A couple of days later my rash took up in the back of my throat also. So I really had to GO to the doc rather than just yakking with him. Another $125 down the tubes. Rather than rewrite it, I’ll c&p what I told my friend Mog.
The rash is almost certainly from some med or combination of meds. It’s quite probably not the carafate (ulcer med), which unless you have aluminum poisoning isn’t likely to cause anything but constipation because it’s really not systemic, 99% of it or somesuch just passes through. So that leaves me with way too many things for anyone to do anything but guess. I could have developed a sensitivity to the Zyprexa, which I’ve restatrted tho I’ve taken it several times before, since that was the thing I’d started just before the rash. Or anything else I take. Or it could be some combo of 2 or three things clashing. Or it could be my body freaking from Trileptal withdrawal. And of course there’s a chance it’s caused by an allergy unrelated to meds, but that’s the least likely since I have matching blisters in the back of my mouth and there’s just not much that comes in contact with my chest, the underside of my boobs AND the back of my mouth. Can’t think of a thing, really. LOL End result: No one knows. He gave me some steroid cream for the chest part and magic mouthwash for the back of my mouth and recommended that I talk to the psychiatrist about the Zyprexa and discontinue it if the rash doesn’t go away. I plan to discontinue it any way before long and the rash is not getting worse at least, so I’ll wait for the moment and just treat the stupid rash. My mood is going floppy as it is, so … huh… maybe I should call the shrink? Lord. My brain is dead. It never occurred to me until just now. See how handy emailing you is? LOL
Duhr. Going to call the shrink now. Well, actually going to call the substitute therapist (because reg therapist is in Europe this week) and have her get with the shrink and either schedule an appt or have her call me. Gotta love the gatekeeper system. *chuckles*
Oh, my stomach is improving a little. I guess the ole aluminum slurry is doing the trick with the ulcer. You know there are no medications I could find written about for ulcers that aren’t metals??? I guess that’s because the soup in the tummy is hydrochloric acid. No wonder stomach acid eats holes in stomachs if it gets out of whack. Improvement is good. And a bit amazing considering hydrochloric acid. I’m almost off the Trileptal *my bipolar is crying sad tears for that*, so hopefully it will all settle after that and I can stop eating ground up Reynold’s Wrap. LOL
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When weird symptoms crop up it’s so difficult to narrow the cause down if you’re on a plethora of medications. I never know if something is due to a drug I’m taking or one I’m reducing or something ominous (my health anxiety usually picks this one). I hope you get that rash cleared up.
Do you take lamictal/lamotrigine? That most definitely causes a dangerous rash.
Hope you’ve gotten in to see the shrink by now seeing it’s Friday already. I want your bipolar to stabilize. You deserve some happiness.
*hugs*
Laura – Rash is clearing up from steroid cream thank goodness.
Sheri – Lamictal did not give me a rash but it gave me almost everything else, so I had to stop it. Haven’t taken it in almost a year, so that’s not it. All the anti-convulsants can cause fatal TEN/Steven-Johnson’s, just lamictal’s gotten more press on it.
Mog – I have. Now I get to see if I can survive a new med. It would be nice to stabilize, but I am beginning to doubt I ever really will. If it’s not the bipolar, it’s the PTSD. I am kinda bummed about it all.