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.
Martyn
--- On Fri, 7/17/09, Jan <teads613@netscape.
From: Jan <teads613@netscape.
Subject: [epilepsy] unbelieveable pharmacy mistake
To: epilepsy@yahoogroup
Date: Friday, July 17, 2009, 10:09 PM
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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