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OT: Fun Experiences With New Meds
As I sit here experiencing multiple of the “notify your doctor if” side effects of the med I started yesterday, I’m curious to hear if anyone has any “fun” stories regarding starting new medications.
My worst was the anti-depressant that caused auditory hallucinations. More than once I heard my name being called with no one around. I also heard a blood-cuddling scream during a meditation class that no one else heard.
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I tried some of those anti depressants they turned to about twenty years ago to help you stop smoking, no effect for about a week, then people started noticing that when they greeted me, there’d be a few seconds of delay before I responded, where I perceived none 😬 I stopped taking them pretty sharpish one I realised, Still smoked on and off until about five six years ago though...
Oh damn. Processing delays are no fun. Glad to hear you were able to quit.
Cheers, was a long process, first decided I wanted to stop at age eighteen, was near forty, probably just past when I made it stick for longer than a year or two...
When I first started having mental health issues around 2001, I was given all kinds of medication.
I was started on an anti psychotic called olanzapine and boy did it wallop me.
I remember taking it on an evening and the stephen king film misery was on tv.
After about an hour all I could see on the screen were black horizontal lines scrolling over and over again.
I had a similar effect from the anti depressant mertazapine.
Having said that, my scariest moments have come from the actual illness itself.
Hope you get sorted duke👍
I will tell everyone here the same thing I'd tell anyone I loved or care for, based on my early 20s experiences, which I can barely remember because I was so doped up: Please, please do not go down the anti-depressant mode unless you've talked to a psychiatrist or psychologist and determined that you have long term clinical depression. And then if you do, be extra careful if you ever have been prone to suicidal thoughts. And when you find a lifestyle that you feel works better for you, please try to get off of them as soon as you can.
That's all. To answer the OP, yes a number of anti-depressants gave me awful side effects, and I'm positive Paxil started my manic issues and is responsible for triggering a latent bipolar disorder (something else probably would've triggered it anyway, but still). My adventure started simply because I was depressed I was sleeping so much. Not one doctor ever suggested a sleep study. Then it turned out I just had narcolepsy all along. At the time I was in such a daze I almost literally couldn't think for myself and didn't care to try.
Sorry for a little tangent there.
I had some Anti depressants for my SAD episodes! Some kind of blocker? Not sure of the name! GP said, you won’t notice for weeks. Took one, didn’t sleep for two days and felt like I was coming down off methedrine after two hours of taking it, couldn’t eat and was wired to the teeth, stopped and it took a further 5 days to recover normality! I’ll stick with the SAD light!
I was on the anti-depressant guinea pig merry-go-round about 20+ years ago. I wasn't at all happy with the side effects, one of which was total zombie syndrome. No feelings at all. I decided THAT was worse than the depression in some ways. I got off of them completely and tried to just pay attention intellectually to my feelings more, and so far I'm managing.
Speaking of SAD, when the days start getting shorter I definitely feel it. My current strategy is to mark the calendar for the Winter Solstice, then rejoice that the days are on the upswing again. I wonder if switching hemispheres for the season changes would be a plan.
many years ago I was prescribed Codeine elixir when I had mono. I never used it. fast forward a few months and my back went out. The pain was excruciating. I took a slug of codeine elixir. A while later it was feeling a bit better so I took another much larger gulp. Thirty minutes later I begin to cry like a baby. I wasn't sad or depressed. It was strange. My roommate came home and asked me what was wrong. I tried to explain that nothing was wrong but I took too much codeine. He just shook his head and went to his room. It wore off in a couple hours and everything was back to normal except for a huge headache and my back still hurt.
That’s them I think, or similar! I couldn’t stand it, it may of got better or far worse! I didn’t get that far, still have them in the box, painted a skull and crossbones on it to remind me to stay clear! Recently I was given prednisone? oral tab steroid for a flare up! Six a day for a week then taper! I was as high as kite for weeks, like cocaine without the hassle. I’d like to stop on them but the consequences may be or would be dire, incredible energy and focus, I’ll be off them just in time for SAD season so things may go downhill rapidly after I stop!
Thanks for your stories everyone. Helps knowing I’m not alone going through stuff like this.
I was prescribed anti depressants after I started therapy. They helped at first, but with the support of my doctor I stopped because they sort of made things... worse. The meds really set me on edge. Now I was too anxious. Changes of dosages didn’t stop the effect. Talking to others this is a common effect.
I can drink coffee all damn day and I still don’t get the twitchy manicness that I had taking the meds. We also tried switching kinds — didn’t help. I had to slog through un-medically assisted. The brain is fickle.
Yeah the antidepressants I used to take, I’ve tried two different ones, but they both made me feel very weird. One was like lightly tripping and the other was like taking speed and I think both caused more problems for me than they did to help
Agreed! Did this happen after say one or two doses? My jittery madness started 20 mins after the first one, they say this goes, but, I couldn’t take that side effect plus no sleep for days etc!
That’s basically what happened to me. About 11 hours after my first dose, I started feeling like I took some bad molly.
Yeah when I was on Zoloft, I’d feel like a straight up tweaked and it happened quick. I took it for a while and it would speed me up more than adderall or something and sleep was difficult. Plus it mixed kind of weird with thc and I ended up going off it and just use pot now
I was prescribed Paxil about 25 years ago, and while it did seem to help, it also caused priapism. Which is a lot less fun than it sounds.
+1 for SAD light! It definitely works!
Have to say heroin (unprescribed) had exactly the same effect on me...
I was virtually paralysed with back pain a few years back, couldn't move, constant pain spasms that normal painkillers couldn't make a dent in. So the doctor prescribed a short course of anti-depressants, as apparently they'd help relieve the pain. Took one, pain went, and I spent a happy couple of pain free hours mucking about on the iPad, floating happily on cloud 9. A wonderful, wonderful time.
Not a horror story about unwanted side-effects - except, after a couple more sessions I realised how wonderful, and how alluring this little escape cupboard was, and how very, very easily I could get hooked on the things. So I stopped, went back to the excruciating pain, and took the long way back to getting better.
Sometimes the cure is worse than the ailment. And these particular pills didn't do Nick Drake much good either.
Much safer, pot really has many positives! I’ve smoked pot for at least 45 years, everyday! Tend to micro-dose it now due to the high THC content which was less prevalent back when.
On a positive note! A pal of mine developed serious mental issues. After all the usual consultations/treatments etc he decided to take 200 magic mushrooms and lock himself in the house for a day with The Grateful Dead. He had a massive experience in which he describes clearing out his bad parts! He continues to this day micro dosing the mushrooms and has made an astonishing recovery!
When I quit cigs for the hundredth and final time ten years ago I grew to love the vivid dreams that nicotine patches gave me and decided that, given the lack of bad side-effects, I'd stay on them forever. Unfortunately, my skin suddenly started to react badly to them a year ago and I had to discontinue. And now I'm making music again I can hear the siren call of cigs again. Must resist!