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 |
| 1 | slow empting stomach | While on the medicine I had times of bouncing off the walls and other times of being so tired. As they increased my dosage those got worse along with blurred vision and panic attacks. | I have been off Rgaln for 5 weeks and am still experiencing withdrawal effects. I wake up abround 4:30 am with panic attacks and cannot get back to sleep. Hard to do with a 4 and 2 year children. Has anyone found a remedy for the withdrawal effects? I feel like i have taken poison and can't get it out of my system. Thanks | F | 36 | 6 weeks | 9/5/2007 | 1 | nausea/vomiting | Severe full body dystonic reaction, akathisia, severe anxiety and restlessness. Movements of arms and legs later diagnosed as tardive dyskinesia/tardive dystonia. I am permanently disabled and have had tardive generalized dystonia for 12 years now after exposure to Reglan and compazine. I nearly died from respiratory dyskinesia when I had the dystonic reaction to the Reglan. Now 12 years later I still have fairly severe dystonia and am unable to walk or move normally. This drug gave me a lifelong disabling movement disorder. | This is an awful drug that should be taken off of the market. I have met many people who also have had severe reactions to Reglan. This drug can kill you or leave you permanently disabled and a wheelchair user like it did to me. Tardive dyskinesia and dystonia are very difficult to live with and can be severely disabling. Don't take reglan and get off of it if you are currently taking it. I was only exposed for about 5 days via IV. I was also exposed to compazine and other neuroleptic drugs which may have made my ongoing symptoms more severe. | F | 31 | 5 days | 9/2/2007 | 1 | Nausea | Dystonic reaction; involuntary twisting of my neck, eyes rolling back in my head, uncontrollable tongue movements, tingling and twitching of limbs, increased heart rate. | I had one of the most severe reactions my ER doctor had ever seen. According to him, dystonic reactions are rarely painful and usualy go away in a short time; mine lasted hours before someone was able to take me to the hospital as I was unable to call for myself and had to wait for someone to arrive at my home. I was nearly blinded with the pain of my twisting neck and had barely any control over speech. When I arrived at the ER, my heartrate was in fatal ranges. I could have died from taking this medication. IT'S NOT WORTH THE RISK, DO NOT TAKE IT. | F | 23 | 2 days | 8/29/2007 | 1 | Anesthesia for surgery | Woke up from surgery in Sept 2006 trying to regain hold on reality. It was total hell. I later described the feeling as "having the books fly off the shelves of my mind". General panic, severe fright, total unease. | I shared my reaction with that anesthesiologist, and they said the anesthesia meds were "normal dosage". Before my next surgery in July 2007, I shared my reaction with THAT anesthesiologist, and she said "That's caused by Reglan", omitted it from the mix, and I woke up from that surgery just fine!!!! I am going to tattoo "No Reglan" across my forehead. | M | 56 | 1 days | 8/25/2007 | 1 | Paralized Boweel | facial twitches, stiff neck, bulging eye, high anxiety, manic episode | The Devils drug DO NOT TAKE THIS DRUG IT WILL RUIN YOUR LIFE THE MANUFACTURER SHOULD BE PUT OUT OF BUSINESS | M | 43 | 5 days | 8/24/2007 | 1 | to prevent nausea from anesthesia | This happened to me TWICE. Both times, I was told that they had never seen my reaction before and that it was me overreacting to the situation. After talking to several other people, I was told that they had similar experiences!!! I had a total meltdown PANIC ATTACK. Got up off the bed and said I was going home just to get out of the operating room because I thought I was going to DIE on the spot. Felt like total doom and gloom.....started planning for my impending death. This is no way to go into surgery (nor to go into the delivery room!) | I have NEVER had any type of psychotic episode, anxiety or depression. This was unlike anything I've ever experienced. I now have Reglan listed as a DO NOT ADMINISTER drug on every doctor's chart I have. NEVER EVER EVER again!!! | F | 38 | 1 days | 8/21/2007 | 4 | Abdominal Pain/Dizziness (severe) | Tiredness, Dizziness/lightheadedness (possibly due to my 'unknown' underlying condition or other medication, I don't know for sure at this time) | Emergency Room Visit. Reglan, along with pepcid, and some fluids helped some. I was released that day. Unfortunately, once the effects wore off, my symptoms came back. | F | 38 | 1 days | 8/12/2007 | 1 | My sister was taking it. | After 6 months on the drug, she began experiencing anxiety, depression, and sleeplessness. Absolutely awful for her. | Would like input on anything that helped patients with their anxiety, depression, and sleeplessness after taking this drug. | F | 54 | 6 months | 8/8/2007 | 1 | indigistion | after taking for 6 days, I had severe depression, and very bad joint pain I couldn't wake up in the morning and was having alot of fear and anxiety.. I didn't realize how bad the depression was until 3 days after I stopped the meds and realized what a black cloud I was under. It's been six days now and still have some minor joint pain, mostly in my elbows. | I would not recomment this medication to anyone for any reason. | F | 44 | 6 days | 7/31/2007 | 1 | nausea; pancreatitis | A friend of mine was given this years ago for nausea caused by drug reactions, and wound up with tardive dyskinesia (uncontrollable movements of limbs.) More recently, he was given this drug again when he developed life-threatening nausea due to pancreatitis. THIS WAS IN SPITE OF CLEAR WARNINGS IN PHARMACEUTICAL TEXTBOOKS AGAINST RE-ADMINISTRATION OF THE DRUG. He developed muscle rigidity, dementia, high white blood cell count, weakness, heart problems and disorientation. He is only 56 years old, and now has the memory of someone with moderately advanced Alzheimer's. | THIS DRUG IS ACTUALLY AN ANTIPSYCHOTIC!!!IT CAN CAUSE TARDIVE DYSKINESIA, WHICH IS OFTEN PERMANENT. IT CAN ALSO CAUSE NEUROLEPTIC MALIGNANT SYNDROME, WHICH CAN CAUSE PERMANENT MEMORY LOSS AND CAN BE FATAL! I am not sure how long he took this drug the first time; the second time he was only on it for a couple of days. | M | 56 | | 7/29/2007 | 1 | DR. GAVE IT TO ME IN THE ER. | LESS THAN AN HOUR LATER, AFTER BEING GIVEN AN INJECTION OF 10MG. REGLAN, I STARTED HAVING SEVERE MOVEMENTS OF MY ARMS AND LEGS. MY ANXIETY INCREASED DRAMATICALLY. THE STAFF HINTED TO THE PSYCHIATRIST THAT THEY THOUGHT I WAS A "DRUG SEEKER". I GUESS THEY THOUGHT I WAS HAVING WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS. THIS LASTED FOR AN HOUR WHERE I WAS LEFT TO SIT ALONE WHILE TRYING TO FILL OUT PAPERWORK. SINCE I WAS NOT TOLD WHAT I HAD BEEN GIVEN IN THE ER, I DID NOT KNOW WHAT I HAD GOTTEN UNTIL SEVERAL MONTHS LATER I ASKED FOR AN ITEMIZED STATEMENT. I LOOKED THIS MED. UP AND THEN REALIZED WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO ME. I WILL NEVER GO BACK TO THIS PARTICULAR HOSPITAL. I HAD A HORRIBLE EXPERIENCE. | I ONLY HAD 1 INJECTION OF REGLAN AND IT DID THIS TO ME. | F | 62 | 1 days | 7/22/2007 | 1 | nausea | I was 19 and my doctor prescribed this for nausea. Within a couple of days I had a horrible parkisons type reaction. I had involuntary jaw/facial movements. Then it spread to my tongue! I felt like a cow with mad cows disease. It lasted for many hours. It was a painful and scary experience. | M | 34 | 4 days | 7/21/2007 | 1 | gastritis due to GERD | extremely drowsy, unable to perform work duties, such as driving, paying attention and staying awake. | THIS WAS THE MOST HORRIBLE EXPERIENCE I'VE HAD WHILE USING A MEDICATION FOR ONLY 1 DAY. MY JOB REQUIRES ME TO DRIVE, I WAS UNABLE TO DO. IT HAD ME FEELING LIKE A ZOMBE. EXTREMELY DROWSY AND INCOHERENT.THE FEELING WAS UNBEARABLE BUT MY SYMPTOMS WERE RELIEVED. I'D RATHER BE SICK THAN TAKE THIS MEDICATIONS. ALSO, THIS MED DOES NOT GO WELL WITH ONE WHO HAS HYPERTENSION, TAKING XANAX AND LONG TERM USE OVER 12 WEEKS, WHAT HAPPENS THEN AFTER 12 WEEKS IF SYMPTOMS OCCUR? NOT A GOOD DRUG TO TAKE. MY DOCTOR ADVISED ME TO REDUCE MY DOSE TO 1 EVERY NIGHT INSTEAD OF 1 4X A DAY. I DID'T THINK THAT WAS A GOOD IDEA EITHER, DUE TO THE FACT THAT I TAKE MY XANAX B4 BED, AND THEY DON'T MIX WELL TOGETHER. THEN HE SAID TO TAKE HALF OF MY XANAX AND 2 HRS LATER TAKE THE REGLAN. I'M AFRAID TO DECREASE MY XANAX BECAUSE I JUST STARTED TO WING MYSELF OFF OF IT AND DONT WANT TO DECREASE NO MORE JUST YET. BAD ENOUGH THE SIDE AFFECTS ARE DEPRESSION AND ANIXETY, I HAVE THAT ALREADY. IM AFRAID I MIGHT LOOSE MY MIND W | F | 41 | 1 days | 7/19/2007 | 1 | GI problems | Sheer terror.I felt totally pyscotic and full of anxiety.I paced the floor for 5 hours, took a shower, cleaned my house and could not sit down with a surge of extreme crawling out of my skin feeling. My husband finally took me to the ER and they gave me ativan(by shot) because i told them if they didn't do something quickly i was going to lose it.The doctor said this drug was notoriously known to cause this out of body experieneces, extreme aggitation, and skin crawling. I had to return to the ER today and they told me to increase the clonazepam ( antianxiety med)and continue to take it until the side effects subsibe | M | 41 | 1 days | 7/15/2007 | 1 | achalasia | I had a dystonic reaction that resulted in me losing COMPLETE control of my neck muscules. My head went as far back as it could. Thank goodness i was in a hospital when it happened. | it is awful awful awful!!!! if one researches this drug further they will find far more people have problems with this drug than they have success. the possible side effects are just too dangerous and not worth the risk. its a scarey drug that is too loosely prescribed. | M | 15 | 5 days | 7/12/2007 | 1 | Nausea | Jaw lock to the point where my mouth was wide open and I thought my mouth might tear, eyes rolling in my head, couldn't hold up my neck, tingling in my arms and face. | I would never take this medicine again. Within 24 hours of taking it I was rushed to hospital and given an anti-drug to get it out of my system. For nearly a week after the incident I was hallucinating, had no memory and generally didn't know where I was. | F | 27 | 1 days | 7/11/2007 | 1 | Reflux and undigested food | Nighttime twitching and jitters. | My 14 year old (weighing only 53lbs.) was prescribed this drug after digestion complications arose after a spinal fusion surgery. It caused her much restlessness and sleepless nights, resulting in scratched corneas when her eyes dried from not resting enough. | F | 14 | 30 days | 7/7/2007 | 1 | IBS (Consitpation) | Sleeplessness, sadness, body shaking, eventually pain in the left side of my chest only, dizziness. | I began taking this medicine once a day 2 weeks ago. I didn't put together at the time that the medicine was causing me to have trouble sleeping. After one week, I called the doctor and told him that it was not working for my constipation. they told me to increase to taking up to FOUR pills at one time. Fortunately, I did not take their advice and only took a total of 5 pills that day. By lunch time, my whole body was shaking, the left side of my chest felt tight and hurt and even my left arm and leg tingled....I was up until 3 am that night because my chest and blood pressure were bothering (and WORRYING me so much). It's been 3 days since I've been off the medicine and I ended up calling 911 last night because the pain was so severe - I thought I was about to have a heart attack or something. It was EXTREMELY scary. This medicine is evil and I'm pissed that my doctor didn't warn me that this medicine could take a while to get out of my symptoms and that the side effects may co | F | 27 | 8 days | 7/6/2007 | 1 | GERD | Reglan helped lessen the severe problems I was having with GERD; but, I ended up with severe depression and anxiety. I was not aware that the Reglan could cause severe depression and anxiety. I was working long hours and getting very little sleep. I compalined to my doctor that I was experiencing unexplained anxiety and depression and was told it was due to over working and no sleep. I took some time off but the anxiety and depression got so bad I isolated and had suicidal thoughts. During this time I continued taking the Reglan not knowing that it was the cause of my symtoms. By the time I quit taking it I had to seek help on an out patient basis at a mental hospital. I was diagnosed with severe anxiety disorder and depression. I ended up on 9 different pscychiatric medications,lost my job and over 5 years of my life. I am still trying to get my life back. I wish I had never even heard of Reglan; to make matters worse the doctor that prescribed the Reglan says he has never heard of an | M | 45 | 10 months | 7/2/2007 | 1 | gastroparesis | depression, irritability, nervousness, hand twitching, jaw clenching, heart palpitations, fatigue, loss of focus, thoughts of suicide | After 8 weeks of taking 10mg four times per day I became very depressed, having difficulty getting out of bed in the morning. I then noticed the hand/finger and jaw movements. I feel like I've had a nervous breakdown. I haven't been able to go to work and struggle through everyday tasks. I called my physician and have been off Reglan for almost a week. I've felt no improvement. Does anyone know how long it takes to get out of your system? I'm scared of the effect this is having on my life. | F | 48 | 8 weeks | 6/18/2007 |