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Acetazolamide and Diamox
Identifier
005059
Type of Spiritual Experience
Number of hallucinations: 20
Background
A description of the experience
Acetazolamide , sold under the trade name Diamox , is used to “treat glaucoma, epileptic seizures, idiopathic intracranial hypertension (pseudotumor cerebri), altitude sickness, cystinuria, and dural ectasia”! As well as being a diuretic albeit only a mild one.
Most common side effects by gender [eHealthme]:
female:
- vomiting
- weight increased
- nausea
- vision blurred
- pain
- intraocular pressure increased
- weight decreased
- white blood cell count decreased
- headache
- drug hypersensitivity
male:
- visual acuity reduced
- weight decreased
- glaucoma
- renal failure acute
- white blood cell count decreased
- intraocular pressure increased
- wheezing
- thrombocytopenia
- vision blurred
- vomiting
Acetazolamide is available as a generic drug. Common side effects of using this drug include numbness and tingling in the fingers and toes, taste alterations, blurred vision, and kidney stones. Everyone will experience more frequent urination as a result of using acetazolamide. Acetazolamide also prolongs the effects of amphetamines and related drugs. Acetazolamide also causes metabolic acidosis.