Person experiences severe muscle weakness after medication


Emergency medical services were called to help a person at home who was feeling very weak in their arms and legs. This weakness was believed to be getting worse because of a medication they took recently.
Audio|Source: Carver Fire, Police, and EMS, Plymouth Fire/EMS, Wareham and Plympton Fire
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Transcript:
Control to the EMS duty crew, you are responding to two Melanie Lane for a reaction to medication. (name withheld) was still on. (name withheld) was still on. Squad 2 to respond, 26 Monarch Road to the party to the cell. You have a call. Two is on the end. Go ahead. Two, ten. Hello. Be on to Melanie White. Can you give us a better indication of what the reaction is? It's a complete muscle weakness in her arms and legs. It's a medication that they gave to her a couple of days ago and it's getting progressively worse. Okay, that's super helpful. Thank you. Good. The medication she's been on... is prednisone. Standing. To be able. Score to your own.
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Location mentioned:
Near Melanie Ln, Carver, MA 02330
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