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Phenergan Anyone?

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blueeyedmanda Community Regular
blueeyedmanda
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Hi everyone,

This is real late in the game I know, but has anyone ever taken Phenergan? I am having surgery in the morning and this is one of the drugs I cannot find info for. I hope someone can help.

Thank You

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Generic Apprentice
Generic
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I had it years ago via a IV. So i know that form has no gluten. However I have not had it since, due to it causing me to hallucinate.

Also I know that phengren is the generic name.

Guest KG in FL
Guest KG in FL
Posted
Hi everyone,

This is real late in the game I know, but has anyone ever taken Phenergan? I am having surgery in the morning and this is one of the drugs I cannot find info for. I hope someone can help.

Thank You

I just picked up a bottle of 12 pills of Phenergan to take after a surgery March 19th I will be having. If these are something I should be aware of due to gluten or just due to being "bad" medicine, please let me know. I will check back this thread to see if anyone has more research information or ability to research than I!! I have time to save myself if they are bad and best wishes to you blueeyedamanda before , during and after your surgery.

Oh, I also was given colace, percocet, phospho-soda buff oral and an enema. This should be FUN! It's a hysterectomy in case anyone was wondering!!

Guest KG in FL
Guest KG in FL
Posted
I just picked up a bottle of 12 pills of Phenergan to take after a surgery March 19th I will be having. If these are something I should be aware of due to gluten or just due to being "bad" medicine, please let me know. I will check back this thread to see if anyone has more research information or ability to research than I!! I have time to save myself if they are bad and best wishes to you blueeyedamanda before , during and after your surgery.

Oh, I also was given colace, percocet, phospho-soda buff oral and an enema. This should be FUN! It's a hysterectomy in case anyone was wondering!!

Oh, and I have my bottle in front of me and the other name on it is promethazine tab (phenergan or eq) 25 mg

Thanks!

CarlaB Enthusiast
CarlaB
Posted

If you call the pharmacy, they should be able to find out for you. I did this recently and it was much easier than trying to find it on the internet.

Fiddle-Faddle Community Regular
Fiddle-Faddle
Posted

Phenergan is a strong antihistamine. It is prescribed as an antinausea drug; since it tends to TOTALLY knock you out, it is also given to hospitalized patients as a non-narcotic sleepinig med.

The regular dose (given to me as an antiemetic during pregnancy when I couldn't keep anything down) knocked me out for 17 HOURS.

Guhlia Rising Star
Guhlia
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Phenergan makes me nuts. For me, it's like chugging an entire pot of coffee on top of a dose or two of caffeine pills. Not very fun. It makes my whole body itch too, which is NOT fun when you're so hyper that it hurts. I end up scratching big holes in my body on Phenergan. It does the same thing to my mother. It makes my one friend vomit. I have heard other people say that they don't like the stuff.

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Mtndog
Posted

It's so interesting to see such varied responses. I LOVE phenergan. I take it when glutened (I take a 1/4 of a pill) and it kills the nausea, vomiting, aches, headache wiithout making me sleepy.

If I take a 1/2 I sleep for about 2 hours and it can make me constipated but it makes me functional on days when I definitely wouldn't be.

Mtndog Collaborator
Mtndog
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I just picked up a bottle of 12 pills of Phenergan to take after a surgery March 19th I will be having. If these are something I should be aware of due to gluten or just due to being "bad" medicine, please let me know. I will check back this thread to see if anyone has more research information or ability to research than I!! I have time to save myself if they are bad and best wishes to you blueeyedamanda before , during and after your surgery.

Oh, I also was given colace, percocet, phospho-soda buff oral and an enema. This should be FUN! It's a hysterectomy in case anyone was wondering!!

Best wishes to you and blueyedmama with your surgeries. Phenergan does wonders for me (I know that Molly aka Flagbabyds takes it too so she can go to school when she's having a reacction. Colace is just a stool softener (same with the phospho soda...man you'll be clean as a whistle :ph34r: ). Percoset is the ONLY narcotic pain-killer that doesn't make me completely insane.

Guest KG in FL
Guest KG in FL
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Best wishes to you and blueyedmama with your surgeries. Phenergan does wonders for me (I know that Molly aka Flagbabyds takes it too so she can go to school when she's having a reacction. Colace is just a stool softener (same with the phospho soda...man you'll be clean as a whistle :ph34r: ). Percoset is the ONLY narcotic pain-killer that doesn't make me completely insane.

Wow, it is interesting to see the varied responses! I guess this makes total sense when you think about it. I will have to try the Phenergan at a time when I can calmly monitor my reaction to see which way it goes. I just finished a mere 6 pills of Cipro for a UTI and I SWEAR I will never touch those again!! Unless I am anthraxed, of course. Flagyl (sp) affected me so badly I thought I'd have to go to the ER. Thanks for the advice, it helps!

Fiddle-Faddle Community Regular
Fiddle-Faddle
Posted
Percoset is the ONLY narcotic pain-killer that doesn't make me completely insane.

That is SO weird. I was reading your friend's vomitous reaction to Phenergan, and THAT is how I react to Percoset!

One thing interesting about Phenergan for me--I eventually settled on 1/4 of a pill to help me control the hyperemesis when I was pregnant, and it helped enormously. In retrospect, I realize that I was vomiting because I was trying to eat crackers all the time (it was before I was diagnosed witht the gluten problem, but I had never been much of a wheat eater before that, I only tried to eat the crackers because the doctors told me to)!

Guest Norah022
Guest Norah022
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My university's health services just gave me phenergan but knocks me out that I can't take it when I need it which is to get me thru classes. My nausea is bad enough that once the week is over I am popping one so I can have some sleepy time this weekend.

NoGluGirl Contributor
NoGluGirl
Posted
Hi everyone,

This is real late in the game I know, but has anyone ever taken Phenergan? I am having surgery in the morning and this is one of the drugs I cannot find info for. I hope someone can help.

Thank You

Dear blueeyedmanda,

Phenergan (or it's generic Promethazine) has been my saving grace when I get glutened. It does make you extremely drowsy, though. Honestly, it is the only thing that stops the dry heaves that make me feel like my sides are emploding. How you react to it is going to depend on your body, however. My brother hallucinated when he took it, but my mother and I tolerate it. Other people can get the opposite reaction and it can make them sick because they are allergic to it. I had a bad reaction to Reglan several years ago, and thought I was going to die. I actually got so weak from it, I could barely eat or keep anything down, had no energy to even speak, and got to the point my mother had to walk behind me in case I passed out. I also shook all over and began getting low blood sugar. Promethazine does inhibit your abilities, though. I could never take it if I had a job other than being self-employed.

Sincerely,

NoGluGirl

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