Prescription Error

[LottieLoo1]

Hi

I collected a prescription yesterday and started the medication.

Have been ill all day and very drowsy but assumed it was a new drug to me and it would settle.

Still feel off tonight and due next dose, checked the box and the dosage information is incorrect so I've been taking double the dose I should have.

Besides complaining to the pharmacy itself is there a governing body of similar I could complain to?

Thanks

[Ken4155]

Would complaining make you feel any better. Just human error and we all make mistakes. I recall being prescribed double the dose of DF118s some years back - 2 every 4 hours instead of one. The works nurse (Dolly Dettol) checked the proper dosage to which I then adhered and all was well.

[jno]

https://www.england.nhs.uk/contact-us/complaint/complaining-to-nhse/

personally, I'd just have a word with the pharmacy.

[jno]

by the way, what did it say on the prescription? Is it possible your GP wanted you to have the double dose?

[LottieLoo1]

The prescription was electronic so I have no idea what it said but I'm 100% sure it didn't reccomend taking 28 tablets twice a day as per the label on the box.

Luckily I have some common sense and was taking two at every dose but still it was wrong and should have been one at every dose according to the leaflet. Will check with GP monday.

[douglas9401]

We're gonna need a bigger box.

[johnny.5]

it's a wonderful life

[jno]

my prescriptions are sent electronically, but the chemist always gives me a print-out with the pills I pick up. If your GP isn't talking to you, it's obviously worth checking everything at the pharmacy.

[barry1010]

A mistake, accident and human error can be rectified with an apology when you are charged twice for one item at the checkout.

Being prescribed the wrong dose by a pharmacist could cause very serious health problems and I would make a formal complaint in writing to NHS England. PO Box 16738. Redditch. B97 9PT. If you are in Scotland, Wales, N Ireland you will need to send it to the relevant authority.

Wait until you have spoken to your surgery to clarify the prescription that was sent. You should have received a paper copy and if you didn't - put that in the complaint, too.

[bhg481]

Didn't the doctor tell you the dosage when he gave you the prescription. I appreciate that the prescription was sent electronically to the pharmacy but I've never yet been prescribed medication by a doctor who didn't explain the dose to me.

[Bazile]

I always check my medication / dosage / frequency ,when. dispensed is correct ,before i start taking it

[Ken4155]

Is that what it said on the label, Lottie - take 56 tablets per day?! Because if i'd received those instructions i would have been straight on the phone checking the correct dosage. That's 'common sense'.

[barry1010]

What is the name of the medication?

[bhg481]

Always worth checking the size of tablets is correct too - my wife was dispensed 2.5mg tablets instead of 5mg tablets on a couple of occasions.

[aelmpvw]

// take 56 tablets per day?!//
here's an image of it in one dose. . .
https://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&ccid=0iVqTEOc&;id=4B3F870B2F3D224D8366BEEF09DED1060A3373DE&thid=OIP.0iVqTEOcC1fnJonTitBXrwAAAA&mediaurl=http%3a%2f%2fi.dailymail.co.uk%2fi%2fpix%2f2011%2f09%2f03%2farticle-2033383-0DB3019600000578-596_468x514.jpg&;exph=514&expw=468&q=giant+medicinal+tablet&simid=608008146215699039&;ck=0C43ADEEAE2A84A8861728D1BDC5E077&selectedIndex=14&FORM=IRPRST&;ajaxhist=0

[1ozzy]

5 to 6 tablets per day?
or 5-6
instead of 56?
possibly

[Tilly2]

Did you actually take 28 tablets, twice in one day?

[roopower]

I always check my medication is correct before I leave the pharmacy. They won't accept medicines back, except to dispose of, once they've left the shop. A locum pharmacist did make a mistake once but it was soon rectified, no waste and I wasn't overdosed

[Bazile]

From that link about taking tablets with water

I didn't realised that .
I often take tablets without water or any other liquid .

Glad I saw that

[bednobs]

If the prescription said to take so many why were you only taking 2? What made you decide to take 2?

[barry1010]

I think Lottie realised that instead of 28 tablets twice a day it should have read 'two tablets twice a day' and that is what she took. When she read the information leaflet she discovered the dose should have been 1 tablet twice a day,
It is possible that the dose of the tablet was half of the usual dose so the two twice a day would have been correct.