Nearly killed me.Complete and painful seizures.Just make sure there is enough Procyclidine or whatever the antidote is.
The injection form is Haldol.
Terrible trauma.

REMEMBER

* This drug should be used only when there is no other choice.

* Sudden death is a (rare) possibility with Haldol.

* This is one of a group of psychiatric drugs which causes a serious and sometimes fatal reaction called Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome. It may cause body temperature raising, rigid muscles and coma (passing out), rapid heart beat and breathing, sweating, shaking and seizures. The death rate is 20%.

* Haldol causes brain and eye damage with long-term use. With epilepsy, it can change the pattern of seizures.

* This drug is eliminated in breast milk and affects an unborn child. It should not be given to nursing or pregnant women.

* Children are sensitive to the nervous system reactions of this drug.

* Avoid overheating your body in the sun, saunas, hot baths, etc.

* Tell your nurse, doctor, pharmacist or dentist about any other drugs you are taking before any new treatment. Check with them before you take any medicine, even if it isn't a prescription drug.

* There is no known treatment for tardive dyskinesia (TD). The brain damage done with this drug can be permanent. If symptoms appear, the drug must be stopped. One of the early signs of TD is a "worm-like" movement of the tongue. Stop the drug and see your doctor immediately if this happens to you.

* You should not drive, operate machines, play sports, or do dangerous things until you know what this drug does to you.

* Stop taking this drug and contact your doctor immediately if you notice any of the problems or conditions listed or anything unusual is happening, especially changes in your eyesight.

* Withdrawal symptoms can be severe with psychiatric drugs. If you stop using them, do it slowly.

i had a terrible time with it - it made the muscles in my eye go funny and i spent 10 hours only being able to look at the ceiling and feeling weird. Do some research on it if you can, it is a very powerful drug.

wow, pluck. jesus. you'd talked about the seizures but i never knew why.

It's the worst thing I ever experienced.Turns out I was hyper sensitive to it.
They fucked up cos they 'lost' the notes.So I was given it again a few weeks after and went into full seizure again, knowing where I had to go this time.It's worse knowing that I had to do all that again.

Thank you Pluck and everyone else who has replied so far. I am scared for my Dad as this isn't right. He goes to the doctor tomorrow so we will see this what it is all about hopefully. What really threw up a red flag for me (in addition to everything else that has happened) is that the drug was not even prescribed by a pdoc.

It's funny too in an odd way.
People on the outside think it's cool cos you are 'calmed'.
All that's happened is that you have been tranquilised like some dumb animal.They don't feel the subtle pains you do.

Not all animals are dumb.

I had an experience with it when I was still buried in my disease. At the time I was a bar manager and a Meth head. So needless to say I wasn't sleeping at all during this time.

A friend of mine, who now lives in a mental hospital for various things gave me a few. He told me if I couldn't sleep to take one.

Well I gave one to a girl I knew, she took it and her boyfriend called 911. The EMT's in turn asked to speak to me, and asked what I gave her. I went ahead and told them. She got hospitalized.

I took one for myself, sleep but really passed out. When I woke up I was so out of it. I tried to get on the freeway to drive and just couldn't. My visualizations were to bizarre. Everything seemed 2-D. I tossed the rest of it. I also missed work for a couple of days.

It was a bad experience for me, and I drove on every psychedelic known to man. Much less every drug and alcohol mixture I could think of.

I have never been so scared as when I was driving on it.

I have never taken Haldol, but I have seen a family member who had in the hospital...TERRIBLE!

Java, Good luck to your Dad. Pluck, you sure scared me too. I am Just starting Seroquel and it can cause TD and NMS as well. Jesus, I hate that we have to take this kind of Sh*T!

I'm sorry.I hardly mention it in real life.Because the listener feels awkward and I start to cry from the memories.
It's seriously fucked and people hide the facts.

Haldol is a Major Tranquilizer,
as are all the anti-psychotics.
Haldol was the first one developed and remains the most potent. Haldol helped bring me out of mania more than once so it must've been administered properly. I can't think of any good reason why haldol would be given to a dementia patient. Pluck has provided
some good information, but Pluck, many things can be (rarely) fatal, too!

That is OK Pluck. I fucked up all the time. Tonight my pdoc uped some of my meds. Yahoo.....cheer not search engine.

I won't begin feeling it until tomorrow. Halidol is one powerful med, but who knows how strong mine was or your dads???

The first time I was hospitalized, I was put on Haldol and a bunch of other drugs. My therapy consisted of playing ping pong with a nurse and I felt that I was learning how to throw off the effect of the drugs by playing and getting better at it- I don't know how to explain it exactly. But everyone else was getting shock treatments. So I guess at that time Haldol and thorazine were as good as shock treatments. I think that psychiatrist was an asshole. He also gave me shots of prolixen. What is so sad is that people on these meds live about 25 years shorter than normal life expectancy even if we don't commit suicide. I guess this is society's way of disposing of what doesn't fit into their narrow view. I didn't take any meds after I was 20 for a really long time, but I did self medicate. But just the experience of being in the hospital had a profound effect on me because I felt that I was defective and damaged and my self esteem got shot to hell.

Yes it's bad stuff...it's an old time anti-psychotic med with a ton of sideeffects. Get your Dad off of it it's not the thing for someone with Dementia challenege the doctor about it...Why is he on it??