CC1's Wife Overdosed By Pharmacy Mistake

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Originally Posted by CC1

I have not been on AFF hardly any the last week or so due to a variety of things including a business trip, crazy work weeks, computer issue, etc.

The last month has been so crazy with emergency surgeries, cars totaled in car wrecks, etc for my family that I didn't think anything else weird or bad could happen but it has.

My wife is on a medication for RLS (restless leg syndrome) that we get through the mail in 90 day supplies. Her latest refill was late in coming so her doctor called in a precription of just a few pills to a local large chain pharmacy we use to tide her over.

The precription was just four or five pills in a small box like you would buy cold medicene in at the store with the pharmacy's label covering the entire one side of the box. The label showed the medication, dosage, my wifes name etc.

Because she had been out of the medicene for a couple of days and she can take either one or two pills of it she took two to try and get some rest. Strangely the opposte occurred. She could not sleep at all that night and felt really bad.

The next day she was going to take another pill when she happened to turn the box over and saw the product info printed on the back of the box and saw a medicene name she did not recognize. She looked closely and realized that the pharmacy had dispensed the wrong medicene. The label was correct but the actual pills were not.

Unfortunetely the pharmacy gave my wife a very strong medication totally unrelated to her condition. This medicene is prescribed in varying strengths and the one they accidently gave my wife was the strongest prescrbed by 14
times the weakest dosage. One pill is supposed to have been taken once a week and she took 2 pills.

This medicene has complications for persons with esophegal or gastric problems and she suffers from acid reflux and esophagus problems already. Over doses can cause stomach and esophegal ulcers among other things.

She called the pharmacy and they freaked out. They called her doctor and had her come in and get some paperwork, swap out the medicene for the right stuff, etc.

The wrongly prescribed medicene is time released so the complications of no sleep, aches in her muscles, esophagus and stomach hurting ,etc all ease up then get bad again as more is released into her system.

She went to the doctor yesterday and she has an irregular hearbeat now. They sent her home with a heart monitor attached to record it then tomorrow she has tests done on her heart and a gastro Dr. is working her in today or tomorrow to check out her esophagus.

We should have known there was potential for bad and long lasting side effects when the day after we discovered what happened and called the pharmacy somonene from their HQ called and tried to offer my wife $1500 to settle for the mistake. I have a feeling she will be spending a lot more $$$$ than that on the health issues this has caused.

My big concern is my wifes short term and long term health. She has had many medical issues and new ones is absolutely something she does not need. Please help me pray for her that she will recover fully.

CC! This happen a lot, more then most think. Always best to read all meds,ever time. Hope all is well!