I'm on one, although not for anything to do with my BP however. I take clonidine, an antihypertensive med that works by activating (nor)adrenergic autoreceptors (an autoreceptor is basically the body's negative feedback mechanism, for the neurotransmitter system in question. So the clonidine 'fools' my brain into thinking theres too much NA in play, causing it to lower release of noradrenaline; which is exactly the reason for my taking it. I find it pretty much entirely removes all but the tinest chances for sensory overloading. It can happen still, but takes a fucking ton of provocation and stress of a singularly intense and prolonged flavor. In combination with che chlormethiazole I take to prevent seizures [its a potent sedative/hypnotic as welll] then its a winner of a combination, with regards to overloading )
Although last fucking sunday/monday I did have a fit for the first time in ages. Got caught by chance quite luckily actually. As someone had already phoned an ambulance for me, (I didn't ask for it, nor did I want it. At the time I was quite unaware that after it arrived, I had had a seizure when they were in attendance until they told me.
And apparently my BP and heart rate were going arse over tit, for reasons unknown., both elevated significantly, but then dropping back down, and cycling back up again.
And I'm also on tizanidine, which whilst not used as an antihypertensive, it works as an alpha2 adrenoreceptor agonist all the same; this I take as a muscle relaxer, and a good one at that, for the otherwise cripplingly painful muscle spasms I get down one side of the calf muscle where the tendon is either overly short, or way, way way too tight. Its not in clinical use for the same indications that clonidine is, but the two meds work so similarly, they contemplate each other well, and rather than the synergistic effects giving an end result of 1+1=3 its more like 1+1=5.
