Concerning symptoms? Or just rough adjustment?
Hi! I know that I can’t rely on y’all for medical advice and I don’t plan to. But I’ve had some weird effects while adjusting to med and I’m wondering if anyone can share if they’ve had a similar experience?
I am on Wellbutrin for depression and adderall for adhd
I’ve started Lamictal .. I don’t have the bottle w me because I’m on my lunch break haha but I think it’s the 25 mg…. I won’t be raising it for another three weeks. I’ve really noticed a big difference with feeling calmer.
However, I’ve had some weird things come up and I’m wondering if I should be concerned to the point of seeing someone asap or if I can wait it out and see if it improves.
I would really like to avoid going to urgent care if I don’t have to bc my insurance doesn’t cover much of it. And if I go to the ER I have to pay $800. Can’t see my primary care doc asap sooo
So I noticed my tonsils felt bad and I was sluggish and sick feeling. But that all felt the exact same way that adjusting to any other med I’ve tried has felt so I wasn’t worried.
I’ve noticed a pea sized hard lump in my stomach. It doesn’t hurt and you can’t see it but you can definitely feel it when I press on it. I feel like this is new? but I’m not totally confident. I noticed it while putting lotion on so I feel like I would’ve felt it before. From googling around it seems like it mostly relates to “swollen lymph nodes” which makes sense since my tonsils were hurting. But I never felt another place where lymph nodes swell so it’s so weird to me.
I’ve also considered that it could be me being constipated… bc TMI sorry.. my poops have been those hard pebble kinds. But sometimes it’s normal too?
I’ve started feeling mostly concerned bc I have moments where I feel disoriented, like I need to sit down. And an uncomfortable bodily feeling that something is “wrong”… don’t know how to explain it but it’s hard to ignore. When this has happened I notice that the veins in my arm and hand get very prominent and dark blue. And a part of my thumb gets kind of purple? Pics are linked.
This only lasts a little bit and I think it relates to blood pressure? Bc when I take my adderall for work I feel fine and I don’t see those veins and all of that (I do still feel that little lump in my stomach though)
So I’m wondering if maybe my blood pressure just gets really low? I’m gonna try and check it if it happens again.
I also want to note that I have Really really bad habits with eating.. I don’t eat enough and I don’t really like eating so I have to force myself. The things I like to eat are fruit and veg so I get a lot of those but it takes a lot to get me to eat a full meal & when it’s really bad I do notice that I’m hangry.
For the two times I’ve had this kind of episode happen I do think it was during a time when it had been awhile since I’ve had a meal. And each time I forced myself to eat but it’s hard to tell if that’s what made me feel better.
Both times (and every morning tbh) I’ve been checking my body all over and I don’t have any kind of rash.
I’ve had a really hard time figuring this out through google & I don’t know if it’s something I should get help for now or if I can just wait awhile for my primary care doc. I keep reading things that say it’s normal and I just need to eat more and then I will see things that say it’s not normal.