Is promethazine used for pain or as a sedative?

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Is promethazine an okay drug for treating serious pain or is it more of a sedative? If for pain, at what dosage? All the info I find online is very vague.

I woul appreciate it if someone in the medical field could help with this question. I know it is administered often for motion sickness.

Thanks!

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promethazine (Phenergran) is most commonly used as an anti-emetic (stop nausea or vomitting). it is also used for rhinitis, allergy symptoms, or nightime sedation. it is most often used in conjunction with certain pain medications to make the effects of the pain medication last longer because of it's own sedative effects but isn't used alone as a pain medicine.

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Is promethazine used for pain or as a sedative?
Is promethazine an okay drug for treating serious pain or is it more of a sedative? If for pain, at what dosage? All the info I find online is very vague.

I woul appreciate it if someone in the medical field could help with this question. I know it is administered often for motion...

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What Is Promethazine Used For

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Promethazine hydrochloride (Phenergan) is used to treat coughs, nausea & vomiting, rhinitis and allergy symptoms, as a nightime sedative and as an adjunct to analgesics for routine pre- and postop sedation in addition to treating motion sickness. It is not used as an analgesic itself. Do not use it to treat pain.

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other - Much pain is from muscles below is an example of what may help (based on headaches).
Begin with a couple swigs of molasses or a couple of bananas (natural muscle relaxers) daily - magnesium (which regulates many things in the body) and potassium (a needed building block for muscles).
Drink at least 1/2 gallons of water per day. Running a body low on water is like running a car low on oil is the analogy the head of neurology at UCDavis told my husband about 10 years ago.

Now to the cause - muscles - your back, neck shoulders and head have tender spots. They are knots in the fibers of the muscles called trigger points. It makes the muscles tight which makes them press on nerves and other things causing the pain.

The cure - start with a professional massage, you will also want to go back over any place you can get to 6-12 times per session up to 6 times per day rubbing (or lightly scratching on your head) every where that is tender until the knots go away. The place where the skull connects to the spine press up under the edge of the skull (to get to those muscles).

For more information read The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook by Davies. It teaches what to do and where the pain comes from.

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