I usually get an IBS attack (the diarrhea and feeling nauseous type) on the first couple of days on holiday. This has happened on a few occasions when I have been on a cruise. The ships all treated me in the same way - the nurse visited me in my cabin in the evening and gave me an injection in the bum of something called Promethazine Hydrochloride (Phenergan). I was told that it would block the signal to the brain that tells me I feel sick, it would make me feel drowsy, but I would wake up in the morning feeling marvellous. It certainly did the trick and I did indeed feel marvellous the next day. (Usually if I get one of these attacks I can feel sick for 2 or 3 days.)
I'm going to see my GP and see if I can get it in tablet form to take with me next time I go on holiday. Sometimes I think the worry that I will have an attack itself brings on the attack, and if I know there is something I can take that actually works, it will take the anxiety about travelling away.
Isn't Promethazine (Phenergan) the medicine that was put under the counter after quote \"young mums\" unquote were abusing it by giving it their kids so they could have a night out, knowing their kids were sedated?
I remember using it for my daughter when she had chicken pox, it certainly stopped her scratching! Not heard of it being used for IBS, though.
I for one an glad they took phenergan off the shelves. A neighbour of mine who had 2 young children like me at the time told me she gave it to her 2 children every night just so they would go to bed early and sleep and not disturb her until the morning. She told me this after I had mentioned being up the night before with my youngest because she wouldn't settle. :shock:
I too used it when mine had chicken pox but the way it knocked them out really scared me and made me feel even more disgusted at how this neighbour was using this stuff every night on her children rather than educating them and being consistent with a good bedtime routine.