drug interaction experience last night

Last night was a tough night.
About 10:30 I took a pain pill (norco) and a
muscle relaxation pill, (flexeril) Neck hurt,
anyway, by about 11:30 or 12. I could feel my legs and
arms, feeling, weird, heavy. Around 12:15, I got very
anxious, feeling like something terrible is going to
happen, I then became absolutely convince that
the condo’s across the way would blow up. I was
waiting for the explosion to blow out my windows.
I got a grip and realized it was my drugs interacting
weirdly, so intellectually, I knew it was a drug reaction,
but emotionally, I couldn’t control the process. My mind
was going about 120 miles an hour with unfocused energy.
I was more wired at 12:30 then I was a 4 that afternoon.
Now I almost always go to bed with my Ipod, which is
full of my sleeping music, muzak jazz and Muzak rock,
easy to listening stuff. So I tried to focus on my music,
but my emotions were getting carried away. I then became
convinced there were burglars in the house. Now again,
intellectually, I knew there were no burglars, but emotionally
I was using all my will power not to dial 911. then a light
from outside convince me, UFO’S were right outside my
window. My wife kinda jumped and I was sure she
had just had a heart attack. Yet, I knew differently.
After several hours, of this emotionally reactions, I finally
was able to get to sleep around 3 all the while listening
to my muzak jazz, trying to focus on that.

Having a two track system like that,
one track was the intellectual, knowing this was not real,
the second emotional, convinced it was real, as real
as anything I have ever done. I have never
had that before.

Now if I hadn’t realized it was a strange drug reaction, I would
have called 911, or I would had gone and freaked out.

this has never happened to me before.
I wonder how many times it happens to people,
but for whatever reason, they don’t realize it the drugs,
or they can’t control it like I did. I wonder how many
people have been hurt, I could have easily hurt my wife
freaking out, or been shot by the police because they
couldn’t control it in front of those trigger happy nuts.

This morning I am just tired, but that was a strange night.

Kropotkin

erowid.org

That should warn you about potential drug-interactions. You might want to report your experience, so people will know.

How much of each did you take? The Flexeril is a benazapiperdine, while the norco is an opiate (opiod? I can never get the classifications right). Anyway, these guys are metabolized along similar pathways, so taking them together yields a result that was more than the sum of its parts.

Also, did you drink anything earlier that day? Cranberry or Grapefruit juice? Mountain Dew, perhaps?

From the sound of it, it was the Flexeril. That’d be my guess anyway.

Pete,

It’s scary sometimes, but you learn to control your mind… to use the duality of feeling and thought to learn what lies inbetween the two when you stretch them apart a bit.

No pain no gain so to speak.

X is right, Erowid can give you a lot of information about this stuff.

Emotion and sanity don’t always get along well with oneanother…