Phenergran

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Both of my boys have RLS, as do I. They are 14 and 15. I took the 15 yr old to

the emergency

room two weeks ago tonight with stomach pains to a hospital near our home. The

CT scan said it

was pancreatitis, not appendicitis, as the surgeon thought. While we were still

in the ER, son

felt nauseous and they gave him a shot of phenergran. Poor baby's legs started

shooting what

seemed like to the ceiling. When it finally wore off, needless to say, I told

the ER not to

give him any more (We were there seven hours before they admitted him.) I

asked the ER doc for

pain meds, not phenergran, but he never got it. After they admitted him, I

asked the admitting

doc to give him something for pain. Well, it was Demerol AND Phenergran. Amid

my protests, the

nurse insisted it was only a small amount of phenergran to keep the demerol from

upsetting his

stomach. So I let her give it to him. He went to sleep and his legs didn't

move. So, I guess

I can deduct that the narcotic in the demerol overrode the small amount of

phenergran that was

in the injection.

After the doctors couldn't agree on what to do--the GI doc wanted to do

exploratory surgery and

the surgeon said he didn't feel right about it--we called in another surgeon.

He said that 15

yr.- olds don't just " get " pancreatitis and to send him to Texas Children's in

Houston. So we

got in an ambulance and went to Houston (45 miles south). Although all of the

hospitals in the

Medical Center were on Drive-by status that night, they took my son and put him

in a room right

away, even though the waiting rooms and halls were full of patients. Son

immediately said he

was nauseous, and I went through the whole story again. I said if you give him

phenergran, you

have to give him the demerol with it. The demerol and phenergran worked

again--no RLS.

Everyone at both hospitals was very nice and listened. Although some of the

staff didn't know

about RLS, others did, everyone was very nice and honored my requests, which

were in the best

interests of my son. After spending 21 hours in the Texas Children's ER--there

weren't any

rooms-- we finally go to a room and the doctor said his pancreatitis was caused

by a virus.

Although it was very scarey, and Texas Children't is like organized chaos, in

the future, I

won't stop at the hospitals between here and Texas Medical Center in Houston.

It may be

inconvenient, but the peace of mine is worth more than the convenience of being

ten minutes from

home. Son came home in two days after the virus " went away. " It was strange

but true --and

scarey.

My next step is to find a doctor that treats pediatric RLS. (My neuro here

won't see by boys

until they are 20.)

BTW. Phenergran doesn't effect me except relieve my nausea--thank goodness.

Lindy B. (49) in Southeast Texas