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 | Nausea (again). Apparently I have a problem with the whole benzodiazepine drug class. Each time I've had one of these drugs I've had terrible nausea & actually vomited on 2 occasions. I also REALLY dislike the total lack of control with the Versed. | I have listed this drug class as an allergy & will refuse any further attempts to give me any "benzos". | F | 52 | 1 days 8 1X day | 6/26/2012 | 1 | For surgeries when I was younger | I freaked out. They told me it was supposed to relax me, make me "happy" before the surgeries. | Instead of relaxing and forgetting the memory of the surgery (I've had many surgeries), I freaked out each time Versed was given. My anxiety came on full force, the nervousness of the procedure, etc. They finally stopped giving it to me when I was about 7-years-old. | F | 18 | 1X O | 7/8/2012 | 4 | Upper Endoscopy and Balloon Dialati | Blackout, awakening at pain, nausea and dizziness for hours later. | Have had 4 identical procedures during the past 10 years and never experienced nausea afterward. Perhaps got too much of the drug this time. I did feel pain and "awakened" as I was told to swallow the scope, which was painful, but once I fully swallowed it, the pain was gone and I went back "under." | F | 38 | 1 days 1X day | 7/10/2012 | 5 | Oral surgery | Did exactly what doc said it would. Felt a slight burn at ob sight, next comes tingling mind and senses, then as I was praying my last appeals to Jesus, I felt pulled away from my thoughts. I fought for control for all of about ten seconds and the very next thing Im aware of is the nurse rubbing my arm telling me how good I did. I had four impacted wisdom teeth removed and was locally numbed during procedure as well. Long story short, I eased into sedation despite my extreme anxiety about it, and woke up warm under a blanket feeling rested and in no pain. | M | 28 | 1 days ? | 7/11/2012 | 1 | cataract surgery | I was immobile, but could still feel the procedure on my eye. I could hear myself moaning, but was unable to do anything about the discomfort or pain. | I was initially just given Versed orally, but I had insisted on having an I.V. inserted prior to the surgery due to my nervousness about the procedure. The anesthesiologist said that they only use Versed intravenously for extreme anxiety cases. I think, after I started moaning, they gave me more Versed through the I.V., but that didn't erase the horrible memories of the cutting and suctioning of my lens that I could feel. The doctor and the nurses all acted as if they didn't really believe me when I told them I could feel things afterwards. They doctor even said that someone wouldn't just lie there and say nothing if they were in pain! I was insulted and disappointed in his reaction and his lack of belief in me. | F | 54 | 20 mg 1X day | 8/7/2012 | 1 | colonoscopy | I am an RN, if that means anything with these comments. This is the dumbest drug I've ever seen. It's primary "help," in my opinion, from personal experience and hearing from friends, is to put you into such an apathetic child-like state that you can't speak for yourself honestly when you are in agony during a procedure! Very convenient for the doctor and staff. Maybe they are in denial about it's effectiveness? The amnesia wears off for me and many others I've encountered, leaving you with a sense of being victimized and traumatized. If the nurse is saying: "are you okay?" after hearing you moaning like hell, what's wrong with the picture, even if you are so dumbed down that you answer (because the doc has momentarily stopped the procedure) that you ARE okay. Then, immediately the agony starts again. Only later are you smart enough to care, when they are on to the next patient!!!! Never again!!! | This was IV sedation. | F | 66 | ??? 1X day | 8/9/2012 | 1 | colonoscopy | This drug is given as a "patient control drug" not to relax the patient. I could hear other patients who had received Versed moanng, crying in pain, but being totally ignored by their providers. I asked one nurse why she was ignoring her patient who was in obvious distress, she told me: " that patient won't remember any of this for a while so it doesn't matter" and they just treat the patients roughly and with contempt. When it was my turn, I told the nurse to keep the 4mg of Versed that I was supposed to get and I had a discussion with the GI doctor about the obvious patient abuse that was happening right before my eyes with Versed. She was embarassed when I asked her: "why would you give me Versed after failing to tell me of it's side-effects?" Why would you treat me with such contempt? I was off the table and politely "in her face"; one of the nurses said: "he's a provider, you know" and the GI doctor immediately said that I sho | When the anesthesiologist cam in, I asked her about Versed; she basically told me thet the endo nurses give it because they aren't credentialed to give propofol. Yes, a LOT of patients have horrible long-term memory and PTSD issues after Versed and many feel traumatized. No, she would not want Versed herself. I then loudly berated the GI doctor for using Versed to insure that patients become cooperative (but possibly terrified) and in pain (but unable to communicate)..the love Versed, it forces compliance and gets the patient out the door to deal with the psychic trauma at home. The GI doc was very flustered by my speech and she was really upset when I grabbed my clothes, pulled out my cannula and tossed the IV in the sink, loudly proclaiming that I would risk colon cancer (which killed my wife) rather than be treated by a so-called "doctor" like her who is totally dishonest about the Versed that gives during colonoscopy...what else is she lying about? this "doctor" was sobbing when I left; I guess it's because she was good fiends with my wife.. | M | 50 | 1 days 4 1X day | 8/14/2012 | 1 | Daughter given to "calm" before MRI | She began having uncontrollable shaking, severely painful muscle cramping (causing back to arch in almost unnatural way), screaming, completely out of control for an hour till Haldol given | Dr intially tried to insinuate that she was throwing a fit, "acting out", but she was in horrible pain, could not stop her body from convulsing. Benadryl given in case of allergic reaction but it did NOTHING. It was the most terrifying hour of my life! Just because the reaction is not what they "normally" see in "thousands of other people" that have received the drug doesn't make her reaction invalid. My normally stoic child with an extremely high pain tolerance was turned into an out of control, screaming, muscle contorting person. She remembers it ALL and it's unsettling. | F | 16 | 1 times 50 mg 1X day | 8/15/2012 | 5 | Pre-surgery | Sleepy, relaxed, happy | M | 27 | 1 days | 8/27/2012 | 1 | partial thyroid lobectomy | total amnesia after surgical procedure | Had very bad results from this surgery. PONV, bronchspasms, you name it. Suffered a paralysed vocal chord but didn't remember anything at all post surgery. Only found out about the drug later. All day in Post Anesthesia Care Unit and I remember nothing. NEVER AGAIN! | F | 72 | 1 days 1X day | 8/31/2012 | 1 | partial thyroid lobectomy | total amnesia after surgical procedure | Had very bad results from this surgery. PONV, bronchspasms, you name it. Suffered a paralysed vocal chord but didn't remember anything at all post surgery. Only found out about the drug later. All day in Post Anesthesia Care Unit and I remember nothing. NEVER AGAIN! | F | 72 | 1 days 1X day | 8/31/2012 | 1 | colonoscopy | PTSD, anxiety, oversedation, memory loss | I will advocate strongly against this drug. It ruined my medical experiences for life. | F | 37 | 1X day | 9/17/2012 | 5 | Internal Radiation Cervical Cancer | Didn't remember anything...just like they told me beforehand. If it was unpleasant or painful, then I'd rather not remember. I have faith in my doctors and know that the procedures are necessary. I woke up relaxed, happy, and with no pain. Will have to repeat procedure 5 more times so I hope to have the same results. | F | 44 | 6 days | 10/15/2012 | 1 | pre surgery | rapid heart rate, shortness of breath, fear and terrible gross motor clumsiness prior to and after "amnesia" period | I am so sorry I didn't know to ask more questions because I stupidly believed the anesthesiologist and nurses were actually interested in my well being. They weren't, and they tried to lie about what drugs I received. I wasn't anxious, and I certainly didn't appreciate the threatening tone used on me in recovery when they didn't think I would remember. Scolded me and said I was acting like a baby and needed to "settle down" when I could not breathe, a side effect of versed by the way. Awful drug, and bad attitude from medical people that seem to think it is a miracle. Maybe it is for them, certainly not this ex patient. Take your veins and RUN from this drug unless you like been scared and paralyzed with spotty recall except for fear and pain. | F | 59 | 1 days 4 mg 1X day | 10/31/2012 | 1 | Hysterectomy | In September 2007, I refused surgery and did not sign surgical consent due to the wrong surgery being listed on consent. I asked to speak with my doctor and my nurse said she would get him. As soon as she left my pod area, a CRNA came over to me and said he was going to give me something to relax me. I told him that I didn't want to be given any medication since I had not signed the surgical consent and since I was waiting to speak with my doctor. As I was protesting being given the medication (Versed), the CRNA injected my IV. That was my last waking memory. When I woke up two hours later, I was told by a nurse I didn't recognize that a total hysterectomy had been performed on me. All of my healthy sex organs were taken without my consent! I was 'castrated'. Versed was not a part of my pre-anesthesia plan. My doctor ordered Versed when he arrived at the hospital. (I can guess why...). He noted in my record that he ordered it for 'anxiety'. However, my nurse noted in my record that my mood was 'calm'. I believe it's crystal clear why I was given Versed. I am disabled now due to the many consequences of Versed and surgery I did not consent to. see my site at www.hysterectomyconsequences.com | F | 51 | IV 1X day | 11/1/2012 Patient History | 1 | scope for stomach ulcers I did not | I was fine just before I was given the the drug through an IV, but when I woke up in my hospital bed I was shaking so bad that the bed was shaking too. I was unable to walk unassisted for months, I used walls to get from one room to another. I shook so bad that children would ask their parents "What was wrong with that lady?" I scared them. I was with my mother who was in her sixties and I was in my forties at a plant sale. I purchased several plants and was picking them up to put hem in the car when a bunch of older women came running to help me. No one assisted my sixty something mother, just me because of my whole body shaking. I couldn't even write because I did not have control of my hands. Even today the limbs on my right side have tremors that are very visible. I shake so much that it is very painful because it never stops and my muscles cannot relax. It is now more than fifteen years later and I'm still in pain. I am scared to death of taking any sort of medication. A | Never, ever tke this drug. | F | 45 | 1 times Never told 1X day | 11/13/2012 | 5 | Colonoscopy | No side effects. | I had a colonoscopy this morning and had absolutely no problem with Versed. It did exactly what it was meant to do, I'm sure I had some demerol with it. I slept through the procedure and I do not remember anything about it. I woke up in the recovery room 30 minutes later, got dressed and came home. Slept a couple of hours, ate lunch, and slept a couple more hours just because I wanted to. There are parts of the experience I don't really remember exactly, like getting dressed and getting in the car. I have had Versed for four colonoscopies and each experience has been the same. It gets my vote! I'm just pleased that it's all over now. I'll miss that brief little euphoric feeling! | F | 65 | 1 days unknown 1X day | 11/30/2012 | 1 | pre-op surgery | Severe shivering, disturbing memory fragments, fear, anxiety lasting weeks, brachycardia | I am ENRAGED at the common misuse of this drug! I asked the anesthesiologist to hold off on all drugs until they inserted a urinary catheter. She agreed to wait, as she was standing behind me by my IV line. She obvously administered this drug while lying to my face because I began to get sleepy immediately. My memory is fragmented up to the point where I turned my head to the side and gave up trying to protest the fact that I shouldn't have been sleepy yet. After I awoke in Recovery, I had severe trembling that quickly diminished but kept coming back periodically for 2 weeks. Crying (I believe as a side effect of Versed) in recovery because they could'nt "find" my husband in the waiting room even though he was there anxious to hear how the surgery had gone for the 7 hour duration. | F | 28 | 1 days ? 1X O | 12/6/2012 | 1 | coloniscopy anesthetic?if so this h | Seems that a mild trembleing has been happening upon awakening,and at times of stress,sleepiness. | M | 59 | 1 days 180#weight | 12/23/2012 | 1 | colonoscopy | I'm an advance-practice nurse who has always told patients that Versed is safe and effective. I no longer do so; in fact I would not recommend this drug at all. My first colonoscopy with 4mg Versed/100mcg fentanyl was a nightmare; the Versed caused extreme agitation, panic,shaking even before the colonoscopy was started. The test was not even started because I was so terrified. Read: TERRIFIED. I have seen every surgical procedure and had confidence in my endo team (I work with them daily), but after receiving Versed and being told that: "you are doing fine..while I was terrified, shaking, my BP thru the roof etc", I do not trust and form of sedation withthis amnestic drug. And weeks later,I can't remember my kid's birthdays etc. | Want a terrible experience during a colonoscopy? Want to be terrified, unable to move or communicate (a chemical straightjacket?). Sign the routine sedation consent form and they will give you Versed and laugh at your distress. | F | 45 | 1 days 4mg 1X day | 1/10/2013 |