Beware Combining Ssris And The "triptan" Family Of Drugs

[HOME ALONE]

I have been just diagnosed with Serotonin Syndrome as a result of the interaction of these two drugs..

I encourage anyone taking these medications together to call their pharmacist immediately.

 

[The Albatross]

Sorry to read Home Alone, I'm not familiar with the syndrome but am glad you gave those here a heads up. Thanks and I hope it's reversible?

 

[HOME ALONE]

I hope it's reversable?

The funny thing is that my next appointment is not until the 13th so I am googling all about it.

They let me know of this at the end of a very long and oustanding communication. Twice I was asked to leave the room for 15-20 minutes. Initially to to allow them time to request and recieve my perscription history. Secondly to allow private professional discourse and determinations. Only after the session was complete and I'd returned home did I look up why they told me that mine was a dangerous situation in regard to the combination of these drugs.

I was expecting to discover something like a blot clot risk, or a cardiac response when I searched the two drugs taken together. I followed the rabbit down the hole to a standard medical information site, and followed a link in an article referencing the critical nature of the interraction. It had the symptoms of the syndrome listed, and I cried.

I would not only fail to improve but CONTINUE to deteriorate as a direct relult of my treatment plan re:meds had I not gone to the emergency ward 3x until at last I sat like a mule and insisted I was not leaving without a promise of a rapid assessment of my care and my medication.. I was pleading for my sanity. I left with paperwork and a promise.

The horrible reality is this. The interraction induces and adds to the exact symptoms for which they were perscribed. The Staff psychiatrist and the Nurse Therapist's eyes were as wide as 2 owls when they told me it was a deadly risk. Now I'm starting to absorb it. What a terrible cosmic joke. I wonder when the anger will set in.

 

[The Albatross]

Wow. Anger, yeah that may be part of the reaction. But to avoid a good deal of the emotional muck, stick to what you know and try to avoid "what if" or "when" thinking. Just deal with things as they are in the moment right now. It can get overwhelming.

I didn't have a drug interaction like you have, but I had crossed paths with a very rare negative rod bacteria that mutates rapidly and can be drug resistant which is said to be fatal in those who can't fight it off with their immunity (like me) in 15 years. At the time of my diagnosis, my best guess was that I had been ill right around 9 years. I about drove myself and my husband crazy with all the thoughts and feelings because so few had heard of it and no one for a long time had anything to share direct experience wise with it.

Stay in the moment, stick to what you know, and I'll be rooting for you.