Drugs affecting autistic people differently

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I get severe insomnia and mania from opioid painkillers.

Local anaesthetics make me faint due to severe hypotension (although that could be an interaction between the adrenaline that are put in local anaesthetics and my medication).

I was once given 10mg of diazepam and I got the paradoxical reaction: it made me hyperactive, aggressive, angry and violent.

Same here. If I take it before bed, I will lie awake feeling hyper.

I react very very bad to nearly all psychiatric drugs and get even with most psychiatric drugs very heavy side effects.

Especcially the chemical ones.

All drugs are chemicals though...there are some differences between a lot of pharmaceutical drugs and naturally occurring ones, the naturally occurring ones are from chemicals the plant its from creates rather then created by people, and a lot of pharmacuticals are synthetic versions of naturally occurring chemicals.

Alcohol...

Hard liquor (other than being rediculously disgusting in taste) has very little effect on me other than making me stand up for myself more often. I once forced some idiot to clean the vomit off my floor when he drank way too much. Normally I'd be really timid and just ask nicely.

Beer or drinks with strength similar to that of beer make me really tired and I become a really depressed and philosophical human being.

I generally just stay away period though.

OMG! I used to take aspirin everyday before running during middle school. Without it, my 400m times would be 1m20s but whenever I'd take it, I'd clear it in less than a minute.

It doesn't work for me nowadays, but I would always take aspirin before school because it was tasty and made me feel good.

I haven't had much luck with meds, they always react funny with me.

Alcohol isn't an issue for me, it usually takes a lot for me to get tipsy, though I will never drink it again in close proximity to highly caffeinated tea.

^ Greenery has been one of the few things to work for many of my issues. It calms me down, it makes it so I can eat/keep weight on, and I actually want to go outside and do things.

depends on the strain though.

I don't know whether you can call synthetic hormones drugs, but I got severe side and withdrawal effects from taking the lightest birth control pill (actually, in my case it was to treat puberty acne) available. And when I wanted to get pregnant with in vitro fertilization, my ovaries were overstimulated to the point where I ended up on intensive care fighting for my life... I have suffered from bad PMS (emotionally) since I was a teenager, and I always suspected this was because of a hormonal and/or chemical imbalance. Things did improve after giving birth to my second boy, though. But I'll never take hormones again... I think they conflict my high testosterone levels or something.

With alcohol, I get tipsy after a couple of beers and then throw up to get it out of my system. I do not like the loss of control and sickness one bit...

Makes me go from normal to elated than eventually crash being very upset about the past

I'm terribly sensitive to drugs. I'm allergic to penicillin, Paxil, and pot (for those who consider marijuana a medication).

I have to cut pills in half if they are generic doses. I take children's aspirin.

My guess is that as a group, ASDs are more sensitive to drugs than NTs because of our brain makeup. Or maybe it's because NTs aren't sensitive enough?

I have often wondered the same thing!

I haven't had any severe reactions to drugs. Nothing very strange. I know that when i take my Amphetamine/Adderall it seems to affect me for much much longer than the 6-8 hours that it's supposed to. The bottle says to take two a day, but one seems to last all day for me. When i was having back trouble and was on painkillers Vicodin had very very little effect at all, and Oxycodone made me extremely irritable and mad at everyone (helped with the pain some though).

I react weirdly to drugs too. I was given a sleeping pill the night before a major operation. When the anaesthetist came to see me the next morning he said, 'I expect you've had a very good sleep'. I told him that I hadn't slept a wink, much worse than I would have been without the pill. It definitely wasn't the nerves keeping me awake, I felt like I'd had a lot of caffeine, which will always have that effect on me. He was really taken aback at that.

I had gas and air and a shot of morphine, when I was in labour. Most people have a sense of euphoria on either. I felt absolutely nothing and they did not relieve the pain whatsoever, too. It was as if they had given me air and a shot of saline.

I was also supposedly sedated, for a minor procedure. I remember every single thing and was completely alert the whole time. The woman in the next bed had had the same procedure and she was talking as if she was drunk, which is how I should have been.

Alcohol is very stimulating. I won't get to sleep until dawn, if I've had 3 or 4 glasses of wine and go to bed by midnight.

My Mum has awful experiences with over the counter and prescription drugs. She took a cold remedy, which sent her loopy. She recently had mosquito bites, which she reacted to. So, the doc gave her something to counteract it and she thought she was going mad. She also has chronic sciatica and has tried various painkillers, most of which have caused her to be violently sick. Most times, in her case, the treatment is worse than the illness.

I had very little reaction to marijuana. People around me were wobbling and laughing real hard while i could barely feel anything. Could be because i was a chain pot smoker

I have had shots of morphine, when I was in the ER on one or two occasions. The staff are always surprised when I don't seem to feel the effects of it, and when it does nothing for my pain. All that happens is that I suddenly feel very weak and tired.

I think that's what happened to me, just at the time when I needed to be very strong. It could have been the morphine that caused it, rather than the pain. I ended up needing medical assistance to deliver my baby (will spare you the gory details). I shouldn't have been exhausted, as I was only in labour for 8 hours and not in a lot of pain, for most of the time.