Okay, last summer I fogot to put my Atenolol (blood pressure) pill in my daily pill planner for the week when I went on vacation. I was really upset about it, not only because I almost wound up at the emergency room but because I have never made that kind of a mistake before, I was always helping my mother with her meds.
This week has been even worse. On Tuesday I noticed I was having several heart palpitations again. I checked and once again everything was high, my bood pressure being 149/91 while my heartrate was 121. A friend of mine asked if I'd forgotten the Atenolol again and even though I was sure I hadn't, I checked my daily containers. And found that my Atenolol WASN'T in there, which means I had forgotten it for at least 2 days. So I put it in for the rest of the week.
Well, THAT was bad enough, but then it got worse. My cat got sick and work got stressfull and I really started stressing out. Wednesday I got insomnia and found myself crying myself to sleep. I thought, well its just a bad day. But then the same thing happened Thursday. Finally Friday morning after I got to work I just realized I was WAY to hyper and I once again checked my pills. This time I counted, and only came up with 12. (Should have been atleast 14, 15 with the vitamin pill). Then I had to stare at the pills to figure out what was missing. Yeah, the Paxil and Welbutrin. My anti-depressent pills. And since I had filled the container on Monday morning, that meant I hadn't taken a Paxil in 5 days. No wonder I've been a basket case.
I've restarted the Pills of course, and I'm calming down pretty quickly - although I bet I cry fairly easily for days if not weeks. But I'm really not happy over all this. I have no family any more - mother died in 2000, I live alone, I work a mimimum 40 hour week and I can't afford this kind of mistake. Yeah, I'm going to work up a pill schedule that I check every time I go to make up my pills, but what am I going to screw up next? Is it still safe for me to be driving to work now? Not that I have much of a choice... :sad:
This week has been even worse. On Tuesday I noticed I was having several heart palpitations again. I checked and once again everything was high, my bood pressure being 149/91 while my heartrate was 121. A friend of mine asked if I'd forgotten the Atenolol again and even though I was sure I hadn't, I checked my daily containers. And found that my Atenolol WASN'T in there, which means I had forgotten it for at least 2 days. So I put it in for the rest of the week.
Well, THAT was bad enough, but then it got worse. My cat got sick and work got stressfull and I really started stressing out. Wednesday I got insomnia and found myself crying myself to sleep. I thought, well its just a bad day. But then the same thing happened Thursday. Finally Friday morning after I got to work I just realized I was WAY to hyper and I once again checked my pills. This time I counted, and only came up with 12. (Should have been atleast 14, 15 with the vitamin pill). Then I had to stare at the pills to figure out what was missing. Yeah, the Paxil and Welbutrin. My anti-depressent pills. And since I had filled the container on Monday morning, that meant I hadn't taken a Paxil in 5 days. No wonder I've been a basket case.
I've restarted the Pills of course, and I'm calming down pretty quickly - although I bet I cry fairly easily for days if not weeks. But I'm really not happy over all this. I have no family any more - mother died in 2000, I live alone, I work a mimimum 40 hour week and I can't afford this kind of mistake. Yeah, I'm going to work up a pill schedule that I check every time I go to make up my pills, but what am I going to screw up next? Is it still safe for me to be driving to work now? Not that I have much of a choice... :sad: