On Thursday I called my internal medicine doctor's office to get refills one clonidine and doxepin, gave them the pharmacy number to call. Went Thursday night to pick it up, paid for it, went home. I have a few clonidine left so I didn't look at or open the new one. Later yesterday I am putting things away and look at the bottle of clonidine. Only it wasn't a bottle of clonidine, it was a bottle of clonazepam. It's a valium like drug and has nothing to do with treating hypertension! The trade name of clonazepam is klonipin. Clonidine and klonopin sound so similar that it's hard for me to be mad at the doc's nurse or at the pharmacy who filled it. Has anything like this ever happened to you?Oh my. That is dangerous. Never happened to me. The worst is I have been shorted but never the wrong med. People make mistakes. I am glad you looked closely at the BottleI have a pretty common name. I once went to walgreens to get my prescription and was given the other girl's med. It was a cardiac medication. I checked it as I was pulling out of the drive-thru. That would not have been good.That is awful. Make sure you bring it to everyone's attention, make a big deal about it, and hopefully it will make them that much more careful, and it won't happen to someone else (who may not have noticed...)They are professionals, so even if the name sounds the same, the system shouldn't tolerate that type of mistake.My pharmacy changed managers, and since then I have had all sorts of problems with my scrips, but never the wrong med. I keep thinking I need to change, but there are so many meds it's a pain. We've had the same pharmacy for 8 years, and it's only been recently in the last 4 months that things have been messed up. I keep thinking if I give them a little time things will get better. But it hasn't yet.
Once, came home with another person's script for the same drug I was trying to get. I didn't notice until I finally put it up on the shelf and saw the dosing instructions were suddenly different. It happns all the time, you have to watch everything like a hawk. You are your doctor.
[QUOTE=graciesmom]My pharmacy changed managers, and since then I have had all sorts of problems with my scrips, but never the wrong med. I keep thinking I need to change, but there are so many meds it's a pain. We've had the same pharmacy for 8 years, and it's only been recently in the last 4 months that things have been messed up. I keep thinking if I give them a little time things will get better. But it hasn't yet. [/QUOTE]