exploding head & flash floods

[baratron]

As lilairen says, He, she, it is nauseated.

Nausea, motion sickness that doesn't stop even hours after I stopped being on the bus, dizziness, high pitched buzzing noises in my ears, and strange waves of head throbbing sensation.

What is the most likely cause?
1) I have developed a violent allergy to Epsom.
2) The flash flooding all over SW London gave me seasickness.
3) Menstrual gnomes.
4) I forgot to take my Efexor this morning.
5) ALL OF THE ABOVE.

Your answers on a postcard please. Eurgh, and bleurgh.

The flash flooding was actually kinda amusing in a schadenfreude kind of way. The road under the railway bridge at the end of our road became a river a foot deep. I just used the pedestrian crossing to stop the traffic, and sauntered across the highest part of the road in my Docs. But lots of people didn't seem to have that much common sense. I'm still boggling at the people I saw walking through the middle of ankle-deep puddles, wearing silly summer shoes. Are people so unobservant they can't look ahead to navigate a path round the puddles, or look around to see that the other side of the road was much drier, or so lazy they can't be bothered to cross the road? It's not even as if it was difficult to cross the road - the traffic was basically at a standstill.

In Kingston town centre, such abundant panic was taking place I wondered if I'd accidentally crossed over to a parallel universe where It Doesn't Rain In London. Some of the shops had closed due to "flooding" (i.e. a bit of water on the floor). The roads were worse - Surbiton High Street was closed for hours, and from Norbiton to Tolworth there were abandoned cars all over the sides of the road (the RAC & AA were having a field day). It even affected the buses - at the depot where we sometimes stop to change drivers, one of the drivers said there hadn't been a 265 in over 2 hours. One road junction just outside Tolworth was so deep in muddy water that it sloshed in under the doors of the bus. Drivers who approached that junction were doing deranged things like driving over the pavements and stopping in the middle of the road in panic. People are so weird.

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[quiet000001.livejournal.com]

bwahaha.

Dude, I'm trying to picture these people in Wokingham, where sometimes the backway to Reading flooded so often that they just left the road signs up for weeks on end to save putting them out and collecting them all the time.

[thekumquat.livejournal.com]

I was wearing sandals today and walked straight through puddles on the grounds that my feet would shortly dry off. I had to walk through one to escape my house (puddle across entire walkway), and once feet are already wet, not much point in avoiding puddles!

[aquaeri.livejournal.com]

Seriously, if you're interested, Effexor withdrawal can manifest exactly like that. I get really light-headed and disconnected from everything (including myself), but only on the second day of forgetting to take one.

The flooding sounds like quite the experience. It's bizarre how people will act in those situations.

[baratron.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know. Mine starts within an hour of not taking it. And that's on the extended release capsules. You don't want to know what I was like on the tablets, it was terrifying (for people around me, as well). With drugs, I'm either extremely sensitive, or they do nothing.

It was an educated guess based on the fact that I had one more Efexor capsule in the packet than there should've been :) But I mistook the initial symptoms for a premenstrual migraine.

[aquaeri.livejournal.com]

An hour! You poor thing. Mucho sympatico. I've never tried the non-XR version; my shrink said the side effects were so awful for most people he regards XR as a different drug.

I'm also typically the kind of person who is either really sensitive to drugs, or gets no effect. I'm still grateful that ibuprofen actually works fairly predictably as a painkiller for me, because aspirin makes me throw up and paracetamol doesn't do much until it's at the levels where I'm getting side effects. It's still strange to me that when I have minor pain, I don't have to just suck it up, I have another option.

Oh, and the way Effexor is packaged here, it's a blister pack and the back of each blister has a day of the week printed (it's sold in packs of 28) so it's really easy to see if you've forgotten to take one, as long as you can still remember what day of the week it is.

[baratron.livejournal.com]

I get completely random packaging because my pharmacist buys drugs from all over the EU. It rocks. My favourite so far is Faxine, which has a rainbow on the packaging and Braille text, but the bright orange Efexor XR is a close second. And I've got to love Vandral Retard.

I'll scan in my packet collection sometime for the internet to admire :)

The problem I have with the day of the week packaging is that taking 3 capsules a day means I'm never quite sure what to do. Should I take 3 capsules that all say "Friday", even though that means using 2 strips? Or take 1 capsule that says "Friday" plus one capsule from another day for the first dose, and the 2nd "Friday" capsule for the second dose?

I actually do best with the day of the week packaging when I get Belgian drugs, which have the days of the week in French, Dutch and German. Somehow the trilingual labelling works better for me than English alone.

[aquaeri.livejournal.com]

We just get the one package, it's navy blue, with the name in this very bright orange/hot pink shaded thing, and the ends are pink. Also there's a booklet in the pack (about depression and anxiety disorders) which for some reason has pictures of dolphins.

But I can see that it's harder when you're not just "take one a day". I am so far, and if anything I need to taper back I think.

[baratron.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, I need to see that. Scan it in?

[aquaeri.livejournal.com]

I'll show you mine if you show me yours :-). I'll need to check with James, it might be a few days (or weeks) but I should be able to get it organised.