[blparent] breast feeding

[Jo Elizabeth Pinto]

What is a black box warning?  I'm surprised that poision is still on the 
market, to tell the truth.  I've never felt so awful in my life as when I 
was on Reglan.

Jo Elizabeth

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may 
kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at 
evening.--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
-----Original Message----- 
From: Brandy Wojcik
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 4:44 PM
To: 'Blind Parents Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [blparent] breast feeding

Reglan now has a black box worning. Domparadome sorry about spelling is
similar but unlike raglan doesn't pass the blood brain barrio and there for
doesn't have the complecations. I tried raglan for reflux and my gastro
troubles, and I don't even remember those days. They were so terrible!

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 6:25 PM
To: Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] breast feeding

Oh, and then there's Reglan.  My advice to anybody who is offered this
prescription drug as a choice is to remember the Ragan years and just say
no!  The drug is usually used to combat acid reflux, and in some cases, it
has been shown to increase milk supply.  But a great many women have
debilitating fatigue as a side effect.  I was one of them.  Not just the
kind of fatigue where you feel worn out.  I had fatigue that made walking
from the couch to the kitchen almost insurmountable.  I would hear my baby
crying and feel absolutely physically unable to get up and do anything about
it.  The hard part about the drug, too, is that you have to build up slowly
on it, and go down slowly when you want to get off.  So even if the
immobilizing fatigue takes you over and you start cutting back your doses,
it might be a week or more before you can stop taking Reglan entirely.  And
then more time has to go by for the residual effects to get out of your
system.  It was at least a few months before I felt like myself again after
taking Reglan.  At the very least, I would advise anyone to research the
drug thoroughly on the Internet, and then try to have help with baby care
till you find out how Reglanwill affect you.

Jo Elizabeth