Post #671134 by kraken on Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:24 PM

You bet I'm going to insist on deeper investigation
of this problem, once I overcome a side issue; the
anesthetic they gave me for my scopings never
completely wore off. It's been two weeks now and
I'm still having memory problems (short and long
term), stumbling, lack of peripheral attention and
trouble concentrating.

These are standard symptoms of the anesthetic
Versed (midazolam) so a consensus of myself,
two physicians and an advice nurse are sure that
Versed caused the problem but is not still in my
body; only its effect on my brain is lingering. But
as for how long the partial effect will be with me,
the physicians can only speculate weeks to months.
This kind of holdover is so rare that nobody knows
much about it.

So for a while I can't go back to working as a caregiver.
My creativity is not dampened by this, so I'll probably
do some writing. I was previously a technical
magazine writer---to see samples of my published
work, google my real-world name, Walter Zintz.

Only bright spot in all this. One of the doctors is
someone I've always liked but haven't heard from in
seven years.