The doctor called in a prescription of promethazine to help with the nausea. Helpful but I spent most of the day sleeping and when I was awake my mouth was so dry I I could have drank an Olympic size pool of water and maybe I did.
Mix it with sprite like a true gentleman.
Oh, wow! No, I don’t think I’ll be doing that.
Nah probably best not to lol.
Just tell your doc you want to try something else…
I tried prochlorperazine instead because I didn’t want to end up like Lil Wayne and my neurologist said they did basically the same. Didn’t really like it either tho, but lots of meds if one isn’t working they just try something else. Everyone responds differently to medication.
But if it’s primarily nausea, it doesn’t make sense, when I got prochloro they gave me Benadryl as well for the nausea it caused as a side effect. But even just Dramamine would make more sense then prescribing lean just for nausea.
What ended up helping me was neural stretching and some occasional gabapentin, my nausea was just one of a laundry list of symptoms. After doing the neural tension stretches nausea is mostly gone, and overtime I’m optimistic it will clear everything up. But the gabapentin is a good bandaid for bad days.
Promethazine for nausea just sounds wild, but obviously your doctor knows more about your health than I do, there must be some reason for it.
I can only surmise he was trying to treat both the nausea and my inability to sleep with one medication. I did indeed sleep which was needed because I have not been sleeping well ( averaging a few hours here and there a day) due to the pain and nausea. I will be sure to speak to him concerning all of this on Monday at my Dr’s appointment. I am not familiar with what happened with Lil Wayne but will do some research over the weekend. I will also look at the nueral tension stretches. I try to not take any medication I don’t have too and held out as long as I could but it was fast becoming to much for me to navigate. Thank you for the very helpful information.
I am not familiar with what happened with Lil Wayne but will do some research over the weekend.
Promethazine is a heavily abused drug, often called “lean” or just “purple drank”.
Lil Wayne has actual medical issues that promethazine would treat…
And if he just sipped lean at doctor recommended dosages, he’d be a lot better. Instead he just recreationally chugs a month or so worth at a time, which makes it worse.
I was just hesitant about all that, so my doc just skipped it.
But it’s not really “adding” drugs, it’s just trying shit till you find one that works with acceptable side effects. There’s no way to know what will happen before you try it. So telling your doc you’d rather try something else is rarely an issue.
