HALDOL Reviews (HALOPERIDOL LACTATE)

Average Rating: 1.8 (183 Ratings)

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HALDOL  (HALOPERIDOL LACTATE):  Haloperidol is used to treat certain mental/mood disorders (e.g., schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorders). This medicine helps you to think more clearly, feel less nervous, and take part in everyday life. It can also help prevent suicide in people who are likely to harm themselves. It also reduces aggression and the desire to hurt others. It can decrease negative thoughts and hallucinations. Haloperidol can also be used to treat uncontrolled movements and outbursts of words/sounds related to Tourette's syndrome. Haloperidol is also used for severe behavior problems in hyperactive children when other treatments or medications have not worked. Haloperidol is a psychiatric medication (antipsychotic-type) that works by helping to restore the balance of certain natural substances in the brain (neurotransmitters).    (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)

  

Results are sorted by length of time drug was taken from shortest to longest duration (reviews with no time reported listed first).

Key to Ratings: 1=LOW (I would not recommend taking this medicine.)
5=HIGH (this medicine cured me or helped me a great deal.)

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 4  Intense Status Migraine I felt warmth throughout my body immediately, but it went away within the hour. Today (five days after the injection) my hip is still very sore, but I will take a sore hip over a full-blown migraine any day. The injection (I don't know the dose) killed my migraine in less than 45 minutes. F 34
1X day
5/22/2014
 2  Hallucinations Extreme Anxiety ... M
1X day
9/23/2015
 1  Migraines Was given IV reaction awful and the hospital acted as if I was faking F 16
1X day
11/16/2014
 1  bipolar tardive dyskinesia
7/1/2007
 1  End Stage Cancer Make the patient crazy. The doctor who prescribed this drug should be forced to take it and then be shot. Beware!!!! If you have an elderly parent/patient/spouse who is dying of any type of disease......refuse this drug.....it quickens the death....but....makes for a horrible psycotic end of life and death. DON'T BELIEVE A WORD THAT HOSPICE TELLS YOU.......THEY USE DRUGS TO PUT PEOPLE DOWN TO MAKE THEIR JOB EASIER. BEWARE OF NURSING HOME AND HOSPICE DOCTORS!!!!!!!!! THEIR ONLY CONCERN IS TO MAKE THE PERSON DIE WITHOUT HAVING DO ANY OF THEIR WORK. M 74
12/17/2008
 1  Forced injection in mental hospital Tounge swelled up immediately and I could not talk or breathe until given an injection of another drug. Went to sleep and did not wake up for two days. Also had a seizure Afterwords permanent RLS, gastroparesis, depression, achalasia, stiff neck. Nobody should be allowed to inject you with a drug that permanently lowers your quality of life. Haldol should not be used on patients to "calm them down" period. Now I will be pissed off the rest of my life because of the permanent lasting side effects. My opinion is that every person who injects that drug into patients should have to try the drug themselves. Due to the gastroparesis and achalasia I may have to go on a feeding tube and stay on it the rest of my life. Depressing. F 26
5/4/2009
 1  My father My father was forced to take this drug in hospice, He was like a zombie... Couldnt even talk or anything. If we had another chance , I wouldnt let them give this drug to him at all! Dont let hospice or any doctor give your loved one this drug just to shut them up and keep them quiet. Dont let them drug up your loved one with haldol just to shut them up. This drug is horrible. F 47
7/29/2009
 1  my adopted daughters mom did My adopted daughters mom was given this the entire pregnancy - not knowing she was pregnant. It has created an emotionally unstable "drug baby" that has ADHD, Sensory processing Disorder, severe emotional problems, Disruptive behavior disorder among other things. I DO NOT recommend this drug. It also turned my dying father into another person. The day Hospice gave my dad haldol, was the day my father had no more mind, it completely stole the next week of his life. He was gone after they drugged him with this stuff. There was nobody inside there any more. F 48
9/29/2009
 1  given in emergency involuntary mouth movements, tongue curling, teeth chewing and cracking, headaches, jaws closing tight as lock jaw and could not open mouth throat closing up and could not swallow. drooling, voice sound muffled and could not speak clearly. haldol is not a safe drug and should be taken off the market. It also seems to be misued by the some health care profesional. My son was given the drug Haldol when he was taken to the hosiptal for a head injury after being hit in the head at a gas station. He was drinking and not being coopertive with the emergency room staff so they decided to give him a double dose of the drug through I. V. and an injection. They didnot let a family member go back there with him and didnot let us know that the drug was given to him after discharge, they told us that he was given another drug and it wasn't until he had to be taken to another hosiptal because of the side effects that we learned that he was given that drug. M 30
15 mg 2X H
10/16/2010
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 1  Agitation, Mania Extremely dry mouth, muscular contortions, unintelligible slurred speech, drooling, inability to urinate, elevated heart rate, over-sedation, incoordination, involuntary movements, muscle rigidity, tremors I don't recommend haldol. This is an old, outdated drug with a multitude of harmful side effects, and there are much better drugs now that are far more effective. These days haldol is used mostly to treat agitation in prisoners and psychosis in mental patients. It Is like a chemical straight jacket, or at higher doses, it is more like a lobotomy. I was given haldol in 1976 when I was 17 for agitation, a horrible experience. I lost muscle control on one side, couldn't walk, couldn't pee, felt agitated but could hardly move or function, also caused drooling and uninteligable slurred speech. I was started on 10 mg and the dose was reduced to 1 mg. The side effects were still very problematic on 1 mg of haldol. The medicine for side effects was not very effective. Haldol is not for use in psychotic conditions related to dementia and may cause heart failure, sudden death, or pneumonia in older adults. During his end stage cancer, my father at age 79 was on 1 mg for nausea and did not look at all peaceful on this drug. He looked very uncomfortable, was unable to speak and his mouth was sandpaper dry. My grandmother age 93 was given 5 mg for agitation, and was barely able to move or speak, and she looked very uncomfortable. Her heart rate became so elevated her doctor worried that she would have a heart attack. A younger friend of mine took haldol for schizophrenia which helped, but not without disturbing side effects like tremors and tardive dysconesia. F 53
1mg-10mg 1X day
9/7/2011
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 1  locked up almost died but hard to prove only in my head i no i am different if any body know a lawyer in hawaii please call me i hate this drug we need to sue to save others M 27
1X day
10/3/2011
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 1  BRUTALLY, UNJUSTIFIABLY FORCED swollen face, severely restricted breathing, panic, anger, dizziness, shaking, muscle rigidity and pain, made me suicidal. THIS DRUG IS ATTEMPTED MURDER!!!! This should be considered attempted murder because of the severe degeneration in quality of life it causes. The fact that it is being forced to people against their will is disgusting. I was taunted by medical staff until I became annoyed. They then used my annoyance as a false reason for physically beating me and administering this. It left me shrieking in agony and swollen everywhere. It made my heart beat too fast and immediately gave my a panic attack. My condition immediately declined 3000% after being given this. It has ruined my face by stretching it out and I had trouble speaking for months after. It closed my throat so badly I could not breathe and feared for my life. This will haunt me for the rest of my life. I am suffering post-traumatic stress from this and I have nightmares about this vulgar poison that nurses use because they are too lazy to do their jobs. I contemplate suicide because this drug and the deranged nurses who gave it to me have ruined my life. This drug should be illegal. M 21
1X day
11/25/2012
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 1  anxiety Heavy mental and physical stagnance. Strong sedation, retarded feeling. I was on the stuff a few months when I was a preteen and I didn't know to think much of it then, but the second time I was on it later in life. Agh... The stuff was too stagnating I had to keep relooking at stuff I just had my eyes on. So I drank a bunch of coffee and that didn't help. Even though I have anxiety I was so out of it I called up an old friend that was a drug dealer and I asked him for some free coke so I could wake up. He came over with a couple eight balls and I snorted up half the bag. When the coke started to hit me my toung was out of my mouth swinging back an forth all over the place and my eyes were rolling up so I said to him maby we could chill later cause I'm really not feeling good right now so he left. Later on that day my legs just felt shaky as hell and I felt like I needed to walk around. I know it wasn't the coke because it never did anything like that to me before. So I just plain stopped taking the haldol. Haldol just wasn't the right kind of medication to treat my anxiety. M 23
11/5/2004
 1  Misdiagnosis of Schizophrenia I was prescribed Haldol while involuntarily held at Spring Harbor Mental Hospital due to my misdiagnosis. During the time in which I was on Haldol, I was completely unaware of my surroundings; other patients would later tell me that I was basically a vegetable for most of the time I was on it, unable to talk, move, or react to anything. Inside my head, I was constantly experiencing incomprehensible nightmares (think like something along the lines of the final boss battle from the game Earthbound, but being fought 24/7). After being taken off of Haldol, and being released from the hospital, I noticed that I was dealing with more migraines than usual, I couldn't think as easily, and I slowly began to realize that my long-term memories had been, for lack of a better term, "scrambled like eggs." My memories weren't simply gone, but instead, I had multiple variations in my mind of everything that I remembered, and parts of many memories were superimposed onto parts of many others. If you're a patient, never take Haldol. If you're a doctor, never prescribe Haldol. If you're a lawmaker, ban Haldol. F 24
1X day
12/4/2016
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 1   Anaphylaxsis Horrible medication. Made me sick first day, then triggered anaphylaxis the next morning. My wife had to call an ambulance to rush me to the emergency room. M 50
1X day
12/9/2020
 1  I don't know why they gave this tongue and throat swelled up, had trouble walking I do not know why they gave this to me in the hospital. They gave me a shot. I had a very bad reaction. I had to stay in the hospital for maybe a week from physical incapacitation from this medication. I felt really uncomfortable on this medication. Luckily the effects did wear off after about maybe 3 or 4 days and they gave me a physical therapist in the mean time. The physical therapist was very nice and I recovered. F 32 1 times
uknown 1X day
12/9/2020
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 1  one shot ER a bit of a stiffness in my shoulder that gone after taking one other pill, never to come back. this crap should be terminated asap M 21 1 times
??? 1X O
5/31/2016
 1  Forced. restless in hospital Hallucinations. Confusion. Restlessness. A truly evil drug. Any jerk that prescribes it should be forced to take it. Then their ability to prescribe should be taken away. F 58 1 times
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3/7/2017
 1  UTI-caused delusion totally halluciative-could not speak - like a living hell! Afetwards leg problems and after this event had an axiety attack and was on the edge of delusional - a year later the axiety and fear of which normally would not bother came again-they put in a pych ward and that was hell for a week but not like the Haldol-took no psych meds that week-was diagnosed bipolor due to my agitation for being put in the psch ward-they said that was a symptom of bipolar-but all ever had was #1 time a breakdown from an enormous amount of stress and no sleep and the #2 time lost job and it was exactly a year later-maybe ghost type of symtoms-fear of being crazy - took a vacation and will be broke when return home but hoping to relax from all the stress of being locked up involuntarily as they did the same thing to my dad 31 years ago, I never knew him as after he took his life-seems it was fear of ever being locked up again or being put on that Haldol-Haldol is a nighmere within itself nothing compared to any symtoms of a nervous breakdown or psychosis(delirious or demenia symtoms for UTI or no sleep for 3 days) it definelty need to be off the market and when a person is not harming themselves or others leave them alone-they do not need involuntary hospitlazation to meke them crazy with all the zombie drugs and lonliness-shipping them off to a hospital far from famly and friends-really lost without the numbing drugs-but made it through the week and got a bi polar diagnosis-probably the most sain person of all Iknow by the way-don't even think the doctors could stand that torure- F 31 1 times
5 mgs 1X day
5/7/2013
 1  To get high Immediately I got lockjaw. Every time I'd try to talk i'd feel like i was choking on my tongue or tongue was twisting in my mouth I just took it becaue i thought it would be like klonopin. But immediately thought i had cotton fever or was withdrawing. I was in an awake nightmare, and my tongue swelled up. I'd say two words then choke on my tongue and face would contort to one side. M 28 1 times
5mg 1X day
3/12/2011
  

HALDOL  (HALOPERIDOL LACTATE):  Haloperidol is used to treat certain mental/mood disorders (e.g., schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorders). This medicine helps you to think more clearly, feel less nervous, and take part in everyday life. It can also help prevent suicide in people who are likely to harm themselves. It also reduces aggression and the desire to hurt others. It can decrease negative thoughts and hallucinations. Haloperidol can also be used to treat uncontrolled movements and outbursts of words/sounds related to Tourette's syndrome. Haloperidol is also used for severe behavior problems in hyperactive children when other treatments or medications have not worked. Haloperidol is a psychiatric medication (antipsychotic-type) that works by helping to restore the balance of certain natural substances in the brain (neurotransmitters).    (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)

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