STUPID MISTAKE OR AM I GOING SENILE ?

Sook you are not alone in slipping up with meds. I have done it too the last serious one was in France with my beta- blockers. I didn't know whether to make myself sick or just hope I would be okay, I did the latter but I was terrified.
Agree with jeni about BP, mine soars when I go into the surgery but GP will not accept WCS exists. I was hospitalised straight from the surgery once because it was 190.

Oh Sook you've almost caused me to end up in A&E from choking on my . I'd just taken a gulp when I read " definately not as bad as the lady who had stuck her eyelids together with superglue mistaken for eye ointment."
I'm sure it was traumatising for her, but it had my rolling around with tears streaming down my face!
Glad you're okay though, and I'm thankful I'm not on any medication (apart from the afore-mentioned ) as it all sounds very complicated!

My dear sister did exactly that with superglue, mistaking it for eye drops. She managed to get herself to A & E by taxi and they just washed and washed it. She is very stoical.
I have been taking the minimum dose of Ramipril , 2.5 mg, for about a year with no obvious side effects. My blood pressure fluctuates hugely during the day, being very high (180/100) when I first get up, and falling to 100/60 after a very long and strenuous walk. I made notes for a week of both readings and showed them to my French doctor. He just shrugged and said 'C'est normal'. He says that about most things. I think he thinks I am a raving hypochondriac but my mother had some small strokes when she was about 86 that led to dementia. (That gives me 15 years to go!) She had decided to stop taking her bp tablets without consulting her doctor because they made her feel 'funny'.
I have only once felt light-headed on a walk, and I was told by a good friend with plenty of medical knowledge that it was because it was a very hot day , I had climbed for four hours, I had forgotten to take my water, and had not eaten anything since breakfast of a bowl of porridge several hours before. Nothing to do with my bp medication, just dehydration. Now, I never set off without a full water bottle and a banana, I gear my walks to the weather, and I have five minute stops about every half hour.

sookusually treated with collar and cuff. Occasionally may need pinning. Good advice on web fom transpenine nhs trust google fractured humerus for it!

Regarding going senile 'cos you've done something daft: if you were going senile you wouldn't know it would you? 'Cos you'd be senile!!

So, if you think you're going senile you can't possible be.

Anyway, that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.

Now, where did I put my specs? Oh - I'm wearing them........

Bez Ow that sounds painful. I hope you get it sorted quickly and as painlessly as possible. jeni has left advice for you.

I started taking 2.5mg Ramipril late Sept 2011 I did have a slight dry cough but not for long. I do get a very drippy nose at times but nothing that I can't cope with. I did feel very light headed at first and especially as the dose was increased to 10mg quite quickly (far too quickly in my opinion) but as I've mentioned I exercise prior to taking as it seems to help I suppose the exercise opens the blood vessels and arteries certainly my BP is good after a walk usually around 125/60.

What medication are you taking at the moment?

Sook - I have looked googled as Jeni suggested and hopefully will be in the majority who do not need an op.
I have been taking BP meds for years - Bendroflumethiazide, Valsartan, and latterly Felodopine. All smallish doses. With the Ramipril I had a constant dry cough and was alerted to the fact maybe it was the meds by my DIL who asked what I was taking as I sounded the same as her mother and she was taken off it. I could not go anywhere without sucky sweets or cough crops in my bag. Had it swapped for the Felodopine.
Arm not quite so bad now until I get up or down - if it goes the tiniest bit forward of the shoulder it is very painful. Back to see them tomorrow and hopefully discover my fate!

I have a collection of pill boxes marked with the days of the week. One for bed-time, one for first thing in the morning and another for daily steroids. Otherwise would be in a hopeless muddle.