Posted by gromit on February 9, 2005, at 6:02:55
I was wondering if anybody has experienced any of these side effects from Desipramine.
1. My hands get cold alot, it can be so hot that I'm sweating thru my clothes and my hands will be like ice.
2. My temperature seems to have gone down, I'm usually between 99 and 99.4 all the time, now it is often under 98.
3. I have difficulty speaking, I'll start to say something and just make weird noises for a second, I have to concentrate really hard just to talk.
4. My temper is out of control, I get really angry over simple things in an instant. Normally it's pretty hard to make me mad at all.
5. I am alot more emotional, my wife used to say I had no emotions at all, now I'm all over the place. I don't know if this is good or bad but at least it's something different.
6. I can't sleep, tonight I had 100 mg trazodone, 100 mg benadryl, 2 vicodins and a beer, it's almost 4 am and I'm wide awake typing this message. The vicodin makes me wired sometimes but I have a torn rotator cuff and I need to take something.On the other hand a few weeks ago I was trying to identify the strange feeling I was having, I realized that it was happiness! Like when I was a little kid and got sick, I'd wake up one day and I was over it. I'd jump on my bed and run around the house. It didn't last very long though, I'm not sure if it was from the Desipramine or because I stopped taking Lexapro. This kind of bums me out even more, it's been so long since I really felt happy that I had forgotten what I was missing. It has made me realize all the time I spent trying to tell if different meds were working was pointless, I know now that they didn't help at all.
One more thing, last time I saw my pdoc he said "you don't really seem very depressed". Maybe 20 yrs ago I got Haemophilus, my throat was so painful after awhile I couldn't even dring water. My temp was close to 105 for days, it affected my speech, I was slurring my words badly. I went to the E.R. and the dr said normally they would admit someone in my condition but it didn't seem like I was suffering. Arghhh! I think my pdoc honestly believes that I'm making stuff up. What do I have to do, act more depressed somehow?
Thanks
Rick
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