Wednesday, March 5, 2014

My Hope For Versed Pushers

I have a hope for all those nurses and doctors who routinely poison patients brains with Versed.  I hope each and every one of you gets Versed whether you want it or not.  (especially if you DON'T want it)  Further, I hope that you have a REALLY bad time with it.  I want you guys to experience the sleepless nights post Versed.  I want to share the rage, irritability and sense of foreboding that Versed produces in regular people.  I WANT you to be unable to perform your job because of trouble with your memory after Versed.  I want you to be paranoid about medical care.  I want your whole life curtailed because of the fear of doing something which will require medical intervention.  I want YOU to be on Lexapro.  In short, I want to share with you the brain damage caused by YOU!  I want your lizard brain ON FIRE!  I want you to suffer with the rest of us.

Medical people, don't deny yourself a fun trip with Versed just because of little ole me, talking trash about your drug.  Go ahead!  Pretend that it's all about "crazy" patients.  You aren't crazy now are you, so what possible harm could come to you by allowing Versed?  Don't let me or any of the other authors on this blog scare you.  YOU know what's best don't you?  So allow that Versed be used on you.  If it's good enough or "necessary" to use on us peasants, then why wouldn't it be a wonder drug for you?  It's a "good" drug, just ask any medical person.  Except for those of us who have a bad reaction.  Live a little, take a chance on Versed.

For you medical people who have had Versed and you say it was OK...try this.  Have your anesthesia provider give you lots more.  I think 10 mls instead of 2 would do the trick.  Especially if delivered all at once or within a tight time frame.  Ask them to sneak it into the IV without warning you.  If a little Versed is great, then more would be even better.  I think you should try the maximum amount like you give your lowly patients.  I want to encourage those of you with high IQ's in particular to get whopping doses of Versed.  Just think, if your "care giver" gives you enough Versed they won't have to use those dangerous pain killers.  You can just lie there in pain, trapped in a body which won't obey your commands.  Sedated into immobility.  Perhaps the incredible "stimulation" (pain) will keep your blood pressure up.  That's a good thing right?  After all,  you "probably" won't remember it, so it doesn't even matter how much pain you were in.

Don't you worry your little head about being unable to perform your duties after Versed.  Either from the emotional trauma or the chemically induced Alzheimer's.  Your field is set to go up in flames anyway because nobody can afford you.  Maybe you can drive a truck.

I want all the medical people in the world to subject themselves to Versed.  I hope it goes badly.

The bright lining is that once you have had the experience that *I* and others are complaining about, I will let you be a guest blogger right here on nomidazolam.  Won't that be fun?  You can write to me when you are obsessively hunting all over the internet for an explanation of your symptoms in the middle of the night, when you should be sleeping.

Monday, March 3, 2014

A Reader's Example

I got this in an e-mail today and am sharing it.  There are a lot of similarities to my experience (and maybe yours) with medical workers and their drug of choice Versed.  I have not altered it in any way...

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My first and only Versed Experience:

On surgery day, I was told that prior to general anesthesia, they would give me "something to relax you, like you had two Mai Tais.” He offered I could have it now, but I declined, saying I was OK, thanks to techniques I’d learned in a “preparing for surgery” meditation CD. I’d also already turned down an offer earlier. When the surgeon stopped in and asked if I was nervous, I said I was “surprisingly OK” and went on about the CD. My husband remarked at my “amazing calm”, saying he was proud of me. I decided then I would gift the CD to the nurses and doctors afterwards to help them and their patients.

Then there came the burning in my hand as the sedative entered my body before they rolled me out to go to the OR. I commented on feeling some vertigo. No one replied. I decided to just be quiet from now on so they could focus.

In OR, I experienced a bit of a rough landing onto the operating room table as someone let go of me too soon. This time, I was quite surprised no one said "sorry”, or anything at all, to me. I wondered who all the people were in the room. I wondered when they would finally put the mask on me so I could count and go to sleep. I looked around at all the stainless steel and high tech equipment, thinking "cool". Then my memory gets weird…and ultimately I am smack in the middle of a conversation with someone as I “wake up”….Then the surgeon comes over, beginning with “You probably won’t remember this…” and explicitly details the unexpected issues they came across. I am self-conscious as there aren’t even curtains around the patients in this room and I can see a male patient just a few feet away.

Finally in a different room with my husband, the surgeon begins to repeat what he already said and is surprised I remember. I feel very nauseous. We go home. Almost immediately I begin experiencing a bad/"off" feeling, strange memory "snippets", heart palpitations, unexplainable anxiety, and mixed up nightmares that have real aspects to them. Like of people handling me in a way that makes no sense, and then in real life finding a tape mark where they were touching me. I strongly felt that somehow I had NOT been asleep for some time. Relatives assured me that there was no way they would keep you awake somehow and not tell you.

I finally called the hospital, half thinking I was crazy. I asked for an OR nurse but ended up with the anesthesiologist. He told me that it was rare for someone to remember so much and that yes, people are generally kept awake for some time in OR. Most think they slept. Most like this. He added the drug keeps you in a “relaxed, chatty state” but you have no memories of what occurred. "Don't worry, people don't give away family secrets". I asked then wasn’t it conscious sedation? “We can't say that, it's a spectrum".

My medical notes later confirmed the drug was Versed. Interestingly, the notes also indicate the patient’s state was “anxious” pre-op. I went ahead and checked the blood pressure reading from that time—normal resting range. The higher end of the normal resting range, but not high. My husband said flat out "'Anxious' is a lie, I was there". So no, I did not gift the meditation CD to the nurses or doctors….I couldn’t even listen to it anymore as it emphasized trusting the medical staff. I did. Now I don’t. Never again.

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Of special note is the "relaxed, CHATTY state".  So, what are you "chatting" about in your drug induced uninhibited state that an anesthesia provider would have to make an emphatic denial of?  I think you ARE giving away family secrets for the entertainment of staff.  Of course you are, why else would an anesthesia provider SPECIFY what you are NOT doing, if you are not doing it?  He's lying to his patient.

As far as the "two Mai Tais" how many people are suffering blackouts and dis inhibition from two Mai Tais?  This is yet another lie designed to hide the true nature of the drug.  Absolutely FALSE to compare a couple of mixed drinks with Versed.  Any rational adult would say there is no comparison.  Medical people on the other hand are using this as a subterfuge to complete their mission of destroying cognitive function for their own pleasure.  They know perfectly well that this description is untrue.

My crna came up with the false "diagnosis" of anxiety as well.  He was the only person of approximately EIGHTEEN (18) involved in my care who noticed this non existent "anxiety".  It's a big fat lie, perpetrated by medical people who want an EXCUSE to use this poison on us.  Want to bet that it says "anxiety" on every single person's chart?  Any takers on that?

This patient was treated roughly by uncaring staff once they thought she wouldn't remember.  It fits in nicely because Versed is also used to prevent the patient from knowing how badly they were treated.  It's an open invitation to abuse by staff.  What do they care?  They know they won't be called on the carpet for their callous abuse of the patient.

Sunday, February 9, 2014

The Heart Cath

If you read my previous post about the patient advocate then you know I went in for a heart cath.  I want to write about my experience WITHOUT Versed to alleviate any concerns my friends and readers may have about the procedure.  I myself had turned down this procedure out of concern for getting Versed "the wonder drug".  I finally broke down and had it, more as a way to rule out my physical problem as stemming from my heart.

I had spoken to my cardiologist about the procedure and Versed and he AGREED with me about sedation with Versed.  Unfortunately for everybody, especially me, my previous experience with medical care was that they used lies and subterfuge to get me to the hospital and once there they proceeded to do anything and everything THEY wanted in defiance of my wishes and the law.  They were all in on the attack together so I trust NOBODY affiliated with the health care machine.  It's a bad situation to be in, when you know something is wrong, but are afraid to get necessary treatment for fear of Versed.  It's agonizing.

So, after I consented to the procedure I went home and looked on-line for a patient advocate and hired one.  She was there at the hospital with me, helped me fill out the advanced directive and cross out the parts I objected to in the "informed consent".  She monitored the input the nurse put in the computer which allowed me to relax.  She knew what I wanted and didn't want.  My nurse was on board with it too.

They took me to a room and threaded the tube into a vein.  I was surrounded by machinery and some really nice nurses, both male and female.  The pain was minimal, even though the tube was inserted in the tender groin area.  Of course I had a little Fentanyl on board to augment the local anesthetic, so it really was quite comfortable.

They threaded the thing right into my heart, injected some dye and looked around.  Part of the time I could watch the screen.  Fascinating.  I listened to the doctor's remarks.  All the while I was completely relaxed and comfortable.  I wasn't even bored, which is quite a feat.  Some of the stuff they gave me caused strange sensations.  One was heat which diffused through my body from head to toes and was gone.  One of them caused me to breathe hard.  I mentioned that it was getting progressively harder to breathe and was reassured by a pat on the shoulder and comforting words from my nurse that was handling the Fentanyl.  Once again she offered me Benadryl as a calming agent which I refused.  She was enough to keep me calm.

There was no pain from any of this.  I did feel a twinge, not to the point of pain, once.  Then it was gone.  As it turns out I had to get a stent.  I was not happy about this because I hadn't really given permission for the stent... I had been convinced that my problem was non-cardiac, but I certainly wasn't going to spring to my feet or argue with my cardiologist.  I had to trust that he knew best...and he did.

The most pain I felt was when the doctor removed the catheter.  I asked for, and got, a little more Fentanyl.  In the recovery room I got some Oxycontin in a pill and some more Zofran.  Couldn't be better.

I grumped about the stent being inserted and being FORCED to take Plavix.  I get injured all the time on my job and I don't need to be bleeding all over the truck.  I was NOT happy about taking a drug in this catagory.  I have a friend who is on Coumadin and his legs look competely black and purple.  He can't work any more.   The whole idea of having the tests was so that I could continue my physical job.  Plavix is different and I have zero complaints so far.

Once the Oxy wore off I couldn't believe how much better I felt!  Taking Plavix is a fair exchange for feeling so much better.  Getting a surprise stent is worth feeling 10 years younger.  The additional favorable thing is that I will be perfectly fine going to that hospital again with my advocate.  No more being spooked.  My doctor didn't lie to me when he said I would not be given Versed.  The nurses didn't lie to me and then give me Versed anyway.  Everybody treated me like I was a normal adult, not a "nutcase" like the crna's pretend I am.

I also got to go home the same day.  The hospital had started sending otherwise healthy stent patients HOME instead of making us stay overnight.  They started that in November of last year, so I was the recipient of that common sense idea as well.  The rest of my family didn't have to worry about me being gone and my dog got his "mom" to snuggle.

As usual I would be happy to answer any more specific questions, all you have to do is drop me an e-mail at nomidazolam@aol.com

The Patient Advocate

Recently I had a procedure called a heart cath.  This is where they thread a small tube into your vein and up into your heart to check things out.  Naturally I freaked out.  I also had to go to a hospital that I wasn't real thrilled about, it being a teaching hospital and all.  I didn't want to be the training tool.  I also didn't want Versed.  Big surprise right?  So I did what I have suggested to others who want to avoid Versed...I hired an advocate.

I looked on-line and found a woman named Amy who had worked at that hospital previously.  She had inside sources who outlined what to expect.  Of course FentanylVersed (deliberately run together) is what they wanted to use.  Not an option.  So we collaborated (free of charge) as to what I wanted her to do, expected to be protected from etc.  I hired her to come with me to the hospital, help get my point across with the nurses and make sure that my wishes were typed into the computer.  I can't tell you how much having her there helped.  She even took notes and names.

The upshot was, I didn't get Versed.  EVERY SINGLE NURSE THERE said that they had had patients who reacted very badly to Versed.  Odd isn't it?  I still get notes from a certain advanced practice nurse who demonizes me for saying bad things about Versed.  Yet *I* personally heard the great nurses at the hospital I went to telling me that Versed IS a bad drug for a lot of people.  My advocate had heard it as well, so I was in good hands.  I got a fabulous nurse who gave me Fentanyl and Zofran (antiemetic for nausea) ONLY!  She offered me Benadryl if I wanted (refused) and in general was very concerned about my welfare.  I LOVE REGULAR NURSES!  She wasn't an anesthesia nurse, so I'm still convinced that somehow anesthesia training makes nurses develop "narcissistic personality disorder".

I highly recommend a "patient advocate".  I won't have another procedure without mine.  Amy gave me peace of mind and moral support.  The nurses were receptive to my advocate.  There was no animosity whatsoever having Amy there.  Amy charged me $60 an hour for the time she spent in the hospital with me, which I found very reasonable.  So for 210 bucks I got peace of mind.  Having her by my side was priceless.

Anybody can contact me to find out more.  Names, which hospital this was and the like.  If you live in my area I can highly recommend Amy.  Those of us who have had a bad experience with medical workers riding rough shod over us and ignoring not only our wishes, but informed consent law would do well to hire an advocate for themselves.

Sunday, January 26, 2014

Non-Anesthesia Providers Notice Versed Is Bad.

I wrote recently about one of my doctors saying that he has heard that Versed is bad.  He promised that he would make sure that I got zero molecules of Versed into my system for any (spurious) reason.  Good.

I went to another doctor (different kind) recently and HE knows how bad Versed is.  He had no problem assuring me that he knows how bad Versed can be, that I am NOT the only person who has a problem with the drug, not by a long shot.  He stated that there is absolutely no reason why anybody needs Versed.  So this is great right?  The doctors who actually deal with patients as real people are in agreement with me on this.  Some of the patient care nurses also understand just how bad Versed is.

Unfortunately the very people who carelessly squirt this drug into our bloodstream have never, ever, never heard that Versed is bad.  EVERYBODY just loves this drug.  NOBODY ever, Ever, EVER has one single problem with Versed.  NEVER!  We must be making it up.  We must have been insane to start with and they just never noticed it.  Funny they seem to notice some nebulous "anxiety" that is apparent only to themselves in every single one of their patients that needs to be immediately medicated severely lest (fill in the blank) happens.  They just never noticed that we are psychopaths.  Imagine that.  What do anesthesia people fill in the blank with?  What could possible happen to people who refuse Versed?  They might wiggle, or maybe expect that their pain be diminished?  Oh the gall of such patients.

So if that's true, about the wiggling and wanting pain medication, then why aren't anesthetists honest about why they want to use Versed?  Why don't they tell us they want to chemically straight jacket us and further, they want to let us scream in pain instead of giving us pain relief?  Why would they be willing to "sedate" us into immobility and force us to lie there in unimaginable pain?  Why do they lie about the fake "anxiety"?  Why do they say that Versed "relaxes" you, when in fact it does nothing of the sort.  It just knocks out your muscle control.

Anesthesia providers who claim that their drug of choice Versed is wonderful are either psycho themselves or have never had to deal with the broken people after their Versed experience.  Especially the crna's.  They aren't doctors and apparently have no clue about their patients as people at all.  They don't see the devastation (on purpose?) they have wrought on their helpless patients and they don't want to know.  Plausible deniability is the term for this.  My thinking is that "anesthesia" deliberately and maliciously remains ignorant about the destruction they cause.  Versed makes their lives so much easier, and that self serving desire trumps ruining the patients brains.  These medical minions are determinedly obtuse and refuse to hear what the doctors, patients, web pages, news reports, scientific investigations or anything else is saying about Versed.  It's all about what those nurses want isn't it?    You, the patient, don't matter, not even a tiny little bit.  Doctors get it, the anesthesia/icu nurses don't.  I think that is the main difference between having a nurse or a doctor supplying your care.  Guess which *I* choose?

Saturday, January 4, 2014

Heart Attack/Personality Changes

I found this old discussion...

Click here: post bypass anxiety and personality changes - Heart Disease - MedHelp

As I read through it, the symptoms experienced by all these heart patients sounded eerily similar to what we Versed sufferers have gone through.  So I posit this;  Maybe it was the SEDATIVE used on these patients that caused the personality changes and NOT the physical problem?

Read it and keep in mind that many of us who have had a severe reaction to the (cough) wonder drug Versed have had the exact same detrimental personality changes described by the posters WITHOUT any heart problems.  Coincidence?  Or more proof that Versed is bad?

Dentist Office Nearly Kills 3 Year Old

I cam across this story today.  Click here: Lawsuit filed over dental procedure that left child brain dead | More Local News - KITV Home

I have looked and looked, but nowhere are the "sedation" drugs mentioned by name.  They do name an anesthetic drug called Demerol in one story.  Demerol is an alleged "pain killer", not a sedative, but my own experience with it was that it left the pain alone but caused me to disassociate and be unable to properly communicate.  It is one of only 2 drugs that I specifically DECLINE!  The other being Versed of course.

Nowhere in any article that *I* can find is there any mention of an anesthesia person being involved.  Was the dentist solely responsible for the three "sedatives" being administered?  Are office staff in the form of dental assistants allowed to give Demerol?  Or any of the other unnamed "sedatives"?  Did they have a crna?  Why did the staff have to run down the hall to a pediatricians office to get help?   If they used Versed, where was the Flumazenil?  Where was the airway management team?  Or have medical minions become so sanguine about the use of the poison Versed that they grew careless with its use?  Why is there no mention of Versed, which I can make an educated guess was used?

My guess is, that to protect Versed and all its pushers, nothing is to be mentioned that could possibly get people/patients thinking about the dangers, efficacy and safety of medical minions favorite "screw you" drug.