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My ENT just prescribed Promethazine to help with vertigo. I've only ever used low dose Diazepam. For those of you who have taken Promethazine, has it worked to reduce the spinning, nausea etc.? Side effects?
Thanks for any input you can share.
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NeddyO lana56327
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Promethazine is a neuroleptic medication and first-generation antihistamine of the phenothiazine family. The drug has strong sedative and weak antipsychotic effects. It also reduces motion sickness and has antiemetic and anticholinergic properties.
It is likely to make you drowsy and you may have a dry mouth.
When I first had Meniere's I was given Prochlorperazine (Stemetil). It is a dopamine receptor antagonist that belongs to the phenothiazine class of antipsychotic agents that are used for the antiemetic treatment of nausea and vertigo. It also has powerful sedative effects but I found it better at reducing nausea and vertigo of acute attacks. There is a version - Buccastem - that is placed under the upper lip to dissolve - almost essential if you are being sick and unable to keep normal pills down! I always carry it with me as part of my emergency kit. I have only had to reach for it once in 4 years.
These drugs will not have any beneficial effect on Meniere's itself, merely assist when things are bad!
Good luck.
lana56327 NeddyO
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I don't have severe attacks anymore, but do get nausea, though no vomiting like I did in the beginning. I have a low dose of this, but am wondering if it is too strong. I'm having mild vertigo today, which makes movement uncomfortable, but I haven't been nauseous, so didn't take it. Thanks for the info.