February 18th
2005
5:35 PM
I started taking Rifampin 12/15/04 prescrribed by my hepatologist, for itching related to PBC. The next couple weeks, I had some nausea and loose stools, but attributed that to the high fat holiday eating. After the holidays I got a migraine that never stopped for 6 weeks. I also developed almost daily nausea, weekly vomitting, loose stools, lack of appetite, one cold after another and two abcessed teeth within one month. I had an endoscopy two weeks ago to try and determine the cause of vomitting blood and the GI upset. I tried many different prescriptions for migraines with minimal relief. I had two trips to the emergency room for GI and migraine pain. Finally my internist suggested I stop the Rifampin as headaches and GI upset were listed (not to mention 3 pages of other side-effects and problems). Within 4 days my headaches were gone and within a week my nausea and vomitting had stopped. My surgeon (who did the endoscopy) stated he had no doubt that the Rifampin was the cause of the GI upset and was glad I had stopped taking it. He said it would probably take a good month for my GI system to recover.
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October 6th
2007
4:52 PM
My little boy who is now 4 has been off the Reglan for two years. I really thought my husband and I were doing the right thing by putting him on the Reglan at 8 months because he was vomitting blood. The gastric doctor said he had to be on it plus prevacid .Well I WISH WE HAD KNOWN THE SIDE EFFECTS. Now my son is in the process of going to a Neurologist next week because they think he might have Tardive Dyskinesia . He has the symptoms of it on and off for a year now and the doctors have said it is from stress not possible because all of the stress therapist we have taken him to say he is not stressed. I would like to say one thing do not put your child on this drug because it could be the biggest mistake of your life . This is a disease that can not be curred.
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