Prochlorperazine - Please reply if anyone taken these for MS?

[natasha82]

I am desperate now, i can not keep anything down at all. I am exhaused and emotional and just don't know what to do for the best?

I was prescribed these tablets (also called Buccal tablets) a couple of weeks ago for bad ms but havent taken any yet. I was too scared to take them as on the leaflet it says they haven't been tested on pregnant women so side effects are unknown?

Has anyone taken Prochlorperazine and had a healthy baby? I'm just so scared but also want to be able to keep food and drink down.

 

[kat2504]

I am on medication that says not to take it if you are pregnant too! However I need that medication to stop me miscarrying. If I was not pregnant I would not even be on the injections. It also warns against combining them with aspirin but I have been prescribed the two drugs together. They put a lot of things on the leaflets for legal reasons, but if you have been prescribed it by a trained doctor, I would say that you need to take it. Health professionals are not perfect, but I think given the years and years of training doctors do, they generally know what they are talking about.

If you can't keep even drink down, you risk becoming severely dehydrated and ending up staying in hospital on a drip for hyperemesis. The risk of this would be worse for the baby than taking a drug without any proven risks that doctors have decided is safe. I think you should give it a go for a little while and hopefully you will feel better soon and might not need to take it every day.

The problem with proving drugs are safe in pregnancy is they can't do trials on pregnant women in case it isn't safe. None of us would volunteer to put a baby at risk when they try out new drugs. So just about everything except paracetamol says not proven to be safe in pregnancy. Medical studies that exist are therefore based on experience rather than trials. Usually they only prescribe something if the need is greater than any risk and it is better to give you it than do nothing at all.

 

[_Lexi_]

I'm on these tablets at the moment. I've had hyperemesis since six weeks and meds have been my only choice. I've been in and out of hospital on drips and the risk of dehydration to my baby is much worse than taking them x

 

[fizzypop]

I agree, take them if you need to. The risk of dehydration is worse.

Hope it passes for you soon honey, I know how miserable it is. Xxx