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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR REGLAN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | Nausea, suspected gastroperisis | Depression and anxiety. Dr never said not to take for more than 12 weeks. Was put on depression meds and even testosterone to try and make me feel better yet reglan was the cause all along. Been off of it for a month now and my anxiety is debilitating at this point. Cant stop movine my arms and touching my face, legs or hair. Now on buproprion and hydroxozine to help with my anxiety/panic attacks. This drug should be banned!! | F | 42 | 12 months 10mg 4X day | 3/8/2022 | 1 | Gastroparesis | Anxiety is increased, and withdrawal is killing me. Can't eat. Can barely swallow meds. Sleep is gone. And I have more difficulty breathing now than I did when I was on it. Also my bp and pulse are taking it very hard. | I would rather puke up every meal than deal with this. My body can't handle this. I wish this on nobody. | F | 37 | 6 months 10mg 3X day | 2/13/2021 | 1 | Gastroparesis | Horrible restlessness and increase in anxiety. Inability to sleep. Parkinson's like syndrome. This should be taken off the market. Another Big Pharma med pushed by our mds that don't have a clue on what they actually do to the body. | M | 54 | 21 days 30mg 3X day | 12/22/2020 | 5 | Gastroparesis | None except must eat 3 times a day on schedule or stomach cramps. Have had gastroparesis for 12 years once took it at higher dose got sick stopped got very sick doctors put me on the perfect dose for me change my diet to organic and laxatives works perfectly drink liquids will make u sleepy | I havent experience any side effects I think for others the dosage maybe too high in most patients gave me my life back thank you reglan Reglan+team of specialists + complete and total change of diet | M | 46 | 2 weeks 5mg a day | 10/11/2019 | 4 | Gastroparesis | Hand Tremors, Body Twitching | I take it PRN, not unless the nausea & vomiting or stomach pain is bad, but it works and does it's job. | F | 34 | 3 years | 3/30/2017 | 1 | Gastroparesis | Insomnia, Feeling Restless and Anxious, Headaches | F | 35 | 2 weeks 10 3X day | 8/1/2016 | 1 | For gastroparesis | Throat felt like someone was squeezing it Really tired Depression Slight twitching | Helped with stomach hunger and ache I had but side effects were not worth staying on it | F | 45 | 10 weeks 10mg | 7/25/2016 | 1 | Gastroparesis | Seizures | Please don't take this medication. It ruined my life! Plus it never even helped with gastroparesis! | F | 19 | 7 months 30mg | 6/24/2016 | 1 | Gastroparesis | Severe depression and and anxiety leading to mental breakdown | My mother was prescribed this medication and soon after discontinuing med she started with depression, anxiety, nervousness, insomnia, anorexia, and confusion. This medication took an active senior citizen who traveled, had a circle of friends to socialize with, maintained her single home on her own, drove her own car and appeared 10 years younger than her age to a depressed, suicidal, crazy women. Weeks after stopping the medication along with the side effects she appeared to have aged 10 years older then what she was. Since she always looked 10 years younger, this was such a significant change. She had to move in with family, give up her house, could not drive anymore, refused to even talk with famy or friends on the phone, constantly worried, complained she felt as though she were "jumping out of her skin", could not eat, and had suicidal ideations. Despite therapist, doctors, antidepressants and anti anxiety meds, my mother gave up her battle and refused water and food and a living will stated she desired no hydration, medical intervention, or tube feedings. She was lucid enough to re enforce her wishes. I believe this medication led to a complete mental breakdown as to which she was not returning from. My mother died one week later and though she is no longer sufferring, I am so mad at this drug, the manufacturer and medical professionals for allowing unknowing patients to be subjected to such a terrible, destructive medication | F | 74 | 8 months 5mg | 9/23/2015 | 3 | Gastroparesis, nausea, vomiting | Recently diagnosed with delayed stomach emptying it helped but I'm jumpy, restless, out of it. I can't stop chewing or moving my legs. I get bursts of energy followed by intense lethargy. I wanna run then sleep. When I do sleep my dreams are crazy I feel like in losing my mind. I stopped taking it | F | 40 | 10 days 10mg | 9/12/2015 | 1 | Gastroparesis | For several months I've had a ache in my chest, gurgles in my throat and a slight sick feeling when eating. The doctor's diagnosis of a gastric motility problem made sense. He prescribed Metoclopramide (aka Reglan). I was feeling a bit depressed prior to taking them. After the first two pills (the first day) I was feeling a bit delirious. By the evening I was wishing I could just quietly die. After day two (another 2 pills) I was suffering severe mental anguish and feeling very tearful; I couldn't face going to work. I don't take any medicine normally, even painkillers, don't smoke or use recreational drugs. I drank a small amount of wine (100-200ml) both days, 4 or 5 hours after taking the pills (which I read may amplify side effects, so may be a bad plan). I didn't feel any benefits at all (interestingly, I got hiccoughs for ten minutes at lunch during day 2 - I used to get hiccoughs whenever I ate a big meal when this whole problem started), but I probably didn't give the pills a long enough time to work, though they seem to have worked on my brain! 3 days after stopping I'm back to the mild depression I had before taking the pills. And there's MAYBE a slight reduction in gatroparesis after I've stopped too? | M | 43 | 2 days 10 2X day | 9/11/2014 Patient History | 1 | episode due to gastroparesis | Anxiety, restless, depression, nonstop crying, little to no sleep and sudden symptoms if urinary retention. | F | 31 | 1 days 1 10mg | 5/1/2014 | 1 | gastroparesis | Complete loss of control of emotions. Anxiety and panic attacks. Shaking/ tremors. Was given this in ER I've and a prescription. After what happened in er will never take again. Felt like I was dieing. | F | 36 | 1 days iv | 8/9/2013 | 3 | gastroparesis | much anxiety | i was diagnosised with gastroparesis many years ago and have been put on both of the medicines that are currently on the market for this problem... reglan helped to an extent but as a patient who already has essential tremor the side effects of possibly getting parkinson's disease are tremendously scary.. my GI doctor is fantastic and he is aware of my concerns which is why i only take this drug PRN now but my gastroparesis affects too many aspects of my life and i just wish they would come out with a better drug | F | 22 | 30 mg 1X AN | 7/2/2013 | 1 | Gastroparesis | Left Temporal Lobe Seizure, twitching, anxiety, Very high BPand heart rate, tics | I should have taken Cyanide instead of Reglan. 2nd time in writing this. It was on a post in Jan 2008 and I still can't believe this POISON is still being giving to innocent patients! Filed a complaint with the DEA because 2 other people besides myself in the same county had similar effects the same month? High BP 180/115, heart rate 160, then everything went black. Told I had a seizure. Took 3 months to get this crap out of my system. Had body tics for a week after? | F | 60 | 1 weeks 5mg 2X day | 7/2/2013 | 2 | Gastroparesis | Burning/stabbing joint pain, restless legs during day that transitioned to all-out thrashing at night, electrical "buzzing" feeling up and down legs/arms/back of head, itchy feet, anxiety, severe insomnia, total loss of motivation to be productive, complete loss of sex drive | Does this medication stimulate my stomach to overcome its paralysis and force food through into my intestinal tract? Yes. Am I going to approach my doctors tomorrow and tell them to install a feeding tube because I refuse to take Reglan anymore due to the horrific side effects (and due to Domperidone not working for me)? Yup. I've had a lot of serious health problems, but nothing has been as difficult to deal with emotionally and psychologically like the side effects from Reglan. I'd rather go through cancer treatment again a thousand times over than EVER use this drug again. My advice: if you take it once and immediately feel like you're going to jump out of your skin (or at least can run laps despite being ill), tell your doctors immediately, drink as much water as possible for the following week to flush it out of your system, and list it as a severe drug allergy with all of your medical providers. At this point I'm just hoping the damage isn't permanent. | F | 30 | 20 days 10 2X day | 4/29/2013 | 1 | Gastroperesis | Total mental breakdown, hallucinating. Could have locked me up in the psych ward | Never take this drug!! | F | 36 | 2 weeks 10 3X day | 3/27/2013 | 1 | gastroparesis | Severe headaches,high blood pressure,tics,seizure | I wound up in the ER with doctors thinking I had a migraine! My bp was 180/100 usually 120/80? Started having tics and getting agitated and finally started going bezerk and screaming. Doctor gave me antihistamine and sedative. EEG later showed I had a temporal lobe seizure from this dangerous med! This med is a very dangerous drug,this happened to me 4 yrs ago and the DEA has done nothing to take it off the market | F | 56 | 1 weeks 5mg 1X day | 10/16/2012 | 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 | 1 | gastroparesis | Panic attacks, extreme anxiety, irrational thoughts, muscle tension, spazzed out, zoned out | F | 17 | 3 days | 2/14/2012 |
REGLAN (METOCLOPRAMIDE HYDROCHLORIDE): This medication is used to treat certain conditions of the stomach and intestines. Metoclopramide is used as a short-term treatment (4 to 12 weeks) for persistent heartburn when the usual medicines do not work well enough. It is used mostly for heartburn that occurs after a meal or during the daytime. Treating persistent heartburn can decrease the damage done by stomach acid to the swallowing tube (esophagus) and help healing. Metoclopramide is also used in diabetic patients who have poor emptying of their stomachs (gastroparesis). Treating gastroparesis can decrease symptoms of nausea, vomiting, and stomach/abdominal fullness. Metoclopramide works by blocking a natural substance (dopamine). It speeds up stomach emptying and movement of the upper intestines. This drug is not recommended for use in children due to an increased risk of serious side effects (such as muscle spasms/uncontrolled muscle movements). Ask the doctor or pharmacist for details. (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)