Promethazine can it help with anxiety?

Does the drug help you sleep and relax? Any personal experience?
Answer:
The primary use for promethazine is to reduce or eliminate nausea. It is used in injectible form after surgery for people who have had nausea reactions to anesthesia. Pill form is usually prescribed for people taking another medication that causes upset stomachs. The 'street' use for the drug is for suicidal people - most of the time when people try to kill themselves using pills, their body rejects the huge dose by causing vomiting . . . suicidal people will often take promethazine (pill or suppository) prior to taking the fatal dose of pills to keep from throwing them up.

I have taken promethazine for both post-surgery and to help with another prescribed medication.

If you have a problem with sleep, you need to figure out what the problem is first. Personally, I am a total insomniac. If I don't take my meds, I can stay up for days. If you have insomnia, you might want to consider medications specifically for that. If it is anxiety or stress, you need to address that first before you pop a pill. Only if it has thrown you off schedule that is impairing your daily routines, pills can help. If it is true anxiety, Xanex is great.

Promethazine has limited if any sedative effect.

Good Luck!

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When I got in wreck I was taking percoset and getting shots of morphine the Dr. gave it to me to stop nausea.Taking only promethazine will make you a Little sleepy, there are better PX to help you sleep.Save it for when you have a bad hang over to settle your stomach..........LOL

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Promethazine (Phenergan) is an anti-histamine and anti-emetic. Most people find it somewhat sedating. About the same feeling as diphenhydramine (Benedryl). Will help you sleep and relax. Probably work on anxiety. Hydroxyzine (Atarax or Vistaril) is well suited to IBS and anxiety. If GI symptoms are not part of your anxiety issues then your physician would more likely put you on a benzodiazepine like Lorazepam, Alprazolam or Clonazepam (Ativan, Xanax and Klonopin, respectively).

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It's a sedative antihistamine, so it'll make you a bit sleepy, but it won't do much for anxiety.

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