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Posted by Transmute Jun on 20-04-2012 at 17:26:

I'm so sorry you guys had to go through this, Jublke and EW. I'm glad you got everything sorted before there was any permanent damage! Huggles

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Posted by ElectricWhite on 20-04-2012 at 17:43:

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Originally posted by Transmute Jun I'm glad you got everything sorted before there was any permanent damage! Huggles

Me too! And, thankfully, Jan can't get any more jobs that would allow her any chance to practice medicine without a license, no matter how good her intentions are!

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Posted by amethyst on 20-04-2012 at 19:19:

Jublke, EW, scary stories.

Something that I've learned through all of my mom's health issues is a simple trick that can help prevent all of that:

On a 3x5 or 4x6 index card, write down all prescription meds, OTCs, and supplements with dosage and frequency. Carry this card with you at all times in case of an emergency, but especially when going to the doctors or the pharmacy. Whenever getting a new prescription check with both doctor and pharmacist about possible interactions. It also helps to ask both exactly what why something is being prescribed, what are the expected results, and what are the most common and most serious side-effects. Doing this will help prevent human error, double ups (this med prescribed by GP, that one by specialist, etc), and incompetence.

In an emergency, it also helps because the card can be handed over to the attendee (FD, Paramedic, etc), they can copy directly from the card to their notes with less risk of misinterpretation.

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Posted by Becky Rock on 20-04-2012 at 21:04:

That's an excellent idea, Ame.

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Posted by UnpublishedWriter on 20-04-2012 at 22:47:

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Originally posted by ChrisW
Yikes!!! Just goes to show how you have to stay on top of that stuff.

My mother got a new doctor at one point and one prescription he gave her was for Valium. She didn't get it filled and asked him why he prescribed it, and he said, "All women need it sometimes."

I couldn't decide which horrified me more: that he did it, or that she didn't immediately change doctors.

My mother was on powerful painkillers for her back. Then some idiot doctor prescribed methadone for her.

My brother called and told me she had collapsed. I took time off and went home. Mom was still wonky and unable to stand on her own -- two days later.

She ended up in the hospital for three days.

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Posted by Becky Rock on 20-04-2012 at 23:07:

My mother had high blood pressure and was on meds for that. Then she was diagnosed with Parkinson Disease. One of the symptoms of that is low blood pressure.

Neither doctor figured it out until she landed in the hospital with dangerously low blood pressure. They took her off the high blood pressure meds and it took about a week to get her back on track.

I worry about my husband, who has diabetes. Everytime we turn around, they're sticking him with a new med for one thing or another. For example, diabetes meds can give you high blood pressure. That's can, not will. They didn't even bother to monitor to see if his pressure was going up. They automatically put him on high blood pressure meds. I told him not to take it, to monitor his pressure for a while first, but he wasn't going to question them.

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Posted by amethyst on 21-04-2012 at 00:02:

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Originally posted by Becky Rock
I worry about my husband, who has diabetes. Everytime we turn around, they're sticking him with a new med for one thing or another. For example, diabetes meds can give you high blood pressure. That's can, not will. They didn't even bother to monitor to see if his pressure was going up. They automatically put him on high blood pressure meds. I told him not to take it, to monitor his pressure for a while first, but he wasn't going to question them.

Becky, your husband may be right. My husband has diabetes too and they have him on a blood pressure medicine. At his last check up, he asked about his blood pressure. The doc answered that not only does the medicine they added keep blood pressure normal, but it also helps the kidneys and works to prevent damage to them from the diabetes.

At his next check he should check to see if that is why he is on those meds.

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