcare workers are truly gods strongest soldiers

[lucaswarmhotchocolate]

If life were fair or just I would be sitting down on a luxurious chaise lounge all day in really expensive silk dresses that are incredibly revealing and I would read incest yaoi and eat cheese and grapes and brag to anyone that passes by about how beautiful I am

[darkplanets]

🌠& 💬 for the soulbond ask game? :) - @soularsys

Do you voluntarily soulbond, or does it happen by chance /accidentally / etc?

Yeah it kind of just...happened, with him. Essentially he recaptured the energy of a dormant, fading thoughtform and used it to start metaphorically lounging on my mental piano. We've tried to voluntarily bond with others but he's so powerful he kind of uses up all of the available mental bandwidth.

What are some fun facts about your soulbond(s)?

He's a version of M.ettaton from an alternate timeline that doesn't have an associated published AU. F.allen F.lowers M.ettaton looks very similarly to the way he does, though. We're a median so at times he's very distinct but at times it's more like we're each other's kintypes.

To make a long story short, he more wanted to be the most theatrical, vampire-coded guy alive than wanted to be a Bratz doll. A consummate goth, a walking Shakespearean monologue that just loves talking about himself. He ran an upscale nightclub instead of a resort hotel, one where various musicians, actors and artists from throughout the U.nderground would perform, but he was always the main event. Sometimes it'd be music, sometimes a play. His tastes ran to the distinctly Grand Guignol...

And instead of a box with a wheel, his first body was a repurposed cleaning robot, a spidery thing with 8 legs.

[knxfesck]

me when I took 4 times my usual dosage of clonidine last night to go the fuck to bed but it felt like I was excavating my own skeleton in 0.5x speed getting out of bed this morning and I'm stuck looking like a walking corpse for the interview that caused this whole course of action

[eternal-ascensionism]

Hello cashier man :) Oh, the melon baller? That’s just for me to scoop my eyes out so the tourettes will stop :)))

[cowboyjimkirk]

weird question probably, but has anyone tried benzodiazepines with their dog or other animal? how did it go? my veterinary behaviorist has brought it up a few times as an option for my pup, but i guess i’m wary of schedule iv drugs.

i’d ask on one of the Facebook dog pages i follow, but they seem to frown down on medication questions 🥺👉👈

[scoutbot]

i cant tell if i want to kill myself or if my period is just on the way