INCORRECT DOSAGE

I believe that I have previously informed you via an earlier post, of the local doctors, (who cover this extremely small country town) with their extreme incompetence, their ill-informed manner and also their total lack of consideration and their extreme lack of compassion for the horrendous torture that I have had to endure, caused by this cruel, hideous and life destroying desease.

My usual dosage of the drug that I would find it to be absolutely and thoroughly impossible to live without ... Sifrol. The current dosage that I am currently taking is 0.25mg of which I take 3/ngt.

On returning home tonight from the pharmacy i didn't access the package until later at night when the time had arrived to take the meds. It wasn't until then that I came to realise that I had indeed been prescribed an incorrect dosage. Instead of the usual prescribed 0.25mg, I had been prescribed 1mg (of which actually meant exactly SFA to me).

After eventually being able to find contact with the 'Power's-To-Be, it was indeed explained to me that I had actually been prescribed almost over by my double dose.

Simply just not good enough. I'm so glad that I am leaving this country town in two months.

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Where are you going?

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Back to the Sunny Coast or Brisbane

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I thought you already were in Australia?

One piece of advice, if you want sun and heat - avoid Ireland

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I am in Australia???

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I thought that! Did you not want to move to the US? lol God knows what way my head works!

What country are you in?

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Oz

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That's what I said!!!!!

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NOW I understand why you're called the 'brains' on tthe site!! LOL

Not just a pretty face. Again LOL

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I'm only here as eye candy

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Touche 😉

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Oh no, I'm so sorry to hear that!!! Thankfully this has never happened to me, so I can only imagine how frustrating that can be. I hope you get it sorted out ASAP.

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Hi Phogan, So sorry that happened to you about your dose- (actually 1 mg is 4 times your usual dose of 0.25 mg) But it happens here, too. I once got home from the pharmacy and opened the bag of prescriptions and found the wrong insulin there. (Don't have to take it anymore) The outer package had my name on it but inside was someone else's name. I went right back to the pharmacy. They corrected the mistake and were VERY GRATEFUL I didn't take the mistake to a higher level. Normally, in the US once you walk away from the pharmacy counter the medicine is yours so since then I open the bag and check before I take one step away. Unfortunately, mistakes with dispensing meds are more common than people realize. Sometimes the pharmacy clerks get offended but too bad. With the insulin incident, they could have been in big trouble with the FDA as another patient might have used it and had real problems. Just another tip. In the US when you're in the hospital, your pills are usually delivered to your floor in little peel-pak single dose wrappers with the name of the med on them. Often when the nurse is bringing pills around, she/he brings them already opened with peel paks discarded. Easier and time saving for staff. But I've learned after getting some pills I didn't recognize to tell my nurses I want my pills brought still in the wrap so I can be sure that what I'm taking is correct. Many patients demand this nowadays. If the pills aren't brought to me unopened I won't take them. I'm probably considered a pain in the --- patient but medication errors on hospitals are all too common. I don't mind taking on this responsibility for my care. We all make mistakes. I just don't want the wrong medicine. When I was in school (100 years ago) it was drummed into our heads that if a patient said,"What is this blue pill for? I don't take this at home," consider it a BIG RED FLAG. It's hard when you get pills through the mail. I tried this once-very convenient- but now I pick them up. Maybe you will be able to do this when you move to a bigger town. Anyway, you're obviously paying close attention. I'm very happy you caught the dosage error before taking. Take care, burmag

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Incorrect dosing can be life-threatening. Here's a scary story (used to warn, not scare):

I worked as a job coach back in the US. I had called in sick on the day this happened, so I heard about it the next: one of my students had a grand mal seizure while working in the school library. He had never had seizures of any kind before this. The culprit: incorrect dosing of his medicine by Walgreen's (one of the big US pharmacies)!! I'm not sure how this unacceptable mistake was handled, but it was that (unacceptable). This boy could've died.

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These stories are not that uncommon. I'm repeating myself but, again. Always take responsibility for double checking you've received the right medicine no matter who gives it to you-doctors, nurses, pharmacists, samples in a dr's office,etc. It's good to even check the bag of IV medicine they hang in the hospital. Agree with Jess. Don't mean to scare, just encouraging people to be responsible for receiving the right med, The rule for medicating someone is: give the right med, in the right dose by the right route at the right time. I really got on my soapbox with this one!

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Hi Flying legs. Just a suggestion. I too have gotten home to find my prescription was wrong, had a problem of some sort that needed fixing and it was too late and, even one time, opening the bag and discovering medicine with another patient's name on the bottle. All this was 4-5 years ago. So now I NEVER leave the pharmacy counter or the pharmacy clerk's vision before checking my meds thoroughly. I usually do this before paying. I say.Let me check the meds before you ring them up to be sure they are correct. Most don't mind. And if they do-too bad. In the US once you walk away from the pharmacy those meds are YOURS and can't be returned. That's the law. Especially if it's a controlled substance. Prevention is better than cure. There are pharmancies here that will deliver meds but even though it would be convenient, in my opinion, it increases the odds re too many possible errors. So I always pick mine up and check there. Just a suggestion. Take care. irina1975