Friday, July 17, 2009

Re: [epilepsy] unbelieveable pharmacy mistake

 

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:

>
>
> 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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