TRANSDERM SCOP Reviews (SCOPOLAMINE)Average Rating: 2.0 (270 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare TRANSDERM SCOP with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR TRANSDERM SCOP | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | Cruise | I could not read anything close (like my menu); my eyes were very red and glassy and very dry; extremely dry mouth | The side effects I listed were nothing compared to the withdrawal symptoms...I felt completely disoriented, dizzy, headaches and had EXTREME fatigue/sleepiness still five days after taking off the patch. I thought sleeping would help but I just keep sleeping and I get up exhausted. I am very sad and depressed and I feel like I can't function. I would never use this patch again as I am still waiting to feel "normal" again. | F | 47 | 6 days 1X day | 7/30/2010 | 3 | yes | works great sometimes | M | 33 | 1 days 1.5 1X day | 7/26/2010 | 1 | Surgery | A few hours after I took off the patch, I experienced tingling in my arms and legs. Also my throat felt dry and swollen. Today I the tingling has moved to pins and needles feeling on my arms and legs and also my face. I am not sure how long the withdrawal lasts... but it's pretty scary. I would NOT recommend this to anyone. | F | 30 | 1 days 1.5 1X day | 7/25/2010 | 1 | surgery | I took the patch off 3 days after surgery and within 12 hours had extreme dizziness and nausea. Assuming it was from the pain meds (which is why I initially got the patch) the doc prescribed more patches. After finishing with pain meds a 1 week and a half later, I tried taking the patch off again and after 12 hours was sick again so I went back on the patch. This past Saturday I finally decided to take it off and suffer the side effects and today, Friday, am just now feeling better. Like others on this site, it wasn't just dizziness and nausea that I experienced. While on the patch my vision was blurred and still 6 days after removing it is not back to normal. Also, every time I drift off to sleep I dream in fast forward. I have had to take a sleep aid every night because my mind is constantly racing and I can't fall asleep. I applied a total of 7 patches. | Thank God for this post or I would have been really frightened about the way I was feeling! I know people who have had no problems with this drug, but I will NEVER take it again. I am convinced that I was more sick from removing the patch that I would have been without it. My doc did prescribe me phenergan which knocked me out and helped me sleep. If I had it to do over again, I would definitely try some other kind of anti-nausea drug first. This patch is awful! | F | 35 | 21 days 1.5 mg 7X O | 7/23/2010 | 1 | Seasickness | Severe vomiting and unconsciousness | I put a transderm patch on the first night of a 7 day cruise as I suffer from motion sickness. About 18 hours later I started to feel very ill and began vomiting. After fours hours of feeling horribly ill and constant vomiting I fainted and injured my head as I fell. I started to become very disoriented and could barely figure out how to call 911 as I kept fainting every time I tried to get up. Needed IV fluids and other medications and attention to the head injury. The docs there said it was the patch and I should never use it again. Had to stay in my cabin for a couple of days and was not allowed off the ship for the whole cruise as I was weak and slow to recover. | F | 59 | 1 days 1 patch 1X AN | 7/21/2010 | 1 | 7 Day Cruise | The second day of the cruise I experienced sea sickness during rough seas. Put on 1 patch and wore it for 3 days. Removed it and replaced it with a second patch for 3 more days. Approximately 24 hours later I experienced worse sea sickness than originally. Floor was moving, vomitting, some facial pain, dizziness, and blurred vision. Called PCP and was advised to take Dramamine, gradually reducing from 3 pills to 2 pills to 1 pill over three days. I am gradually recovering. Talked to neighbor who was sick for 8 days after removing patch with residual episodes of dizziness for a month. This stuff should be removed from the market. | This medicine is dangerous. Never again | F | 61 | 6 days 1.5 mg 1X day | 7/20/2010 | 1 | 7 day cruise | While on the cruise I felt good. I normally get very bad sea sickness. The patch did work while on the cruise. I used 1 patch every three days. But it is nothing compared to what I felt after removing the patch. About 24 hours after removing the patch I felt disoriented. I thought a good nights sleep would get me back to normal, but i feel worse today (day 2 of being off). Thankful for this forum, I was worried there was something really wrong with me. I feel nauseous, dizzy, light headed, cloudy, constipated, anxious, emotional, sensitive to light and sound, short of breath. It is an awful withdrawal. The fun I had on the cruise is not worth how I feel now. | I would not use this patch again. I would try bonine or just not go on a cruise. It is not worth it. After taking one week off for a vacation, I am going to need another week off to recover from the Patch. | F | 25 | 6 days 1.5 mg 1X O | 7/18/2010 | 5 | for a cruise | none! | I was standing in line at the pharmacy to pick up my ear patches when the person in line next to me told me that he works for the company that makes it. It can make you sick if you take too much so he suggested that we cut it up and not use the whole patch. My husband and I both used only a quarter of a patch(cut it up into 4 pieces) and it worked great! We did not feel sick or sleepy! It was just enough to take the edge off so we could enjoy our cruise. We did change it and put a new piece on after 3 days. If a quarter of a patch doesn't work then I suggest adding more slowly so that you don't overdose and make yourself sick. | F | 42 | 1 weeks 1/4 patch 1X O | 7/16/2010 | 2 | cruise | Used 2 patches on curise for duration of trip (7 days). Had dry mouth, and weird head feeling while using the patch. Upon arriving home, I took the patch off. Severe withdrawal 24 hours after removal. Felt like I had the flu-- nausea, vomiting, sweating, hallucination, tremmers, disorientation, paranoia, confusion, dizziness, insomnia, memory loss, motor incoordination, abnormal dreams, for 72 hours. I will not use this again | M | 60 | 7 days 1.5 mg 1X day | 7/16/2010 | 1 | seasickness | Side effects of this drug are horrible! Used for 7 days on a cruise. One day after removal of patch got severe nausea, dizziness, muscle aches and fatigue. Have been off the patch for 7 days now and still don't feel any better. Tried calling the 1-800 number listed on the box but was not able to get through. How can these horrible drug companies get away with this? | Please do not use this patch! | F | 67 | 7 days 1X day | 7/10/2010 | 1 | Cruise | Horrible experience. Nausea, blurry vision, vomiting, worse than if I hadn't taken the stupid patch. I just felt like I wanted someone to just shoot me and put me out of my misery. I'm still walking like a drunk and it's been a week! | None of the doctors/nursing staff that examined me in a walk-in clinic were even aware. They all just looked at me like I was an idiot. | F | 50 | 7 days 30 1X day | 7/2/2010 | 1 | cruise | I've always experience seasickness. Tried sea bands, ginger, dramamine. My friend recommended the patch-said it worked better. I wore one patch for 3 days as recommended then took it off and threw out the rest. The side of my face the patch was on felt weird and sort of numb as soon as I put it on. I had extreme dry mouth and fatigue. The next day I couldn't see clearly and could not walk up a flight of stairs without being totally out of breath. It did work for seasickness but I took it off on day 3 because I was going to going biking and hiking and felt I couldn't work out while wearing the patch. About 12 hour after I took it off, I got seasick (vomited) and generally felt sad and lonely despite being with friends. I was also paranoid that the ship would sink. For the rest of the trip I took non-drowsy dramamine and ginger pills and was okay. I still feel like I'm on a moving ship 2 days after I got off the cruise but all other symptoms are gone. I always have reactions to medicatio | Don't bother with the patch. It's gross. Take dramamine or bonine and ginger pills. Stay hydrated and don't eat or drink too much. The patch should be withdrawn from the market. | F | 41 | 3 days 30 MG 1X O | 6/28/2010 | 3 | vertigo | extreme dry mouth the longer I was on it, soreness and itch at patch site, felt like my eyes were bugging out of my head. | I would not recommend the use of this patch. I was put on for my vertigo and although it helped alot with that the side effects and with drawal symptoms were not worth it. I did not read about this drug untill after I had been on it for almost a week, Ive been kicking myself in the butt since. After reading about the withdrawals symptoms on here I decided to go off it, called both of my drs, my neurologist and primary and both said that because of the amount of time I was on it that I wouldnt have any withdrawal issues, the neurologist recommend that since it was helping me that I stay on it, my primary said that since the side effects were getting worse to go off it immediatly. So on 530 wednesday eve. I took it off and braced myself for at least 3 days of hell. I started to drink as much water as I could tolerate 12 hours after taking the patch off as well as started taking 12.5 mg of my meclizine every 6 to 8 hours in hopes of counter acting the withdrawal symptoms. I started with symptoms at the 12 hour mark after taking the patch off, that included dizziness, diareah, uspet stomach/heartburn, numbness, tiredness,and extreme dry mouth. That all continued untill about the 44 hour mark, when all I had was on and off dizziness and numbness in my face. For me the withdrawal syptoms were no worse than a bad case of vertigo but Im very happy I had my meclizine to get through it. Im keeping my fingers crossed that from here on out Im on my way to getting better.. | F | 36 | 7 days 1.5 1X O | 6/25/2010 | 1 | Motion sickness - cruise | I have used this patch before, about a year ago and don't remember experiencing ANY side effects. BUT, this time, different story. I used them for 6 days and probably replaced the patch every day or every other day because they kept coming off in the shower. While using the patch I experienced blurred vision (couldn't read up close), fatigue, light-headedness, etc for the first few days then I started getting some nausea, flushing, was was just "out of it" part of the time. I actually GOT motion sickness on the plane ride home and that doesn't normally happen! | But that was nothing compared to the withdrawal symptoms I got after I stopped using the patch! I have been miserable for the past few days! Basically all I could do was just to sleep it off. I've slowly gotten better the past few days. I'm taking another cruise next month and I'm scared to use the patches again, but I've already spent $80 on the stupid patches! I'm thinking of just eating the $80 and risking having to deal with sea-sickness VS having to deal with going through these withdrawal symptoms again! My sea-sickness symptoms were NOWHERE near this bad. | F | 35 | 6 days 1X day | 6/22/2010 | 1 | Vertigo | DO NOT use a TransDerm scopolamine patch - - no matter what!!! There are other options!! I started using the TransDerm scopolamine patch when I got severe constant vertigo while on vacation. Unfortunately, the onset of my vertigo was caused by an allergic reaction to another medication, Lamisil, also made by Novartis. In order to be able to function as a mother, I used a TransDerm patch for 8 weeks. I experienced the dry mouth and dilated pupils just like everyone else, but that was nothing compared to the damage this patch was causing my body. It actually was prolonging my vertigo instead of helping it! Finally I went to an Ear Specialist who made me take it off! He told me it was dangerous to wear it long-term. My inner ear had become dependent on the patch and could no longer function on its own. So I had to take it off. I was aware of the withdrawal symptoms that I would experience so we came up with a plan to use high doses of Meclizine to control the nausea and severe | If my entry keeps one person from using a TransDerm scopolamine patch, it will be worth my time! This is an EVIL drug, whose side effects far outweigh the advantages. The withdrawal symptoms of the scopoloamine patch are much worse than any symptoms you originally start using it for! I did not have an allergic reaction to this medicine, as some have suggested. What I experienced were horrible side effects cased by this drug!! | F | 44 | 8 weeks 1 Patch ev 3X day | 6/16/2010 | 1 | Cancer Surgery | Nausea, hallucination, tremmers, disorientation, paranoia, confusion, dizziness, insomnia, memory loss, motor incoordination, abnormal dreams, mood swings, irritability & anger. | I applied this patch on a Friday for nausea after completing chemo & radiation treatments for neck cancer, the next day started twitching, later more uncontrollable body movements. On Monday, changed the patch as prescibed, symtoms extremely worse and continued to increase in the most horrible way. On Wednesday morning was taken to ER, they sedated me because I was uncontrollable, from there they life flighted me to another hospital for better care. I was in ICU until the next morning...had to let that evil drug get out of my body. Was finally released from the hospital late Friday afternoon. I don't remember any of the side effects, my wife & daughters let me know just how bad it was. NEVER TAKE THAT DRUG AGAIN. THEY NEED TO REMOVE IT FROM THE PHARMACIES. | M | 58 | 4 days 1.5 MG 1X O | 6/14/2010 | 1 | motion sickness/ nausea | more nausea, confusion, anxiety, | I tried the patch a few times and it seemed to be ok, in the car. Well we had to go to NY for my father in laws funeral and oh my GOD!!!!!!!!! the side effects were HELL, I`ll put it like this they had to land the plane in Richmond VA airport to let me off the plane I was so sick. At first I started getting nausea about an hour after wearing (and by the way I have no fear of flying) then it got so strong I had to run to the bathroom and throw up and it was so violent, I was also shaking really bad, I felt as if I was going to die, well they piolot announced that were getting close to NY so everyone had to be seated and wear seat belts, well I couldn`t get out of the restroom plus I was so shaky I couldnt bear to be around anyone, so I refused and they called for any Drs on the plane and 2 Drs stood up and came back and checked on me, they said my pulse was thready (whatever that means) and that I didnt look good. So they landed the plane in Va and had paramedics waiting took vitals bloodpressure was not normal, I was a mess from the patch. They told me to take it off and that it would take around 4 hours to wear off, and it did. Needless to say I missed the funeral because I had to sit at the airport all alone until I felt better and told my hubby to go without me, the airline gave me an open ticket to come later that day when I was better. I went about 5 hours later. I`ll never use the patch again!!!!!!!!!! | F | 36 | 1 patch 1X day | 6/6/2010 | 1 | Cruise | I used a Transderm Scop patch to prevent motion sickness on a recent cruise. Within 48 hours of final patch use I experienced dizziness, dry mouth, nausea, and anxiety. These symptoms became worse on my flight home and I ended up in the ER with elevated blood pressure and a low pulse rate. I thought I was dying. I had a less severe episode of withdrawal on a previous cruise but only now do I realize that these symptoms are a result of Scop withdrawal. | Use this drug at your own health risk. It should be removed from the market or only prescribed with specific warnings about potential withdrawal symptoms and side effects which are absolutely frightening. | F | 62 | 12 days 4 patches 1X day | 5/9/2010 | 1 | surgery | My 80 yr old mother was given this patch to prevent nausea from anesthesia. After 8 hours she displayed symptoms of disorientation, had hallucinations, slurred speech, insomnia. Could not follow directions, her eyes darted all around, thought her IV tubing was a light bulb, saw spiders on the wall, did not know her husband. After 6 hours of symptoms we removed the patch and 3 hours later she started to become lucid. It took 2 days before she became normal again. It was very terrifying and we did not know what the problem was until we eliminated this. I have no idea why the anesthesiologist thought this was a good idea. There is a high % of adverse reactions, especially in individuals over 60. | F | 80 | 1 days 40 1X day | 4/30/2010 | 5 | motion sickness/flying | I have used this patch with great success, but have never left it on for longer than 12 hours. It did make my mouth dry and my eyes felt dry as well. It has saved me from the terrible nausea, throwing up and anxiety that I used to go through when I flew. Even during a rough flight, I felt 100% | F | 42 | 1X day | 4/28/2010 |