The drug that almost killed me. I started this drug during my Christmas Break of my senior year of high school, and the day that I went back I had very bloodshot eyes and a very sore throat. I even went through basketball practice and I felt pretty good except for my throat. Then afterwards I started the trips to the ERs. One doctor told me I was getting chicken pox, while another gave me some "magic mouthwash" for my throat, another even went so far as to tell me I had a form of herpes, now none of these were true but the doctors just gave me prescriptions and sent me on my way. Now my mom and aunt knew what was happening and they would tell the doctors that and they would just get brushed off. Well later that night when my throat was so swollen I couldn't swallow we went to another ER an hour away where it wasn't looking like it was going to be any better, but eventually once I saw the doctor there he agreed that it was a very rare and severe allergic reaction called Stevens Johnsons Syndrome. Now that was the last thing I could remember for the next few weeks.
So while I was in a medically induced coma for nearly 2 weeks my skin was shedding and my face was falling off and my lips were huge, I have no recollection of most of it so this is what I've been told by family. I had to be given very very very expensive antibodies from other people in order to counteract the problem that the lamictal was making in my body. They tried to get pig skin for my face but to no avail. At one point I was cuffed to my bed because I allegedly attacked a nurse and tried to choke her, but I was heavily medicated during that time so I don't know what really happened. Now Stevens Johnsons Syndrome can cause blindness and other horrible side-effects but I luckily came out unscathed besides some spotted skin. It was pretty sad not getting to finish my senior year of basketball and missing 2 months of school but I survived that encounter with lamictal so I guess I shouldn't complain. I really wanted to post the pictures of me in the hospital online but my friend said that I shouldn't because they are rather grotesque but if you seen those pictures and then my prom pictures you would be shocked that that was the same kid because I made a great recovery. Just remember to watch out for everything when trying new meds.
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