Simply but, we are all human and all make mistakes. Gosh do I make mistakes! But in all reality it can happen. That's why we all have to double check, question anything we feel might not be correct. With meds, when I take a new med. I always look them up on the internet to see a picture of it to see if that what in my pill bottle. Recently when Keppra went generic people saw the change in how it looked but some took it without questioning it. Like I said, mistakes happen, and most definitely some are giant errors but we are all human! What more can be said? Sure, if I ever saw my neuro. from the past he would get more than an ear full from me! But, that was that and have moved on! But hey, what more can be said than to live on while keeping a smile on our faces looking forward to a great day? Take care, keep a smile on your face!
Steve
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> I was once the "victim" of a mistake by my epileptologist that meant that the amount of medication was given to people at the pharmacy after their out-patient appointmentswas changed.I was told to return for my next out-patient appointment "in 26 weeks", and I happened to ask my epiltologist for a repeat prescription. She still had the "26 weeks" bit in her head (my family doctor gives me 13 weeks supply) and I ended up with 728 capsules of dilantin. Now that hospital only gives people 2 weeks supply of medication at the hospital pharmacy, unless there are very execptional circumstances.
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> From: Jan <teads613@..
> Subject: [epilepsy] unbelieveable pharmacy mistake
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> Date: Friday, July 17, 2009, 10:09 PM
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> This is how people get hurt. CHECK YOUR DRUGS people. Ellie started a new med (Lamactil). It's supposed to be titrated VERY slowly because it has a potentially serious side-effect called Stevens-Johnson Syndrome. She works up from 2.5mg to 7.5mg (twice a day) over the course of 6 weeks. The pharmacist gave me two bottles of the drug by mistake. one 5mg tablets and one for 25mg tablets. At NO POINT does she ever get to 25mg, ever!
> Imagine if I had given her one and a half tablets of the wrong dosage.
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