Versed and Vomiting: What Users Say

• wal...
• February 3, 2016

For Light Anesthesia "I was given Versed pre-surgery for a D & C, and within minutes I was vomiting violently. The surgery had to be canceled due to my extreme reaction. I was dry heaving for 4 hours and was sick for days. I had terrible vertigo and very loud ringing in my ears. That was 5 months ago, and I'm still being treated for vertigo and tinnitus. I was told by my ENT that the drug probably caused a disconnect between my ears and my brain. I am going to therapy, and it is helping some. I could not drive for 3 months and am driving again. I'm always slightly dizzy, and the loud high-pitched sound in my head may be permanent. I was never told about the negative effects before taking this drug."

• Anonymous
• January 22, 2016

For Light Anesthesia "This drug was given to me as I'm allergic to eggs, and the other anesthesia was egg-based. I asked what was in this drug and was told, 'I don't know.' Waking up to bits and pieces of reality, trying to grab onto them, but not being successful repeatedly. Going home was double vision. When I got there, I immediately threw up. I didn't want to move. My husband got a chair on wheels to wheel me directly to the bathroom and brought me bedding and a pillow and lay on the bathroom floor. I slept all day and all night. That is one drug I will NEVER take again."

• Blu...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• December 19, 2022

For Light Sedation "Versed doesn’t seem to work for me or my family on my mom’s side. I was given it to sedate me (unbeknownst to me or I would have warned them) for an endoscopy, and I managed to stay out long enough for them to push the beginning of the tube down, probably a minute or two. The rest of the time I spent gagging (naturally). While the doctor was literally screaming at me to stop rather than trying to figure out why I was gagging, as I should have been out enough to suppress my gag reflex. My previous endoscopy was done with different meds, and I don’t remember a thing."