STUPID MISTAKE OR AM I GOING SENILE ?

You are neither stupid nor senile - it is an easy mistake to make. I keep my Ramipril in the same mug as my toothbrush, and take my tablet (2.5 mg) every morning after I brush my teeth.
I am glad you lived to tell the tale!

Greatnan Thank you, so am I.

It is an easy mistake to make sook I have 4 tablets to take in the morning ,two of whic are the same tablet taken to make up a dose,this is now being reduced,I have been told to take one every other day,and I am buggered if I can rember if it is the day to take it or not,....you are not going senile..what a horrible scare for you..I know what you mean about having panic to a fine art,I have white coat syndrome.and always have a panic just as the cuff for the blood pressure goes on...result high blood pressure

I agree this is a very easy mistake to make. I have to be very careful that I don't mix up my meds.

Thank goodness you are OK now, Sook.

sook I am glad you are ok, no its easy done. In fact I very rarely take headache tablets but DH suffers with migraine and takes pots of tablets..... one day I was in the kitchen and he called and asked me to pass two headache tablets, I got them out carried on with what I was doing then went back into the other room where he asked where his tablets were..... I had taken them . So dont worry about it at least they were your tablets

I use a dosset box for my mother's medication otherwise I wouldn't remember what she should be taking and when.

glass - how suggestible are you?
I agree, very easy to take one without realising it, or not take one without realising it. OH takes about 5 pills at teatime, he puts them on the table and sometimes one will roll off. If he can't find it he wonders whether he has in fact taken it after all...

Don't worry, sook, you are not alone

Oh Nellie so do I - every time I have BP taken at surgery it is high. I have an approved machine at home and it is perfectly normal there and well within range
for age etc.I really don't want to take more medication in addition to thyroxine and inhalers.

DH and I had a to have a nurse-MOT last Monday as we signed on at our new surgery.Both of us had high readings - we were told to take BP 7 times a day and bring the chart into surgery. That's not too bad for me (although my upper arm feels quite bruised from the cuff) as my appointment is tomorrow but DH's is not until 28 August and 7 times a day is a bit much for all that time I think. I am going to ask tomorrow if he can stop - his BP has been fine too at home.He is a superfit cyclist with not an inch of fat on him (I've got his share).

Would you believe I have severe whitecoat disease? The trouble is this causes BP to be over treated!
I, have at long last, after letters from 2 consultant orthopaedic surgeons to my GP, been allowed to look after my own BP prescribing! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!

jeni is that a case of physician heal thyself....trouble is the more you know the more you have to worry I would be a basket case if I were a doctor...ignorance is bliss

Yup! but the problem was my BP was so low in hospital post op, I couldn't mobilise. No blood loss to account for it on both occasions. Medication had been stopped on admission due to low BP after 3rd reading!
GP would not believe what I said and I was feeling terrible!mhe insisted my sphygnomaneter was wrong!
I hate these modern new GPs who go on 'evidence based medicine' rather than old fashioned compassion and common sense!

I have to feel comfortable with a gp who understands my fear and is very calming.Have had a monitor attached to do readings...I would be watching and panicking all the time I had it.

Further to "evidence-based medicine", when DH was in the Heart Hospital I was twitchy about the machines he was wired up to which monitored heart/oxygenation/pulse/etc etc and when one of them seemed to be flatlining I got a doctor who looked at DH first and then checked the electrodes on DH's chest, then jogged the machine which started zig zagging as it should. He grinned and told me the most important lesson he had been taught at medical school was to look at the patient first and the machine second.

Thank you all for your good wishes Fortunately I have a very sympathetic GP regarding white coat syndrome and it is in my medical records as official although I am not sure if every doctor in the land recognises the condition.

I agree with you jeni that WCS causes BP to be over treated. On one occasion when my BP went haywire I was admitted to hospital and given a second drug which caused my already sluggish pulse to drop even further. My GP soon took me off this. He trusts me to take my own BP with a monitor that he recommended I buy. Every couple of months I have an appointment with him and prior to this I take my BP 4 times daily for a week. Occaisionally there are a few blips but otherwise the readings are at acceptable levels and he is happy with them. He knows that I am sensible with my diet and exercise regime and is aware that due to my DHs health problems that life is not always easy.

I am guilty though of taking my BP too often and that can cause problems if it is on the high side as I panic and make it worse. I have wondered about having some hypnotherapy sessions to help me relax.

DH takes approx 30 pills a day and despite his vagueness at times I have never known him to get confused over his meds. He took me to A+E and despite his own health problems sat by my side throughout the night. Lovely man!

Sook you are not on your own, I am sure you are not going senile, its so easy to make mistakes like you did.
When I was in my middle 30s (too young to be going senile at that age ?) I took my daughters (very) strong sedative tablets by mistake, I should have taken one of my hayfever tablets.
I didn't notice what I had done, and I put my drowsiness' down to trying to do many things at once. By the time I had had one or two later in the day I was almost unconscious ! It wasn't till I said to my daughter the next day that I couldn't understand why I was so tired, she discovered one of her tablets was missing and we put two and two together

Oh dear, sook, glad you were ok.

My BP tabs have the days of the week on them, as do my husband's. We both take them in bed in the morning, with a cup of tea, watching Breakfast, and feel really old and decrepit and oh, how the children laugh, but then we can forget them for the rest of the day.

I also suffer from whitecoat syndrome so my GP looks at my home readings from the week or two before my checkup and dispenses accordingly.

I have agreed with mine, I don't bother him and he doesn't bother me! If I need him I'll say and it will be serious! So he'd better respond!

o gosh so easily done!! I take bp tablet with statin in morning also take diuretic and the times I forget if take that one or not!! I like to take it separately due to if we going out obvious reasons earlier the better!!

glad was all sorted!!

I am the same reference b p readings always high at doctors!! take themat home and unless obviously stressed seem to be fine!

kitty My meds usually have the days of the week on them but this lot came from a different pharmacy. The Omega 3 capsules are in a large plastic bottle not a foil pack. That it didn't register when I picked the foil pack up by mistake amazes me. I usually take my BP tablet in the morning after I have walked the dogs. I found that by doing this I don't get the dizzy effect that sometimes Ramipril can cause. I much prefer your method though .

jeni I usually get my medication from our local Morrisons pharmacy and now and then from the CO OP chemist. Not sure if it is my imagination but when I swop from Ms to the CO OP I notice slight differences when I take my meds. Surely all drugs are standardised or is it just in my mind?

Thanks again for everyones responses.

Sook does the Ramipril give you an annoying cough? I came off it because of that and have a different pill.
I feel so stupid today but for a very different reason. We were booked on a ferry and also had an hotel booked in Boulogne. We came to DD last evening and went out for a meal and we just got back to the house and I caught my foot and went headlong! Went to A end E this morning and I have broken the humerous. Got it in a sling and go back Tuesday. I am hoping they will continue with immobilisation and not start suggesting an op- any expert on here give an idea of treatment and time scale please?
Feeling very foolish still and hating not being able to do things - going to the loo is a nightmare!

For DH I had one of those plastic box thingies with a different coloured strip for each day, each divided into five compartments labelled morning, afternoon, evening , night and "as required" . Once a week I filled up the four compartments a day with regular pills and the fifth with occasional ones. It was brilliant for removing any ambiguity about what he should he having and when, and whether he had taken them yet. As some of the drugs were pretty potent, I would have been worried sick about getting it wrong. Bought it on Amazon, if you are interested.

bez thats dreadful for you, I hope you dont need an op!

anno I have my FIL on a scheme where his prescription is delivered to the house every week, in a day and timed section box that leaves him in no doubt what he has to take when, it solved the worrying problem of had he taken his meds when he needed to.

Sorry elegran dont know where I got anno from, but I just been talking to her on another thread and its late