Quote From: babyalligatorHello,
I find your reply quite interesting. I would like to reply with the following. HG screws you up mentally and physically. I know, I had it and suffered. You physically feel as if you are dying. No one seemed to address on the show is this the antienemic (sp?) (anti-vomiting) medications
have side effects that cause delusions, and depression. I almost killed myself, something I wouldn't do if I haden't been on the medication Zofran, Reglan and Phenergan. They caused me to feel as if bugs were crawling under my skin and paranoia. They don't tell you this when
they give you the medication and if a nurse hadn't alerted me to it I may be dead today. People need to know this I am getting it out there.
Thanks,
Brigette
Yikes! I am sorry you had such a traumatic time! It sounds like you tried quite a few antiemetics.
I myself have tried Reglan and I had a severe allergic reaction to it (my uuvula swelled so that I felt like I was choking, my facial muscles locked in place, my tongue jutted out to past my chin and froze that way, and I vomitted even more).
I was also on Phenergan for a short time and that was no picnic either. I felt really doped up on it and was too drowsy to move, eat, or drink, even if I wanted to. I just had to lay in bed the whole time.
With Zofran (for me), life was so much different. I still felt nauseaous all day long and still vomited a couple of times a day, but I could resume a half-normal life. It seemed as if I was only taking a vitamin that made everything magically a lot better. I did not feel drugged at all.
My point was that HG itself is not a mental illness; it is a physical illness. There can be complicating factors that may lead to mental problems (like with any other severe physical illness) but HG itself is a physical illness.
Thank you so much for your post so that people understand that the meds to treat women with HG are not perfect. Often women are given cheaper drugs that have bad side effects instead of the more expensive Zofran that can be positively life altering.
