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I came down with Swine Flu on Tuesday, went to the doctor on Wednesday and got Tamiflu. The doctor told me that it will most likely make me feel nauseous. I have a phobia (not just a fear) of throwing up.

My doctor (like 3 or 4 years ago) gave me a prescription for some anti-nausea drugs for migraines. My Mum was with me at the time and he said I could take them every FOUR hours. I still had some left so I thought I’d take them.

I took them every four hours or so over two days.

On Thursday at exactly 3pm my body started becoming very sore and stiff, so I rung my dorm manager and she called an ambulance. Then I started having convulsions, I could not speak or move.

It took the doctors an hour to work out that I’d overdosed on the anti nausea pills, which were actually meant to be taken every EIGHT hours.

Eventually they gave me a fair amount of muscle relaxants and I slowly was able to talk and move again.

I’m in a University dorm (I’m an RA) and everyone (some how!) heard that I OD. They are asking me why I did it? was I depressed? was I trying to kill myself?..

And I wasn’t!

My boyfriend wont come visit me because he thinks he’ll get swine flu, my family live ages away and I’m still traumatized by it all!

I don’t want to face people now..

What should I do?

I’m just wondering, has anyone here responded too well to their ovulation induction treatment, and had their excess follicles aspirated? I had my son (3yrs) from one cycle of IUI – without any drugs. To conceive my daughter (10mths) I used injectables (FSH – puregon) and in my first cycle I produced a few follicles, with three being viable, so there was risk of multiples, but the pregnancy was a singleton. We’re now trying for our third child – and yesterday, with my first cycle with injectables (at a low dose of 75iu), I had produced about 11 follicles, with around six ranging in diametre from 18mm to 26mm. I had no safe choice but to cancel the cycle, as my specialist said he was confident I would have got pregnant with quads or quins. I was given the option of converting to IVF, but didn’t want to do that as it is so expensive, and I don’t think I need to resort to IVF as this early stage of trying. I was also given the option for my doctor to perform an aspiration to get rid of around 9 follicles, just leaving two. At first I was keen to do this, as I didn’t want to discontinue my cycle, but he then told me that because so many would need to be aspirated, it could affect the chances of the remaining eggs to fertilise. He also said that during aspiration, there is a small risk of infection, also of an abcess forming on one of the ovaries – this scared me, so with a heavy heart, I had to cancel this cycle. I’m just wondering, has anyone been in this situation, and gone ahead with aspiration, and what has been the pregnancy outcome? I know this procedure is performed during IVF, but for ovulation induction, obviously it is different. If this happens again, I will be gutted, as it’s such a waste having to cancel cycles. Also, wondered, has anyone had any success using clomid? Dr suggested I change next cycle to clomid, as it is less ‘potent’, but I have a history of ovarian cysts, and am nervous to use it. Also, I know I respond well to puregon, so would rather just try a lower dose of puregon. Any advice would be wonderful!

and anti depressants? I asked before but got no answers

To put it shortly, I used to abuse pills frequently along with drinking and smoking, all between 15 and 16. (Don’t comment on my age I don’t care what you think about that) But basically met a girl (around September-October of 2009) she got me clean and ever since then I’ll have very brief periods that last from a few seconds to a couple minutes where it feels like my heart is either being pulled backwards or needles are poking it.

Sometimes it doesn’t hurt and sometimes it does pretty badly. It usually happens just when I sit or lay down and it only occurs a couple times every 2 weeks.

I also recently discovered one month ago that the only person I love has LAM (lymphangioleiomyomatosis) so that has also put some stress on me since she could die at any moment.

Oh yeah, back when I was 13 around that age before I did any drugs I had problems with acid reflux and vocal nodules but that went away. So is it possible for me to be developing any form of heart disease already at the age of almost 17?

I’ll post more details if needed but for now I’m concerned about my own life.

But I actually did get the heart problems while still on my previous life-style of doing drugs. So does that mean I developed one during my abuse phase?

I’m 19, and since the age of 15 I was heavily addicted to pot and cigarettes. The drugs made me un-healthy, unstable, and severly anti-social, but I wasn’t before.
Now that I’ve quit the weed 58 days ago, and I’m quitting cigarettes today, I was wondering how long it’ll take to be completely normal and chemically stable again. Based on your experience, what kind of benefits should I expect?
todays the cigarette quit date, and I’ve been cutting down- gonna go ‘cold-turkey’
all of your advice is extremely helpful:)

A friend from high school was apparently only born with one kidney and at age 20 he was diagnosed with kidney failure. Within a year, he received a kidney transplant from his father and was put on anti-rejection drugs.

We’re now both 22 and he called me the other day saying he had lymphoma (which I believe would have been caused by his immuno-suppressing drugs) and was starting chemotherapy.

I am a senior, majoring in biomedical engineering, so I have some medical and biological background, but I was wondering if anyone knew of someone this young (late teens to early twenties) having kidney failure and developing cancer from it? Is this rare, or not?

I was also wondering about the mortality rate of post-transplant lymphoma disease, and what sorts of chemotherapies people go through with it?

Thanks for any information. I don’t want to bombard him with questions like this :/

I recently went to my doctor because I haven’t been able to eat, have strange sleep patterns and various other symptoms/reasons for him to tell me he thinks I have depression.

I agree, and have known it for a while prior to visiting the doctor. Given my age (late teens), he dismissed giving me drugs/anti-depressants, and suggested I see a counselor.

Personally, I’m quite introverted and self aware and see no point in discussing my emotions with someone. There is no particular reason that I am depressed – no stress, ‘boyfriend issues’ (as the doctor suggested) or anything.

I think maybe it’s a little patronizing to listen to someone tell me how to make myself happy, when I cant see a point.

HOWEVER, I’m now stuck with no solution to my lack of appetite/sleep patterns and depression. Should I try out the counselor and go from there? Or is there an alternative?

Thanks for reading/any potential help