lastnight my husband had to call an ambulance ... I had hives so bad chest pain that went away.... i was fine except for the hives from head to toe... ITCHY ITCHY BURNING skin OMG!
Im fine still itchy a little they gave me a shot 50mg benadryl..... well, this morning im looking online before i can call my urologist they talked to the neuro on call last night....
anyways if you look up Nitro Macro which is what gave me the hives we think it says :
(Drugs that contain magnesium such as magnesium salicylate (Magan) and choline-magnesium salicylate (Arthropan) as well as antacids like Maalox, Mylanta, Milk of Magnesia, Gelusil, and others may decrease the amount of Nitro Macro that gets absorbed into the body. Avoid taking medications that contain magnesium within two hours before and after a dose of Nitro Macro.) the people who took my blood pressure last night said it was 142 over 94 or something like that ...thats not good i dont think..... all in all i think maybe these things are why my hair is falling out......
well, i looked up keppra it says :
500 mg: Each yellow, oblong-shaped, film-coated tablet, marked with "ucb" and "500" on one side, contains levetiracetam 500 mg. Nonmedicinal ingredients: colloidal silicon dioxide, cornstarch, hydroxypropyl methylcellulose, magnesium stearate, polyethylene glycol 4000, povidone, talc, titanium dioxide, FD&C Blue No. 2, and yellow iron oxide.
Im guessing its because i took them an hour 1/2 apart? i dont know maybe thats why my hair was falling out i started getting these big bumps on my head..... itching like a jumping bean trying to get out of the box! then hives all over....
Ill have to ask neuro and urologists about this one...... whats odd though is ive been on the med 10 days (nitro macro) three days off then when i started the maintenance dose 100mg.... bam, hives..
still kinda tired and itchy,,, no hives though today thank god... that suxed bad...
its real important to know whats in the drugs we are taking... to keep from having off the wall side effects... I used to not look... because i didnt want to know..... be sure to look up what ingredients our in your meds when you have to take other meds with them..... you might be supprised what the doctors over look.... ( they get pretty busy sometimes)
love itchy itchy angel
ps now i know why my neuro told me to keep benadryl handy....... that would have stopped it they said that it takes longer than the shot... still tho i regret not keeping it in my house... actually i tried lotion lol didnt work and shampoo for itchy scalp that didnt work ..... they kinda started laughhing when i told them the thought of pulling my hair out had crossed my mind... heh
no thanks, I hear ya .....