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 |
| 2 | Given for colonoscopy sedation | Got agitated, then hostile | Versed is an amnesiac. I remember the slight sting of the Versed and Demerol hitting my IV and then nothing until sometime later in the recovery room. The colonoscopy was incomplete due to my agitation and hostility from the Versed. Torqued my jaws that scope prep was all for nothing! It works wonderfully for most people. I'm just not one of them. | F | 61 | 1 times | 11/30/2003 | 2 | Before surgical procedure | I was unaware of the amnesia effect of Versed and was very upset that I could not recall going into the operating room, meeting the surgical staff, etc. I like to be involved with my care. I woke up mad and was hostile for days after surgery and had some permanent memory loss (banking PIN number, for example). | If one is informed in advance that Versed will allow them to be conscious but not remember, they can make an informed choice about using it. | F | 49 | 1 times | 9/2/2004 | 1 | Heart Cath and Stents | I told the &^%^$%^& at the heart hospital not to give me this drug as I had a reaction to this several years back during Carpal Tunnel release and they had to call in an Anesthesiolgist. I became so agitated and aggressive during the heart cath and stenting that almost ened up having to have heart bypass surgery. I was trying to get up off the table while they were working in my heart!~! | I was yelled at during the heart cath to shut my mouth and act like an adult. All this was unecessary if they had paid attention to me when I listed, | F | 62 | | 10/15/2004 | 5 | heart cath, upper gi endoscope (2) | I had no side effects that were unpleasant in any way. The drug did exactly what the surgical staff said it would do | This drug made the procedures that I had done very easy and painless. | M | 30 | 3 times | 10/26/2004 | 1 | MAC before bilateral hernia repair | I can not recall anything that happened 2-3 minutes after the injection. I do not recall the trip to the OR nor anything that happened in the OR. | I was not informed of the amnesia effects and I did not appreciate being uninformed. I have had a lot of operations with little or no sedation. I have a high tolerance for pain and surgery. I prefer an anectdote to a memory gap. | M | 43 | 1 times | 11/3/2004 | 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 | 1 | endoscopy | Memory problems for for eight months . I am slowly getting better, but I will never use it again, nor can I recommend it. | F | 70 | | 11/14/2004 | 1 | Prostate surgery, TURP | I had a TURP, prostate surgery two years ago this coming December (2004) and had Versed. I STILL cannot remember many things that happened or things I said during my stay at the hospital. That extremely frustrates me even to this day. I had to have a second TURP 4 months later and refused any sedation whatsoever. I just had the spinal tap as I had the first time and I made out fine. I loved being awake and able to understand my urologist, and to be awake in recovery and talk to the nurses. I was much happier the second surgery without Versed. NEVER AGAIN! Not if I can help it. | Some of my friends love it. I have nurse friends that have had to use it and truly love it. Not me. Count me out! | M | 68 | | 11/28/2004 | 1 | Colonoscopy sedation | I was awake during the procedure, but my memory of the procedure and of many other things, was greatly confused for about the following week. Eventually my memory came back, but it was a very, very distressing psychological experience. I refused Versed for a subsequent colonoscopy. | I will never permit anyone to administer this drug to me again. I have been given other sedatives without these adverse side effects. | M | 58 | 1 times | 1/5/2005 | 2 | Colonoscopy | I had this for 2 colonoscopies. I felt like the experience could be odd the first time when I was waiting to go in for a colonoscopy. A patient coming out was in the curtained area near me. I could hear him babbling utter nonsense with the thought content of someone with a >.15 BAC. Both time it was administered I had various dreamlike thoughts and no memory at all of anything that happened. I had surgery under a general anesthesia two years before and there was no difference in my memory of either procedure. I do recall having a dream of talking to the doctor, and I later learned from my wife that some parts of the dream were apparently stated during the procedure based on the doctor's comments to her after the procedure. This is essentially a legal date rape drug used for a legitimate purpose to put a 4'+ scope up the entire length of your large intestine. My guess is because Versed is not a general anesthesia there is no need for an anesthesiologist. Insurance companies like one less bill to pay for a single procedure. Don't be surprised if you learn that you made very personal or private comments during the procedure that you would not imagine making if you were not under the influence of Versed. I would want to know the alternative before having this drug administered again. Warnings or possible adverse effects are on over the counter medications, but no one at the doctor's office mentioned the kind of effect the drug could have. There should be a legal requirement that they do so, because its obvious that they have observed the various effects before. | M | 50 | 2 times | 1/26/2005 | 1 | Colonoscopy | Yesterday morning, I experienced my first, and possibly last, colonoscopy. Precisely at 7:30, the scheduled time for my procedure, the nurses began rolling my hospital bed to a small room where the equipment was set up and ready. The old hospital was drafty, so one of the nurses grabbed a heated blanket from a cabinet and spread it over me as soon as the bed was positioned in the room. The heat felt wonderful and I was looking forward to a cozy nap after which I could feel a sense of accomplishment for finally getting this dreaded test over and done with. After a little fussing around with equipment and greeting the doctor, I began to taste the pungent drugs being injected into my IV tube and drifted into sleep. The next thing I remember was pain in my abdomen; the worst cramps I had ever experienced. I repeated several times, “That hurts!” but the pain kept coming. I begged, “Stop, stop—that hurts!” but the pain kept coming. I didn’t remember I was in a hospital and I couldn’t see anyone around me—the space outside my own mind was totally black and devoid of any images. I think I tried to move or push away at whatever was hurting but I sensed I was being physically restrained. I was aware that something was present in my anal area and I associated that with the source of the pain. No one responded to my pleas for help and I continued to feel the painful cramping. I felt abandoned, unloved and became very frightened. My mind, suspended in a groggy, semi-conscious state, reasoned that I was being raped and an extreme sense of despair settled over me. I couldn’t move to help myself, no one would help me—I was without hope. I began to cry and prayed I would die. When I awoke in the recovery area, I had a sad, sorrowful feeling—the way you feel after awaking from a bad dream. I remembered calling out about the pain and when I saw a familiar nurse, I ask her if the calling out had actually happened. She confirmed that it had. Later, my husband was telling me about his conversation with the doctor immediately after the procedure. The doctor told him I was crying during the procedure. My husband didn’t even ask the doctor why I was crying. He didn’t seem alarmed by this event and that brought back the feeling of abandonment. At this point, the actuality of the events had been verified and I knew these memories were a living nightmare, not a dream. | Until I began researching the medication I was given, I thought I was losing my mind. I wasn't particularly stressed about the test (it was only a screening--no current problems) and I am normally fairly tolerant of pain and discomfort. I couldn't understand my feelings until I read about the expeiences of others who had taken Versed for a colonoscopy. I'll never take this drug again. I think I'll have a virtual colonoscopy next time. I don't think there is any pain to deal with. | F | 57 | 1 times | 1/29/2005 | 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 | 3 | colonoscopy | My description was cut off completely. Here it is again. The problem with Versed was that it didn't behave as I expected. I was under the impression that Versed was supposed to operate as an | I looked Versed up on the website when I got back. All it is is a tranquilizer in the same category as Valium or Ativan. It is not a true | F | 51 | 1 times | 2/3/2005 | 4 | extreme insomnia | felt good; didn't last long; developed tolerence REALLY fast | F | 29 | 5 months | 3/24/2005 | 1 | multiple abdominal aspirations | I had multiple procedures over the course of two weeks. That was when I was 20. I still have large chunks of my memory missing, not only from my 3 week stay in the hospital, but from portions of my life. My short term memory is shot and has ruined many relationships and friendships in my life. Yet there's no way of getting those memories back because I was given too much of the drug in too short of a time period. | I only wish that this drug worked the way the doctors promised it would. The only thing I have perfect memories of is the horrific pain during the procedures. It was so bad, the nurses were crying with me and my parents were beating on the door to the operation room because they could hear my screams all the way in the hallway. | F | 25 | 12 times | 4/2/2005 | 5 | Colonoscopy/Endoscopy | No side effects. | Have had Versed 3 times for three different procedures. It has worked each time and I love the fact that I cannot remember anything during the procedures. Will ask for it if I need sedation again. | F | 58 | 2 days | 4/5/2005 | 1 | Hernia Repair | In response to the 58 year old F who says she used it three times - sorry, from my perspective this reads like a planted story put there by someone in the pharmaceutical industry. I am flabbergasted that anyone would like this drug. I apologize if you are really sincere, but your input is too tidy and is exactly what I'd expect a planted story to look like. You say you used it three times - in two days? Interesting inconsistency. Again, I'm sorry if I'm tramping on an honest evaluation, but if I had it my way, I would BAN this drug and lynch the people who promote it. The idea behind versed is insane: blocking your memory of suffering is NOT the same as preventing it in the first place. Things like this make me wonder what the world, and the medical community in particular, is coming to. | This is very simple folks: I think that if they have to make you forget the surgical experience, then they are not taking enough steps to prevent the discomfort in the first place. No doubt versed, and drugs like it, are saving the medical folks $$, hassle, etc. . . . at our emotional and psychological expense. | M | 43 | 1 days | 4/5/2005 | 4 | Colonoscopy | I had absolutely no problems except for a little nausea after the procedure which kept me from having breakfast for about two hours. Considering how easy the entire process was with Versed, I will ask for it in the future. Much better than the old methods. | M | 59 | 1 days | 4/9/2005 | 5 | Ganglion cyst removal - inner wrist | Went to the hospital for an out-patient proceedure to remove/repair a painful lump on the inside of my wirst. Versed was administered via IV injection after I was settled into the operating room. I was looking straight up at the textured ceiling and within a minute it began to look like the spots on the ceiling were moving. I felt very relaxed. The staff then proceeded to give me a | I think the people that are complaining here do not realize that Versed alone is not a pain killer. From my research I have found that other drugs are needed, in addition to Versed, if you want to stop pain. Versed is given just for the anxiety and to help not remember the proceedure. Also, from looking at the ages here, I think severe memory problems are limited to older people only. | M | 34 | 1 times | 4/22/2005 | 5 | Ganglion cyst removal - inner wrist | (continued...)I felt very relaxed. The staff then proceeded to give me a | I think the people that are complaining here do not realize that Versed alone is not a pain killer. From my research I have found that other drugs are needed, in addition to Versed, if you want to stop pain. Versed is given just for the anxiety and to help not remember the proceedure. Also, from looking at the ages here, I think severe memory problems are limited to older people only. The staff then proceeded to give me a | M | 34 | 1 times | 4/22/2005 |