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Trying to work out what happened to me yesterday?!

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inigomontoyahwillcox · 04/11/2022 06:54

I got very bizarrely ill yesterday morning and for the life of me can't work out what was wrong.

Was mid way through some berry granola when I started feeling sick. Didn't think much of it but stopped eating. About 5 minutes later I went completely spaced out, eyes rolling to the back of my head - I honestly felt like I had taken something (was transported back to my ecstasy taking 20s but not in a good way), so much so that I checked my daughter's ADHD medication in case I'd taken one with my normal tablets but I hadn't (there were only 2 gone from the pack which corresponded with what she had taken).

I got very panicky so messaged my friends who live a few doors down and I went to theirs for a few hours (was working from home alone other than the kitchen fitter being there!) - I could hardly remember their names and kept getting these waves of feeling "high" accompanied with nausea. I eventually was sick and felt quite a bit better (the spaced out/on another planet feeling mainly subsided) and made my way home. Spent the evening still feeling nauseous and very tired. Took my usually tablets again and went to bed but have spent the night feeling very sick, headache and occasionally spaced out/having weird thoughts.

WTF? Did I ingest some funny berry in my granola? Was it an odd panic attack, atypical migraine, bog standard stomach bug with added bizarre symptoms? All very strange.

As not to drip feed, I take propranolol for migraines (have done for about 13 years) along with lansoprazole (again, have had for years). Unless there's been some fuck up at the factory I can't imagine they caused it.

Mumsnet medical sleuths - do you have any ideas? I didn't seek medical advice as I wasn't sure exactly what to say? "I feel like I'm on drugs but I haven't taken any"?

OP posts:
SusGus · 08/11/2022 16:52

How are you feeling now OP? I’m still waiting for my bloods to be back.

Today it’s like my brain and body aren’t matching up, tried to build a little toy from DDs kinder egg and it was like I didn’t have the strength and or coordination to put it together. Is that something you’ve experienced at all? Still hoping we both get some kind of answers soon!

Notlivinglife · 08/11/2022 17:01

What brand of Lansoprazole is it?

Caminante · 08/11/2022 17:19

This reminded me of a strange episode I had earlier in the year.
Never got to the bottom of it but it hasn't come back.

Was this a panic attack? www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/4548427-was-this-a-panic-attack?msgid=-4548427#-4548427

inigomontoyahwillcox · 09/11/2022 08:06

Notlivinglife · 08/11/2022 17:01

What brand of Lansoprazole is it?

It's by a company called Almus pharmaceuticals. I didn't take it yesterday but still had an attack so don't think it's this.

I've been taken off everything by the doc for a day and given a lower dose of beta blocker and lansoprazole to restart on. Have also been given some antiemetics. She's still thinking it's an atypical migraine - albeit a very long one. Woken up feeling very sick and palpitations (I suspect due to not taking my beta blocker) but headache and out of it feeling not quite as bad.

OP posts:
inigomontoyahwillcox · 09/11/2022 08:09

SusGus · 08/11/2022 16:52

How are you feeling now OP? I’m still waiting for my bloods to be back.

Today it’s like my brain and body aren’t matching up, tried to build a little toy from DDs kinder egg and it was like I didn’t have the strength and or coordination to put it together. Is that something you’ve experienced at all? Still hoping we both get some kind of answers soon!

Yes I feel exactly like that, but with the addition of nausea and headache.

I remember watching an episode of Star Trek as a kid and they had a scanning machine that told you exactly what was wrong with you - if only science fiction was science fact.

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mydudero · 10/11/2022 18:51

I'm sorry to hear you're still suffering OP. That does sound very long for any kind of migraine.

You said they carried out a CT scan, but has there been any discussion re an mri on the brain? I would really push for this. An mri may pick something up that the CT scan didn't as it's much more detailed.

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