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"I lost my entire memory": an allergic reaction to medication plunged Alison Sagese into a coma. When she awoke, she didn't remember anything.(REAL-LIFE READS)
You'd think it would be safe to assume that when a doctor prescribes you medicine, it will, cure you ... not almost kill you. But the latter is what happened to me during my sophomore year of college. Four hours into a road trip to Key West with a couple of girlfriends, I popped some antibiotics I'd gotten from the campus infirmary for a bad cold I had. Within minutes, my tongue became so swollen, it blocked my throat, leaving me gasping for air.
When my friend Corinna noticed I was in distress, she immediately called 911, and paramedics rushed me to the hospital. There the ER doctor discovered that I was severely allergic to erythromycin, a type of macrolide ...
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