REGLAN Reviews (METOCLOPRAMIDE HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 1.4 (655 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare REGLAN with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR REGLAN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | Increase Breastmilk | ANXIETY, PANIC ATTACKS, DEPRESSION, IRRATIONAL/VIVID THOUGHTS AND FEARS, CHEST PAIN | After 8 weeks of being on this med, I began to feel foggy and felt like i was "walking funny" as though I was walking a little to the left and couldn't stop myself, so I stopped taking the pills. 3 days later I was in the ER with a panic attack. I had unexplained chest pains and within 2 weeks had 2 chext xrays and EKGs done. I had blood work done to check my thyroid function, all appeared normal. I began having very irrational fears, and thoughts that were embarrassing in their idiocy. I was unable to make them stop. I had panic attacks in the past, but had not had one since I was 5 months pregnant. These were not normal panic attacks that lasted 20 to 30 minutes and went away, these were long drawn out full day events of being in a constant state of panic. IT IS HORRIBLE. I began to seek treatment after the 3rd event of random panic. Every day as i would leave my house to go to work in the morning, I would have debilitating fearful thoughts that would usually result in a panic attack at my desk. I began to be afraid to leave the house alone, I was afraid to spend time with or hold my baby. i was afraid of changing her diaper. I went to a therapist who referred me to my OB for Postpartum Depression. OB stated this was NOT NORMAL and referred me to a psychiatrist believing I need to be medicated. My psychiatrist has never HEARD of Reglan, and therefore does not believe me when I tell him I believe this is what's causing the problem as i was FINE for 3 | F | 34 | 8 weeks 10 3X day | 9/20/2012 | 1 | Migraines | Severe headache, insomnia, neck and shoulder pain, blurred vision, depression and suicidal thoughts. On my 6th day with symptoms no to little sleep. This has been the worst week of my life! | F | 24 | 1 days 10 MG IV | 9/17/2012 | 1 | to increase milk supply | Shortly after starting this prescription I started feeling like I had no energy. I kept calling my dr's office telling them and asking if they could do a test for anemia or something. Something was just not right. About a week later I started having horrible insomnia and lots of anxiety. I soon started being very depressed, anxious, having crazy thoughts, it was AWFUL!! I became like a zombie. Then came suidcidal thoughts. Despite going to doctors and them knowing I was on this, they didn't take me off--said it was postpartum depression. I had never had depression in my life despite going through some pretty awful things. Finally one day my husband had intuition or something and decided to throw them in the trash! It took a while for me to get over the withdrawl symptoms and a long time to realize exactly what happened. I thought I was a horrible person. I would not recommend this medication to anyone!! | F | 30 days 1X day | 8/22/2012 | 1 | Severe Migraine Nausea | Paranoia, Panic attacks. Thought I was dying, no feeling in arms, weird tongue movement. | F | 25 | 1 days Iv | 8/18/2012 | 1 | GERD | My son was an infant( 8mo)when prescribed by his doctors in 2006I was not told by anyone the side effects that this drug have....my son started complaining that his stomach was hurting in 2010 (due to speech delay)when I would give him the medicine... So I started to research this drug myself and to learn about the severe side affects and I immediately stopped giving him this medication.(once I discovered in 2011).At this time he was 5yrs & 8 months old. This has change our life for ever. I am up set that the doctors continued to prescribe this drug to us.... After the things that I seeing with my child I questioned the doctors about why we were prescribed this and they're saying that their office would have never prescribe this drug to any one....this just comfirms that there is definitely something to hide and cover.....my son has tremors, bulking and blinking on eyes, constant movements, he had started wetting himself as he was never toilet trained(since 18 month old) he was n | My son was an infant( 8mo)when prescribed by his doctors in 2006I was not told by anyone the side effects that this drug have....my son started complaining that his stomach was hurting in 2010 (due to speech delay)when I would give him the medicine... So I started to research this drug myself and to learn about the severe side affects and I immediately stopped giving him this medication.(once I discovered in 2011).At this time he was 5yrs & 8 months old. This has change our life for ever. I am up set that the doctors continued to prescribe this drug to us.... After the things that I seeing with my child I questioned the doctors about why we were prescribed this and they're saying that their office would have never prescribe this drug to any one....this just comfirms that there is definitely something to hide and cover.....my son has tremors, bulking and blinking on eyes, constant movements, he had started wetting himself as he was never toilet trained(since 18 month old) he was not aware at times of what was going on.....random falling and dropping things out his hand. Such as an ice cream cone or a paper plate. I'm so up set disappointed about this it is like a constant fight with doctors trying to down play my son condition. Doctors wants to diagnose T.S. | F | 36 | 5 years 5mg..2.4ml 4X day | 8/17/2012 | 1 | migraine | I went in with the worst pain in my head neck and eye. I refused to do a spinal tap so they said they would treat it like a migraine and gave me reglan. I freaked out and have felt weird ever since. My headache came back instantly the next morning. Hasn't went away. I'm now on my 6th day with a headache. Plus I was told you can't take it if you have stomach ulcers, and guess what, I have crohns disease. I don't even understand why they gave it to me, I looked it up and nowhere does it say for a migraine | F | 20 | 1 days idk | 8/16/2012 | 1 | Migraine | I was given this drug via IV in the ER for severe migraine last night. Within 30 minutes I ripped the IV out of my arm and left. I didn't know what happened, but I have been having panic attacks ever since I haven't slept yet. When I looked up the effects of the drug it looks like I have all the side effects of this med. I cannot even believe the doctor or nurse didn't give me a heads up on this med. worse yet, my migraine is coming back. | F | 29 | 1 days 20 | 8/15/2012 | 1 | migraine | severe anxiety, depression, wanting to curl up and die, unable to sleepf or longer than 2 hours a night. loss of appitite, wanting to crawl out of skin. suicidal thoughts | Was given to my son (16) for a migraine. he freaked out within moments of being given in an iv. in the last three days he has only eaten a chicken finger, a cup of chips, and one and a half cans of pepsi. he is curled up or rocking constantly like an autistic child | M | 16 | 1 days 20mg 1X O | 7/19/2012 | 1 | gastroparesis | depression, anxiety, insomnia | My experience with reglan was two months, but I hope this will be of help to someone going through reglan misery. I started taking reglan for gastoparesis in May of last year. By late July, for the first time in my life, I was experiencing severe anxiety and depression. I didn't connect it to the reglan (drs. were no help) until Sept. 1. Once I made the connection, I was so distressed that I quit the reglan cold turkey on Sept. 1. (I'm not necessarily recommending this - I've heard you're supposed to taper off, but I wanted it out of my system, and I had a good support system around me - people who would constantly remind me it was the drug making me miserable.) Basically, September and October were a sad and anxious blur for me. I started to feel better in early November, and I kept feeling better as time went by. Now it's July again, and I've been 100% recovered for some time. The gastroparesis of course came back, and this may be really idiosyncratic to me, but Veganmax protein shake by Lifetime Fitness gives me gp relief (I also take motilium and HCL), and, unlike with reglan, I'm not looking for a bridge to jump off of. My heart goes out to everyone currently devastated by reglan - my reglan depression was by far the scariest and worst thing that has ever happened to me - but the drug did leave my system, and I made a full recovery. I also decided not to take anti-depressants during my recovery, as I'd never needed them before. I don't know if that's the right answer | F | 40 | 2 months 40 2X day | 7/8/2012 | 5 | nausea | Blur vision awful depression heightened anxiety | F | 38 | 2 months 90mg | 7/1/2012 | 1 | Migrane | OMFG please nobody ever take this. I went to the ER last night for a severe migrane. Dr gave me 20mg Reglan through iv.Within 10 minutes i wanted to jump out a window. I couldnt sit still wanted to rip my skin off..I ripped the iv out of my arm and tried to run out. Drs got me back in bed then the violent leg shaking started. I had no relief at all. I told drs and they said it would pass. They let me drive home i dunno how i didnt crash my car. I really thought about cutting my skin off bc i felt my insides wouldnt stop moving. The aniexty was getting worse and worse. I finally got home and tried taking a hot bath i couldnt sit still. I got out and was pacing back and forth for 20 mins and had to keep laying down.and curling into a ball and shaking.I thought i was going to die i couldnt take it anymore. My husband had some XXANEX omg within 10 mins i started to calm down. But did not sleep insomnia was insane. It has been almost 24 hrs since ive taken it still having some anxiety and very blah. Please nobody ever take this. | F | 25 | 1 days 20mg | 6/8/2012 | 5 | sever migraine | relief from migraine after four days with no response from triptans | M | 47 | 1 days 1X day | 6/7/2012 | 1 | Nausea | Side effects experienced with REGLAN: This drug is the devil! No really, it is. I don't even know why this RX was given to me but was by my doc. I was having issues w/ keeping food down but no more than anyone who can keep food down w/ the flu. I took it as soon as I got home from the doc and it knocked me out completely for about 30 min after that all the jumping of the legs sat in, twitching, I even went to stand up twice and put my right leg down only to bust my butt. It was like I couldnt control my leg. I was taking a RX cough syrup and I thought the bad reaction was coming from that. Nope! After a few more days of taking the Reglan I figured out it was the problem. What makes me mad is why would a doc prescribe this mess for someone who does have the medicinal condition that have been menchioned on this thread? I'm hoping to get it out of my system though I haven't been able to find out how long that is? I took it for 2 days then stopped then took it again a wk later which was today realizing moments after I took it the cough syrup wasn't the problem so I only have 1 dose today in my system. But it has been a horrific day. The twitching, ticking, restless legs, you feel like you are coming out of your skin. Do not take this RX. It is really dangerous. | F | 30 | 3 days 10 | 5/23/2012 | 1 | To increase milk supply | Inconsistent bouts of depression after taking medication for about 50 days. Worse than side effects was the WITHDRAWAL I experienced after stopping the medication - debilitating anxiety, depression, depersonalization. I felt like I could not go on, could barely take care of my 3 children, could not feel any joy, felt like my soul had been taken away, I was not myself, and it was the worst feeling I have ever experienced in my life. Took 2-3 months to fully recover from withdrawal. If you believe you are experiencing Reglan withdrawal, please have hope, I DID GET BETTER and you can too, it will take some time and there are medications that can help. Please see my comments for full explanation and contact me by email if you need support, I contacted another patient from this site when I was suffering and it was incredibly helpful! | I was prescribed reglan through a lactation consultant to increase my breast milk supply, my baby was 7 months old, my milk supply returned almost immediately, it was very effective. Was given a refill after 40 days without incident, and then around 50-60 days I began to experience bouts of depression - they were inconsistent, occuring every other day or two straight days followed by two or three normal days. The depression was uncomfortable - I was fatigued and listless, had trouble getting through the day. Went from 10mg 3xday to 10mg 2xday to see if the side effects would lessen, they didn't so I decided to discontinue the Reglan - no one had told me you MUST wean off this medication and within 24-48 hours I began to experience the most horrible psychiatric withdrawal symptoms. The withdrawal started about mid-day, I felt racy, anxious, depressed, couldn't figure out what was wrong, by dinner time I was a wreck, I had never felt this way my entire life. Then the withdrawal symptoms mysteriously dissappeared by bedtime. This pattern continued each day and got worse so I sought medical help but was told there was no such thing as Reglan withdrawal. I was finally treated with medication, first Xanax, then Klonopin, and Zoloft and I'm here to say that it's taken over 3 months but I have finally recovered from the withdrawal and gotten off all medications. Please feel free to contact me for more details of my experience, I really want to help others going through this. | F | 35 | 60 days 10mg 3X day | 5/8/2012 | 1 | Nausea | It was a horrible feeling my heart was racing and I felt the urge to run out of the room it wasn't a good feeling at all | F | 23 | 1 days 50 | 4/18/2012 | 1 | Nausea related to kidney infection | Sever anxiety, Depression, Panic, Racing heart rate. | I would NOT recommend this medication. I felt anxious all the time from the morning after the first dose. I felt horrible, not myself at all. | F | 29 | 3 days 5mg 1X day | 4/14/2012 | 1 | vomiting and bloody emesis | My 19y/o daughter was prescribed this med for Nausea/bloody emesis. We cannot say that it helped because today, after her 3rd dose, she began to complain of jaw clenching and spasms in the jaw. By the time I got her home from a friend's, she was nearly in a frenzy. I have given her 50 mg Benadryl per MD order, and she has heat alternating with cold on the jaw. In all her years I have never seen her so miserable. I am a nurse and had no idea that these effects were so common. I had only ever given this med frequently to pt's with a G-tube. Perhaps their conditions usually made it hard to assess when these occur. | My daughter will never take the med again, nor will anyone in my family. That being said, I trust my Doctor but will still look further into other's complaints when giving her any med that I am not personally very familiar with. | F | 19 | 2 days 10 1X AN | 3/31/2012 | 1 | Vomiting | Depressions, anxiety, panic, restlessness, insomnia (from anxiety) | I was given metaclompromide in the hospital through IV for vomiting and in pill form the following two days. I awoke the next day confused and depressed. I remained extremely depressed, anxious, restless, panicked. I did everything I could to ease the feeling, I went to the gym, I returned to the hospital to speak with the doctor, I spoke with doctor friends. And..I did my own research. I knew that it was the drug that was causing these effects and found out that it blocked dopamine in the brain, and can cause anxiety and depression in certain persons. I considered quitting work, but decided to put one step in front of the other for a while and try to make it through this episode. I found out it takes a few weeks for the brain to go back to normal and resume dopamine production. I want to tell you that it DOES get better. Please believe it, even if you have been taking it for months. The brain resumes making what it needs and it regains its balance. I don't feel ANY of the depression that I felt from that episode, it is like nothing happened. It took me two weeks, but then I was fine. If you took it for longer then you may need some more time but I don't think you would need more than a couple months really. Trust me things will go back to normal, you will be fine!! just manage your life, you will be fine :) if you need to talk my email is [email protected] | F | 28 | 3 days 2X day | 3/30/2012 | 1 | stomach bile | NEVER, ever take this, unless you want severe panic attacks and severe depression and crazy depersonalization and suicidal thoughts. I quit taking this drug 7 months ago and still dealing with terrible side effects today. I'm afraid it has ruined my life. PLEASE dont take this medicine. | M | 29 | 10mg 1X day | 3/11/2012 Patient History | 2 | SIBO recurrence | diarrhea, abdominal pain, breast enlargement and pain | I think that Reglan probably works for its intended purpose (although in my case it was hard to tell), but the side effects are just so prominent that it negates any benefit of the drug imo. I was only on this med for 7 days (and a low dose mind you) and thankfully did not have any serious side effects but the ones I did have reduced my quality of life and made me pretty uncomfortable. | F | 40 | 7 days 5mg 1X day | 3/9/2012 |