Is this still current? PBS Line?
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Well, I have just spoken to the PBS line, and it is now available at the reduced price for ALL pregnant women. :clap: Yay me, HCC makes it $5.00. the choice is for 4mg, which is standard script price, or 8mg which carries a 70c tariff. Stemetil is NOT considered safe during pregnancy, and should not be used unless absolutely necessary. Ondansetron is an antiemetic and antinauseac, but has no data suggesting it is unsafe, but also none suggesting its ultimate safety. Metoclopramide (Maxalon) IS safe, but as it has only antiemetic properties, not specific antinausea properties, making it ineffective for many people. Historically, Maxalon was an antipsychotic, hence the symptoms some have mentioned.
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little story,
Lithium (antipsychotic) also has antiemetic properties, which were made public in an event in a Sydney mental health hospital in its early days. A patient had swallowed an alarming amount of lithium, and the nurses were desperately trying to make him erm, return them. After ipecac syrup and milk didn't work, the pair tried salty water, force-feeding the man 2.4L of 20% NaCl solution in one hour. The man died of hypernatraemia (his cells swelled and exploded), and the nurses were severely berated.
This display of an inability to vomit lead to the trial of antipsychotics antiemetics. Only Maxalon was found inherently safe, due to its failure to act as a true antipsychotic.
I am back at home trying to survive a second pregnancy after the first one ws lost at 13 weeks after 7 weeks of constant vomitting. It was such a miserable time, and the only relief I had was from Zofran which was horrendously expensive. Esp considering I couldn't work. We bought Emeset from India, but it doesn't seem to work as well. Did you really end up getting this on PBS? Can you tell me the process you went through to make it happen? I need all the help I can get. Thank you in advance!!!!
