I have had two abortions in the past 3
years. The last one I had at 11 weeks, I
went to a different clinic. The first one
I had gone to gave me the gas, which was
fine. The second clinic gave me a valium
injection. This was absolutely horrible.
As she was injecting the stuff into my
arm, my arm started to get extremely cold,
and in 5 minutes, my entire body was ice
cold. I was more uncomfortable than I
would have been without the injection. I
could not stop shaking, my legs were
shaking so bad the nurses pratically had
to hold me down. I couldn't breathe well
because of the chattering, and my blood
pressure dropped. After it was done, they
put me in the recovery room, where I
continued to freeze for the following
twenty minutes. It was absolutely awful.
The other girls around me seemed ok, but
I wasn't. I was on methadone at the time
of the surgery, could this have caused the
coldness? I can't find anything on the
internet about being cold after an
injection. There might have been another
drug combined with the valium, but i'm
unsure of what it is. I told them I was
on methadone, so I assume the coldness was
normal, but it make me more uncomfortable
than if I had no injection at all. The
pain was awful, and I was cold on the
inside. Could you tell me what caused
this and why? I'm interested because it
just didn't seem right to me. I felt
like I was about to die during the
surgery. Thanks for your help!
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steen
Extremely EHEALTHy
Joined: 18 Nov 2004 Posts: 1797 Location: Upper Midwest
Posted: 01-17-05 13:30pm
It sounds more like a reaction to the
valium. That means that you need to tell
this to your physician and that you
shouldn't receive any in the future. It
might also mean that you are allergic to
other similar medications in the class
called "benzodiazepines," of which valium
is one. Others are klonopin/clonazepam
and ativan/lorazepam. You could also be
sensitive to verzed, which is used for
brief anesthesia in cases such as flex sig
and colonoscopies
(btw, verzed would have been better than
valium, as valium often takes more than
1.5 hours to work)
now, if you have had any of the above
before (likely, if you are on methadone)
and didn't have any reaction, or if you
are on them right now without problems,
then they likely gave you to high a dose
at the clinic and that could be what gave
you the chills.
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