I usually fill my pill box up every two weeks. Keeps stuff plain and simple. For some reason this Saturday night instead of filling up the med box I just took them straight from the packet.
Anyway I was just getting my night meds ready:
1 x 300mg quetipine
3 x 20mg fluoxetine
1 x 100mg pregabalin
1 x omega 3 capsule
1 x multivitamin
So quite a few pills. Was just starting to get them ready and my phone goes. Stupid me I think I can multitask so I talk and get my pills then swallow them simultaneously. No problem.
Cut to two hours later and I feel sedated as. Sedation is normal for me but this seemed a bit more than usual. I chalked it off to having a bad nights sleep the previous night. I go to bed.
Woah I had crazy dreams involving knives and woke up a 7 in a start having had only 5 hours sleep. I was panicked from the nightmare so I just lay in bed for half hour vaping.
Then I noticed I felt really weird. Like spaced out but not in a nice way. Plus my vision was blurred like I had tired eyes. I have coffee but still feel ■■■■.
I go to take my morning meds from my pill box but then remember I didn’t fill it the night before. So I go to the pill packets.
Turns out I got my fluoxetine and pregabalin mixed up so last night I had taken 300MG PREGABALIN and only 20mg fluoxetine. That totally explained it.
Had a brief freak out. Was gonna phone a doctor but couldn’t face the trip to hospital. Plus. Knew 300mg is often taken at once by patients but you totally have to titration up to it slowly or you feel like ■■■■.
So these last two days I have felt thoroughly miserable from the effects of the pregabalin.
But feel fine now but the lesson is learned. Only take pills from a pill box which has been filled with no distractions
