Checking Prescriptions - To everyone on meds

I just thought I would mention this to help you avoid possible problems. Generic drugs are given so often these days, that the shapes and colors differ when they are changed. Do not assume that you have the correct drug when that happens. It pays to check it out. I was given a different looking blood pressure med today, and I did not take any chances. Turns out it was fine, but I had to know.

In the past few years, at two different pharmacies, I have had the wrong pills put in a bottle labeled as the correct drug.

The first one was not much of a major ordeal. I had a lower, half the dose antibiotic than was prescribed given to me and I didn't catch it until I was almost finished. I went back to the pharmacy and their remedy was to just give me the same full script all over again at half the intended dose, again. Didn't help me much, but didn't hurt much either.

The second time, I was taking an antidepressant and after two weeks of walking into walls and feeling bugs crawling all over me, I checked out all of my scripts. Turns out, I was given Lipitor. That was a bigger error in that many antidepressants have to be tapered or you experience withdrawal. I sure did, and was grateful that I wasn't given something like a blood pressure med that could have been dangerous. In addition to problems created due to not taking the correct drug, there is a chance that side effects will occur from the incorrect drug.

Anyway, this web site is an easy way to check your prescriptions. It shows you what it should look like.

www.drugs.com/

Once I was given the wrong size/dose of thyroid med, it was a different color so I asked. whew! Pharmacist error.
Erica

They are only human and in a busy business, mistakes can be made. They can be horrible errors though!

Thank you for posting this! I will definitely double check next time I fill a prescription and something seems off.

Saved the web site to my favorites for future reference. Thanks for the link, Sandi!

Very scary. Thank you for sharing!