I always make sure to get to know my pharmacist well. Right now the pharmacists I have totally Rock!! They are the best.
Over the past 3 years I've had to work on finding a doctor I really like cause my doctor for over 10 # yrs. moved to New Mexico, and he had me so spoiled. I decided to go back to my old dr. He really is a great dr. but can be a little out the box at times, lol. He has many old records on me. I told him I needed prescriptions on all the meds. I take. So I gave him the list that has all the info - the names, mg., & how to take. He made a copy and called it in for me. When I went to pick it up I checked to make sure all the meds. were the correct. This is something i always do. Can you believe this Dr. called in the wrong perceptions. It was from a time I had seen him in the past. I'm talking yrs. back. So the pharmacist made a copy of what I take and called my dr.
You guys would just need to know this man. He is so well respected. But can be a real goof. If I haven't known the man for over 15 yrs. I would have left him & found another dr. but I trust the man.
Anyway, y'all have a great sunday!
Take care,
Ashley
Ashley
--- On Fri, 7/17/09, uniquepnk tds.net <Uniquepnk@tds.
From: uniquepnk tds.net <Uniquepnk@tds.
Subject: Re: [epilepsy] unbelieveable pharmacy mistake
To: epilepsy@yahoogroup
Date: Friday, July 17, 2009, 8:42 PM
Jan,
Anybody needs to always check and make sure they know what they are getting.
Sometimes the doctors make mistakes when they write out the prescriptions
too.My doctor wrote out too much of one the medicines I was on years ago.He
had not changed the dosage, but I got more pills that time. Mistakes can
happen, so everybody has to be careful and watch what they are given. Take
care.
Tammy
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Jan <teads613@netscape. net> wrote:
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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.
> Jan
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