More proof that it’s not smart to do anything else when taking pred.!
I was talking to my son while taking my 12 mg , two 5 mg and two 1 mg. With the usual yogurt. When I looked at the counter I didn’t see any pred there and didn’t really remember taking 4 pills. Not sure if I took the 1mg pills out of the container. Pretty sure I took two pills. I think they were the 5 mg ones.
I took two 1mg hoping for the best!
If I did take two extra 2 mg. , 14 instead of 12, OK to just go back to 12 tomorrow?, and this time focus on one thing at a time!
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2mg is hardly anything in the great scheme of things - people have taken double doses and gone back to normal the next morning! That at least usually ensures a really good day - it would be a lot worse if you hadn't taken any!
I’d done that myself a couple of times with no harm done. However I now dispense my pills into a day/week pill container. That way I know I’ve a) actually taken them and b)the right quantity even if I do get distracted. x
Easily done - you are not alone & as Pro says a bit extra rather than too little won’t harm for a day.
It’s forgetting them all together that causes the problems, l make my box up on a Sunday, when it’s quiet so l’m not distracted especially if l’m tailoring the dose down, it’s so much easier to check then that l’ve taken them (or not!)
Yesterday I went to fill my pill box and realised my 5mg pack was opened and on top of my 1mg box. I checked and for the doses next week I had used 5s instead of 1s . I am on 4.25 mg so this would have been a lot more. Fortunately I discovered it before it was a problem
Too true, but it is the effect on my blood sugars that worries me more than a few bounces! I am sure I would have been very hyper as on 15mg I couldn’t stop talking!
Hi I done this a few days ago, I’m cutting down to 4mg pred, the other day I took 20mg (4 tabs of 5mg), I didn’t feel any different, it wasn’t until the next I realised what I’d done 😟
Well at least you appear to have taken a bit extra, and hopefully have a good day unlike me a couple of weeks ago when I must have taken half a 1 mg tablet and one whole 1 mg, instead of one 5 mg and half 1 mg, or some such stupidity. I did suffer and it put paid to my attempted taper .
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unlike me a couple of weeks ago when I must have taken half a 1 mg tablet and one whole 1 mg, instead of one 5 mg and half 1 mg, or some such stupidity. I did suffer and it put paid to my attempted taper 
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