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Re: Thera-flu made me FREAK OUT! » spriggy

Posted by yxibow on December 30, 2005, at 22:12:37

In reply to Re: Thera-flu made me FREAK OUT!, posted by spriggy on December 28, 2005, at 14:19:30

> Thera flu has never bothered me but I think it has an antihistamine in it. I know some people really wig out in antihistamines.
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> My aunt took Benadryl once and had to call 911 in the middle of Wal-mart- she had a horrific panic attack and felt really bizarre.

Yes, some people have paradoxical reactions to Benadryl. I used to have tachycardia for several hours as a kid before it would make me sleepy.

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> I freak out like that out on phergen and compazine. I feel very restless, and very, very weird in my head. I hate it.

Both Phenergan and Compazine are phenothiazine (among the oldest) antipsychotics. Phenergan has a use as a very powerful and unclean drug as an antihistamine although I dont (I hope) think it is used much any more. Compazine is still used in hospitals for people who come in with uncontrollable vomiting (I know, I had the experience in college -- I had to have benadryl to stop the reaction and it wore off after I left the hospital and I spent several hours agonizing on the sofa. I could barely think on the taxi ride home). The "restless" feeling you felt was a form of EPS, akathisia. There exist now more modern antinausea agents that target 5HT3 such as Ondansetron and Granisetron.

 

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