Compazine symptoms and conditions

I was prescribed the generic form of Yasmin by my ob/gyn for irregular periods, severe cramps and as a way to treat my endometriosis (insurance won't pay for a laproscopy until I try some sort of pill). I started taking it two weeks ago and in that time frame, I have had severe mood swings, fatigue and cannot eat because of my stomach hurting while suffering from nausea all the time. I even had to call my family doctor and he prescribed me Compazine for the nausea because I literally could not function. I am not the same person I was before starting the treatment. As a stay at home mother of a two year old, I have just decided this morning, that I am going to stop taking Yasmin for myself (my health) and my child. As a matter of fact, I threw the rest of the pack away down the sink. It is not worth all of these side effects when I cannot function during the day. Thank you for sharing your stories with me. At least I know that I am not alone.
Andrea-Pittsburgh PA

I was put on birth control when I was 21 years old and I started with Estrostep FE for irregular and very painful periods. 9 years later, after complaining of unusually light periods and horrible hot flashes I was switched to Yasmin to see if that would make a difference. I was fine with the Yasmin for about 6 months but then I came down with what I thought might have been a stomach virus. I was fine until June of that year when I came down with what seemed to be another stomach virus. I found this odd as I had not had a stomach virus since I was eight years old, but I seemed to have contracted two within six months of each other 22 years later. By the time July hit, I was experiencing these "stomach viruses" just about every other day. I would have horrible acid indigestion and the sensation of needing to vomit (but I never would) which would send me running for the bathroom for hours at a time just in case I did. For over a year I sought the advice of doctors and had been theoretically diagnosed with the following: stress (always the first one), acid reflux disease, IBS, and gastroparesis. I have gone through an endoscopy, gastric emptying scan, colonoscopy, two ultrasounds, two CT scans and an MRI. Drug wise I have been put on Prevacid, Compazine, Zofran, Zegerid, Imipramine, Reglan, Levsid, and Erythromycin. I now am buried in medical bills and the whole thing has caused me to miss a month of work without pay. I also was struggling to eat and, at one point, had dropped 25 pounds which is very frightening for someone with my tiny frame. The mental anguish was unbearable and I was actually at the point of welcoming a diagnosis of cancer just because it would have been answer. The idea to stop taking the Yasmin actually came from a fifteen minute conversation during a birthday party with an obstetrician. Within two weeks of stopping I was absolutely fine. I gained all of the weight back in record time and am once again a person who rarely ever needs stomach aids (in three months I've only taken two tums). Stopping the Yasmin made absolute sense because the nausea episodes would only occur between 9am and 2pm (weird, just like morning sickness) and my thyroid levels were all over the place. One blood test would show them as normal and another would show them as sky-high. I questioned my ob-gyn why she said my blood tests were normal when my thyroid levels were actually twice the normal level. She merely shrugged it off as being "normal because of the Yasmin". No wonder I never felt well! I've been off Yasmin for three months now. I've only gotten one light period that lasted for three days. It was over a month ago and it took almost two months to happen after stopping the Yasmin. I don't know if I'm sterile because I have heard cases of girls becoming infertile after long-term use of the pill (any kind). I am definitely interested in joining a class action lawsuit because I don't feel I should be the one stuck with all of these bills. Has anything been officially started yet?

I felt extremely hyper after receiving a dosage of Reglan. I was in the hospital after suffering a terrible bout of food poisoning and I became extremely nauseated. The physician gave me this medication in order to control the nausea. After about 10 minutes, I felt worse than before going to the hospital. I felt extremely hyper and could not sit still. I felt extremely terrified and did not know why...I felt like I wanted to take off running and throw myself in front of the nearest car or jump from the roof of a building. I started crying uncontrollably. I told my doctor how I felt and she stated "some people experience this feeling...about 1 in 1000 people". I began to wonder why such a drug was on the market if this is what happens. I'm wondering how many people have felt similar and actually acted on their feelings.

The scary thing is this...I believe the estimate of 1 in 1000 people suffering side effects is wrong. While at the hospital a nurse told me there was another patient who experienced the very same experiences on the morning my dosage was injected.

I have never felt so awful in my life and I'm hoping there will be a class action lawsuit for this drug.

Never ever again will I take companzine. I was given it for nausea at night in ER. First my eye began twitching. I went the next day to my family doctor and told him. He gave me more- told me that was normal. Within 2 hours, I had to go to the emergency room. My eyes were rolling into the back of my head and my neck muscles were spasming so badly (I looked like a gopher ducking from planes). They did not even ask to see insurance or sign in. They started shooting me up with benadryl in both hands. Finally the reaction stopped. This is a dangerous drug/

Had a sort of "dysphoric" or "dystonic" reaction at dose of 25 mg. Felt like skin crawling, arms and legs twitching, couldn't stop moving limbs. Benadryl helped a bit, but mostly had to wait until it wore off.
I have this reaction, much more seriously, to phenergan and compazine. Could it be related?

Incredible weakness, back pain, tinnitus.
During surgery for sinus disease, had levaquin administered through iv with general anesthesia. I was supposed to go home in the afternoon, but couldn't walk or even talk coherently. Intense back pain followed along with difficulty hearing and pains in shoulders as well. My tongue was thickened and I had trouble talking for three days. Today I saw the doctor and he feels that leviquin caused the problems. The back pain and speech problems are slowly disappearing. This drug is dangerous to anyone who is sensitive or allergic to medications. I once went into shock from three compazine tablets, and had to have adrenalin administered, so I know how very powerful medications can be.

More observation than side effect. I have a number of chronic, debilitating health problems including: Crohn's Disease with some additional Ulcerative Colitis type symptoms, Chronic Pancreatitis and Lumbar Radiculopathy resulting in sciatic nerve pain in both legs all the way to the toes. Needless to say, I require a number of medications each day. I am allergic to both Compazine and Phenergan, Tigan is only mildly mildly mildly effective if really at all. I was introduced to Zofran during a recent hospitalization through my IV and thought it was a miracle sent from Heaven. I got home and had the Zofran pills in the little blue bottle and sadly found them to be not much more effective than was Tigan for some strange reason. So, my primary care Doc wrote the Zofran ODT for me and "ta Dah," my miracle came back!!!!! If you don't seem to get relief from the tablets, please, call your Doc and ask about the ODT version, Orally Disolving Tablet.... pops out of a foil wrapper packet, place on your tongue, let it dissolve on the surface of the tongue and at least for me, typically within 15 to 20 minutes, I have nearly total, 6 to 8 hours of relief from my nausea. And it's not mild nausea, there are times when I wind up going 4 or 5 days with absolute zero food intake and only enough water to try to choke down my meds and when you're so sick to your stomach that even the water and meds come back up, you need relief and the Zofran ODT does the job for me and I hope by adding this note to the site, maybe someone else might get some much needed relief too. Ken

This drug was given to me along with toridol for a sinusitis attack. After fifteen minutes I screamed to have my IV taken out and began jogging around the room; not good since I had undergone back surgery two weeks prior. The nurse unhooked everything and said he had seen the same reaction that night with a similar case of migraine. He said it should wear off after fifteen minutes. Twenty minutes later the doctor came in and suggested that I have a shot of Benadryl to sleep. No sleep came. I have also experienced this reaction with compazine, except with compazine, I feel like I could run a marathon, but can't move. With Reglan, I run around and feel jumpy and insane. I came home that day and took more Benadryl. I walked laps around the mall. Still no change. Just waiting to get tired.

I was perscribed Reglan to counteract stomach discomfort while taking a strong third course of antibiotics for a persistant sinus infection. I generally felt fine before taking Reglan, exept for the general sinus infection symptoms. So, after taking the dose of Reglan, I went to the store to do some shopping. While walking down the aisle, my eyes rolled up inside my head. I though I was going nuts and could not understand why I could not look down - kept trying with all my might to move my eyes down, but they wouldn't. I carefully drove home (very nearby) and went to bed - it was VERY painful, as my eyes went all the way up and I could no longer see. 4 hours later, I was fine, but hadn't realized that the Reglan was the cause until I took the second dose and went through another 4 hours of hell.

A neurologist has since told me not to take compazine either, since people who have this severe of a reaction to Reglan may have it with compazine, too.

Another note - Went to the ER recently with severe abdominal pain (turned out to be due to Vioxx!), and noted in the chart that I was allergic to Reglan. Once in an ER bed, a nurse came at me with a needle. I asked what it was, she said, "Just something to help with your tummy". I asked more stongly again what it was, and she said Reglan. I told her to check my chart first - I'm allergic.
** If you are somseone with allergies or reaction to meds - ALWAYS ASK WHAT YOU ARE BEING GIVEN, or make sure someone is with you who can!! **
I can't imagine what would've happened if I had let her give me that shot...

I was given Reglan as treatment for migraine headaches, and became very restless, depressed, angry, and had thoughts of suicide. I could not sit still or stand still, and nothing I did would make this feeling any better. This effect lasted for about 8 hours after the dosage. I didn't connect it with the Reglan until I took it a second time. I don't know if Reglan is similar to Compazine, but I was also given IV Compazine in the E.R. for migraine, and the effects were 10 times worse. I honestly think that if my husband had not been with me both times, and knew to look for side effects, I don't know what I would have done to end this horrible feeling. I found out later that my father had been given Reglan for his stomach, and ended up so depressed that my mother took his hunting rifle and all the knives out of the house because my dad was having thoughts of suicide. He ended up checking into a phychiatric hospital. When he got off the Reglan, he was totally fine and back to normal. When I told my doctor about these symptoms, the doctor chuckled and said, "I've never heard of that side effect with either of these drugs." My dad's doctor had the same reaction about the Reglan, but changed his mind when he saw how different my dad acted on Reglan as opposed to off Reglan.