That was totally uncalled for. Great bedside manner, DG. Disgusting!

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DG-Actually, I didn't see Promethazine on your post, but I did see the Phengren(sp) didn't know they were the same thing. And I'm not making the Doctor into a baby killer, just telling you what the other Doctor said. And if you're going to be a creeper and track down me, my info, and my Mom(Which by the way, you had NO right to post HER info.) The least you could have done was post the whole post. You know, the part where she says the same thing I did. Just a thought.

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DanceDynamic

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Edit:
I'm having fun playing "guess that medication."


Phenergan: Class C (aka promethazine)

Well...it seems to me she DID mention the actual word promethazine...I'm still at a loss why you would want to keep this from people with a medical background who were trying to help. :/

DG...this is DD's mom Sherry. My question to you is why are you upsetting my daughter and posting a conversation I was having with someone on facebook on this dance board? First of all I was with her when the nurse seen the meds she was prescribed by another doctor. The look on her face and what she said was enough to scare and upset anyone. She said straight out the gate that this shouldn't have been prescribed and explained it could cause damage to a fetus. Another pharmacist told us the same thing. She had her reasons for keeping the drug private...for one she didn't want any controversy over the drug itself. We were told class C meaning that this drug has been tested on animals being detrimental and some have even died. This drug has not been tested on humans...hmmm I wonder why??? If you were violently throwing up and was prescribed this drug during your first trimester would this not bother you? Also there were some websites stating this drug could also be a Class D. Its enough to cause worry. I'm old school ...from back in the days when you could trust doctors before computers where people didn't have to look up drugs. Can you honestly say you have looked up everything you have ever taken? If you have your one of a kind. I look up most things but honestly have not looked up every little thing. I would believe most people haven't. Its not our job to do what we pay doctors to do. I understand its a changing world and we can all learn a lesson from this, but my advice to you is get off your self righteous high horse, and show a little compassion to a young woman having her first baby and has legitamate concerns. To all the rest of you on this board who has shown kindness to my daughter ...thank you and God Bless!

Well atleast now people can give u the right advice;

Seeing how DG explained the different classes of medication and the dangers and this is a class C medication; No you cant sue, you can try but you will probably loose.
Atleast with the information at hand and my country you would lose this lawsuit.

Arent you the least bit glad that people on here can tell you that this medication has not yet been proven harmful to people? That should help you put your mind at rest a bit about your pregnancy.

I really dont understand why you didnt wanna post the name of the medication, because i think this thread would have been alot nicer and polite if you had. This isnt really about people's opinions its about facts, and the fact is, the medication is noted as a class C medication. Whatever feeling anyone has beside these facts you really oughta ignore.


Im just hoping you can put your mind at ease now and the rest of your pregnancy will go well.

Wow, I'm shocked anyone would defend OP after she blatantly LIED to everyone here. Really? That's indefensible.

By the way...

Promethazine has been assigned to pregnancy category C by the FDA. Several retrospective studies have suggested that there is no increased risk of congenital malformations in humans with the use of promethazine in pregnancy. Promethazine has been shown to impair neonatal platelet aggregation when given during labor. There are no controlled data in human pregnancy. Promethazine is only recommended for use during pregnancy when benefit outweighs risk. Source

I'm actually looking for something that says it does cause birth defects and I can't find anything.

There are COUNTLESS web pages you can get off a simple google search of "can you take phenergan while pregnant" that will all tell you that research is inconclusive, but women and their children are all perfectly fine. These are real live women who've taken it during pregnancy and have had their children, all of whom have all 10 fingers and 10 toes, a working heart, etc etc. STOP THE PANIC. Seriously. Phenergan is widely prescribed and shouldn't be a cause for concern. If I were pregnant and a nurse tried to scare me into a tizzy like that, I probably would've kicked the woman. But that's probably because I have a medical background and know better, which all brings me back to doing your research out of personal responsibility. Old school or not, you should care about what you're (or your daughter) putting into your body. Don't we have the vaccinate versus not to vaccinate debate on here every other week?! My lord!

If you had just came out and told us what it was from the beginning, you could've avoided all of this. Debate the drug? Really? What's to debate?

And last but not least, the internet is not as private as you think it is. Your information was found because you didn't take any measures to safeguard it. All it takes is about three clicks of a mouse.

I was told fetal damage..exact words. Was not trying to purposely deceive anyone but felt pressured to give the name of the drug. I didn't want to start a debate over the drug. My original post was asking should a doctor be sued over malpractice over drugs that may be responsible for deformities in children or possibly death. This is what I wanted to talk about.

No, it was

if our baby comes out with a defect, should we sue?

The answer to which is directly dependent on which drug you took.

I'm wondering what type of advice you were expecting, given that you were unwilling to disclose

a) the drug in question
b) which types of "deformities" you were potentially dealing with
c) what the possible remedies/ treatments (and associated costs) would be

You thought we were going to advocate a lawsuit based on the information that some substance might cause some amount of damage which would cost you some amount of money? And you didn't think that people would be frustrated by the lack of information when they were trying to help you?

I fully understand your desire to keep information private, but I'm really quite baffled by your decision then to post a question like this online. I can understand if you had started this post to look for support because you were worried about the pregnancy (for reasons you didn't feel comfortable disclosing)-- I think you would have received a lot of kind words, prayers and so on (and you did, in fact, get quite a few). As the post stands, though, I'm just perplexed by your intentions.

Im not defending here, what im trying to say is that she would have it so much easier if she would have come clear about this in the first place.

Sara what did we do before computers...trust the doctors and those in the medical field. I am believing what you and other medics on this board are saying. When you or others say its safe I figure you know what your talking about...well when I was told that no doctor SHOULD prescribe Class C but only Class A and possibly Class B I believed them too. Do you get my point? Who do you trust or believe when there is such a wide variety of opinions? I don't think its very nice of anyone to say I'm not taking responsibility as a mother toward my daughter. This whole conversation is just looking to me like a mean cat fight. As far as getting information ...I don't care but I don't think its right to post a conversation on another site that I wrote. What if I copied and pasted on facebook everything you said on this site to others. I'm sorry, its just not right!

Do it to it, mama. I don't post things that I wouldn't want repeated.

The military commonly uses two acronyms that I feel should be taught to the general consensus here. PERSEC and OPSEC. The former stands for personal security, and the latter stands for operational security. Don't post private information in public spaces that will compromise your personal security or the mission (aka, operation - what you're doing.) Your full name on an ultra sound picture, your husband's name on your profile, not making use of privacy settings on Facebook... all need to be reconsidered.

Phenergan is A-OK for pregnant women. My friend LIVED off of it during her pregnancy and her daughter is 13 and is insanely smart. No fetal deformities whatsoever! My friend also happens to be a pharmacist and she said she sees pregnant women on it all the time! She said she has NEVER seen fetal deformities from Phenergan in the 20 years she's been a pharmacist. My husband and his friend have also been Paramedics for 20 years and have also given phenergan to pregnant women.

Class C is "Risk can not be ruled out- Adequate, well-controlled human studies are lacking, and animal studies have shown a risk to the fetus or are lacking as well.
There is a chance of fetal harm if the drug is administered during pregnancy; but the potential benefits may outweigh the potential risk. " Source: American Pregnancy Association.

Basically, the benefit of stopping you from throwing up outweighed any potential risk. If you got too dehydrated, your body could reject the fetus, the human body can do amazing things, including self preservation. If it did show consistent fetal damage, it wouldn't be a class C drug, it would be a Class X, which is do NOT, under ANY circumstances give to pregnant women.

Sara-Actually I didn't realize my full name was on the sono, thanks for pointing that out. But yeah my Hubby's name is on my FB...Everyone's names are on people's FB's lol. Still doesn't give someone the right to purposely search ME out and scroll through my stuff until they find my Mom, pull her info and post it. It's creepy. What's next? Yall gonna go on my Hubby's FB and harrass him about me or the stuff he has posted?

love,
DanceDynamic

Anyone absolutely has the right to search for whatever information they want, just as you absolutely have the right to post as much or as little as you want in the public sphere. The internet has just made it a lot easier for people to find things. Heck, people get paid to do this kind of stuff! And I may even be one of them!

Doesn't mean it's right. People also get paid to murder people. Doesn't make it right.

love,
DanceDynamic