So, yeah. I'm addicted to nasal spray called Otrivin. Guess I should've seen it coming, "don't stuff it up your nose and squeeze for more than 10 days in a row", indeed. Of course, they don't say why, else I might have actually thought twice about that 11th day.
Thing is, without the bloody thing, I'm more or less unable to breathe. With it, I obviously can - but that's not all, I noticed an interesting, more "complacent" mood shift after taking the medicine. So, today, I decided to break free of its clutches and I'm not taking another drop of it. Even if I won't be able to sleep a few nights.
Of course, it'd be too simple if I just had decided to stop taking the nasal spray shots. Thing is, amusingly enough, I actually had the shakes. As in, withdrawal effects. Nearly half the day I felt like an ADHD patient, not able to focus on anything for more than ten-fifteen minutes. Rather an interesting feeling, to be quite honest, except the ever-growing anxiety really gets to you in the end.
Summary: Don't take nasal sprays for longer than recommended.
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I've had another unexpected effect with that same medicine, Otrivin.
ReplyDeleteFor the first month or so of my current nose condition (which will be done with soon, I hope) that medicine was the only one that managed to enable me to breathe. The herbal stuff didn't cut it - the situation called for that same Absinthe of nasal sprays.
I used it a few times and my nose developed what I felt is resilience against the medicine. I didn't feel that I was addicted to it, but it naturally made me happier since it made me feel better.
Since I now know what the thing blocking my nose is, the placebo effect is gone, but the medicine had stopped working even before I was told that.
Sorry you had such a terrible experience. *hugs*
Thanks, C.
ReplyDeleteWell, I got this thing under control now, nose started working as intended. Figured out the cause of only being able to breathe with it, too - and why it helped you with your nose initially. Basically, it shrinks the blood vessels in the nose, so the nose stops working "properly", but on the other hand, it allows to breathe. However, once the effect wears out, the said vessels expand - and expand to a size that's larger than normal, thus blocking the nose.
Fun! Ah well, everything is a lesson.
Oh, seems as though some of the mystery was revealed. The "main" component of the medicine produces an effect emulating adrenaline in action. I guess sudden loss of mild adrenaline intoxication made the system retaliate by producing extras, causing all the interesting effects of unreleased hyper that I experienced.
ReplyDeleteInteresting stuff.