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(Message started by: UN solved on Dec 19^th, 2006, 8:37pm)

Title: Thorazine
Post by UN solved on Dec 19^th, 2006, 8:37pm

thorazine is one nasty medicine from what I understand. I was given this once in the hospital and I was 'not home' for a couple of days. ::) I told them, when I came to, that I never wanted it again.

Does anyone have any experience with this drug ?

'Inquiring minds want to know'

UNsolved

Title: Re: Thorazine
Post by Barry_T_Coles on Dec 20^th, 2006, 1:57am

Haven’t used it myself but just read about it on this link
http://www.healthsquare.com/newrx/tho1441.htm

Scary stuff, wouldn’t give it to an enemy.

Cheers
Barry

Title: Re: Thorazine
Post by taraann on Dec 20^th, 2006, 8:30am

Not thorazine but Klonopin.....last hospital stay a doc decided my headaches were due to being depressed and anxious...gave me klonopin, I then called sam and checked myself out of the hospital but I was out of it for a few days.....awful experience!

Title: Re: Thorazine
Post by wichita_pounder on Dec 20^th, 2006, 9:49am

Thorazine, One nasty med. My husband Rudy has had these about twenty years and they'd been gone for about 7 years until Nov. but about maybe 10 years ago he had the same experience in ER, for some reason they used Thorazine he had never had it before and he had me tell the nurse to get it out of him, he could feel it going up his arm and freaked out. Told them he would yank the IV out of his arm. Since then we had it put in his med. records that he is sensitive or allergic to this. My mom is an RN and this med is related to compuzine hope I spelled that right but it is a nausea med, apparently there is a "zine" family of meds but I believe that Thorazine is an anti psychotic, and why ER's are using this for clusters beats me. They later had his grandpa on it that had alzheimers and dementia. We had been in ER's several times before but that is the only time that was used. Sorry for the bad experience.

Gretchen

Title: Re: Thorazine
Post by Tata on Dec 21^st, 2006, 8:22am

My sister used to get really bad headaches that would last for weeks, almost nonstop. I don't think she ever got an accurate diagnosis of what her HAs were, but one of her Dr's gave her Thorazine in the hospital AND gave her some to take home to give to herself. She had 3 small kids at home at the time and I was horrified by what the drug did to her. Is there any real value in giving it to HA patients, or is it just the strongest thing they can safely give to sedate them w/out actually knocking them out?

Title: Re: Thorazine
Post by NovellRed on Dec 23^rd, 2006, 12:43am

That was one of the medications that was tried on me for a while. I was only on it for a little while. Didn't do anything for the beast and I can't remember any side effects.

Title: Re: Thorazine
Post by vietvet2tours on Dec 23^rd, 2006, 4:20pm

Remember Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over The Cucoos Nest.