I use a dosset box for my mother's medication otherwise I wouldn't remember what she should be taking and when.
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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 
Thank goodness you are OK now, Sook. 
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
Last night I did something really stupid and ended up in A+E under observation.
I can't believe that I took a second dose of my BP tablet instead of an Omega 3 capsule. I am on the 10mg maxium dose of Ramipril and had taken my usual dose in the morning. I feel SO STUPID I can only say that I was tired and a bit stressed and had decided to have an early night. As soon as I had swallowed it I realised as it felt different and panic set in. I rang the NHS healthline and they quickly estabilished that my weight and the total 20 mgs of medication that I had taken put me at a borderline risk for some nasty side effects. DH rushed me to our local A+E where I had an ECG which was totally erratic BP wouldn't register as it was too high (self inflicted) I have panic down to an art form. Eventually I did calm down enough to give them a BP reading, I had blood tests and the second ECG was normal. Although I began to feel much better and the doctor had said that I could go home, he changed his mind after researching the Ramipril website and following their guidleines I was kept in for observation and discharged at 6 am this morning.
I feel such a fool I can't believe that I was so silly or so distracted to have made such a stupid mistake. Even worse am I begining to suffer with dementia? I
I kept apologising to the staff who looked after me and they said that I wasn't the first and definately wouldn't be the last and definately not as bad as the lady who had stuck her eyelids together with superglue mistaken for eye ointment.
My BP remained raised throughout the night perhaps that was a good thing as one of the side effects would have been a dramatic fall in BP. Amazingly when I took it at home this morning it was normal. 
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