Demerol and Allergic Reaction: What Users Say

• Sue...
• Taken for 2 to 5 years
• July 9, 2019

For Pain "I am a rare breed of a human being! I have so many allergic reactions to medication, most antibiotics and anti-inflammatory medication, and even worse, most pain medication. This medication I can take. I have several chronic conditions: RSD/CRPS, fibromyalgia, trigeminal neuralgia, migraines, anxiety, and insomnia. I take several different medications. I go to a pain management clinic. I have recently had to change my pain medication. Only the other one they have found I can take. They changed because my pharmacist can no longer get Demerol 50 mg tablets. It kept my pain under control. I want it back. The trigeminal neuralgia has been worse ever since I started the new stuff! Please help me to get relief with Demerol or Meperidine. Where can I get it!"

• Spa...
• Taken for 10 years or more
• July 26, 2020

For Pain "I had migraines from the time I was 18 years old. I would have to go to the doctor's office to get a shot as I had to work. About 1984, my doctor gave me the 50 mg Meperidine tabs. I controlled my migraines by using half a pill when needed. Most times, a month's prescription lasted me four to six months. I never got dizzy or anything when taking it. I did use Phenergan for nausea. I am allergic to morphine, codeine, Imitrex, and a variety of other meds, including antibiotics. Allergies occurred in hospitals. My neurologist has no problem prescribing it for me, but I can't find any place to fill it, so for six months, I have had to put up with horrible headaches. The VA pharmacy has it, but my neurologist isn't in the Optum system for prescriptions, only the medical part, so they won't fill it. The latest VA gave me Topamax. It doesn't help, it only messes my INR up for my warfarin. Even my PA has stated I don't abuse drugs. But she can't prescribe it, and the doctor won't. Demerol is the only pain med I have not had a reaction to. Now what?"

• wan...
• March 1, 2017

For Pain "I am allergic to morphine, and that is how I ended up taking Demerol. I was born with Sickle Cell Anemia disease. This causes me to experience extremely painful episodes in my joints, which are crippling at times and can last for one to two months. Enough about me, can someone just please tell us why they would discontinue the most helpful and healing medication ever invented."