I have been on Propranolol for about a month now, started at 10mg a night and gradually increasing my dose. For the first few weeks, I was doing pretty well… but I knew the dose wasn’t strong enough because I was still dizzy. I experienced the usual S/e’s such as tiredness, difficulty falling asleep. But to me, that was better than having a constant migraine. As soon as I hit 40mg, I started experiencing really strange side effects — particularly hallucinations!!! It was really scary! My doctor was out of town all this week, so I halfed my 40mg dose and that seemed to make the hallucinations/sleep troubles go away. Side note: I have no idea how people take “substances” recreationally to reproduce such feelings cos WOW they are so scary and weird.
I am going back to my GP tomorrow because even the pharmacist said that if I’m having these issues, I need to switch medicines. I’m wondering if she’ll put me on another beta blocker, or if we’ll go to another category entirely? As weird of a question as this is, was wondering if anyone has any drug recs? I know that different medicines work for different people, but I’m still curious. I’ve also tried Topamax before, last year but had to get off because it was giving me brain fog and making me feel very stupid.
I am just so worried/paranoid because I am getting married next Friday and the last thing I need is to be on some new medicine that makes me feel like crap!