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)

  

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 1  MIGRAINE HALDOL IS TERRIBLE! WHY IN THE WORLD WOULD DOCTORS GIVE THIS TO NORMAL INDIVIDUALS WITH MIGRAINES??? Doctors really scare me now days! I have suffered for over a week because of this drug that was given to me. I have also encountered multiple doctors that do not understand why it was given to me in the first place! Haldol is dangerous and an old antipsychotic that should not be used. I had the gitters as SOON as it was injected into my body. I had multiple reactions from it that caused me to miss college for days. I am still having a high pulse from it, a week later. Haldol is very scary and I am now suffering health problems from it. Not to mention the look that doctors give me when I tell them that I cannot have it. Please do not let anyone give this to your child or anyone you love. Terrible drug!!! F 21 1 days
30MG 1X day
10/28/2014
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 4  Schizophrenia Little bit of jaw clenching, slight restlessness. I am on a small amount for voices and paranoia and it works. All the atypicals caused me severe weight gain and I am staying thr same weight on this. If I had started on this one first of all I wouldn't be the fat cow I now am. This works great for me and no weight gain so far. F 49 3 months
3mg 1X day
9/22/2014
 1  Migraine Verrry sleepy but could not sleep. When I was sitting still, I felt like I had to get up; when I would get up, I felt like I had to lie down. No way to describe other than very uncomfortable. This medicine did nothing for my headache. I literally drank buckets of water to try to flush this mess out of my system. I felt extremely depressed for days after taking this medicine and I wish I was never given it. When they first put the medicine in my IV, I felt an instant panic attack, like I was going to go crazy if I didn't get out of that bed. Thank God my husband was there. This is yet another medicine that will go on my "do not administer" list, along with compazene and reglan. They should blacklist all of this stuff. It already sucks to go through life with excruciationg head pain, but to have to be treated like a guinea pig is even worse. F 35 1 times
5 MG 1X day
9/19/2014
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 1  schizophrenia I can't believe they still use this. Very old medicine for schizophrenia. Better stick to the atypicals. M 1 days
10
8/20/2014
 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
 1  anxiety I was fiven haldol in place of my xanax because my panic attacks were getting worse. It made me tired n I slept like a baby till the next day I was out of it and my neck was forcing itself to the left in a way the neck isnt supposed to and my jaw went left and started bleeding I believe from my tooth cutting my cheek. It felt like my jaw was getting ripped off. This was feb 6th and today is the 24th and evrr since a part on that side of my face is basically numb. Its been almost 3 weeks an its still numb. I do chew tobacco and hope its not that but it happened the day after I took the med and after my body acted the way it did I figured it was that but I cant find anything on the numbness caused by this. Try something else not this. I couldn't walk strait and it started while I was driving. I actually had to turn my body sideways while driving so I could see because I could nt turn my neck. My fanily thought I was having a stroke at 28. If anyone knows about the partial face numness please let me know. M 28 1 days
2/25/2014
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 1  Cyclic Vomiting-nausea/stomach pain My husband was given one low dose of haldol when he went to the ER for a cyclic vomiting episode. It helped his stomach and just made him really tired at first. The next day was awful though. About halfway through the next day I noticed he couldn't speak very well. He sounded like he had something in his mouth or like his tongue wasn't moving. He said his jaw felt weird and it was hard to talk. Within the next few hours his jaw got so locked up he couldn't close his mouth! His mouth was wide open and would not close. Then his neck started getting stiff. We rushed to the hospital and he just kept getting worse while we waited. Eventually his jaw started forcing itself to the left then it would start shaking really fast and just keep pulling to the left. It got so bad he felt like his jaw was about to break and he was bleeding in his mouth! He used all his strength to force his jaw closed and hold it shut with his hands cuz it hurt so bad but it couldn't be kept closed for long. It was absolutely terrifying to see his jaw basically try to rip itself off from his face like it had a mind of its own. The Dr. said it was a side effect of haldol. It was called a dystonic reaction. They gave him benadryl and some other type of medicine that stopped the side effects thank god. I can't believe doctors give people this junk without at least a warning. I bet people have broken their own bones from the forceful muscle twisting. M 24 1 times
5mg
1/30/2014
 1  Migraine I was given Haldol IV in the ER as treatment for a migraine. Immediately after being dosed I felt as if I could not breathe and started sweating profusely. I was given benadryl IV along with the Haldol to "prevent any adverse effects". It took probably 30 minutes for the symptoms to calm to where I didn't feel like I was going to completely freak out and after that I couldn't keep my eyes open but I couldn't sleep either. It did nothing to relieve my headache or nausea and they ended up giving me IV Zofran for the nausea. I lied and told them that my headache was gone just to get the heck out of there and went home and took my home meds to sleep. It took 2 days before I felt somewhat normal and not edgy and shaky anymore. I think this was a horrible treatment for a migraine and felt like hell on earth. F 38 1 times
Unknown 1X day
1/29/2014
 1  Forced and restrained in E.R. This drug was forced upon me in The E.R. To calm down from a migraine. The next day I would begin sweating uncontrollably with jaw locking. My neck twisted so far to the right up I felt like dying and my head would never be the same... Most scariest thing I have experienced... Went back to another hospital and have been on valium and Benadryl to counter act which works but have missed a week of work now because of this... DO NOT TAKE THIS DRUG!!! M 28 1 days
inject 1x
12/10/2013
 1   M 77 1 days
11/29/2013
 1   DO not take This!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!! F 46 1 times
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11/3/2013
 1  Calm me down for brain wave test About 3 hours or so after being given the haldol by a psychiatrist, my brain felt like a near vegetable. The only words that could come out of my mouth were, "I can't think...I can't think...I can't think...etc." Soon after, my head tried to physically twist around on its own like the Exorcist girl. I had to use my hand to keep my head from twisting. The physical pain in my body, coupled with my brain's near vegetables state was so horrible, I started crying, and punching these sofas to deal with the pain. Some time has passed before psychiatrists came back into the room I was in to give me a "haldol side effect releaser", which was an injection. They took me to my bed, told me to sleep, and when I woke up they said I would be better again. I had to sleep on a certain side of my face to keep my head from turning. I went to sleep. When I woke up, the pain was gone. However, I suffered from severe depression about a year later that lasted for two years. Als Never accept this drug. When the psychiatrist first wanted me to take it, I refused. I then decided to take it, thinking I was giving the psychiatrists a hard time. Worst mistake I ever made. Never let anybody give you this drug. I will ruin your life. M 37 1 days
small cup 1X O
10/3/2013
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 3  Psychotic thinking, anxty, paranoia Feel sedated, "like jelly", basically unable to work physically, very hard to do tasks around the house May be responsible for 20-30 lbs gained, when I went off it last year I lost about 15 lbs before being put back on, helps with irritability though. Also taking Depakote with Haldol. M 27 7 months
2mg 1X day
8/2/2013
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 1   It was hell, I had a nervous breakdown and then was put in a hospital and I was having crazy thoughts for like 2 weeks straight until I flushed it all out of my system. I would rather go to prison then be subjected to a headhelllike that again. I was telling the doctors and nurses constantly I needed my nerves calm and just to get some sleep and they kept saying ok you justhave to take your haldol. F 41 5 days
1X day
7/22/2013
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 3  hearing tings I tinks its just okay. my xanax make me feel sexy and all that but hadol shuts it down. M 44 1 years
2 mg daily 1X day
6/27/2013
 3  Paranoid Schizophrenia Increased anxiety, stiffness of muscles, restlessness (I can't go to sleep because of this) Helped me with my hallucinations but the side effects are killing me. Abilify didn't work on me so I changed to Haldol. F 21 2 months
2mg 1X day
6/3/2013
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 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
 4  manic depression: bipolar only side effect is the inability to lose weight: initially lost 60 pounds on haldol after I did not lose weight on abilify. may try to taper off drug and see if i can lose the 30 lbs. i have been wanting to lose. M 44 3 years
1-2 mg 1X day
4/26/2013
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 5  I was very violent in psych ward. I just remember having lock jaw a lot and being very very drowsy. I was known for having very violent tendencies towards staff and myself. I don't remember what was given to me to stop the lock jaw.I just remember being very uncomfortable with the lock jaw. I felt like if I had to live this way I would rather die. This medicine is NOT used for migraines!! What a stupid ER doctor for giving this woman this medication for it!!! ESPECIALLY IF SHE NEEDED TO FUNCTION DAILY TAKING CARE OF HER CHILDREN!!! F 33 1 months
not sure
2/28/2013
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 1  Headache Sleepy in a coma like state for 2 whole days before experiencing uncontrollable tongue and leg movements, and severe confusion. I was given this medication in the ER for a HEADACHE. I have what is called scapula thoracic creptius/burstitus and snapping scapula syndrome from a car accident back in 2010. I get frequent neck spasms, shoulder pain, headached..etc from nerve compression where my muscles tense up. Even chest pain known as costochondritis. I went in complaining of a migraine for 6 going on 7 days.. they gave me an injection of phenergan for the nausea (already have an rx for this, it was unneeded) and for the Haldol. I have never in my life felt so bad. I was unable to move for two whole days, and I have kids to take care of. I wanted to do nothing but sleep. When I came out of my "coma" I was anxious and my tongue was tightening up and rolling back, my legs wanted to move and do something.. I was confused. I asked my kids "what do I normally do this time of day". My youngest is 18 months old, I nearly dropped him TWICE. This to me is considered medical negligence because I was not given a list of side effects, this is an ANTI PSYCHOTIC. NOT headache medicine. I am LIVID, to say the least. Now I have to take Benztropine, and Valium to feel halfway normal because I am on day 4 since taking it and my legs still try to move all the time, it's uncontrollable. This drug is DANGEROUS!! I will NEVER take something again from an ER or any Doctor for that matter unless I know what it is. This is insane!!!! F 32 1 days
1X O
2/23/2013

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