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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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Wow! Me too! I had bronchial asthma from the time I was 3 months old. I started having weird hallucinations like you describe probably when I was around 7 or 8 years old. Everything moved extremely loud and fast. I've always thought that the babysitter fed me acid. My Mother said right off the bat she thought it was the Tedral. It stopped happening right around the time that I outgrew the asthma!

Right now I have an extreme sensitivity to low frequency sounds which was made worse by psych meds. What a relief to read your post. I've told psychiatrists about the Tedral and they said nothing.

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When I was a toddler I had a near fatal episode with asthma. It went miss-diagnosed for years. When I was eight I started going to an allergist who properly diagnosed me. I was put on a restricted diet and received allergy shots 2 or 3 times a week and I had to be rescued by adrenalin shots many times. I was very frail and my physical development was delayed.
Finally when I was 14 my doctor gave me Tedral to try. Suddenly I had a new lease on life. Within a few weeks I realized the allergy shots had not helped and quit going back for them. I wasn't cured but I found I could participate in physically demanding activities and eat pretty much anything I wanted. I was taking one Tedral pill per day and was able to live normally. I would still have an occasional trip to the emergency room for an adrenalin injection but by and large I could live normally. I did experience some nervousness and I could tell my mind would wander but I never felt impaired and never had any hallucinations or other of the serious side effect mentioned here. When I was in my twenties it seemed I had pretty much outgrown the asthma although today in my 60's I still have an asthma attack once in a while. An Albuterol rescue inhaler generally does the trick. The story here is, Tedral saved my life and I am sorry it is off the market.

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I was prescribed this medication from the ages of 3 to 15 for asthma. I suffered visual hallucinations, nausea, extreme tremulousness, restlessness, irritability just to name a few of the symptoms. This medication should never have been given to a child!

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I had asthma since childhood. I am now a 53 yr old female. I vividly remember the yellow thick medicine I took and would describe it as thick as snot (which I called it). Episodes of yelling and screaming about the bugs crawling on the walls and coming to get me. I went days without eating or drinking - the applause I received eating a grape. Mind you during this time Tedral was taken at lease three times a day. I could not listen to loud noises, no television, phone ringing, radio - this triggered a panic attach and episodes of crying from fear. My sense of smell is high. I am allergic to all types of peanuts products and can smell it on someone breath even a distance away. I often wondered is anyone else experience reactions to tedral for I have never forgotten

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Tedral contained phenobarbitol, which has a highly addictive nature. It's legitimate use is for the immediate treatment of seasures, and as a short term sedative. It was added to Tedral to counteract the hyperactive sensations caused by the large amount of ephedrine (a chemical similar to, and used in the making of amphetamines-or speed), which has legitimate use in the treatment of asthma. Ephedrine is a highly concentrated formulation of ephedra or Mua Hang, an herbal drug, which has been taken off the market in the US because of significant potential for heart irregularities and it's use in making methamphetamine or simply meth.
The third component of Tedral was aminophyllin or Theophylin, which is still successfully used in the management of asthma, and is even used for it's side effect of elimination of cellulite. It is the main component of so called thigh cream.
Many patients treated on Tedral became addicted to the phenobarbital in it, without even knowing they were taking a dangerous drug. Some of the symptoms you both describe are common. When prescribed for me in the fall of 1971, I lost the ability to concentrate, and as a result nearly flunked out of my first semester of college--I was a B+ student in high school and after getting off of Tedral, and going through the hell of phenobarbital withdrawl, I regained my good grades, and eventually went on to become a Registered Nurse, and even got a Masters degree and practiced as a nurse practitioner.
For many, Tedral was a dangerous drug, and for others it was a lifesaver. Tough choice to make.

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I was given Tedral 1971 or 72 I was 7 years old and on the night of the 3rd day of taking it I woke up seeing spiders crawling the wall and all over me for about 12 hours. I did get my first and only 0ambulance ride and strapped down in a bed while the medicine wore off. They simply told us that it was an allergic reaction to the drug.

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I remember not being able to breathe during an asthma attack and the desperation I felt too. But after taking the Tedral and within 20 minutes I started breathing normally after that the only sied-effects I had would be having full-on philosophical discussion with my mother at the age of 12. I loved it. No ill side-effects for me.

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I'm a known asthmatic since childhood and was allowed to use Tedral by my asthma doctor since 1985 until this drug was taken off the market. The drug did not cause me any trouble nor has given me any adverse effect. I was happy then, that my asthma was well-controlled by the use of this single drug. I am a nurse by profession and knows how to manage my medication very well. I prefer to use it rather than the usual broncholilators. Bronchodilator inhalers give me headache...

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I took Tedral for years and had no ill side effects whatsoever. I was disappointed when they pulled it from the shelves. Seems like they would have put those experiencing adverse effects on another med rather than pull Tedral and deprive countless others. I now have to go to another country to find it.

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I agree I wish they would leave stuff alone. They seem to forget the drug does help alot of people and I happen to be 1 of them!

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I took Tedral from the mid-1960's to about 1971. I had asthma during this period. I was under constant treatment for allergies. In 1971, I went to college and moved into a dorm; my asthma went away! I think it was mold in my family home that was bothering me earlier. Anyway, I took Tedral at night (with an antihistamine to help sleep). It wound me up but I would read at night and it seemed to help me enjoy what I was reading. So it affected me in some helpful ways, but also took me away from "normal life." It was a lifesaver for asthma - it just stopped it cold. I can see how its side-effects are bad for children, but it definitely worked!

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I had childhood asthma and used tedral, also felt strange, didn't fully identify the feeling I was too young--then at about 12, after being asthma free for a year or so, I had another asthma attack, took the tedral as I used to-- but it seemed my arms were floating away! It had a definite hallucinogenic effect on me, besides the revved feeling.

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I took tedrol as an asthmatic child. It made me hallucinate. I remember floating above my body, heart pounding, wondering at 7, if I was gonna die. Did it come in suppository form? The most scarey trip was after that. I have been a drug user my entire life since then. Chasing that weird feeling I had as a child. I've been re creating that feeling ever since. Thanks Tedral..

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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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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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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 too used to have the shrinking rooms! I was prescribed it as a child and it made me a bit high, I couldn't sleep and when I could the rooms came in on me.
I accidently told my doctor, when I was 20 the wrong drug, and said Tedral. I filled the scrips and took it again, it started again. I stopped taking it.

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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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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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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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