Dex interaction with.. ..blueberry tea(!?)

[greenbug]

I take 20mg/day of amp salts for chronic fatigue. After drinking a cup of blueberry leaf tea (made by Alvita), I had racing heartbeat and visual disturbancesfor about 5 hours. I confirmed the effect the next day. Maybe it's idiosyncratic but I'd be curious if anyone else ran into this possible interaction. I should warn that, in my case, it was not a pleasant experience.

 

[NeighborhoodThreat]

I've never heard of this happening before to be honest, do you have access to a list of all the ingredients in that blueberry tea?

 

[psychopath]

http://www.swansonvitamins.com/ALT025/ItemDetail?SourceCode=INTL401

^Says only tea leaves.

I have not heard of this either...

 

[kokaino]

greenbug, maybe it's just the amphetamines. I've never heard of blueberry leaf tea causing such things.

This is what I found on blueberry leaf tea:

The Benefits of Blueberry Leaf Tea

Blueberry leaf tea provides some very definite health benefits although as you might expect, its virtues are sometime overblown in advertisements. Tea in general, and herbal tea in particular, are considered healthy beverages, but of course are not cure alls. Tea has been with us for centuries, at least 50 centuries by some estimates, and whether you like it hot or iced or both way, you have plenty of company. Next to water, probably more people drink tea than any other beverage.

Whether you drink blueberry leaf tea, or a black or green tea flavored by the berries, it has long been known that the blueberry plant (berries and leaves) has many health promoting benefits. Blueberries contain powerful antioxidant properties and the leaves are perhaps best known as both a cancer fighter and as being very beneficial to diabetics. Whether you drink teas made from the leaves or take supplements of blueberry leaf extract, be aware that what you are taking provides a benefit and not necessarily a cure. The antioxidant properties of blueberries (ranked at the top of the list among fruits and vegetables in this regard) do neutralize the free radicals which lead to both cancer and some age-related diseases. Drinking blueberry leaf tea isn't going to guarantee that you will not get these diseases, but tests show that the risk of your getting the diseases is statistically reduced.

SOURCE

So I highly doubt your problem is the tea. As far as I'm concerned this is something you need to talk to your doctor about. Nobody here can really give you any real advice like a doctor would. So I don't want you to be bombarded with all kinds of different opinions, which will only serve to confuse you further. For that reason, I am closing this thread.