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Methysergide is best tolerated when taken with meals. Side effects other than GI intolerance are many and include insomnia, vivid dreams, hallucinations, claudication, and muscle cramps. The labeling should be consulted for additional side effects and contraindications. 

WARNING Cases of fulminant liver failure resulting in death have occurred Uses Adjunct to carbidopa/levodopa in Parkinson Dz Action COMT inhibitor slows levodopa metabolism Dose 100 mg PO tid w/ 1st daily levodopa/carbidopa dose, then dose 6 12 h later -1- w/ renal impair Caution [C, ] Contra Hqjatic impair, w/ nonselective MAOI Disp Tabs SE Constipation, XCTOstomia, vivid dreams, hallucinations, anorexia, N/D, orthostasis, liver failure, Rhabdomyolysis Interactions T Effects OF CNS dqjressants, SSRIs, TCAs, warfarin, EtOH t risk of hypotensive crisis W/ nonselective MAOIs (phenelzine, tranylc5 promine) EMS Has been associated w/ liver failure and death may experience hallucinations concurrent EtOH use can T CNS dqjression T effects of warfarin severe D is common sevoal wks afto starting OD May cause NA and dizziness... 

Because waking consciousness is so much the norm, we often forget that the content of the perceptual channel of consciousness need not always reflect the external world. This is still another example of the form vs. content distinction. If the percepts arise in response to entirely endogenous stimuli—as they do in dream hallucinations—the form, as well as the content, is likely to change. This is because it is more difficult to simulate the complexity of the external world than to copy it when we... 

I can appreciate how completely taken over my perceptions could be were I to hallucinate. I understand, on contemplating my delusional lack of insight when dreaming, how unwelcome and futile it would be to try to talk me out of a paranoid belief. Because when dreaming I believe the most bizarre dream events are real, I know that weirdness is no sure tip-off that I am out of my mind. And, more importantly, I can use the experience of dream hallucination and delusion to create an alliance by directly (sometimes) and indirectly (always) communicating my understanding of the power and subjective reality of psychosis. 

Of course, there is an important difference between LSD and dream hallucinations LSD images are often kaleidoscopic, whereas dream images are formed and scenario-like. And even though LSD causes an arrest of serotonin neuronal discharge, it does not enhance REM sleep. On the contrary, it promotes arousal both in humans and in animals, perhaps via the dopamine enhancement that links LSD to schizophrenia. 

They introduce thoughts, feelings, and percepts related to the laboratory situation, but this has no effect on dream hallucinations, delusions, or bizarreness. 

Begin with the dream hallucinations. What sensory modalities do they use Everyone will say Vision without hesitation. 

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