VERSED Reviews (MIDAZOLAM HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 2.7 (1094 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare VERSED with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR VERSED | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | colonoscopy | violently ill vomited for ten minutes | upset stomach for weeks colon was completely negative for problems | F | 87 | | 1/28/2008 | 1 | Surgery | My father was given versed for a stent surgery. He woke up during the surgery and began screaming and hitting the Dr. After the surgery, he lost his mind. He became a dementia patient in less than an hour. My father went from an active, intelligent man to being bedridden and totally out of his mind. Full blown dementia was caused by this horrible drug. Just days before receiving this poison, he represented himself and won an IRS audit. Afterwards, he couldn't read, write, and became violent. He died 7 months later. | M | 85 | 1X day | 11/28/2021 | 1 | simple MRI | My mom was given this drug as she could not handle the closed in feeling of an MRI of her neck and head. | she has not been coherant for 4 days and still does not know what is going on around her. She is still in the hospital her hands covered with mits to protect her from scrating herself, she is very agitated, thrashing, confused,lashing out and diminished breathing... All for and MRI..... I am very worried and NO ONE KNOWS WHY she Reacted this way to the Versed.....God help all who are and have suffered as a result of Versed... | F | 83 | | 5/6/2008 | 5 | Urologist Doing Cystoscopy | Need driver 1st hour then back to normal and 82 years old. Will not let doctor do Cysto without and now can't get. | Would highly recommend it for Cystoscopy because feel nothing and not completely knocked out. Also used at hospital to push protruding hernia back in before could do surgery. | M | 82 | 1 days 1 mg 1X day | 3/7/2012 | 5 | colonoscopy | None. I arrived home and went to bed and slept peacefully. | I will ask for it every time I have a colonoscopy.8mg better than 6mg. | M | 81 | 1 days | 12/23/2008 | 5 | colonoscopy | Versed knocked me OUT but I recovered quickly after my colonoscopy and felt fine thereafter. | Demerol lowered my blood pressure so much I refuse the use of Demerol and ask, instead, for VERSED which produced zero side effects. | M | 79 | 3 times | 3/26/2009 | 1 | colonoscopy | Several years ago I was given Versed for a colonoscopy with terrible effects. I couldn't talk or scream but felt every centimeter of the probing. My doctor said that next time he would give me more. Obviously there was something wrong with this. I went to Barnes and Noble and took out four drug books, and found in one there were four pages of side effects including paralyzing of the throat, tongue, mouth and more. My doctor had never "heard" of this. I make sure in any surgery that I do not have Versed. | F | 79 | 1 days | 2/17/2009 | 5 | For a back procedure. | I felt no pain during my back procedure (radio frequency of nerves in lumbar). | Is so wonderful for experiencing no pain during a painful back procedure. | F | 78 | 0 days | 5/21/2018 | 1 | To relax me before a mastectomy | I take meds for RLS (restless leg syndrome) and the Versed made this condition intolerable == couldn't keep my legs still a second. Don't know how they kept me quite during surgery. Now I'm having cataracts removed and that's what they would to give but I am asing for a substitute. benodryl has the same effect on my RLS. | F | 78 | 1 days ? 1X day | 4/14/2011 | 5 | Colonoscopy | No side effects. | The Versed was combined with Fentanyl 100 mcg and put me to sleep for the entire procedure that was done on Oct 4 2010. | M | 77 | 1 days 5mg 1X day | 10/5/2010 | 2 | colonoscopy | drastic drop of blood pressure to 86/48 completely aware of procedure,at times very painful | would be afraid of being given this drug again did not find it helped first time given it received it by I/V | F | 77 | | 2/23/2009 | 5 | chronic migraine treatment | slight lack of coordination for 30 minutes, slightly sedated for several hours | The medicine snips 10 minutes out of your memory. It is as if the scene changes in a millisecond without you even closing your eyes. A very unusual effect! A few times it didn't work. But, it has worked every time that fentanyl was added. | M | 75 | 6 months 2 MG 1X day | 7/22/2019 | 1 | cardiac cath | memory loss bronchitis crying jags am very sensitive to meds tried to tell them that | never again also never fentyl | F | 75 | 1X H | 3/7/2016 | 1 | Cataract | Given injection for cataract surgery which worked fine. Two weeks later my short term memory is still a wreck, It has gotten better after a few days but has deteriorated again today. | I was given no warning about this drug or any discussion. I have voiced my extreme dissatisfaction and been assured it will not be used when the other eye is corrected in several weeks. I am FURIOUS | M | 75 | 1X day | 3/9/2015 | 1 | Electric Cardioversion | VERY slow awakening. Extremely groggy for many hours. Had to stay in recovery for 4 hours instead of going home almost immediately. Memory impaired for days. | I have had general anesthetics numerous times before. Two were electric cardioversions like this one. Never any problem with any of the general's at any previous time. | M | 75 | 1 days Unknown 1X day | 1/25/2011 | 1 | Upper Endoscopy | After waking up I started feeling nauseous for the rest of day and eve. By the next day I was having bad headaches, mental cloudiness,confusion, anxiety, dizziness and disorientation that lasted over two weeks. Cont. to feel bad into the third week. | In the future I will not take any sedation drugs like Versed for procedures if at all possible. Sedation drugs were not explained to me prior to procedure. I felt like my brain was scrambled. | F | 75 | 1X day | 5/17/2012 | 1 | prostate prosedure | briefly became sleepy but was awake within 15 minutes. was told that I would not remember anything about the procedure, but I remember every painful sordid detail | I continually told the dr. that I was in excrutiating pain, but he did not believe me. They told my son that I would not remember all this, but I remember it all. I thought I would have a heart attack it was so painful | M | 75 | 1 times | 11/10/2004 | 5 | surgery | none | F | 74 | 1 days | 3/3/2008 | 1 | Knee Replacement | Before my scheduled knee replacement, I told the surgeon that I did not want VERSED under any circumstances because the use of it during previous procedures had made me very sick and had also caused loss of memory. He assured me that all I had to do was tell the anesthesiologist when I got to the hospital. However, when the anesthesiologist came in, it was with two other nurses, all three of whom pressured me into letting them use "the tiniest bit" of VERSED, to help me get through the spinal injection I would be having. With my family also siding in against me, I consented and have been sorry ever since. Again, I've suffered memory loss from the VERSED. Now I am scheduled for minor surgery and have told the surgeon, his nurse, and the surgical center, that I don't want VERSED and that, if they try to force it on me this time, I will walk out without the surgery. One positive note: When I had my pre-op exam, my family doctor made a notation on my allergy list regarding VERSED: LONG TIME MEMORY LOSS. I would advise anyone reading this to insist that their doctor(s) do the same so that you will have a record of when you reported it to your doctor, should you ever need that information. | F | 74 | 1X day | 8/25/2016 Patient History | 1 | cataract surgery | Anxiety. I did not have amnesia because the dose for seniors is so small | I resent the failure to communicate the drug's potential effects. I also would like to say I got through a colonoscopy without either sedation or analgesia just a couple of months ago. I have read everyone's comments and suggest you NOT allow any IV placement BEFORE you get to the OR. Once that IV is placed, trust me, they will put whatever they want through the IV line. I refused IV analgesia because I was pretty sure they would add VERSED as well. Also, check your CONSENT forms and cross out the clause consenting to IV sedation. I wrote "NO MEDS!" and initialed it. They STILL tried to shove a needle into me but no dice. I WON. If you must have analgesia/sedation, avoid the neuroleptic type drugs, VERSED, KETAMINE etc. Propofol seems a good choice. I realize that sometimes, we just have to accept anesthesia and sedation but you DO have a say and you DO have the ultimate choice. | F | 74 | 2 days 1X H | 6/27/2014 |