May 31th
2004
2:29 AM
I took very few Reglan tablets -- perhaps four 10mg tablets within a week. My thoughts were racing and my whole body was pulsating with excessive energy -- as though I had run a race or worked out in the gym (even when I was lying down or falling asleep). The energy created pressure in my chest and at the roof of the mouth.
I took 200mg Co-enzyme Q!0 (dry form, not oil-gelcaps), which relieved the stress and let me get some sleep. Needless to say, I won't touch the Reglan again.
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May 31th
2009
8:48 PM
I have been on various doses of prednisone on and off for 9 years for a kidney disease. The doses have varied from 70mg to 5mg. I have just about had enough. I cannot describe how debilitating this drug is. Every side effect on here I think I have had except excessive energy. Here is a small list:
Moon Face
Buffalo Hump
shaking like Parkinson
body aches
EXTREME weakness
heart palpitations constantly
joint pain
something would go on with my knees in the morning....it felt like something was boiling. It would be my guess as to what the "Bends" must feel like....it feels like someone is stabbing you in the knees with a knife.
Sleeping at least 16 hours a day
I could barely make everyday at work. It was so miserable to not be able to wake up, I would push myself in 15 minute increments....
You cannot know what it is like to be bed ridden for weeks and to have no doctor understand or believe what is happening to you. You just seem fat and lazy.
I am emotionally scarred by this medicine, there is not a day that goes by that I'm not terrified of having to take a large dose of this again. I just can't.
-- By jan40411 | Reply | (1) replies | Private Message meThere is no quality of life at all. You can't do anything.
On top of that, there is no one to talk to, not even a doctor that understands what you are going through.
God help anyone that has to go through this. I understand.