#famotidine — Public Fediverse posts

Either I've eaten something that's disagreed with me, or these new tablets from the GP don't suit me, but I'm farting for England and my upper chest is tight.
This stuff ( Famotidine) was meant to sort out my reflux problems, not make it worse.

#GERD #GORD #Famotidine #AcidReflux

'Use of reflux drugs linked to higher risk of migraine':

The acid-reducing drugs include proton pump inhibitors such as omeprazole and esomeprazole, histamine H2-receptor antagonists, or H2 blockers, such as cimetidine and famotidine, and antacid supplements.
The study does not prove that acid-reducing drugs cause migraine; it only shows an association."

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/04/240424182453.htm

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#reflux
#omeprazole
#esomeprazole
#cimetidine
#famotidine
#antacid

La famotidine m’a causé une dépression et de la fatigue

D’autres réflexions sur mon expérience avec la famotidine.

Préambule: j’ai écrit cet article, en anglais, durant le mois d’août 2022, à peu près six jours après mon article précédent. J’ai décidé de l’éditer minimalement avant de le publier ici. En particulier, je n’ai pas ajusté la chronologie. Je ne me savais pas autiste au moment où j’ai écrit ceci. Je crois maintenant que mon autisme m’a causé à avoir une expérience inusitée avec cette famotidine.

La famotidine est disponible aux ÉU sous les noms: Pepcid, Zantac 360, Act, Dyspep HB, Fluxid, et Acid Controller.

Je me sentais donc complètement fatigué et déprimé. Il n’y avait rien dans ma vie qui puisse expliquer ceci. J’ai commencé à rechercher le problème, et je suis tombé sur la famotidine comme une probable cause. J’ai déjà écrit à ce propos dans un autre article.

Quand la famotidine vous pète la tête

J’avais lu que parmi les effets secondaires de la famotidine qu’il y a des cas où elle peut causer la fatigue et la dépression. Je parle de dépression parce que quand je soufrais des effets de la famotidine, je ne voulais même pas me lever du sofa. Même mon écriture soufra de ces effets. Durant cette période, je n’ai pas produit autant d’articles qu’auparavant.

Mes docteurs n’ont pas été utiles pour identifier ce qui m’affligeait. J’ai demandé de l’aide d’un docteur, mais l’infirmière m’a répondu que c’était probablement mon insomnie qui m’affligeait. Que non, mon problème n’avait rien à voir avec mon insomnie.

Je prenais de la famotidine parce que j’avais un reflux, mais c’est un médicament qui peut être donné aux gens pour d’autres raisons. Par exemple, il fonctionne aussi comme un antiacide. Les gens peuvent aussi prendre du bicarbonate de soude contre l’acide, mais, d’après ce que j’en sais, la famotidine est le premier médicament en vente libre que les docteurs donnent aux patients quand ils se plaignent du reflux ou de l’acide.

J’ai fait l’expérience de deux choses quand j’ai arrêté de prendre mon antiacide. Ma première nuit fut okay, mais les nuits subséquentes, j’ai commencé à faire l’expérience du reflux. Ceci cessa après quelques jours. Je crois maintenant que d’arrêter la famotidine rapidement après l’avoir pris pendant un bout de temps cause un effet de rebondissement. Quelqu’un qui arrête de la prendre connaîtra le reflux durant quelques nuits à cause de cet effet.

J’ai trouvé quelques sites qui parlaient de ceci, mais aucun de mes docteurs ne m’a averti à propos du rebondissement. Je me rappelle même un docteur qui disait qu’il n’y avait pas besoin de réduire progressivement ma consommation.

Une autre chose dont j’ai fait l’expérience est le lent retour à mon humeur normale. Ça m’a pris un peu de temps pour revenir à la normale. Au début, je me demandais si j’avais bien identifié la cause de ma dépression. Néanmoins, petit à petit, mon humeur s’améliora. Je n’avais plus le goût de me vautrer sur le sofa et de ne rien faire. Ma fatigue s’est aussi améliorée. Je me repose toujours durant le jour, mais ces périodes de repos sont plus rares et plus courtes.

J’ai appris en lisant des articles médicaux sur la dépression et sur les médicaments qui traitent la dépression que des fois les gens souffrent d’effets psychologiques à cause d’une déficience d’une certaine substance dans le cerveau, ou à cause d’une surproduction d’une autre substance. Je présume que mon amélioration graduelle est due à certains de ces processus.

Il est probable que quand j’ai arrêté de prendre de la famotidine une substance quelconque a dû être réapprovisionnée, ou peut-être a dû être détruite, avant que je ne retrouve mon humeur habituelle. Ceci est un fait que les gens devraient garder à l’esprit quand iels essayent quelque chose: les changements psychologiques peuvent prendre du temps à se manifester.

En fait, ma descente dans la dépression a aussi pris du temps. Je prenais de la famotidine pendant plus d’un an sans effets secondaires négatifs. Ça a pris pas mal de temps avant que je ne ressente ces effets secondaires. Ceci supporte aussi ma théorie que la récupération est aussi un processus progressif plutôt qu’instantané.

J’ai remarqué par le passé que si j’ai du reflux durant la nuit, incliner mon torse est utile. Je peux composer avec un reflux léger de cette façon. J’ai donc acheté sur Amazon un oreiller en coin pour voir si ça aiderait.

Cet oreiller pourrait aussi aider avec mon insomnie. J’ai vu que certaines personnes font la promotion de l’oreiller en coin pour composer avec des cas d’apnée légère. C’est ce qui m’afflige. Donc ça pourrait améliorer ceci aussi.

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https://www.votreviedautiste.com/2024/03/25/la-famotidine-ma-cause-une-depression-et-de-la-fatigue/

Quand la famotidine vous pète la tête

Je crois que mon médicament anti-reflux me pète la tête.

Préambule: j’ai écrit cet article en anglais en août 2022, juste au moment où je gérais la dépression qui fut causée par ma famotidine. J’ai décidé de faire une édition minimale avant de republier. En particulier, je n’ai pas ajusté la chronologie. Je ne savais pas que j’étais autiste au moment des événements décrits ci-bas. Par contre, je crois maintenant que mon autisme est un facteur qui a contribué à mon expérience inusitée avec la famotidine.

Récemment, j’étais supposé d’aller dans un événement social, mais ceci ne s’est pas produit parce que dès la mi-après-midi, je me sentais très fatigué et dépressif. Ceci est un phénomène qui se reproduit quotidiennement depuis à peu près le 15 juillet.

Je me rappelle bien, en juin et au début de juillet, sortir au restaurant sans me préoccuper à savoir si je serais en forme pour y aller. J’ai dû annuler ma récente sortie parce que j’étais certain que je n’aurais pas été capable de subir cette soirée. La plupart du temps, je ne suis pas très grégaire. Si je me sens mal en plus, je n’arriverai pas à avoir du plaisir. J’ai commencé à prendre de la famotidine tous les jours parce que j’ai acquis un reflux à cause du dernier traitement que j’ai eu pour mon cancer à l’hôpital en 2021. Je l’ai prise pendant à peu près un an sans problème.

Mon cas est un peu bizarre. Premièrement, je soufre d’insomnie, mais j’ai souffert de ceci depuis longtemps, et je ne crois pas que ce soit le facteur principal dans mon cas. Pourquoi est-ce que je ne crois pas que ce soit le facteur principal? Parce que mon sommeil s’est amélioré lentement avec le temps. Néanmoins, mes manques d’énergie ont commencé en juillet. Je ne vois pas comment une amélioration de mon sommeil pourrait causer fatigue et dépression.

Deuxièmement, quand je me lève le matin, je me sens bien. C’est à partir de la fin de matinée et au début de l’après-midi que je commence à sentir un manque d’énergie. Après ceci, mon niveau d’énergie remonte. Je ne me sens pas tout à fait normal le soir, mais au milieu de la journée, vous ne me trouveriez pas en train de danser dans le salon. Le soir, par contre, j’ai assez d’énergie pour mettre de la musique et danser. Ce motif est étrange.

En plus, ça prend des années pour se rétablir du traitement que j’ai reçu pour mon cancer à l’hôpital. La fatigue peut être un effet secondaire, mais normalement les gens vivent cette fatigue au début de leur rétablissement, et par la suite, elle disparait. Ce n’est pas normal que la fatigue apparaisse plus tard durant la récupération.

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La première chose à examiner est la possibilité que mon cancer soit revenu. Il pourrait causer la fatigue que je ressens. Par contre, il n’y a présentement aucun signe qu’il soit revenu. Il y a un chiffre dans mon analyse de sang qui est un peu bas, mais les docteurs ne croient pas que ceci demande une intervention. Donc, je ne crois pas qu’il soit revenu. J’ai aussi été examiné en juin pour voir s’il était revenu, et il ne l’était pas. Mon prochain examen est en septembre.

Deuxièmement, j’ai été vacciné aux alentours du moment où j’ai commencé à ressentir des problèmes d’énergie. Au début, je croyais que la cause pourrait être les vaccins, mais j’ai recherché les effets secondaires, et j’ai éliminé cette hypothèse. (En passant, si vous êtes anti-vaccin et que vous voudriez commenter: allez vous faire foutre. Merci bien!) Malheureusement, il n’y a aucun moyen pour tester la possibilité que les vaccins soient coupables.

J’ai réduit ça à quatre possibilités:

1. C’est causé par la famotidine.
2. Notre eau de puits est contaminée. Peu probable parce qu’on l’a testé l’an passé et elle a passé le test. Je ne crois pas cette hypothèse très probable.
3. Les vaccins seraient la cause.
4. Le THC serait la cause.

D’emblée, je ne pensais pas au THC, mais la nuit dernière, je ne l’ai pas pris parce que je devais aller chercher mes épiceries ce matin. Des fois, si la dose est un peu trop forte, je me sens encore sous son influence le matin. Donc, les nuits dans lesquelles je dois aller quelque part tôt, j’évite le THC.

En ce moment même, je me sens bien, mais il est encore 6:30, et habituellement, je me sens bien à cette heure. Ce n’est que plus tard que le manque d’énergie entre en jeu, et que je commence à me sentir mal. Je ne sais pas encore si j’ai réglé le problème. Ce que j’ai fait hier fut:

1. Ne pas prendre ma famotidine.
2. Utiliser de l’eau embouteillée.
3. Ne pas prendre mon THC.

Je suis heureux de vous annoncer que je n’ai pas ressenti un reflux durant la nuit. Par contre, mon souper a été très léger. Peut-être que si je mangeais quelque chose de plus substantiel, je ressentirais un reflux.

Ma nuit de sommeil n’a pas été la meilleure, mais ceci est habituellement le cas quand je ne prends pas de THC. Ma nuit a quand même été meilleure que les nuits que j’avais plus tôt cette année quand je me réveillais et me levais à deux ou trois heures. Cette dernière nuit, je me suis réveillé plus tôt que cinq heures, mais je me suis levé à cinq heures, ce qui n’est en fait pas mauvais.

Okay, il est maintenant plus tard dans la journée, je ne me suis pas senti remarquablement fatigué avant le lunch. Donc c’est une amélioration par rapport à hier, mais je ne suis pas encore sorti du bois.

Pourquoi est-ce que la famotidine serait un suspect? Examinons ça. La Mayo Clinic a une page utile sur les effets secondaires. Entre autres choses, nous trouvons ceci dans cette liste, éditée ici pour enlever les choses qui ne sont pas pertinentes à notre discussion:

Rare
* anxiété
* découragement
* se sentir triste ou vide
* perte d’intérêt ou de plaisir
* trouble du sommeil

Incidence inconnue
* un sentiment général d’épuisement ou de faiblesse
* épuisement inhabituel or faiblesse inhabituelle

Rare
* somnolence inhabituelle

Ceci est plus ou moins ce que j’ai ressenti. Je me demande aussi comment la famotidine et le THC fonctionnent ensemble. Est-ce que la famotidine pourrait allonger l’effet du THC? Je me sens parfois un peu gelé le matin, et il me semble que l’effet est plus long qu’il ne le devrait.

C’est présentement le deuxième jour sous le nouveau système. J’ai eu un peu de reflux la nuit dernière, mais seulement un peu. Mon sommeil ne fut pas impeccable, mais c’est normal quand je ne prends pas de THC. Je me suis réveillé à 1:30 et je me suis rendormi. Je me suis levé à cinq heures. Pas impeccable, mais quand même bien. Je ne sais pas encore comment la journée se déroulera. Je me sens bien en ce moment, mais je ne saurais pas comment ça ira pour moi avant la mi-journée.

C’est maintenant le troisième jour sous le nouveau système. Je me sens plutôt normal aujourd’hui. J’ai recommencé à boire l’eau du puits. Je ne pense pas que l’eau aurait été coupable. Présentement, je crois que la famotidine ou le THC ou une combinaison des deux l’a fait. Je n’ai pas ressenti de reflux la nuit passée.

C’est présentement le sixième jour depuis que j’ai commencé à utiliser mon nouveau système. Je suis maintenant pratiquement sûr que la famotidine ou le THC est la cause. J’ai redémarré mon THC la nuit passée et jusqu’à présent, ça va. J’ai aussi recherché si le THC pouvait causer de la dépression. Les deux sont en corrélation, mais le THC ne cause pas la dépression. Il semble que les gens en dépression sont attirés par le THC.

Donc, je crois que j’ai raison: la famotidine est la cause. Mon reflux a aussi cessé. Je dirais aussi que si vous arrêtez la famotidine abruptement, vous pouvez avoir un rebond du reflux.

Je peux vous dire présentement, plus qu’un an après avoir écrit cet article, que la famotidine était coupable. Après l’avoir cessée, j’ai eu un court rebond de reflux, mais ma dépression s’est évaporée.

#AutisticWriters #depression #famotidine #reflux #SantéMentale #VotreVieDAutiste

https://www.votreviedautiste.com/2024/01/04/quand-la-famotidine-vous-pete-la-tete/

The USA Is Great At Stunt Medicine, Crap At Caring: Living Proof

I’m the living proof that the USA is great at stunt medicine, but absolute and utter crap at caring.

This article was rescued from another publication. It was minimally edited for publication here.

I’m the embodiment of someone who on the one hand received both life-saving care from the medical industry, and on the other hand received complete and utter shit from that same industry.

Do you know how great it is to live with this dichotomy inscribed inside my very body? Not very great. I’m going to go out on a limb and declare that it is like living in an abusive relationship. It is like living with someone caring about your well-being when it suits them, and on the other hand not fucking caring at all about your well-being the rest of the time.

When you get the care you need, you think about all the times that they’ve let you down. When you get crap, you think about all the times that you got the care you did need. When a new problem surfaces, what are you supposed to do then? Trust them? Or fucking run away?

Is it any wonder that I get panic attacks when my health is seriously threatened? Due to the abuse of the system, I have no strategy to move forward. Do I trust the system, or not? I have good reasons to go into either direction. So instead, I freeze and start to panic. Thanks, healthcare system!

Oh, I want to believe. I am scientifically minded. I hate anti-vaxxers. I hate them so much that I left a server dedicated to supporting people who have one of my diseases. The moderation there was almost non-existent, and every few weeks we got a new wave of anti-vaxxers. I said “fuck this” and left! I just couldn’t bear the onslaught of anti-scientific morons anymore.

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My cancer caused me to be revaccinated for everything under the sun for the past year or so. However, the repeated beatings I’ve received from the medical establishment have left me with a gigantic dose of skepticism at their ability to deliver on the promises that they make.

I’ve been beaten by the establishment, both before my cancer and afterwards. The beating that are coming afterwards are especially hard to swallow, seeing as I fired the entire health care team that was taking care of me prior to my cancer. I replaced them with doctors who actually care, or so I thought.

I’m discovering now that my actions were only so much pissing in the wind. The healthcare system is inherently designed to cause doctors to pass the buck and ignore the calls for help of their patients. It is not one doctor, one practice, or even one hospital. The entire system is corrupt from top to bottom.

ACAB. Do you know that slogan? I’m seeing it here and there these days on social media. “All cops are bastards.” I’ve got a new slogan for you: ADAB.

All doctors are bastards.

Will this doctor listen to me and provide the care I need? Or will I get shafted? If I don’t get shafted now, then when will I get shafted?

All my doctors eventually shafted me.

All… of… them…

Eventually.

Yes, even those who I picked out myself, thinking “This is the doctor I want on my team.” They all shafted me. It does not matter where they come from. They can be from a rural hospital, or from a world-renowned hospital in the big city. It does not make a difference. Eventually, you will get shafted. It may take longer to get there in the world-renowned hospital, but, eventually, you will get there!

My Cancer

In this case, my doctors did save my life. However, the care I received leading up to the correct treatment was awful. I was misdiagnosed a bunch of times. I lost count at some point because one doctor in particular was pretty fond of coming up with the illness of the week.

The last diagnosis I got before getting the correct one was actually one for which the treatment was making my condition worse! Some doctors had correctly posited that I probably had cancer, but they were telling me the diagnosis would be hard, and could leave me permanently damaged, because of the treatment I had received for a disease I did not have!

So on the one hand, my healthcare team for cancer did save my life. On the other hand, this was the very same team that also responded to my famotidine crisis and passed the buck!

Famotidine Causing Depression

The famotidine causing depression in me is an example of this bullshit. I’ve given the details in another article:

When Famotidine Messes With Your Head

In brief, famotidine is capable in some cases of causing depression. It did in my case. It was a surprise, as I had been taking it for over a year before is started messing me up in the head. I did ask for help from doctors, but my team, from a world-renowned hospital, passed the buck to another team, and I was left figuring things out for myself.

Emergency Care

Sometimes I joke that emergency care doctors may be good at identifying broken bones, but their diagnosis for anything else is stuff they pull out of their rear end.

If I think about my own history honestly, that’s not even true. Why? Because they can’t even reliably identify broken bones. I once went to an emergency clinic with a broken pinkie toe. I had banged it against a table, and it was hurting like hell. I thought it might be broken and told them.

They did an X-Ray, said it wasn’t broken, and sent me back home. Later that day, I got a call from that practice. Hmm… what could be the issue? I pick up, and they tell me that my fucking bone is fucking broken after all! I went in there with the correct diagnosis, but they completely ignored me.

And I cannot count the number of times when I went to the ER only to come back home with a bullshit diagnosis. Migraines with aura but without pain. Lol! Wut? That’s a real diagnosis I got ages ago, but it was trotted back out when I had cancer.

Listen, I know that it is possible to have migraines, migraines with aura, migraines with aura but without pain. I’m skeptical that I ever had that. A doctor simply pulled that out of their ass when they couldn’t figure out what I really had.

I also cannot count the number of times when I went to the ER and was just told to “chill out,” even if further events proved that I had an actual physical condition going on.

So yes, I am living proof that the system is great at stunt medicine but crap at actually caring for people.

ADAB!

#ADABe #AutisticWriters #cancer #caring #diagnosis #ER #famotidine #JohnsHopkins #MentalHealth #misdiagnosis #PhysicalHealth #StuntMedicine #USHealthcare #YourAutisticLife

https://www.yourautisticlife.com/2023/12/24/the-usa-is-great-at-stunt-medicine-crap-at-caring-living-proof/

Famotidine Was Making Me Depressed And Caused Fatigue

More reflections on my experience with famotidine.

Preamble: I wrote this piece in August 2022, about six days after my previous piece on famotidine. I decided to do minimal edits before publishing it here. In particular, I did not adjust the chronology. I did not know I was autistic at the time. However, I’m now thinking that my autism led me to experience unusual effects from taking famotidine.

For those who don’t know, famotidine is available under the names: Pepcid, Zantac 360, Act, Dyspep HB, Fluxid, and Acid Controller.

So I was feeling utterly fatigued and depressed. There was nothing going on in my life that could explain it. I started researching what could be the problem, and I landed on famotidine as the likely culprit. I already wrote about it in another article.

When Famotidine Messes With Your Head

I read in the side effects literature on famotidine that there exist cases where it can cause fatigue and depression. I talk of depression because when I was suffering from the effects of famotidine, I did not even want to get off the couch, and even my writing suffered from it to some extent. I did not produce as many articles as I used to.

My doctors were not helpful in determining what was ailing me. I did ask one of my doctor’s office for help, but a nurse replied that it was probably my insomnia messing me up. Nope, my problem had nothing to do with insomnia.

I was taking the famotidine because I had reflux, but it is also a medicine that can be given to people for other conditions. It serves as an antacid, for instance. People can also take bicarbonate sodium tablets against acid, but as far as I know, famotidine is one of the first over the counter (OTC) drugs that doctors give patients when they complain about reflux or acid.

I experienced two things when I stopped taking my antacid. My first night was okay, but right after I started experiencing reflux at night. This eventually went away. I’m now hypothesizing that stopping famotidine quickly after you’ve taken it for a while has a rebound effect. You are going to experience reflux for a few nights because of this rebound.

I’ve found websites talking about this, but nobody among my doctors warned me against a rebound effect. I even recall a doctor saying there’s no schedule for tapering off of the famotidine.

The other thing that I experienced is a slow return to my normal mood. It took a bit of time to get back to normal. At first, I was wondering whether I had put the cause of my depression on the wrong thing. However, slowly but surely, my mood improved. I no longer want to wallow on the couch and not do anything. My fatigue also improved. I still take short rest periods during the day, but these are sparser now and do not last as long.

I know from reading medical literature on depression and medicines that treat depression that sometimes people experience psychological effects because there is a depletion of some substance in the brain, or there is an accumulation of another substance. I suspect the reason my improvement was gradual is due to some of these processes.

Probably when I stopped taking the famotidine something had to be replenished, or perhaps depleted, before I could get back to my old self. This is something people ought to keep in mind when they try things: psychological changes can take a while to happen.

Actually, my descent into depression also took some time. I had been on famotidine for over a year without any negative side effects. It took quite a long time before I felt those side effects. This also supports my theory that recovery is also a progressive process rather than instantaneous.

I’ve noticed in the past, and even in the past week, that if I do have reflux at night, raising my torso at an angle is helpful. I can pretty much deal with light reflux that way. So I went on Amazon and bought a wedge pillow to see if it helps.

This wedge could also help with my insomnia. I’ve noticed some people promoting wedge pillows to deal with mild cases of apnea, which is what I have. So it might improve that too.

#AutisticWriters #depression #famotidine #MentalHealth #reflux #YourAutisticLife

https://www.yourautisticlife.com/2023/12/24/famotidine-was-making-me-depressed-and-caused-fatigue/

When Famotidine Messes With Your Head

I think my anti-reflux medicine is messing up my head.

Preamble: I wrote this piece in August 2022, right when I was dealing with the depression that was caused by my famotidine. I decided to do minimal edits before publishing it here. In particular, I did not adjust the chronology. I did not know I was autistic at the time. However, I’m now thinking that my autism led me to experience unusual effects from taking famotidine.

For those who don’t know, famotidine is available under the names: Pepcid, Zantac 360, Act, Dyspep HB, Fluxid, and Acid Controller.

So recently I was supposed to go to a social event… but that did not happen because I was feeling like shit by mid-afternoon, from fatigue, and I would say from depression too. This is something that has been happening since around July 15th of this year.

I remember, in June and early July, going out to dinner without any thought about whether I’d be fine. I cancelled my recent evening outing because I was pretty sure I’d crash and burn. On any regular day, I’m not very gregarious. If I’m feeling crappy on top of it, there’s no way I’m going to enjoy myself. I’ve been taking famotidine daily because I’ve acquired reflux from the last treatment for cancer that I received at the hospital in 2021. I’ve been taking it for about a year without any problems.

My case is a bit bizarre. For one thing, I do suffer from insomnia, but I’ve suffered from this for a very long time, and I don’t think it is the primary driver of my case here. Why I don’t think it is the primary driver? Because my sleep has improved slowly over time. Yet, my energy slump has started happening in July. I don’t see how a sleep improvement would result in fatigue and depression.

Secondly, when I wake up in the morning, I feel fine. It is by late-morning and early-afternoon that I start feeling a slump in my energy. Then my energy level picks up again around supper time. I don’t feel back to normal in the evening, but in the middle of the day, you wouldn’t find me dancing in the living room. At night, however, I have no trouble putting the music on and dancing. Strange pattern.

Also, it takes years to recover from the treatment I’ve received for cancer at the hospital. Fatigue can be a side effect from it, but normally people experience the fatigue at the start of recovery and then it goes away. It is not normal that the fatigue should appear later during recovery.

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The first thing to consider is whether my cancer is back. It could cause the fatigue I’m experiencing. There is no sign of it having come back, however. One number in my blood test is a tiny bit low, but the doctors don’t think it warrants an intervention. So I don’t think it is back. I also got a scan in June to verify that it was not back, and it wasn’t. My next scan is in September.

Secondly, I was vaccinated around the time I started experiencing energy problems. At first, I thought maybe it could be the vaccines, but I reviewed side effects, and I don’t think it is. (By the way, if you are an anti-vaxxer and would like to comment: please go to hell. Thank you so much!) Unfortunately, there’s no way to test whether the vaccines could be the culprit.

I’ve narrowed it down to four possibilities:

1. It is due to the famotidine.
2. Our well water is tainted. However, we did test it last year and it came up clean. So I don’t think it is very likely.
3. The vaccines did it.
4. The THC is doing it.

I was not thinking about the THC at first, but last night I did not take it because I had to go pick up groceries this morning. Sometimes if I dose a little too high, I’m still a bit under the influence in the morning. So on nights when I do need to go somewhere early, I don’t take THC.

Right this moment I’m feeling okay, but it is 6:30 in the morning, and usually I feel okay at this time. It is only later that the slump kicks in, and I start feeling terrible. So I cannot tell yet whether I fixed the problem. What I did yesterday is this:

1. I did not take my famotidine.
2. I switched to bottled water.
3. I did not take my THC.

I’m happy to report that I did not experience reflux during the night. However, my supper was very light. Maybe if I ate something more substantial, I’d feel the reflux.

My night of sleep wasn’t the best, but that’s usually the case when I don’t take THC. My night was still better than the nights I had earlier this year when I woke up and got up at 2 or 3 in the morning. Last night I woke up earlier than 5am, but I got up at 5am, which is not bad, actually.

Ok, so now it is later in the day, I did not feel especially sleepy until after lunch. So this is an improvement over yesterday, but I’m not completely in the clear yet.

Why would the famotidine be a suspect. Let’s look, shall we? The Mayo Clinic has a handy page on side effects. Among other things, we find this in the list, edited here to remove stuff that does not pertain to this discussion:

Rare
* Anxiety
* discouragement
* feeling sad or empty
* loss of interest or pleasure
* trouble sleeping

Incidence not known
* general feeling of tiredness or weakness
* unusual tiredness or weakness

Rare
* unusual drowsiness

That’s more or less what I was experiencing. I’m also wondering how famotidine and THC operate together. Could the famotidine extend how long the THC works. Sometimes I’m still a bit high in the morning, and it seems to me that’s longer than it should work.

This is my second day now under the new regimen. I did have a bit of reflux last night, but only a bit. My sleep wasn’t great, but that’s par for the course when I don’t take THC. I did wake up at 1:30am and I did go back to sleep. I got up at 5am. Not a great night but good nonetheless. I don’t know yet what the day has in store for me. I’m feeling fine right now, but we won’t know until midday how I fare.

It is now the fourth day under the new regimen. I felt pretty close to normal today. I’ve resumed drinking well water. I don’t think the water was the culprit. Right now I’m thinking the famotidine, or the THC, or the combination of the two did it. I did not experience reflux last night.

This is now the sixth day since I started. I’m now pretty sure the famotidine or the THC did it. I’ve restarted THC last night and so far so good. Also, I’ve reviewed whether THC could cause depression. The two are correlated, but there is no causation from THC usage to depression. It seems that depressed people are attracted to THC rather than the other way around.

So I’m thinking I was right that the famotidine did it. I’ve also ceased to have reflux. I’m inclined to think that if you stop famotidine cold turkey after chronic usage, you can experience rebound.

I can tell you now, more than a year after I wrote this article, that the famotidine was the culprit. After I stopped taking it, I had a short rebound of reflux, but my depression evaporated.

#AutisticWriters #depression #famotidine #MentalHealth #reflux #YourAutisticLife

https://www.yourautisticlife.com/2023/12/24/when-famotidine-messes-with-your-head/

The USA Is Great At Stunt Medicine, Crap At Caring: Living Proof

I’m the living proof that the USA is great at stunt medicine, but absolute and utter crap at caring.

#YourAutisticLife #AutisticWriters #USHealthcare #StuntMedicine #caring #JohnsHopkins #famotidine #ADABe #cancer #ER #misdiagnosis #PhysicalHealth #MentalHealth

https://open.substack.com/pub/yourautisticlife/p/the-usa-is-great-at-stunt-medicine?r=2hhuwi&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcome=true

Famotidine Was Making Me Depressed And Caused Fatigue

More reflections on my experience with famotidine.

The second and last article about my misadventure with famotidine. This article was salvaged from another account. It is a good example of the unusual reactions to medicines we may get as autistic folks.

(Reminder: I did not know I was autistic way back when.)

#YourAutisticLife #ActuallyAutistic #AutisticWriters #autistic #autism #famotidine #depression #reflux #insomnia

https://open.substack.com/pub/yourautisticlife/p/famotidine-was-making-me-depressed?r=2hhuwi&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

When Famotidine Messes With Your Head

I think my anti-reflux medicine is messing up my head.

This is an article that I salvaged from another account. I think it is important to publish it, because I think my autism cause me, after a year of using famotiidne without problems, to eventually develop depression. My article show pretty well the inferences I made at the time.

#YourAutisticLife #AutisticWriters #ActuallyAutistic #famotidine #depression #reflux #THC #insomnia #cancer #vaccines #WellWater

https://open.substack.com/pub/yourautisticlife/p/when-famotidine-messes-with-your?r=2hhuwi&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

When Famotidine Messes With Your Head

I think my anti-reflux medicine is messing up my head.

Preamble: I wrote this piece in August 2022, right when I was dealing with the depression that was caused by my famotidine. I decided to do minimal edits before publishing it here. In particular, I did not adjust the chronology. I did not know I was autistic at the time. However, I’m now thinking that my autism led me to experience unusual effects from taking famotidine.

For those who don’t know, famotidine is available under the names: Pepcid, Zantac 360, Act, Dyspep HB, Fluxid, and Acid Controller.

So recently I was supposed to go to a social event… but that did not happen because I was feeling like shit by mid-afternoon, from fatigue, and I would say from depression too. This is something that has been happening since around July 15th of this year.

I remember, in June and early July, going out to dinner without any thought about whether I’d be fine. I cancelled my recent evening outing because I was pretty sure I’d crash and burn. On any regular day, I’m not very gregarious. If I’m feeling crappy on top of it, there’s no way I’m going to enjoy myself. I’ve been taking famotidine daily because I’ve acquired reflux from the last treatment for cancer that I received at the hospital in 2021. I’ve been taking it for about a year without any problems.

My case is a bit bizarre. For one thing, I do suffer from insomnia, but I’ve suffered from this for a very long time, and I don’t think it is the primary driver of my case here. Why I don’t think it is the primary driver? Because my sleep has improved slowly over time. Yet, my energy slump has started happening in July. I don’t see how a sleep improvement would result in fatigue and depression.

Secondly, when I wake up in the morning, I feel fine. It is by late-morning and early-afternoon that I start feeling a slump in my energy. Then my energy level picks up again around supper time. I don’t feel back to normal in the evening, but in the middle of the day, you wouldn’t find me dancing in the living room. At night, however, I have no trouble putting the music on and dancing. Strange pattern.

Also, it takes years to recover from the treatment I’ve received for cancer at the hospital. Fatigue can be a side effect from it, but normally people experience the fatigue at the start of recovery and then it goes away. It is not normal that the fatigue should appear later during recovery.

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The first thing to consider is whether my cancer is back. It could cause the fatigue I’m experiencing. There is no sign of it having come back, however. One number in my blood test is a tiny bit low, but the doctors don’t think it warrants an intervention. So I don’t think it is back. I also got a scan in June to verify that it was not back, and it wasn’t. My next scan is in September.

Secondly, I was vaccinated around the time I started experiencing energy problems. At first, I thought maybe it could be the vaccines, but I reviewed side effects, and I don’t think it is. (By the way, if you are an anti-vaxxer and would like to comment: please go to hell. Thank you so much!) Unfortunately, there’s no way to test whether the vaccines could be the culprit.

I’ve narrowed it down to four possibilities:

1. It is due to the famotidine.
2. Our well water is tainted. However, we did test it last year and it came up clean. So I don’t think it is very likely.
3. The vaccines did it.
4. The THC is doing it.

I was not thinking about the THC at first, but last night I did not take it because I had to go pick up groceries this morning. Sometimes if I dose a little too high, I’m still a bit under the influence in the morning. So on nights when I do need to go somewhere early, I don’t take THC.

Right this moment I’m feeling okay, but it is 6:30 in the morning, and usually I feel okay at this time. It is only later that the slump kicks in, and I start feeling terrible. So I cannot tell yet whether I fixed the problem. What I did yesterday is this:

1. I did not take my famotidine.
2. I switched to bottled water.
3. I did not take my THC.

I’m happy to report that I did not experience reflux during the night. However, my supper was very light. Maybe if I ate something more substantial, I’d feel the reflux.

My night of sleep wasn’t the best, but that’s usually the case when I don’t take THC. My night was still better than the nights I had earlier this year when I woke up and got up at 2 or 3 in the morning. Last night I woke up earlier than 5am, but I got up at 5am, which is not bad, actually.

Ok, so now it is later in the day, I did not feel especially sleepy until after lunch. So this is an improvement over yesterday, but I’m not completely in the clear yet.

Why would the famotidine be a suspect. Let’s look, shall we? The Mayo Clinic has a handy page on side effects. Among other things, we find this in the list, edited here to remove stuff that does not pertain to this discussion:

Rare
* Anxiety
* discouragement
* feeling sad or empty
* loss of interest or pleasure
* trouble sleeping

Incidence not known
* general feeling of tiredness or weakness
* unusual tiredness or weakness

Rare
* unusual drowsiness

That’s more or less what I was experiencing. I’m also wondering how famotidine and THC operate together. Could the famotidine extend how long the THC works. Sometimes I’m still a bit high in the morning, and it seems to me that’s longer than it should work.

This is my second day now under the new regimen. I did have a bit of reflux last night, but only a bit. My sleep wasn’t great, but that’s par for the course when I don’t take THC. I did wake up at 1:30am and I did go back to sleep. I got up at 5am. Not a great night but good nonetheless. I don’t know yet what the day has in store for me. I’m feeling fine right now, but we won’t know until midday how I fare.

It is now the fourth day under the new regimen. I felt pretty close to normal today. I’ve resumed drinking well water. I don’t think the water was the culprit. Right now I’m thinking the famotidine, or the THC, or the combination of the two did it. I did not experience reflux last night.

This is now the sixth day since I started. I’m now pretty sure the famotidine or the THC did it. I’ve restarted THC last night and so far so good. Also, I’ve reviewed whether THC could cause depression. The two are correlated, but there is no causation from THC usage to depression. It seems that depressed people are attracted to THC rather than the other way around.

So I’m thinking I was right that the famotidine did it. I’ve also ceased to have reflux. I’m inclined to think that if you stop famotidine cold turkey after chronic usage, you can experience rebound.

I can tell you now, more than a year after I wrote this article, that the famotidine was the culprit. After I stopped taking it, I had a short rebound of reflux, but my depression evaporated.

#AutisticWriters #depression #famotidine #MentalHealth #reflux #YourAutisticLife

https://www.yourautisticlife.com/2023/12/05/when-famotidine-messes-with-your-head/

1/2 #google search on mobile tops the page with its own information about the search term.

#Famotidine is a very safe H2 blocker that I use for heartburn when running. #Ranitidine is a different H2 blocker that was recalled over serious safety issues.

Here's screenshots from a mobile Google search for famotidine, with a question about safety; and the actual web page it refers to:

1/1/2021 updated #corona drug cocktail:

all phases:
#Famotidine
#Indomethacin
#Spironolactone
#Ivermectin
#VitaminD
#VitaminC

Mild:
#Bromhexine
#Omeprazole/ #Nitazoxanide
#Fluvoxamine
#Aspirin
#Naproxen

Moderate:
#Remdesivir
inhaled #Interferon
#Colchicine
inhaled #Ciclesonide + #Mometasone
#Dipyridamole
JAK inhibitors such as #Baricitinib / #Tofacitinib

Severe:
#Dexamethasone/ #Methylprednisolone
#Cyproheptadine

cc @noorul @stux
https://nitter.net/Mareeswj/status/1344748390001774593?s=20

@noorul @stux #COVID_19 #COVID__19 update

buy PulseOximeter at home

Fever - #Azythromycin/#Doxycycline

Low SPO2 - #Dipyridamole + proning + complete rest OR hospital admission

Anti-histamine(allergy)/gut problem - #Famotidine

Immunity booster - #Quercetin + #vitamin_C

BP & Cardio protection - #Losartan + #statins

Prophylaxis - #Dutasteride/#Finasteride/#Bicalutamide/#Degarelix/#HCQ

Anti-inflammatory - #Dexamethasone, #Methylprednisolone, #colchicine

Anti-viral - #Remdesivir/#Favipiravir