Ativan allergy= WHAT!?!?!

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Okay, I was at work Tuesday (I'm a nursing assistant) and there was a 76 yr old woman on our floor (patient) who claimed to have an allergy to Ativan. Well, the doc wanted to perscribe it to her anyway and so the pharmacy ended up calling up to our floor to ask her what exactly her allergy was.

She responded...(and DEAD HONEST I am NOT making this up) that it caused her to have "chronic, uncontrollable orgasms."

The only time I've ever heard of someone having this was on a season 3 episode of Grey's Anatomy.

Sooo...I'd like a pharmacists take on this one. Was the lady full of it or is this actually an "allergy"???
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It's one of those rare things that allegedly has case reports backing it. If you look at the pharmacology, benzodiazepines like Ativan potentiate GABA innervation...which is an inhibitory neurotransmitter upon a **** ton of other neurotransmitters. You get weird excitatory things here, inhibitory things there...if people's brain chemistry is wired weird, I guess it could happen...hell, I don't know.


It's absolutely not an ALLERGY, however. It's a side effect....if that....
 
That's insane...I thought maybe the little old lady was just confused or making stuff up.

I did, however, feel kinda special being able to witness two "only happens on Grey's Anatomy" things on Tuesday.

(The other was a guy that was sent up to our floor from the ED for an erection that wouldn't go away...I love working on urology 🙄)
 
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roseglass6370 said:
That's insane...I thought maybe the little old lady was just confused or making stuff up.

I did, however, feel kinda special being able to witness two "only happens on Grey's Anatomy" things on Tuesday.

(The other was a guy that was sent up to our floor from the ED for an erection that wouldn't go away...I love working on urology 🙄)
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After seeing the urologist on "Hopkins," I want to work in urology too.


...And yes, I know she's married.
 
roseglass6370 said:
Okay, I was at work Tuesday (I'm a nursing assistant) and there was a 76 yr old woman on our floor (patient) who claimed to have an allergy to Ativan. Well, the doc wanted to perscribe it to her anyway and so the pharmacy ended up calling up to our floor to ask her what exactly her allergy was.

She responded...(and DEAD HONEST I am NOT making this up) that it caused her to have "chronic, uncontrollable orgasms."

The only time I've ever heard of someone having this was on a season 3 episode of Grey's Anatomy.

Sooo...I'd like a pharmacists take on this one. Was the lady full of it or is this actually an "allergy"???
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Sounds like to me a medical break through!!!! This will be bigger (no pun) than Vigra craze!!! Imagine.."Give women uncontrollable orgasm" ads...


True allergy is an immunological response. The patient you described is either delusional or have adverse effects (non allergic) from lorazempam.
 
roseglass6370 said:
She responded...(and DEAD HONEST I am NOT making this up) that it caused her to have "chronic, uncontrollable orgasms."
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*grabs cellphone to complain to doctor about new onset anxiety disorder* :idea:
 
People are clueless about the difference between an allergic response and side effects. I've seen people claim they are "allergic" to stuff such as epinphrine or niacin. Yeah, whatever...
 
BidingMyTime said:
People are clueless about the difference between an allergic response and side effects. I've seen people claim they are "allergic" to stuff such as epinphrine or niacin. Yeah, whatever...
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i think i hear "i am allergic to generics" or "generics don't work on me" about thrice a day

general public = soooo smart
 
I am allergic to insurance problems. I get a headache whenever I deal with them.
 
oh please this is so fake... i dont believe for a second that the myth of a female orgasm is true.
 
Just cause you've never seen one doesn't mean it doesn't exist.......
 
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can I sign up for this allergy?
 
Thanks for the responses...

I'm not convinced that the lady wasn't making up the reaction or that she wasn't confused. just came here to see if there was some chance that she was serious.

And yes...I'm aware that chronic orgasms can't be defined as a textbook "allergy" but rather a reaction of sorts.

Just wanted to get a "second opinion" (excuse the pun).
 
as bad is u starting a new thread with an old news from another thread
 
a lot of old threads are good threads though, if they werent meant to come back, they would be locked.

edit, found a video of people having these responses:

[YOUTUBE]VLnWf1sQkjY[/YOUTUBE]
 
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Go easy on the new members. At least this member knows how to use the damn search function...UNLIKE SO MANY OTHERS HERE.
 
This reminds me of a book I once read, called Prozac Diaries, a memoir of the first British Prozac patient, Lauren Slater.

Anyway the important part of it is that she describes a British study where a group of women, all on Prozac, started complaining of having orgasm when they sneezed. Remove the Prozac, the sneeze "problem" also was removed... and it never duplicated on placebo.

As Mary Roach would explain, female orgasm is so damn confusing, who knows...
 
A lot of the "allergies" on the profiles are not true allergies. You just have to use your judgment. Just today, I got a new rx for darvocet for someone, and on that profile, it said the person was allergic to prophyxene and methadone. When I looked at the drug history, I noticed this person has regularly received darvocet rx.
 
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Just cause you've never seen one doesn't mean it doesn't exist.......
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When I was doing my residency in the treatment of drug and EtOH abuse, part of my job was interviewing all the people in the inpatient rehab unit claiming codeine allergies to sort potentially legitimate allergic reactions from all the factitious claims from the seekers.
 
roseglass6370 said:
Okay, I was at work Tuesday (I'm a nursing assistant) and there was a 76 yr old woman on our floor (patient) who claimed to have an allergy to Ativan. Well, the doc wanted to perscribe it to her anyway and so the pharmacy ended up calling up to our floor to ask her what exactly her allergy was.

She responded...(and DEAD HONEST I am NOT making this up) that it caused her to have "chronic, uncontrollable orgasms."

The only time I've ever heard of someone having this was on a season 3 episode of Grey's Anatomy.

Sooo...I'd like a pharmacists take on this one. Was the lady full of it or is this actually an "allergy"???
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Allergy, in a very simplified manner, is the immune system gone crazy. Orgasm isn't mediated by the immune system ^_^ Ha, ha.

GABA production is upregulated by ativan, and upon a quick google search I confirmed it a neurotransmitter involved in stimulating orgasm. I didn't look into it deeply though, so I don't know how/why/etc. So, it's likely she's got a genetic variation in one or more "machinery" components somewhere along the GABA production --> orgasm circuit.

Maybe someone with ACTUAL knowledge on this can enlighten you, but that's my .02 and 2 minutes of investigation's worth.

EDIT: Okay, maybe I should have read mroe... looks like WVUPharm essentially said what I did.
 
we have a surgeon who lists "dilaudid" as an allergy on any patient who gets apneic on it.

And "benzos" as an allergy for patients who have dysphoric reactions.

ARGH!
 
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