REGLAN Reviews (METOCLOPRAMIDE HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 1.4 (649 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare REGLAN with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR REGLAN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | Infant-GERD\delayed gastric emptyin | Mild irratability-nothing compared to before meds | My son threw up @ 20-30 times a day before Reglan, often 4-5 hours after eating. We started him on the drug aroung 9 months old and he only vomited 2-3 times a day. Now he is 17 months and still doing well. Hoping to wean him soon. However - we labored over the decision to give him this drug and I would recommend anyone else to do the same. For our child the benefits outweighed the risks. | F | 26 | 8 months | 11/11/2006 | 4 | severe nausea | Diarrhea, Tingling sensation in arms and sometimes legs, restlessness (only at night) | This drug helps me a lot on controling my nausea, I can eat and sleep without any problems and anxiety. I haven't run into any problems yet and I hope I don't. Though, I would like to stop being so dependent on it. | F | 17 | 10 days | 11/12/2006 | 1 | To help breast milk production | SEVERE ANXIETY/DEPRESSION, blurred vision dizziness | I would NOT give this to ANYONE! It should be taken off the market in my opinion! It almost ruined my life! BE WARNED! DO NOT TAKE THIS MEDICATION!!!! | F | 27 | 6 days | 11/20/2006 | 1 | upset stomach/bile reflux | Depression. Wicked depression. Never experienced anything like it. Hell. Seven years of marriage; had never cried in front of my wife. In the past week, I've done it three times. I'm just hoping I go back to normal. Yes, it helped with the stomach, but it wasn't worth it. Reglan opened up a blackness in my soul that I can only hope will go away someday soon. | The depression didn't hit until the last of the four weeks I was on this drug. | M | 34 | 30 days | 11/28/2006 | 1 | colon resection | While taking: Jittery-needed to keep moving felt like I was going to craw out of my skin. Cried several times uncontrolled. Could not sleep however so tired I felt like I needed to. The entire 10 days I was in hospital I slept about 1 hour each night. Worse feeling of my life. After off medication I felt depressed and dull for about 2 months. | I took anti depressant drugs for a few days with worse side effects that Reglan. I ended up "toughing it out" took nothing and returned to normal after about 2 months. I felt depressed, dull and out of it. I did not think I was ever going to get better at the time. | M | 39 | 4 days | 11/30/2006 | 1 | acid reflux | SEVERE DEPRESSION, CRYING, and SUICIDAL IDEATION! This is a dangerous drug and patients should be told about the side effects. Never had depression or other symptoms before in my life. This drug has ruined my life. | I never would have agreed to take this drug if my doctor had told me that the PDR lists depression as the number one risk. Also, the FDA has only approved Reglan use for 4-12 weeks. My doctor was going to have me take it for up to 16 weeks and I know someone whose doctor gave it to them for a year. Now, I am seeing a doctor who is trying to fix my dopamine levels. Reglan causes depression and like symptoms by messing up neurotransmitters in the brain as it is a dopamine antagonist. While reglan helped with my acid reflux, it has damaged my brain and messed up my life for now. Hopefully, I will return to normal and am taking for the first time in my life anti-depressants in a desperate attempt to fix things. Has anyone had these side effects and is now normal again? Any encouragement would be great. | F | 22 | 4 weeks | 12/4/2006 | 1 | nausea | Dystonic reaction with extreme akathisia (pacing uncontrollably all night long!) Some bodily sensations in hands and feet never went a way. Within 6 months, I have developed twitching all over my body and I have been unable to get a firm diagnosis yet. I believe it is due to the Reglan. | PLease don't tkae this medicine. PLEASE don't give it to your babies and children!!! It is horrible!!! | F | 35 | 1 weeks | 12/8/2006 | 2 | RX for GERD & slow gastric emptying | Have suddenly become depressed, feeling somewhat suicidal, nervous, shaky, restless, pacing and hurt something in my upper thigh while trying to get up off the floor. This has never happened before. Other effects that may be related I am unsure of, but some are probably interactions with codeine #3, Ambien and Cardizem. | If this is the way I am going to feel, I will not take Reglan and I hate the serioous reflux. Gastric emptying is 50% instead of the "normal" 90%. I do not consider myself elderly, but perhaps I am at 67, with a # of health problems...allergies, asthma, etc. | F | 67 | 10 days | 12/17/2006 | 1 | Gastroparesis | Tremors, very bad continuous heart palpitations (premature atrial contractions/PACs), pounding heart/shortened breathing, dizziness, inability to focus. All effects except tremors continue on lower level months out. Also get "stomach flutters" which seem to be hand-in-hand with the PACs and pounding. | Took smallest pill, 5mg, for each meal (extremely minimal dosage) to help mild gastroparesis. In 1 week got tremors, which I did not at 1st associate with Reglan. Some days later got extremely bad heart pounding and PACs which could almost "knock me out" as if I was going to black out. This was sometimes accompanied by "shortness of breath" and much dizziness and lack of focus. Kept trying to "tough it out" hoping I'd "get used to it", but it was still bad. Stopped medicine at 2 weeks. Next day went to ER with heart pounding and short breathing and PACs which woke me up. 2 months later I am still trying to get rid of all the effects, which also include light stomach "flutters" when the PACs recur. The side effects are never as bad as at 1st, but still come back somewhat every few days and bother me very much. I do think Reglan may have started helping my gastroparesis, as the 2nd week I noticed less bloating and less refluxing | F | 37 | 2 weeks | 12/18/2006 | 1 | nausea from eating disorder | Quickly worsening depression,anxiety and psychosis not to mention weight gain and severe bloating and edema.Horrible withdrawal especially the first week which was December and still having many difficult days.The first week off the medicine was the worst as far as depression and anxiety. | As a nurse I should have put these symptoms together with the drug but I listened to my physician.Only after calling the company did they validate that I indeed was having a drug reaction and it would be at least six weeks before I may possibly begin to see some resolution.This is a deadly drug and should be removed from the market.I hope and pray I fully recover. | F | 50 | 2 days | 12/27/2006 | 1 | Severe Stomach problems for months | Horrible twitching legs and arms uncontrollable!! So severe I called 911; Very anxious, dry mouth | I would NOT recommend this drug to anyone ever!!! Very scarry! I had only taken 2 doses of the medicine and had this severe side effects!!! | F | 44 | 2 times | 1/2/2007 | 1 | Infant GERD/slow emptying stomach | My twin infants were very irritiable, could not nap without waking up every 10 minutes. Also, jittery arm and leg movements. Lastly, no improvement or resolution of spitting up 3 hours after eating. | I don't recommend this drug for infants | M | 0.25 | 5 days | 1/5/2007 | 1 | Infant GERD/slow emptying stomach | My twin infants were very irritiable, could not nap without waking up every 10 minutes. Also, jittery arm and leg movements. Lastly, no improvement or resolution of spitting up 3 hours after eating. | I don't recommend this drug for infants | M | 0.25 | 5 days | 1/5/2007 | 1 | GERD | Very dizzy,unable to think clearly,motor skills slow,extremely naseous to the point of vomiting in trash can while sittin the jon with diarreaha,heart pulpitating,anxieties,panic attacks,hot flashes,sweating,. All in All, thought I WAS DYING,my husband wanted to call 911!!! I'll stay on Nexium! | NO ONE SHOULD EVER BE PRESCRIBED THIS DRUG FOR ANY THING. | F | 41 | 3 months | 1/9/2007 | 5 | Constant Nausea | Sleepy, Tired, not hungry, depression, and irritability. | I am taking the smallest dose 5mg before each meal, and at bedtime. The side effects were minimal, and not a concern. The side effects do not outweigh the effectiveness of the product. Nausea definitely gone. I love this product, and I would certainly reccomend it. | F | 20 | 3 weeks | 1/23/2007 | 2 | gastroparesis | Anxiety | In place of reglan, two gastroenterologists recommended a drug called domperidone (Motilium), which can only be purchased outside the U.S. I get mine from Canada. Essentially, it works like reglan without the side effect of anxiety and I have not noticed any other side effects. I presently take two 10 mg pills at least 1/2 hour before breakfast, lunch and dinner and I believe it has helped me. There has been talk that it will eventually receive FDA approval but not as yet. There are some pharmacies in the US that have the compound for the drug and will sell it in capsule form. Where I live, in Florida, there are two such pharmacies that I am aware of. That's how I first tried it and have now been taking the Canadian pills for over 9 months. I believe it has helped but one must still eat small meals 5 or 6 times a day. My illness caused much nausea and upset stomach and with the small meals and the domperidone, it is reasonably under control although my gastro guy says that effects o | M | 68 | | 2/6/2007 | 5 | Nausea since Gastric Bypass Surgey | EXTREME tiredness, depression, lack of joy in general | I am so upset that I had bad side effects because Reglan is a miracle for my nausea. I am being weaned off due to the depression, which is a very common side effect | F | 44 | 30 days | 2/12/2007 | 1 | nausea from migraines | I had taken reglan on & off for the nausea from my migraines. I had been changed to compazine & had parkinson like symptoms from the compazine. The neurologist that Dx'ed the fact that the compazine was causing the parkinson symptoms told me that reglan can have the same symptoms since I had those symptoms from the compazine & told me never to take reglan since the chance was much greater that I would end up with that extreme side effect. | It worked for nausea at the time I used it, but not willing to take the chance since there are many new meds that work better without the side effects now....especially for cancer patients on chemo. | F | 46 | | 2/16/2007 | 4 | gastroparesis | None. | I am on chemotherapy(TAXOL) and it seems to have worsened my gastroparesis(slow emptying of my stomach.) Taking Reglan speeds up the emptying of my stomach and really helps indigestion and 'too full feeling'. | F | 67 | 5 years | 2/21/2007 | 1 | acid reflux | anxiety, tremors, agitated, insomnia, lost appetite, fluctuating blood pressure, hot flashes, couldn't be left alone, sensitive to all noise, could not focus on anything. | The affects of Reglan were insidious. After taking it for about 4 months I noticed I was starting to worry excessively about things and was having trouble sleeping. My Dr. increased the dosage from 10 mg 3 times a day to 4 times a day and suddenly all of the side effects previously stated appeared. Reglan is a deadly poison. | F | 71 | 6 months | 2/22/2007 |