Number 9, you look at things about the way I do. I'm on several meds and don't want to be on them; but they help. But, some of the meds that I've been given, although I researched them, caused some side effects that were not pleasant. I was given one for blood pressure med that caused me to feel suddenly weak, sweaty on the backs of my legs, and trembling. After the 2nd episode, which only lasted about 2 or 3 minutes, I called the doctor and he changed me to a different one. Then there was the one I was taking for about a year for another 'ailment'. I seemed to be doing fine on it, though it didn't really seem to be helping the problem a lot. Then one night I was in bed, looking up at the ceiling. The white ceiling turned pink! The textured ceiling was dark pink around the indents and a lighter pink on the flat surfaces. Kinda weird. A night or two later, I was in bed and looked over toward my desk. There were numbers, about 3 inched long and about an inch high, turned sideways, scrolling slowly up the wall over the desk. There were several lines of them. I could see them as plainly as I see this monitor screen. All of the numbers from 1 through 9. That kinda freaked me out a bit! A few nights after that I had the incident that caused me to go back to the doctor. I have an oxygen concentrator beside my bed that I use at night for COPD. It has a little bottle attached to it that contains distilled water for moisture in the oxygen that I am breathing. I was on my side, and looking past the bottle I could see the night light in the wall plug just past the oxygen concentrator. The little bottle's hose was disconnected and the oxygen was pushing some of the water out of the nozzle. I reached over and felt the water coming out of the nozzle. I pushed the hose back onto the nozzle. Then I got up and turned on the light to see how much water was on the floor. To my amazement, there was no water on the floor. I felt of the hose that I had pushed back onto the nozzle. It was firmly attached. It has a compression fitting that keeps it connected. It had never came loose! I had imagined/hallucinated the whole episode! I stood there not knowing whether to be afraid or to laugh. How was I to know what was real and what was imagined?
The doctor didn't think that any of the meds that I was taking would cause the problem. I had seen very little to make me think so either when I was researching it. He sent me to an ophthalmologist to make certain there were tumors in or behind my eyes. After a thorough exam, the ophthalmologist said he could find nothing that would cause the hallucinations. I told the medical doctor that since I didn't see that much improvement while taking one of the several meds that I was on, I'd like to try 'weaning' off of it. He was almost certain that it was one of the other meds that I was taking; but agreed to let me try this. After several days the hallucinations lessened and after a few weeks they became almost none existent.
I have tried several natural remedies for some of my 'maladies'; but haven't been able to get off the pharmaceutical meds.
