questions about butalbital/apap/caffeine this stuff is the devil. - Epilepsy Message Board

vickie45 · 08-07-2007, 06:02 PM

hi all my nero dr put me on butalbital/apap/caffeine i had no idea what it would do to you i only took for 7 days i need some advice first are theses w/d symtons or something else?
bkack stool diarean,no appeitite
dizziness
nausea
drowsiness slept allday yesterday
excessive sweating really bad
stomach pain
clammy skin
and headaches are worse went to ER today at 12 they gave some stuff to help but its back now i called drugstore they said it should be out of my body within 2 days the ER didnt believe me about this drug nor did the drugstore they said they never heard of this drug doing this does anyone know anything about this drug and the effects i took 4 pills a day for 7 days because the dr said if i felt a headache coming on to take every 6-8 hrs so i was taking 4 a day then i started feeling horrible so i stopped can anyone give me some advice on this oh and i sometimes cant sleep either .......
im in such pain i just want the stuff out of my body ASAP plus this drug didnt take my headaches away either.could it be because im not on any seizure meds yet or was this from the drug or could it be something else.
vickie

neurowreck · 08-08-2007, 08:20 AM

I did ok with it....everyone is different- good to know what it can do for some, so they know they they may be looking at. Could be symptoms from that medication alone, interactions with others, or unrelated, but coincidentally happened. I would expect a reaction to happen sooner than 7 days, but people have taken meds at different times (or eaten certain foods for years) and then had a sudden reaction to it, or another companies formulation...

vickie45 · 08-08-2007, 12:29 PM

i dont think it was the drug now my endo thinks i went hyper and im suppose to be hypo so it prob wasnt the drug she had me stopped that drug and my thyrold meds and so far im not having any headaches well i am but not nothing like i was so my thyrold meds could have done this or i went hyper.
thanks vickie

Sherri5186 · 08-09-2007, 02:29 PM

Hi Vickie,

I just went to GP today,after breathing problems and bad
headache off and on for the last 5 days,and he told me to
cut out as much as the caffeine as I could.I can drink almost
a gallon of tea a day,so I now have to make it with decaf tea
bags.

Take care,Sherri

neurowreck · 08-09-2007, 05:00 PM

Wow, you're gonna have caffiene withdrawl headaches- can you slowly trade the decaf bags for the regular ones, so it's a gradual thing, and you don't suffer with caffiene withdrawl headaches- they're almost like migraines......jmho