Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world Just4kickz @lemmy.world 5mo ago

Forgot name of medication I was given while living in France

I was hospitalized for schizoaffective disorder and given a high dose of liquid medication every night to knock me out. I can’t remember the name of it but I think it originated in Spain. Google isn’t helping me and probably now thinks I am trying to smuggle drugs into the US. Lol.

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Contacting the hospital is way more effective than asking random strangers online for a best guess based on vague details. Just sayin'
- Would be easier if in the two years I lived there I would’ve learned enough French.
  
  One would think two years is enough to pick up a bit of the local language.
I can’t remember the name

No problem. Here at Lemmy, we are quite good at guessing.

I start: "Aaa"

Next one, please.
- Can you help me with my car problem too? You did say next
  
  Yeah, probably "Aab".
  
  Need help with anything else?
Don't know about the Spain part, but midazolam is the most commonly used sedative in French ICUs per https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3751696/ .

Midazolam might have been called by the brand names Versed or Dormicum.
- It was tercian! Just popped into my head
  
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyamemazine this definitely makes more sense than midazolam
- no way that hospital would dispense benzo every day like this, more typical medication would be hydroxyzine or something similar - sedative antihistamine with some antipsychotic effect, or the other way around
Presumably there's a record of the medication, given that someone had to pay for it.
- Lol, European records aren't about payment, but patient care. The records undoubtedly show what was taken but the financial records may not. The fee may have been a standard fee for medication or free. It might be different for a non resident receiving care too, but likely the internal records would be the same.
Quetiapine, maybe?
- It isn’t offered in the USA, only Europe
  
  But weren't you given it in France, which is in Europe? So based on the info you've given, it might be the answer to your question?
  
  How do you know that much about it? Are you sure the brand name wasn’t European? Brand names often differ between the US and Europe
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clozapine ? A quick search returned : Olanzapine, quétiapine, lithium, halopéridol, carbonate de lithium, aripiprazole, rispéridone, brexpiprazole, Asénapine, paliperidone, ziprasidone (en), lurasidone et clozapine
Are there medical notes for the stay? Can you call the hospital where you stayed, give them your name and date of birth, and ask if you can be sent a copy of all records of your stay there? You probably received a copy at the time but lost/misplaced them.
- Yes I just went looking for the papers. You have no idea the hoops I had to jump through to get them. Cannot find them. I found the bloodwork. It is just for novelty which is why I am asking here. If I really want to know that bad I can try to contact the social worker where I stayed.

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