When I was 12, a script for phenobarb was filled saying I had to take 2 (30 mg) tabs 4 times a day! I nearly died! I was only supposed to take 3 tabs a day. I'll never forget it. It was like having a severe case of narcolepsy. I'd fall asleep standing up.
LIZARD, on day 4 of Keppra and hoping it does the trick for my SPs!
--- 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, 5:09 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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