sgtpontiac
Older, Wiser and Still Buildin'
Last Saturday I took my wife to the hospital......I thought she was having a stroke...couldn't get her balance, slurred speech, shaking hands, nodding off like she had narcolepsy...a lot of the signs and symptoms....
Well...she didn't have a stroke thank God....but did spend 3 days in the hospital...Cat Scan, blood tests up the gump stump...MRI, and even a doplar of her neck (the arteries feeding the brain)...cause the doctors didn't have a clue what was happening....and she couldn't tell them much as she was so disorientated that she wasn't making sense and half of what she said you couldn't understand.....My wife takes med's for restless leg syndrome, type 2 diabeties and a mild anti depressive...
Finally the Neurosurgeon ordered a blood drug screen.....here is what they found....
First of all there was no trace of any of the restless leg medication in her system..should have been as she takes it everyday....that was strange...then they found a very large amount of some sort of anti anxiety medication that was not in her med's at all....I think it was naproxin....and it was a huge amount / level....
Here is what was finally found.....after my wife was "flushed" out with fluids and with it enough to tell us....
She had run out of her medicine for the restless leg syndrome....3 weeks prior...we get these from medco and they are on automatic refill....apparently the script ran out and they didn't bother to call us or the doctor....so, that explains why my wife hadn't been sleeping much...as the level went down the restless leg stuff moved all over her body....arms, shoulders, legs, feet and about every muscle....so she would go downstairs so she didn't "bother" me in bed....I didn't have a clue...
So finally she decided that she needed to take something after not sleeping much for over a week....so she dug around in her drawer and found this naproxin that was over 3 years old....she took a tablet and doesn't remember much after that....not even sure how many of those things she took but it helped her muscles stop twitching....doctor thinks it was 6 to 8 over a days time.....symptons of naproxin overdose is slurred speech, disorientation and all the other signs and symptoms she was displaying....
So guys....if you don't know what meds your wife is on....ask and make sure you know....occasionally ask the wife if the meds are working....also ask if the meds are current.....then make sure that you go around and throw out any medications that are old, not used and or not prescribed to you or someone in the family.....I've learned a lesson and frankly, as much as I kid about my wife, I thought I was losing her and I was scared as heck....Just thought I'd share that and hopefully it might keep someone else from having a problem.......
Well...she didn't have a stroke thank God....but did spend 3 days in the hospital...Cat Scan, blood tests up the gump stump...MRI, and even a doplar of her neck (the arteries feeding the brain)...cause the doctors didn't have a clue what was happening....and she couldn't tell them much as she was so disorientated that she wasn't making sense and half of what she said you couldn't understand.....My wife takes med's for restless leg syndrome, type 2 diabeties and a mild anti depressive...
Finally the Neurosurgeon ordered a blood drug screen.....here is what they found....
First of all there was no trace of any of the restless leg medication in her system..should have been as she takes it everyday....that was strange...then they found a very large amount of some sort of anti anxiety medication that was not in her med's at all....I think it was naproxin....and it was a huge amount / level....
Here is what was finally found.....after my wife was "flushed" out with fluids and with it enough to tell us....
She had run out of her medicine for the restless leg syndrome....3 weeks prior...we get these from medco and they are on automatic refill....apparently the script ran out and they didn't bother to call us or the doctor....so, that explains why my wife hadn't been sleeping much...as the level went down the restless leg stuff moved all over her body....arms, shoulders, legs, feet and about every muscle....so she would go downstairs so she didn't "bother" me in bed....I didn't have a clue...
So finally she decided that she needed to take something after not sleeping much for over a week....so she dug around in her drawer and found this naproxin that was over 3 years old....she took a tablet and doesn't remember much after that....not even sure how many of those things she took but it helped her muscles stop twitching....doctor thinks it was 6 to 8 over a days time.....symptons of naproxin overdose is slurred speech, disorientation and all the other signs and symptoms she was displaying....
So guys....if you don't know what meds your wife is on....ask and make sure you know....occasionally ask the wife if the meds are working....also ask if the meds are current.....then make sure that you go around and throw out any medications that are old, not used and or not prescribed to you or someone in the family.....I've learned a lesson and frankly, as much as I kid about my wife, I thought I was losing her and I was scared as heck....Just thought I'd share that and hopefully it might keep someone else from having a problem.......
Don't remember being that scared / concerned about anything in my life....
