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 |
| 5 | Endoscopy | I just returned home after the procedure. I love versed and would most definitely use it again. A little shaky afterward, but otherwise, feel great. | F | 50 | 5 years | 2/20/2009 | 5 | Cervical epidural injections | None whatsoever. | I get 2-3 cortisone injections a year in my neck to alleviate pain caused by two bulging dics and bone spurs. I always get versed and nothing but versed. I understand there can be side affects with this drug as with any drug. I have never experienced any adverse reactions. As a matter of fact, when I had a few moles removed recently I specifically asked for versed and got it. When I recovered from surgery I found my wife at my side and I was surprised at how well I felt. I don't want anyone to think I am pushing this drug but it works for me as it was designed to do. I think it is the best drug to come along since penicillin. | M | 48 | 2 years | 7/19/2009 | 5 | Seizure disorder | Extreme aggression, sadness, vomiting | My son has a life threatening seizure disorder and the Versed makes his seizures so he no longer goes into respiratory arrest. He would end up in PICU on ventilator seizing hours later previously to Versed. Once he has versed, it does make him a little sleepy and his vitals are better than before. The following 48 hours following versed he is very upset, crying uncontrollably. Neurologist says it is because it becomes like a drug addict going through withdrawals. My son has low functioning severe autism and other disabilities too, not from Versed but it is important to note. | M | 9 | 10 months | 1/12/2015 | 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 | 5 | Severe Insomnia | Giddiness, feeling light-headed, dizziness, elated, mood (not euphoria, though), sedation, decreased anxiety. Retrograde amnesia is common with this drug, so take with caution if you get an actual prescription for it. They're rare. I got lucky. | I took tablet forms in 7.5mg dose form. I used them sublingually due to their poor bioavailability (amount of the drug the body can absorb and process before excretion), which is 30% orally. Sublingually, bioavailability is up to 74%(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1873675/). I could still feel oral doses, but they didn't make me tired enough to fall asleep, which was why I was taking it. I liked Versed a lot, but over time I got a tolerance, and refused to keep upping the dosage, and just tapered off. Again, be careful taking this drug - NEVER drive or operate heavy machinery, or do dangerous things like climbing ladders on this medication. And please DO NOT "stay up through the 'high'" because you'll just end up taking more, and more, then before you realize it, you've taken 75mg through the course of a night (speaking of recreational benzo users, not myself) . NOT worth it. Also, dependence/tolerance/addiction are a HUGE concern for this particular benzo. Traditional benzos are better for anxiety/panic attacks anyway. | F | 28 | 6 months 15mg 1X day | 11/15/2011 | 4 | extreme insomnia | felt good; didn't last long; developed tolerence REALLY fast | F | 29 | 5 months | 3/24/2005 | 1 | 1 test & 2 surgeries | colonoscopy 9/14/09, orthoscopic gall bladder surgery 9/17/09, & uterine wall lump removal 12/11/09. Memory retrieval for 6 months -substituting different words since I could not remember word, even when object was right before me. Husband took to supplying words to me. 1 yr plus later: much better, but still some problems. | No vet would use versed more than once in 6 months. If was dog, they would not have used it that often. Will specifically state ..... NO versed ..... also put in writing. | F | 69 | 3 months 1X day | 1/13/2011 | 1 | EGD/Hospitalization | There needs to be a -150 rating for this drug. Memory loss - days later and recurring, not when administered. Half-days and such would just "disappear". Anxiety, panic attacks, nightmares. flashbacks, recurrent PTSD. Weird memory lapses, as in looking straight at something and unable to come up with the word. Extreme anger and "grudge" reactions - the day after dose 3 I basically attacked a well-liked and well-known alternative practitioner for no reason at all and still haven't completely shaken it off. | I was hospitalized for six days and had 3 EGDs - month apart. Arriving at the hospital half-bled-out was not as traumatic as how the hospital staff behaved when they thought I wouldn't remember, or the weird and completely unpredictable memory loss and lapses. The 6mg was given legitimately and with consent for the emergency EGD - but the staff kept slipping it to me as they were constantly told not to (and for no legitimate reason). I left the hospital in BAD shape. It happens that I have long-managed PTSD and wasn't surprised that it had flared up again, considering, only to resume putting it back in it's place with some really good help, just to find whole new sets of problems directly created by the Versed and the incredibly evil behaviors that it spawns in the healthcare industry. So much for trusting hospitals or anyone in them again ... even with really good help, it's taken six months (with bi-weekly treatment or more, since the last dose of Versed). A really good acupuncturist with adrenaline disorder and addiction experience who's willing to work with you and lay down a grounding cognitive framework can REALLY help - but very hard to find and prohibitively expensive if you can't get it covered under a good long-term mental health benefit. | F | 50 | 1 months 6 mg IV 1X M | 7/3/2015 | 5 | 2nd Degree Burn 40% | I was administered Versed with morphine 48 times over a period of 2 weeks. My experience is both terrifying but at the same time comforting. I have the utmost respect for the doctors and nurses that cared for me those horrible weeks. I experienced complete amnesia about 95% of the time. I do have spotty memory during wound therapy sessions. This procedure was done 3 times a day for a week and I remember 1 session vividly as I refused the versed as I believed it was causing dementia from the holes in my memory. The doctor suspended the versed treatment and they performed a wound treatment that still comes to me in nightmares to this day. Basically the nurses cut off dead exposed skin then scrub open wounds clean and re-bandage. You must be awake for this as you need to move around and respond to the nurses. Without versed I basically remember fighting with nurses screaming in pain and they had to restrain me as i screamed in agony for 1 hour during the procedure. I was promptly admini | The feelings I felt right after being administered the drug was an intense sense of euphoria. A sense of being disconnected from my body. Intense and vivid hallucinations. After about 2-3 minutes of this feeling no recollection for 4-8 hours. I was administered Versed via a Nasal aerosol. I think that this drug is an amazing drug. Trust me their are times when in a hospital that you don't want to remember. I also see a great potential for abuse of this drug as when under its influence you will basically do anything you are asked and feel no pain and have no memory. This drug must be tightly controlled and can never make it to the streets. | M | 28 | 2 weeks | 7/16/2008 | 1 | colonoscopy, endoscopy, bronchocopy | You might have just give me a sip of a beer. I was totally up--staring at the monitors. Never went to sleep, never lost my memory. The colonscopy was most uncomfortable when they blew air into my colon. THat hurt, I thought I was going to bust. Bronchostomy I felt like I was choking to death. I drove a long distance home with no problems. My throat hurt a lot. I decide that I will just have procedures conducted without anestheia | It apparently works on kids in different ways. As it does with heavier patients. one who has a fast metaolblization. It feel like I had a sip of beer | F | 32 | 2 weeks | 6/7/2006 | 5 | colonscopy | none | great drug.....had to fight to get it cuz the hospital i was in now gives propofol for colonoscopies... i really don't want to go out for a colonscopy....i had this drug all the time years ago when i was in icu for a month and had no bad effects | F | 56 | 30 days | 12/1/2009 | 1 | PACEMAKER IMPLANTATION | THEY ASKED ME PRE-OP IF I NWAS NERVOUS. I SAID NO. THEY GAVE ME 2 MGS OF VERSED AND ANOTHER 2 MGS SHORTLY THEREAFTER. THEN MY BLOOD PRESSUR FELL TO BELOW 60 SYSTOLIC AND I WENT INTO SHOKE. I SAW DEAD PEOPLE ALL AROUND AND THE DOCTORS FREAKING OUT TRYING TO GET PRESSER AGENTS INTO ME VIA 5 IV'S IN ORDER TO GET MY BP BACK UP. I REMEMBER IT ALL. I WAS TERRIFIED. THESE ARE ALL KNOWN SIDE-EFFECTS OF THIS VERY DANGEROUS DRUG. I REPORTED THIS TO THE FDA BUT THEY SIMPLY YAWNED. HAD TO SPEND 2 NIGHTA IN CCU NEVER AGAIN!!.JOSEPH | IT SHOULD BE TAKEN OFF THE MARKET OR AT THE VERY LEAST REQUIRE A SPECIAL SIGNED INFORMED CONCENT.I AM STILL HAVING NIGHTMARES ABOUT IT AND MY PROCEDURE WAS O | M | 68 | 30 days | 9/6/2009 | 3 | For a colonoscopy | That's the problem. No noticeable effect whatsoever. I was under the impression that Versed was supposed to operate as an | I looked Versed up on the website and found out that all it is is a tranquilizer, in the same category as Valium, Alprazolam, etc. Now it may have special properties, but since I take a tranquilizer at bedtime (long-acting clonazapam) for General Anxiety Disorder, I think I am acclimated to similar drugs. So the Versed didn't do for me what it has done to anybody else who described the pleasant | F | 51 | 20 days | 2/3/2005 | 1 | by-pass graft leaked | Lost memory of entire hospital stay (11 days). Anger during the time it was administered. Attempted to remove IV's. Somethings occured that ruined my friendship of 48 years (friend won't speak to me since the hospital stay). My relationship with my daughter was ruined by something said that I have no recollection of. She won't discuss what occured that causes our estrangement nor will her sister tell me. I have had on-going memory loss. To be told it was given for anxiety was an excuse. The staff and medication created the anxiety. | I am extremely pragmatic and deal with reality better then the unknown. I am not afraid of death though I dislike pain. I could have understood medication for for the two and half days on life support but for more then 11 days...why? I was raped years ago and trust is difficult enough. The hospital staff wrote for "anxiety" damn the versed and the attitudes of excluding me in my care caused anxiety. I've cared for many family members so I am prepared and not afraid I want to know not have information hidden from me. No one discussed versed with me or prepared my family for the reactions it gives. I never want any medication like that ever again! I am one who can and will deal with reality. I am having difficulty now ensuring I never receive Versed or any amnesia causing drug in the future. I suffered Hypoxy and a number of other complications including coding once for 23 minutes (thank you for oxygen). I lost a total of 22 days of my life the medication did not leave | F | 63 | 11 days | 2/1/2008 | 1 | Emergency Surgery | amnesia, unable to remember grandson and other family members but able to remember other events, people and minute details. Selective memory?? | My mother was given Versed for almost two weeks staight while she was on a ventilator and recovering from a ruptured artery in her sinus area. She was taken off the ventilator just three days ago. They took her off the Versed at the same time. It is now day three and she still does not remember her 9 year old grandson whom she has always loved dearly. She cannot even remember that I, her daughter, had a son. Yet she remembers being in my house and asked about her motorized wheelchair that she has not used for over a year. Her memory comes and goes. She spoke yesterday about an experience that today she does not recall. She becomes agitated, confused and anger...and will then all of a sudden began crying. It takes some time to calm her down. She knows something is wrong. I am most concerned about her losing a long term memory like recalling her grandson...particularly because they have always had such a beautiful relationship. She also does not remember that we have had a dog fo | F | 63 | 11 days | 9/12/2008 | 1 | w/o consent for fracture | I was lied to. I was told I was getting morphine. I was overdosed and stopped breathing, according to my record because I wasn't told that either. It is only by reading my record that I found out what caused my problems. Side effects are complete memory loss of treatment. I have PTSD. I am afraid of medical procedures and environments. I awoke scared of everything. I had a huge headache. I now have dreams and nightmares. I continue to have memory problems. I often lack the ability to have ordered thinking and often feel confused.Even though it has been two years. I almost lost my job and I had to repeat a year of graduate school.I get no sympathy from the doctors who treated me at university hospital in Syracuse N.Y. In fact they refuse to speak to me.I have tried lawyers to no avail.My life is now a living nightmare. I am a nurse who can no longer practice because the PTSD is so severe. I can be reached at [email protected] I would like this and other drugs off the market. Let's f | F | 50 | 11 days | 2/11/2009 | 4 | neurological | My mother is having seizures they can't control with meds, so they only can control them with versed. We dont know the side effects yet but praying and praying her seziures stop. She is still sedated and on a breathing machine . | F | 57 | 10 days 2-10mg | 8/22/2013 | 4 | Colonoscopy | I asked for minimal sedation and was given a combo of demerol and versed. I was awake for the procedure, watched the monitor, conversed with the Dr. and nurse and made dopey jokes. A polyp was found and clipped. I don't remember any significant discomfort ... actually I don't remember any at all. When they were done I was alert enough to ask questions, remember the answers and didn't need a post procedure meeting as we covered it all then. I had a bit of vertigo for a day, but was able to make soup soon after the procedure. It was clear it was unsafe to drive. | Two days later I am having crying bouts that I think may be after affects the versed. I think in the future I'd ask for maybe 20% less of whichever drug made me weepy. I'm glad I found this site as I thought the blues had other sources. This way I know it will go away soon. | F | 64 | 10 days | 3/7/2008 | 1 | on a ventilator | confusion, frightening dreams | M | 61 | 10 days | 6/21/2007 | 1 | Respiratory Failure | I'm experiencing short term memory loss, fuzzy long term, don't feel "normal" at all. That was ten years ago. Still feeling the effects. | I prided myself on my vocabulary, used to read the dictionary as a kid. Now I struggle to find words, can't even remember my primary Dr.'s name, and the name of this stupid drug when asked. | F | 49 | 10 days 1X O | 2/4/2016 |