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Medications and "Flip Flop" Emotions
We all are familiar with medications causing a list of unpleasant side effects and symptoms. But how many have experience with medications impacting your mental health, more specifically causing you to become angry and easily agitated? I have noticed this when taking certain medications, not necessarily PH specific medication.
When I am prescribed high doses of prednisone, not only does it make me feel swollen and hungry all the time, but it causes me to feel rage and angry. I either get angry or the exact opposite emotions and I feel overly happy. It’s a very extreme emotional shift from my everyday “normal”. I really don’t like taking this medication but sometimes steroids are necessary, especially when I get any type of lung related infection.
Another medication that has this type of “flip flop” of emotions is pain medication. When I am given pain medication in hospitals or when I am taking it at home for severe pain, I am either overly happy and comforting to others and to myself or I am completely miserable and I make sure everyone knows about it.
When under the influence of medications, it is hard to have any type of control over my flip flopping emotions. Do you notice emotional changes when taking medications? What medications lead to a change of emotions for you? Do you give those around you some type of “warning” when taking these medications?
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