ANTI NAUSEA MEDICATION

[BAB97TIE]

What anti nausea medication can be used when receiving anesthesia for surgery?

[SueJohnson]

For your surgery: Tell your doctors and anesthesiologists about your RLS and its symptoms and that you need your medicine and ask if there will be any drug interactions from what they will give you. Also talk with the patient representative ahead of time. Tell them not to give you any sedating antihistamines or sedating anti-nausea medications. Instead insist they use Zofran for anti-nausea. You can download the Medical Alert Card that you can show your doctors, that tells them about the condition and what will happen after surgery and what medicines to avoid at rlshelp.org/ although you will need to join the RLS foundation. An international membership is $40, but they have some good information on it and you get their monthly magazine. However the safe antidepressants listed on medical alert card are not antidepressants: Lamotrigine, Carbamazepine, Oxcarbazepine.

[ChrisColumbus]

(UK users may know Novartis' brand Zofran, but it's more commonly known in the UK by the generic name ondansetron).

[BAB97TIE in reply to ChrisColumbus]

thank you

[Nikos64]

sometimes the potent narcotics usually administered for anesthesia may themselves cause RLS to be worse after the procedure. This increase in symptoms is usually transitory and probably not everyone with RLS may experience this.

[Mum007]

DO NOT take metoclopromide

[ChrisColumbus in reply to Mum007]

That's why Sue and others recommend ondansetron (Zofran). But it's good for members to have a definite name to avoid!

[Jumpey]

Zofran was great for me.Good luck.

[BAB97TIE in reply to Jumpey]

thank you

[Typicallygaslit]

Decline Cyclizine if they try and force it on you like they did on me.

[BAB97TIE in reply to Typicallygaslit]

thanks

[SkyCop]

Yeah, what the others said: oOdansetron/ Zofran.... whatever you do don't let them give you the one they will most likely try to put in your IV- compezine. It is the woooooorst for us.