I've been listening to a couple of the widows of VA atrocities with attention. There is one woman who was talking about her husband being beaten to within an inch of his life during an MRI scan. He died shortly thereafter, but not before he begged her to get him OUT of the hospital. She asked how it was that he was so badly damaged from an MRI scan...you know where this is going... He says he remembered everything up until he got upstairs, then nothing until he woke up almost dead. He couldn't figure out how he could have so many injuries and not remember what happened. His widow mentioned that he had painkillers in his system and mentioned an "amnesia drug". She said she researched the drug and couldn't believe that anybody in medicine had such a drug and would use it on her husband. I'm going to be watching this story very carefully for more revelations.
The private coroner told the widow that the only way this guy could have sustained the life threatening injuries (and ultimately death) was 1) a car wreck 2) sports 3) a severe beating. Paraphrased from what I heard. Suppose this man had the same rage reaction to Versed that so many of us have had? Is that how he apparently got beaten to death while getting an MRI at a veterans hospital? He died 8 days after the Versed/beating was administered.
I'll write more when I have more time. I want to hear ALL the details. Connie Lonsberry if you are reading this feel free to contact me here: nomidazolam@aol.com
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Sunday, May 11, 2014
Here You Go, Versed Used For Truth Serum/Blackmail.
http://www.sociopathworld.com/2014/05/truth-serum.html
You should LOVE this one. It's written tongue in cheek, but the problem is real and the excuses for using Versed in this fashion are not outside the realms of possibility.
I took the liberty of reproducing the article here from the above link. I DID NOT WRITE THIS! Some people have problems recognising the fact that *I* don't write every single essay bashing Versed. No I don't and I did not write this one.
I had dinner with some doctor friends of mine who were relating stories about how people react under anesthesia. My favorite story was about a 14 year old kid started hallucinating and feeling like he was being kidnapped by his doctors. When the doctors told him, "No, we like you, we're your friends."
The kid screamed back, "You like me?! You want to rape me?!"
After like 10 minutes of trying to calm him down, they decided to give up on the procedure for the day. The patient had stopped screaming enough for the doctors to explain that they were about to get his parents, and that seem to relax him. While the doctor was in the waiting room explaining to the parents about the child's adverse reaction to the drugs he heard a nurse yelling, "He's running!"
The child had apparently faked compliance to trick his captors into thinking he would cooperate with them. Really, he was just biding his time to escape. Unfortunately, as he sprinted away from the clinic, he seemed to be headed directly for a busy street and was still in his impaired condition. The doctor kicked off his clogs and started running after him in his socks. When the kid saw the doctor behind him, he freaked out again, running even faster. Finally the doctor caught up with him and tackled him to the ground before he ran out into the busy intersection.
But the stories that I thought were most interesting from a philosophical point of view were the stories about patient reactions to the drug Versed/Midazolam. Apparently it is a psychoactive drug with some funny side-effects. From Wikipedia:
In susceptible individuals, midazolam has been known to cause a paradoxical reaction, a well-documented complication with benzodiazapines. When this occurs, the individual may experience anxiety, involuntary movements, aggressive or violent behavior, uncontrollable crying or verbalization, and other similar effects. This seems to be related to the altered state of consciousness or disinhibition produced by the drug.
From the doctors' stories, it seems that the most common manifestation of this in female patients is to cry. For the male patients, a very common manifestation of the verbalization is to turn into complete perverts. One of the female doctors was telling me that it was really eye-opening to her to have this uptight conservative businessmen come in for their procedures and then say raunchy-as-hell things once the Versed gets flowing.
I asked them perhaps the age old question, which is the real them? is the Versed version the more authentic version of the patient? (In vino veritas?) Or does the Versed alter their natural thought patterns? The doctors seemed to think it was definitely the former. As an example, one doctor told me about one of her patients that seemed so inappropriate on Versed that she looked him up online afterwards and found out that he was a relatively prominent public figure who had a history of sexual indiscretions and cover-ups. The thing about Versed is that it also causes temporary amnesia, so the patient doesn't typically remember how they behaved on the drug.
I, of course, thought that an enterprising unethical doctor should start taking video of these patients and using the tapes for blackmail. What better way to ruin someone's life than to shame them in the court of public opinion, right? And they deserve it too, I bet. Best case (?) scenario, the patient/target is not aware that he has these particular flaws and we're doing him/her a favor by letting him/her know about them in no uncertain terms. Worst case scenario, the patient/target already knows about his/her character flaw and has been working overtime to mask it from the general public. Fakers. We should not have to tolerate this level of deception and/or hypocrisy from our fellow humans. These people deserve to be outted. If they are innocent, harmless, or if there is nothing really wrong with what they're doing then I'm sure they'll be fine. If bad things happen to them, then they obviously must have gotten what they deserved.
You should LOVE this one. It's written tongue in cheek, but the problem is real and the excuses for using Versed in this fashion are not outside the realms of possibility.
I took the liberty of reproducing the article here from the above link. I DID NOT WRITE THIS! Some people have problems recognising the fact that *I* don't write every single essay bashing Versed. No I don't and I did not write this one.
MONDAY, MAY 5, 2014
Truth serum?
The kid screamed back, "You like me?! You want to rape me?!"
After like 10 minutes of trying to calm him down, they decided to give up on the procedure for the day. The patient had stopped screaming enough for the doctors to explain that they were about to get his parents, and that seem to relax him. While the doctor was in the waiting room explaining to the parents about the child's adverse reaction to the drugs he heard a nurse yelling, "He's running!"
The child had apparently faked compliance to trick his captors into thinking he would cooperate with them. Really, he was just biding his time to escape. Unfortunately, as he sprinted away from the clinic, he seemed to be headed directly for a busy street and was still in his impaired condition. The doctor kicked off his clogs and started running after him in his socks. When the kid saw the doctor behind him, he freaked out again, running even faster. Finally the doctor caught up with him and tackled him to the ground before he ran out into the busy intersection.
But the stories that I thought were most interesting from a philosophical point of view were the stories about patient reactions to the drug Versed/Midazolam. Apparently it is a psychoactive drug with some funny side-effects. From Wikipedia:
In susceptible individuals, midazolam has been known to cause a paradoxical reaction, a well-documented complication with benzodiazapines. When this occurs, the individual may experience anxiety, involuntary movements, aggressive or violent behavior, uncontrollable crying or verbalization, and other similar effects. This seems to be related to the altered state of consciousness or disinhibition produced by the drug.
From the doctors' stories, it seems that the most common manifestation of this in female patients is to cry. For the male patients, a very common manifestation of the verbalization is to turn into complete perverts. One of the female doctors was telling me that it was really eye-opening to her to have this uptight conservative businessmen come in for their procedures and then say raunchy-as-hell things once the Versed gets flowing.
I asked them perhaps the age old question, which is the real them? is the Versed version the more authentic version of the patient? (In vino veritas?) Or does the Versed alter their natural thought patterns? The doctors seemed to think it was definitely the former. As an example, one doctor told me about one of her patients that seemed so inappropriate on Versed that she looked him up online afterwards and found out that he was a relatively prominent public figure who had a history of sexual indiscretions and cover-ups. The thing about Versed is that it also causes temporary amnesia, so the patient doesn't typically remember how they behaved on the drug.
I, of course, thought that an enterprising unethical doctor should start taking video of these patients and using the tapes for blackmail. What better way to ruin someone's life than to shame them in the court of public opinion, right? And they deserve it too, I bet. Best case (?) scenario, the patient/target is not aware that he has these particular flaws and we're doing him/her a favor by letting him/her know about them in no uncertain terms. Worst case scenario, the patient/target already knows about his/her character flaw and has been working overtime to mask it from the general public. Fakers. We should not have to tolerate this level of deception and/or hypocrisy from our fellow humans. These people deserve to be outted. If they are innocent, harmless, or if there is nothing really wrong with what they're doing then I'm sure they'll be fine. If bad things happen to them, then they obviously must have gotten what they deserved.
Saturday, May 3, 2014
NOT Getting Versed? "A No Brainer"
I got an e-mail from a reader and it is so good, I got permission to reproduce it here. Thanks Anonymous!
This reader also sent a pamphlet on Midazolam/Versed that I am going to address in my next post.
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Thanks for all the info on this horrible Versed. Thanks to your blog and a whole lot of others, I got thru my colonoscopy drug free. I am a needle phobic and tend to pass out after any IV so when I read about VERSED, well, no brainer!
This reader also sent a pamphlet on Midazolam/Versed that I am going to address in my next post.
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Thanks for all the info on this horrible Versed. Thanks to your blog and a whole lot of others, I got thru my colonoscopy drug free. I am a needle phobic and tend to pass out after any IV so when I read about VERSED, well, no brainer!
I signed up for a drug free colonoscopy last year after my own GP admitted
she herself had had one sedation free. I feel any GI doctor willing to do one
drug free must be pretty good at his/her job. My twin sister chose the drug
route for her colonoscopy procedure and to this day, cannot even tell me what
the doctor reported, why she has to come back in five years instead of ten, she
thinks she was "asleep" for the procedure. Pathetic!
I read your blog, did all the research, knew my strong and weak points and
just went ahead and booked one unsedated. I had to pass on the upper endoscopy
though. I am asthmatic and could never get through that one, sedated or
unsedated. We have to know when we are out of our depth and just refuse these
procedures when we feel we won't survive them.
Note that when you say "no sedation" they still try to shove a needle into
you assuming you will take Fentanyl or some other opioid for pain. I crossed off
all of this on the form and wrote "NO MEDS" with my initials and they still came
into the procedure room and told me to just roll up my sweater sleeve for the
needle. (I didn't get one of those horrible gowns to wear because I wasn't going
to be sedated I guess so no "stickies" on my chest, just a BP cuff and pulse
oximeter ). I refused the needle altogether and for the third time, knowing they
would shove that VERSED into me as soon as I felt the slightest twinge.
How did the procedure go?? Well, after more dire warnings about pain from
the GI who had initially agreed to it, I just soldiered on, one bad moment
where she hit the sigmoid/splenic flexure and I nearly passed out ( but
remember, I have that bad vagus nerve anyhow). Doctor said "Do you want me to
stop?" and I said: "Just give me a minute to catch my breath" and we went on.
Doctor got right to the Terminal Ileum and the nurses, (by this time there were
two of them) told me I was a trooper. (I am probably the first 74 yr. old woman
they ever did unsedated so I hope I made my point to them.)
One thing I now know. Forget modesty! They flip you onto your back part way
through the procedure and I am certain they remove or pull up your gown when you
are sedated. I had on my upper clothes and a paper cover which the doctor
attempted to cover me with when I rolled over (for all the good that did!) I am
sure they do not bother with ANY of this when you are "under the influence"
yelling your head off! They just pretty much treat you as they please and since
you are drugged, they don't have to stop the procedure.
Do I recommend unsedated colonoscopy? Yes and No. You have to be determined
and it apparently helps to be male, to not have adhesions, IBS, not to have had
a hysterectomy, not to have a redundant colon etc. People need to do some
research and know something about their own bodies. Some of these folks might
find the procedure painful, even with a good GI. For me, I would do it again if
I had to but I don't think I will ever have to. Some polyps removed, benign, a
bit of diverticulosis but not serious and let's face it, at 74 I am probably
home-free. This is a "one and done" and should keep my GP quiet and off my case
for the rest of my life.
See attached book if you haven't read it yet on the origin of this
drug.
Keep up the good work. VERSED is a horrible drug for those of us who
- are control freaks
- don't trust the medical profession
- don't take drugs
- want to know what is going on with our bodies
- want to keep our memories and brains intact
- basically hate BIG PHARMA