Mental Health

I had a situation following heart surgery where I kept passing out. One thing led to another and I moved from my apartment into a house and somehow misplaced my bag of drugs.

For two weeks, I was fine, didn't pass out once despite packing boxes, moving, unpacking, etc.

When I finally found the bag, I was like "I bet this is one of the meds..." So I decided to start re-taking them one at a time.

First one I picked was Carvedilol and I passed out 15 minutes later.

Now, I'm not advising you do what I did, stopping any medication can be incredibly dangerous, but maybe make a spreadsheet of everything you're taking, why you're taking it, and any notable side effects are in order.

You might also talk to your pharmacist and explain what's going on, they might have a handle on how drug 'x' interacts with drugs 'y' and 'z' and so on.

I agree with the other poster, but wanted to share what I did in a similar situation.

I woke up one day with a rash on my hip. Over the next three days it spread to my whole body, I started getting swelling in my hands, feet, and face, and I was in an incredible amount of pain. This was in the middle of shutdown for Covid, so I couldn't just go to my doctor. Eventually I went to an urgent care after my husband insisted and drove me to four different locations to find one that had room. They diagnosed me with an allergic reaction and gave me IV Benadryl and light pain meds.

After confirming I hadn't eated anything new recently, the nurses there suggested I check my meds to see if I had any allergies there. I hadn't technically been on any 'new' meds, so I looked them all up online to review the interactions and warnings myself. Turns out one of the meds I was on had a rare, but not unheard of, effect of a patient having a delayed allergic reaction. I made sure none of my other meds had the same thing and called my doctor to reference that specific section of the drug overview. They checked on their end and agreed and told me to stop the med immediately since it was safer to do than risking further reaction.

I would suggest doing a bit of research on those and, if you go with an elimination method, check which ones can cause dangerous complications if stopped immediately.