How can I get the drug I want? (Chlorpromazine)?!
Question: Okay. My mom has had a BAD case chronic hiccups for around 4 days now. They're stopping her from sleeping, eating, or even BREATHING. She's been to 2 GPs and the hospital (CGH), but the drugs they prescribed aren't helping much.
I finally did some research online and found out that the drugs she's on DON'T HELP. They're mostly for nausea, or anti-depressants. One of them even exacerbates hiccups (Valium).
Anyway, I read on http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic252.... that Chlorpromazine and Metoclopramide are the most common drug used to cure hiccups. Since the doctors we've been to didn't prescribe them, my question is, how do we go about obtaining them? Can we maybe call up a clinic and ask if they have the drug available? Or the hospital pharmacy?
Thanks in advance!
Answers: Okay. My mom has had a BAD case chronic hiccups for around 4 days now. They're stopping her from sleeping, eating, or even BREATHING. She's been to 2 GPs and the hospital (CGH), but the drugs they prescribed aren't helping much.
I finally did some research online and found out that the drugs she's on DON'T HELP. They're mostly for nausea, or anti-depressants. One of them even exacerbates hiccups (Valium).
Anyway, I read on http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic252.... that Chlorpromazine and Metoclopramide are the most common drug used to cure hiccups. Since the doctors we've been to didn't prescribe them, my question is, how do we go about obtaining them? Can we maybe call up a clinic and ask if they have the drug available? Or the hospital pharmacy?
Thanks in advance!
I suggest going back to your dr. and telling him that you've done your research and what you have learned the meds they are prescribing arent what she needs and that she needs one of the other two. It might work, it does when i take my 3 yr old to the nuerologists. They will usually listen to you because you are her advocate right now you know whats goin on and see it first hand all day they dont. try it