You will not believe what I did. Back when Oksana was first put on Trileptal she was on 300mg twice a day. Well the next day she was knocked out so I called the doctor and we cut the dose in half. I would just take a 300mg pill and cut it in half to give her 150 in the morning and 150 at night. When Oksana started going to respite we had a problem because our script still said to take 2 300mg pills a day and the respite center can not give meds any differently than what the bottle says without a note from the doctor. So I did get a note and in the mean time I also contacted the doctor and the pharmacy and asked them to change the bottle so that it reflected the accurate script. It was no problem and the bottle was changed to say take 1/2 in the morning and 1/2 at night....perfect.
Well back in July I noticed that I had 0 refills. I called the pharmacy and they called the doctor for a new script. When I picked up the bottle I realized that it said to take 1 pill twice a day again. I was already home so I just made a mental note to ask them yet again to get it fixed, but I never did really get around to it. I just kept giving her 1/2 in the morning and 1/2 at night.
On Monday we had an appointment with Oksana's psychiatrist. The nurse asked us if all of her meds were correct that they had on file. I told her that we were having trouble getting the script right on her Trileptal. The nurse turned her computer screen around and I saw "take 1 twice daily" and I started to tell her that was wrong but before I even got it out of my mouth I looked again and said "Does that say 150mg?" Sure enough it did so I immediately called Larry and told him to get her bottle and tell me how many mg the pills were. They were 150. Oh my. I did not realize what they had done and I had been giving her half of the 150mg tablets and not the 300mg tablets! Well now, that explains a WHOLE lot!
Her psych got a good laugh out of my mistake. I just keep telling myself that at least I was giving her too little and not too much!
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