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 | eye surgery | amnesia about surgery. some fogginess and dullness and memory loss now 2 weeks later | this is a dangerous drug. it affects consciousness and may have continuing effects. i am a professional with a doctoral degree as well as a long term meditation preactitioner and i notice the effects. | M | 59 | 1 days | 11/17/2006 | 2 | colonoscopy | Was given 10 mg. of versed with demerol. I felt a lot of pain and was "wired' from the versed. I remembered everything and didn't sleep for 36 hr. I obviously had an idiosyncratic effect.I will take my chances with cancer before undergoing this procedure again. | F | 57 | 1 times | 11/18/2006 | 4 | colonoscopy | total amnesia for several hours face puffy lips swollen my daughter sai i had multiple personalities acted lucid jekyll and hyde argumentive cruel i have no memory of anything but i dont remember any pain either so thats good hte dr had to use a pediatric scope as my colon is very twisted and dense | F | 59 | | 12/4/2006 | 5 | kidney to bladder stent | None at all | This med works extremely well on me. I remember nothing from when it was administered in the surgery room until I woke up in recovery. This med has been used on three four times in the past with identical results | M | 53 | | 12/18/2006 | 1 | out patient surgery | This was my first experience with anethesia of any kind, so I had no idea what to expect. Now that I know, I would never consent to Versed or any mind altering drugs again. Last thing I remember is their injecting something in the op room, then waking up in recovery after the doctor had already been in to talk to me. No memory of this talk. I was awake, semi conscious and talking during the surgery but have no memory of that either. That in itself is scary. What is even worse, since then I have had 3 episodes of totally memory lapse, total blackouts of about 15 minutes. Never happened to me before. | I really dont understand why Versed is seldom disclosed to patients. This has happened to other family members. I specifically asked the anesthesiologist to list the drugs he would be giving me. There were only 2 and Versed was not one of them. I asked "are you sure that's all?" and he said yes. I was never told I would be given an amnesia drug much less have an opportunity to ask questions about it! Why the big secret? I was only told I would feel nothing. If that's the truth, why is it that its necessary to erase our memory???? That's the question i would most like the medical profession to answer. I'm afraid the answer is, it's not that we dont feel pain, we just dont remember it. | F | 42 | 1 days | 12/29/2006 | 1 | D&C and hysterectomy | I remember both procedures but had a horrible hangover. I woke during the D&C, so at second surgery (hysterectomy) the anaesthesiologist said "I know how to take care of that." They kept me in the hospital an extra day due to the hangover--an indescribable "weight" in my head and prolonged lethargy. I slept for 24 hours after a 2 hour out patient D&C, and slept for days after the hysterectomy. It was the Verced that was the problem. | I had a bunionectomy two years after that, and after describing my previous experience a recovery room nurse I met under different circumstances told me that the Verced was the problem. I asked for something else for the bunionectomy and felt fine (other than pain in my foot!) after the out-patient surgery--I was up that evening watching a movie with my family. I had good doctors--none of the horror stories above--and they respected my wishes not to use Versed once I knew why I had problems. I have had memory problems for the past several years, but I can't say it has any relation to the Versed. | F | 52 | | 1/4/2007 | 1 | It was given to me prior to surgery | For months afterwards I had the feeling as if I was trying to recall something but could not. Similar to if you know that you know someone's name but you just can't recall it. It's a nagging, bothersome feeling. | Versed is used routinely without proper explanation to the patient that it causes amnesia. It has no pain killing properties. Basically it turns a person into a zombie. The patient can hear and obey commands and move and talk but has no memory of it afterwards. Sometimes nurses aren't even aware if the patient has been administered Versed or not. | F | 45 | 3 days | 1/15/2007 | 5 | Colonoscopy | Brief nausea, sleepiness. | This drug worked fabulously on me. I asked and was told about it before the procedure. Being inquisitive, I tried to counter the memory loss, but the drug won. I have no memory of the procedure after seeing the start of it on a TV monitor. I don't recall going to, or waking from sleep. There's just a clean edit of my memory for about 20 minutes. I had it a second time for an upper endoscopy and tried to watch the clock on the wall, but again, a clean edit with the minute hand jumping ahead about 20 minutes. Amazing! Had a nice long nap at home after both procedures. | M | 54 | 1 times | 1/26/2007 | 5 | Heart Cath | 1/2 hour before surgery I was given a valium, then wheeled into the cath lab, and while they were shaving, they injected my IV with Versed. I was so terrified about this heart cath being done....but with the Versed, I don't remember it. Glad it's over and done with. | Out like a light, woke up 2 hours later, a little groggy, had lunch, got dressed, got a ride home. Slept for another 3 hours, woke up feeling fine. | M | 36 | | 1/27/2007 | 1 | malignant melanoma excision & graft | Anaphylaxis... heart and respiration stopped... basically the worst things that the manufacturer and Physicians Desk Reference warn can happen... death throes over and blue-gray in color... family warned of brain damage if they could bring me back... BUT I DON'T REMEMBER ANYTHING (except the white light...) JUST LIKE THE DOCTOR ORDERED! | Had it not been that the hospital's heart surgeon happened by, and took over to do open heart massage, I would not be here to warn you about this. Now I have colonoscopies and tracheoscopies (spelling?)without any drugs of any kind, and it is so easy! No one should be given anything for these simple procedures! | M | 53 | 1 times | 1/29/2007 | 5 | Oral surgery | I had Versed twice eight months apart for oral surgery. I had absolutely no problems with it. I came round quickly, and remember everything from coming round, paying my bill, going home. Once I got home, I slept for about three hours after each surgery, and the next day I was completely back to normal, apart from maybe feeling a little tired the first day. | I react very badly to general anesthesia and always take a long time to come round from it, and vomit afterwards (the last time I vomited so much that I ended up dehydrated). I also have a heart condition and asthma. I was very relieved to discover that IV sedation with Versed works so well for me - I am always nervous before GA but not before Versed, which I will be having again in about a month for my last round of oral surgery. | F | 48 | 2 times | 2/6/2007 | 5 | Endoscopy | Recovery room: Extreme fatigue on wakening. some unsteadiness/leg weakness. dissipated quickly. Some drowsiness later that same day. Sore throat for a couple days. | The worst part of this procedure for me was mental: worrying about the worst case scenarios. I was not misled about this drug at all. I researched and read this forum, was upset, and called my doctor the day before to ask NOT to have it. But, he had only seen one paradoxical response to it in thousands of procedures, so I decided to have it. A nurse I know said the same thing. I have no recollection of the procedure itself, for which I am very thankful because I am a gagger - I cant even tolerate having bitewings at the dentist..a major ordeal for me. So this was looking to be a horrible experience. The last thing I recall solidly is the doctor telling me he was going to put a little bit into my IV, and a coldness in the back of my hand. Then I woke up in recovery. It was literally like someone turned off the switch for about 90 minutes. I have a very faint, vague recollection of coughing or gagging,but no sensations of any kind associated with it. The memory is more like I | M | 35 | 1 days | 2/11/2007 | 5 | Endoscopy | this cut me off: of coughing or gagging,but no sensations of any kind associated with it. The memory is more like I witnessed someone gagging or coughing, than that it was me. More vividly I recall a dream in which I was skiing or sledding. I guess maybe due to the conversation of the doctor and staff (it was a friday AM, and raining in the Bay Area, so good snow up in Tahoe). If you tolerate benzodiazepenes (for example, I have used Ativan ]with no ill effects), you are likely to tolerate Versed, as its in the same drug family. | M | 35 | 1 days | 2/11/2007 | 1 | TURP (prostate surgery) | Unrecoverable memory loss | I had Versed for a TURP the first time around. Things happened and I had complete conversations 6 hours after I was out of recovery that I still cannot recall 4 years later. I had had amnesia once before from a blow to the head and this experience was too much like that one, except my memory returned after a while when I had the blow to the head. It's a horrible feeling to know there's a totally blank spot in your memory. I had to have the TURP repeated 4 months later and refused the Versed. I was completely conscious during the whole procedure and able to talk to my doctor afterwards and remember everything he said and did. That was GREAT! I had a colonoscopy later and that doc almost refused to do it unless I consented to Versed, until I told him I'd already had a TURP without it. I suffered a lot through that procedure. It took the doc twice as long to get through the colon, but after it was over I was on my feet immediately with memory intact. I would do it the same again, pain or | M | 70 | 1 times | 2/17/2007 | 1 | sugery | Memory loss that does not include simply the surgeries. I now have blocks of time in my life that have been completely erased. I also have additional signs of adult ADD that were not present prior to the use of Versed. | If anyone else has the same extensive memory loss, please email me. It would be nice to know whether or not others have the same lasting side effect. | F | 34 | 8 times | 3/1/2007 | 5 | Oral Surgery | Total amnesia from the time of injection till I woke up. This was terrific... I didn't and still don't want to remember the procedure. I remember everything that happened before injection and right after it was over, somewhere around 30 minutes. | My regular dentist sent me to an oral surgeon because the procedure required general anesthesia. The risk of general anesthesia -- no way! I even put off having it done for a couple of months because I wasn't having a general. Finally went to oral surgeon for consult during which he explained that I would not be knocked out. It would be I.V. sedation that would leave me awake and we would be able to communicate. I take Xanax (a benzodiazepine) regularly, so didn't require anything to calm me down. After I was settled in chair, he placed I.V. in top of my hand and then injected Midazolam (Versed) in tube. Completely relaxed, I fell sound asleep. A "second" later, I felt the nurse's hand on my shoulder and I was wide awake and feeling like I had a great night's sleep. They moved me to another room in a wheelchair. My husband and I chatted for about 10 minutes, then I was wheeled out to our car. The rest of the day was spent like any other day. I didn't even require | F | 69 | | 3/2/2007 | 1 | surgery | effects lasted for days. Initially, hallucinations, anger, anxiety, hostility, attempted to escape from gurney, did not revive for hours,etc. HORRIBLE!!! headaches, disturbed balance , etc, for approximately ten days following. | I would not advise allowing any doctor to use this. | F | 68 | | 3/3/2007 | 1 | Heart Cath | SEVERE seizure symptoms! Very severe. JERKING and unaware of who was around me! Sick for at least two weeks after medication. VERSED had to be removed from my body with yet another drug. Had Versed,Benadryl, and Demerol within at least at 30 min. time frame prior to cath. | F | 44 | 1 days | 3/9/2007 | 4 | colonoscopy | Amnesia from start of procedure until end, but I do have post-procedure memories from the procedure room itself. I do remember a bit of "cold" as the IV began. A sleepy, hazy rest of the day, but all of that was so much better than what I would have experienced without the drug. | Had a previous experience with Versed that I described in detail at http://colonoscopyblog.blogspot.com/2006/11/on-conscious-sedation.html. Both times I was given really good warning of what Versed would be like, in particular the amnesic side-effect. | M | 45 | 1 times | 3/18/2007 | 5 | heart cath | Had no side effects accept not remembering a thing. I would have liked to remember the way it looked when they put the dye in my arteries but didn't. I have had it at least 5 times for different proceedures and had no nausea,or any other side effects. Think this drug is a God-send!! | Great drug with many uses! No nausea and no memory. Came out of it fast with no leftover feelings.Had it for eyelid surgery,colonscopy x 2, endoscopy,heart cath. | F | 55 | 1 days | 3/23/2007 |