Being in pain and drugged up is not much fun however I had a funny moment today and a 1st for me. Sometimes I take to much medication by mistake and today I accidentally took double my lyrica dose. (150 to 300)

The side effect was I started talking really fast and rambling. I was downstairs in the lobby having a conversation with 3 friends and had their total attention when for some bizarre reason what came out of my mouth was totally unrecognizable. My mouth detached from my brain and the result was I made several screeching guttural type noises. A real prehistoric jungle type noise a bit like a dinosaur calling for its mate.

All 3 guys dropped their jaws as they could see it wasn't intentional and I had no explanation for it either (that they would understand ) but it scared me enough to stop talking. It was awkward until I started laughing and that got me more strange looks .......Ahhh PN, the gift that keeps on giving

I'm sorry... hahahahaha!
Was having behavior similar to a mating dinosaur listed as a probable side effect?

I can't remember the name of it but I once took an antidepressant that was supposed to help smoking cessation. I was able to control it but I REALLY had the impulse to say whatever popped into my head like "Why are you wearing that ugly shirt", etc.

Hope you are doing better and have no further problems, get a pill organizer for daily meds?
Zygo

Sorry I was too busy giggling to post intelligently. Isn't the kind of reaction you describe considered a type of temporal lobe seizure? I get a mild version of that when I take fluroquinoolones, vocalization when I drop off to sleep. Do be careful and take care.
Zygo

No pill organizer. Im usually quite good but that day I took my med in the morning but went back to sleep and when I woke I instinctively took another.

Ive had brain fog and lost word recall but have never had the signal from my brain to word construction distorted like that and it was embarrassing

Oh well may as well keep the thread open for the few light hearted moments that we do get

CAUTION: Be sure to engage brain before putting mouth in gear.

Doc (BT-DT-interminably)

We have tons of funny moments here.... not from the humans though, but our new kitten, and our 1 yr old black cat keep us laughing all day long!

Keeping distracted, and being able to laugh at oneself, I think are important things for anyone with chronic illness and pain!.

We go to I Can Has Cheezburger, and Cute Overload, and we also watch funny YouTubes, every day. Today I was farming the net and Google for Xmas images to use here on the board for this season. It was a total hour of laughter!

Many of our members post funnies on Lighter Side forum and the Pets forum. I do so often myself!

One of my favorites is Klaatu42 on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/klaatu42.../1/nGeKSiCQkPw

He has many videos now on his page... including some good Xmas ones!

Mrs D Ahahaha , I have that saved as my favorite all time feel good when your down Vid from months back and still watch it and it never fails to make me smile

This one is fun

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP2kcmrJF5I

I just had another funny thought, maybe if we all started to vocalize in the way dinosaus did, somebody would finally listen! That will get their attention for sure. ginnie

Might getcha locked up, too!

Remember:
Doctors only hear 25% of what patients tell them (usually because they're going through possibilities in their minds).
Patients only hear 50% of what doctors tell them (usually because they're sick/upset/have no clue what the doctor's saying).

If we know that, then one way of looking at it is that if they're not listening, or we're not getting their attention, 75% of the burden is on us to be heard/paid attention to.

If that doesn't work, we may have the wrong doctor.

Q: What do they call the guy who graduated at the bottom of his class in Med School?

A: "Doctor."

Doc

OOOooooo I love doctor jokes!

"I can't find a cause for your illness", the doctor said, "Frankly, I think it's due to drinking"
"In that case", replied his patient, "I'll come back when you are sober"

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Why did the proctologist use 2 fingers?
In case the patient wanted a second opinion

Ok I'll shut up