Serzone

Anybody had experience with Serzone?

Yep. But I'm highly allergic... went into hospital to try out new medications... serzone one of them. The night I tried this med, the nurses said I got up complaining I was sick. They gave me some water and sent me back to bed... The next morning no one could wake me, seems they had "overdosed" me and I nearly died without their caring... and, the doctor had only given me a half of the lowest dose.

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Scary!!

Are you sure they were "med nurses" and not just nursing assistant giving meds?

Sky,

You have a great way of reminding me why, exactly, I realllllly don't trust hospitals of any kind. I have a few nightmarish stories of my own.

The problem with almost any hospital and a lot of doctors is that they don't take your own knowledge of your body very seriously. I just read a very interesting first-person article in Reader's Digest (this month's) by a female doctor who was taught a very valuable lesson in that. Long story short, she has just put a longtime patient on a new med when the patient called with the concern of blurred vision. First the doc said she was irritated and thought it was trivial, and then dismissed it as "all in her head". That was until it was determined that the lab tech and the patient had accidentally switched glasses - an easily repairable mishap but proving the patient wasn't dumb and it wasn't all in their head. The doctor said the one thing she felt the most was chagrin as it proved not to just dismiss complaints out of hand and to treat her patients with more caring and thoughtfulness. I thought it was very well written.

some of it's magic
some of it's tragic
but i had a good life all the way......
~jimmy buffett

Hi

I agree with you. You have to keep on your toes and stand up for yourself. When I was on Serzone before, the doc that I was seeing then did not take me seriously about my blurred vision while on Serzone. He just kept increasing it until it was a real problem. I am with another doctor now and I have agreed to take it again, at much lower doses, because I did get good results before the other doc started increasing it to toxic levels.

Since searching information on the web about Serzone, I have learned that it has potentially dangerous side effects for causing liver failure. So when my visit comes up on Friday, I am going to insist that the doc take liver function tests.

Yeah... but prescribed by medical doctor, the nurses just didn't bother to take notice (guess they were busy napping or chatting in the middle of the night?) I went into hospital ONLY to try new medications because I have terrible reactions... so they should have called someone if they didn't know what to do.

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I totally agree.