Warning over double dose (From Southend Standard)

Warning over double dose

2:00pm Friday 23rd October 2009

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A DIABETIC woman is warning people to check their prescriptions after she was given a double dose.

Carolyn Davies, 49, picked up what she thought was her 25mgs prescription for amitriptyline, a combined muscle relaxant and sleeping tablet.

But when she got home, she realised she had been given the 50mgs dose.

Mrs Davies, of Crowstone Road, Westcliff, who takes the medication following an operation on her spine, said: “I thought the box had changed, but when I looked again I saw the dose was different.”

As a diabetic, she was concerned that taking the dose could have caused her further problems.

She said: “If I had taken these I could have ended up in a very deep sleep. If my husband had come home and couldn’t rouse me, he could have called an ambulance thinking I was in a diabetic coma.

“It’s a case of making other people aware of the need to check their medicines.”

Staff at Derix Healthcare pharmacy, in London Road, Leigh, who made up the prescription, declined to comment to the Echo.

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