I have been suffering from tachycardia for a little over a month, and was put on a couple of drugs to see if they helped. (They do, but in exchange I am incredibly sleepy, so the cure is worse than the disease.)
One of the drugs has lots of warnings about how it can’t be stopped abruptly.
On Saturday night, I got home late and simply forgot to take my meds.
By Sunday morning, I regretted the hell out of that forgetfulness.
Imagine that you have swallowed a hive full of bees. They are in your head and your stomach and under your skin and they’re walking and stinging and generally hanging around being bees.
That’s what it felt like.
My lesson? Learned. Take it from me, if the drug says not to stop it cold turkey, don’t stop it cold, turkey.
Yikes! What a grim experience. Love the new blog look, by the way!
Once, long ago, I decided (out of my own stubbornness) to purposely go cold turkey off of a drug that wasn’t a good idea to do this with. My symptoms were more subtle, but potentially life-threatening. It was ugly. I did it a second time. It was still ugly. Can’t recommend it, either.
So sorry about the bees, Julie. I bet the little buggers didn’t even leave any honey behind, did they? :p