Prochlorperazine/ Compro

[@loominaw8718]

Severe dystonic reactions need to be talked about with this drug more. None of the nurses knew what was happening to me and called it hysteria until I went to a different hospital and the NP knew right away

[@mattyb584]

This made me feel extremely aggitated, anxious and jittery. Palpitations pretty consistently and they wouldn't do anything except give me a blanket and tell me to sleep it off. Never again, I'll just deal with the migraines.

[@LivingLifeSlower]

I've been prescribed this for MS related balance issues

[@wedgeed8770]

Iv been prescribed a small dose for vertigo

[@kagescar]

Me too is it helping you?

[@wedgeed8770]

@@kagescar yes it helped massively, as a scaffolder I need to look up a lot and if moving clouds were visible to me whilst looking up my vertigo was set off and didn't know which way up or down was after I started taking them the symptoms reduced a lot

[@manicdevan9965]

Do they still prescribe this? Or was it taken off the market like most First generation Anti-Psychotics?

[@MT-UK]

I’m in the U.K. and they gave me just last week to stop nausea and sickness- they give it in a tablet to dissolve in mouth between lip and gum in 5mg twice a day
For me they prescribed me a self administered IM injection of 12.5mg twice a day for nausea not anything else
Also haloperidol (Haldol) prescribed in 2mg self administered subcutaneous injection for nausea
I’m currently awaiting a new liver due to a blood clot blocking the portal vein and causing damage (no alcohol,drug or any disease/illness just portal vein thrombosis long term damage) and they said these are doses good for nausea
When I found out about the effects and what the drugs are for i got “yes but these are smaller doses and help with sickness we give them off licence, a secondary use of a medicine designed for another purpose”
So yeah they do , in U.K. at least
As far as I’m aware the self administered IM injection is not common (obviously I needed training to give it) but still can be done when others don’t work/allergies or like me have become tolerant to the use of things like ondansetron and cyclizine and prochlorperazine orally - seeing as I have no pick line I can’t take these drugs IV (I highly doubt I’d be allowed to self administer IV anyway) so I was given the other two
However they said Even as an inpatient they won’t give Prochlorperazine as IV due to harmful effects it can have
Haloperidol isn’t offered IV at all
I’m prescribed one dose of 12.5 IM ‘P’ BD (twice a day) and one dose of SubCut 2mg ‘H’ BD but I only take them as required (PRN) due to many reasons such a they aren’t pleasant ways to give, I don’t want to become tolerant again, I want something as a last resort when my nausea or sickness is so bad but I want to avoid going to the hospital and also the effects Iv read about :-/
I will add though they are amazing at anti nausea and sickness - don’t get many side effects from ‘P’ but only recently given and Iv self administered just one time
But ‘H’ - oh man at night itl knock me out and if I take in day I’m so restless and even if exhausted cannot get comfy or settled - very anxious too and im not an anxious person normally
So yeah I went on a bit when I could have just said ‘yes they do’ sorry lol