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I thought i was mentally unbalanced. Seeing enlargements of real life in front of me. Increased hearing sensitivity. Shrinking rooms in front of me own eyes. For years thinking it was me. An unbalanced. Self. It all stopped as i got older until one day I was having an asthmatic condition and took the medicine the doctor had me take 3 times a day! Tedral!. The truck in front of my eyes, as i worked on the engine, seemed to shrink like what happened 5 ears previously. when I was taken tedral regularly. I wasn't crazy after all--- It was the medicine! Anyone else experience shrinking heads, feelings of speed' before the term existed? Why was it taken off the market? Everyone have these problems? It would be nice to hear from others about their Tedral experience. This occurred 1952 through 1968

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Dear Bronchial Asthmatic, and all the other contributors to this thread. If you people are in your twenties and thirties, be aware that you can and probably will be affected by the Asthma you thought you outgrew ! Doctors now tend to through Asthma into the COPD category. This makes treatments more complicated and are often "hit or miss" combinations to arrive at a suitable formula for Asthma relief. The inhalers offer some relief, but my experience is that I am using Albuterol more and getting shorter periods of relief with some rather severe occurrences of shortness of breath. However, I find that Alka-Seltzer severe cold and flu helps to eliminate the fluid in the lungs, which is THE PROBLEM... Nothing comes close to relieving those desperate feelings during breathing attacks like TEDRAL !!!!!

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I am wondering if taking Tedral for several years as a child (due to severe asthma) has caused my extreme insomnia condition, which i have had for approximately 25 years. I could not sleep at night when i was given this very strong barbituate. I would get shaky hands, my eyelids would shake at night when i would close them to try to sleep, i also would lose my appetite (nothing tasted good). I have an irregular heartbeat, a have extremely sensitive hearing (the smallest noise will awake me) and i don't taste food as well.

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All I can remember is the horrible taste!

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I'm now wondering what your dentist said about tedral and your dental health. I just had to have nine teeth replaced with implants and wonder if my childhood doses of tedral had anything to do with the my extreme dental issues as an adult.

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I took tedral from 1960 to 1970 (ages 8-17), to reduce my asthma symptoms It helped with my wheezing. I experienced shakiness, rapid heart beat, irritability, inability to concentrate AND extreme drowsiness. In street lingo, that medicine might have been called a "speed ball". I do remember sitting at the breakfast table and my father asking if I was "high". I had no clue

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Thank you for sharing your experience with tedral. Your reference to the peanut allergy and hypersensitivity struck a cord My younger sister was given this drug as a young child and tried to explain what was happening to her. As the drug was prescribed by a trusted family doctor for allergies and asthma, nothing was done about her complaints. My sister is now nearly sixty years old. Her life has been erratic and fragmented. Even though she has a very high intellectual capacity her life has been directionless, without focus and dramatic. Maybe now at this late stage we can find some peace and comfort for her.

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I had the bugs moving in the walls millions of them. Each one I I could se the reflection of the window on there backs. So clear I saw spiders with boots on. Black and white photographs flicking across my eye's, toys talking to me. It was that yellow medicine.

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I'm 56years of age, from about 1963 to 1979 I had chronic asthma. This consisted of regular attacks and in the spring of 1971 and 72 suffering from status asthmaticus. One major attack only in each of those seasons; this put me out of action for four weeks at a time usual meds., on these two occasions being theophylline and hydrocortisone slow injections. The main medication though being tedral forte; I am glad to read about other fellow asthmatics suffer strange effects especially about visual disturbances I tried to explain this to an optician who look at me in a strange way. Also the very strange heads and high feelings at senior school in the morning could be hard to handle, its good to know others have gone down the same road. In 1978 I changed to ventolin, the shakes a first frightened me but I accepted them.






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I had asthma as a child for several years...was allergic to a bunch of things...pollen, dust, citrus, horse hair etc...This would have been maybe from about 1959 to 1966. I had extreme agitation and felt so hyped up. I hated the feeling. Sometimes wasn't sure which was worse...the gasping and wheezing from the asthma or the "speed" like feeling from the Tedral...(Milky looking liquid...syrupy...tasted like licorice).

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Interesting stuff. I was born in 1941. I had what they first called bronchitis and then asthmatic bronchitis and finally asthma from 1946. In the 1950s it was largely untreated even though I was often intensely I'll, and lost years at school. (I was in a military family, we moved a lot, and I never had a regular physician until I was an adult in the 1960's.). I started using Tedral in the early 1960s. I started this web search because I began wondering if Tedral had been available before the 60s and was just not known to the airforce doctors I would see in little airbases in the Canadian north when I had acute attacks. Now I'm wondering if the panic attacks I had in the 60s when I was a university student were due to Tedral. They had me convinced I was going insane.

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I was forced to take Tedral from infancy in the 60's because my asthma was so severe. Forced, because it tasted so bad, they had to sit on me and shove it down my throat or I'd spit it out; I hated it! When I worked for a hospital in the early 2000's, I noticed it had been taken off the US market in the 90's because of adverse reactions. Around the same time I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia, which stuck until recently when I was diagnosed with two rare autoimmune diseases. My entire life I've always had some sort of ailment, which most of the time could not immediately be diagnosed. I've often wondered if Tedral was the culprit.

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All I remember was how horrible it tasted..

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I was put on Tedral in the mid Sixties at the age of 6, I would only take one tablet a day,even though prescribed for 2,I would throw the other one away. I would tell my mother, I was flying through the house and backyard,seeing things that obviously were not there.My mum just put it down to my imagination,since she could not understand english at best, it would have been hard to communicate with the family doctor about any side effects. I only found at about the side effects of Tedral after visiting a dentist. I now remind my family about all those times I was tripping. Make you wonder if it did any permanent side effects to a young child,with a drug so strong.

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Took Tedral pills and nasty yellow syrup from birth to age 17 (1963-1979). Never r campeally did much to help my breathing. Last day of summer camp, all our bags were packed and on the bus when that familiar tight chested feeling struck. Unable to take my meds, a counselor took me to the camp doctor. All their meds were packed away as well. However, being asthmatic himself (first adult asthmatic I'd ever met), he let me use his albuterol inhaler. In the time span of a single breath, my life changed for the better. Never took another tedral again. Before my first inhaler use I was a sickly, skinny, hyperactive, emotionally sensitive kid. Never played sports (never picked by a team to play). To avoid that whole embarrassment I would often fake a stomach ache to get out pf gym class. During those important formative years, I became isolated and plagued by low self-esteem. When I asked my mother why the Dr. Had never prescribed an inhaler she said because he didn't want me to depend on it. Thanks doc! Tedra messed with my life in two ways: 1) round the clock, daily dosing with strong cardiac meds and barbiturates with no real benefits. Yes to all those same hallucinations, intense skin rash and spaced out childhood.
2) all the social and emotional aspects that resulted as an indirect result of insufficiently treated asthma.
Inhalers made all the difference for me. Asthma symptoms...wait a sec..puff...puff...OK fine back to life.

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See my earlier post about how Tedral made what I was reading seem more interesting. But, as in your case, there was always the crash at the end. Drugs that affect your brain chemistry are like having a bank account. You can spend it fast and have fun, but then there is nothing left for the bills!

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OMG I thought it was just me!! I took it in the mid 60's. I hate bananas to this day because of that stuff. I took it one night and remember going to my mother and telling her there was an old lady standing on my dresser pulling clothes out. Make her stop cause we just cleaned the room. I never saw tedral again. Thank goodness...

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I'm 60 Was useing tedral from age 8 till 23, i got a speed rush off it, i. Became addicted to it. I got use to the sensation of feeling i had endless energy and the ability to focus. When it Was no longer perscribded,cause it Was addictive,given over the counter and Was being used by addicts. They stoped dispensing its. I when into withdrawls, i turned to illegal drugs to sustain my addiction, its effected my life to this day,I've battled speed and cocain addiction up to this day, don't know if its effected anyone else as it did me. Kicking cocain isn't easy ,been on jail for it has cost me legal issues that follow me. Tedral gave me the same high that cocain did.

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Wow I don't remember these side effects, I might have been too ill to notice. I was being given this foul tasting gloop back in the 60s, until the spin cap inhalers arrived. It took a long time for the tedral to take effect. Back then there was myself and three brothers gasping for breath,and also shredding ourselves due to our eczema !! While we are on the subject anyone remember potters asthma powder?. It was in a green tin,to use it you had to put in the lid of the tin and light it, then inhale the smoke given off! !!! I kid you not. More info please. Oh yes I am a 52 year old male born 1960.

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Hi, I posted earlier. It had the same effect on me; I loved to read late into the night in bed. I did manage to get to school the next day, as I didn't want to have to explain why I was tired to my parents, and get a "lights out" rule. I was in Cub Scouts and read to get "Arrow Points." I picked up interests in aviation and electronics. I remember one book about go-karting in California (I was in Nashville, TN) that I read with extreme interest. I wanted one with a Naugahyde seat! Anyway, it was like burning a flare instead of a candle, and the price had to be paid the next day.

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I took Tedral tablets for asthma in the mid 70's. I was in my teens. I remember reading the entire Reader's Digest condensed version of Day of the Jackle AND the standard version of Lord of the Flies... in one night. It definately helped with the asthma... but I usually skipped school the next day because I was wiped out from lack of sleep.

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