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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Wales, UK
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Wales, UK
Posts: 284
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Originally Posted by peacheysncream
Hi all,
Yesterday I woke up really dizzy, couldn't walk to the bathroom on my own. Once husband helped me there I took a shower but not enough energy to wash my hair.
Later on that morning, my mum turned up and offered to take me out for coffee. So I leant over the bath and washed my hair. As I stood up, you can imagine the effect.......I was lying on the floor reaching for the next half hr.
Mum and husband got me on the sofa, then came the pain. I took paracetamol and a high dose of diclophenac. Waited a half hr but the pain was really bad, so I took a high dose of codeine which the doc has prescribed me.
Pain good enough to go out, mum took me for coffee. I needed some mllk, so we walked into 1 shop got some milk and it was like all my energy disappeared. I was lying on the floor crying.
The staff put me in a wheelchair and to the car and mum took me home.
BUT in the pm I was so mentally focused I made my daughter a dress!! How is that possible?? It was like I was someone else. Then the pain struck again and I went to bed with painkillers.
Today I cannot see well and am lethargic and dizzy and in pain.
Any ideas?
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At this stage you are exceptionally sensitive to even a minor shaking ofthe head. Perhaps washing your hair give you a jolt and set something off again?
The pain killers will oftern mask a lot of things and when their effect wears off the symptoms can come flooding back.
I am not a doctor but I am not sure if you should be taking the codeine the information on it does not indicate it is ideal for those with a head injury
from drugs.com
"Stimulates opiate receptors in the CNS; also causes respiratory depression, peripheral vasodilation, inhibition of intestinal peristalsis, stimulation of the chemoreceptors that cause vomiting, increased bladder tone, and suppression of cough reflex."
CNS
Agitation, anxiety, convulsions, disorientation, dizziness, drowsiness, dysphoria, euphoria, fear, headache, impaired mental and physical performance, insomnia, lethargy, lightheadedness, mental clouding, mood changes, psychic dependence, reduced libido, sedation, weakness.
"The presence of head injury, other intracranial lesions, or a preexisting increase in intracranial pressure may be exaggerated because of the respiratory depressant effects and the capacity of codeine to elevate cerebrospinal pressure"
I had to avoid taking all the tablets I had for chronic joint pain to help my head out.
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January 2012 tripped over a power cable and life has changed - memory, mood, balance and puzzled. Now how do I fix it ?
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