I think I may have taken too much of my medication. I didn’t think I took it, so I took a double doze of everything. It’s too late to call my doctor, and the local pharmacy is closed. To be specific:
let me see my regular dosage of medicine is
2 400 MG of Seroquel XR
20 mg of escitalopram
.5 MG of Lorazepam.
2 1,000 Units of Vitamin D
Now the thing is I didn’t think I took my pills so I just took another dosage of everything. But I double checked and realized I took Thursday’s medication, which means I may have already taken Wednesday nights…could that amount be harmful? What should I do?
I’m not sure. Can you vomit? Depends on how long ago you took your medicine.
Double dose Seroquel might make you sleep all night and maybe tomorrow.
In Sweden we have a nurse to call both nights and days. Don’t you have that in your country? The nurse gives advice. Or maybe call ER and ask for advice?
I think that if anything you should be feeling more sedated - but I dont think that its anything dangerous.
To feel more reassured you can call a 24 hr pharmacy
Yeah, call the pharmacy or the ER or even your local psyche ward or hospital if you have one near you and you can somehow get their number. Don’t wait until you start feeling odd or different, it might be too late by then. Call NOW.
well found a 24 hour pharmacy he said the biggest concern would be a kind apena type thing happening with irregular heart beats. Since I’m not 100% certain I took two dozes and at the moment am feeling fine (except for the highly anxious state of mind I put myself in). I took my temp and it was a little high, but I haven’t been feeling well all day and that could be because of that. Also I wonder how an anxious mind plays with a person’s body temperature since the feeling makes you all sweaty and jittery.
I was kind of thinking instead of going directly to bed, like I do I should try and stay up for several more hours and see if anything strange happens. I really don’t want to go to the ER especially considering at the moment I’m feeling fine. I don’t want to wake up my parents, my dad wouldn’t be of any help right now, and my mom has to go to work tomorrow, since she was just home a whole month for medical leave herself I don’t think I want to screw with her sleeping schedule. I guess there’s nothing else for me to do but ride this out until morning If I can stay up until mom and dad get up for the day then maybe dad can keep an eye on my breathing when I go to be. I’m feeling really energetic actually and it might not be that hard to stay up all night.
okay I’m so confused right now…I know I said I may have taken this accidental over-doze, but now I’m confused as to the day it is and if I actually did take an overdose or not.
The thing that is confusing me the most… I have my medications kept in a weekly pill holder, since I take the same amount at the same time every day.
Here’s where the confusion steps in.
I’m watching a show I own on DVD while i take my medication, I take Thusrday’s pills. Then I doubt myself wondering if I had actually taken Wednesday’s pills after I did dishes or not. Normally that’s my routine. I do dishes then come back to my computer and take my pills while I find something on the computer to watch.
There was one thing I did differently this evening rather than grabbing a diet coke my stomach was bothering me a little so I took a Sprite instead. I drank the sprite. And usually during that drink I take my pills. Thus Wednesday’s are gone I don’t pay attention to anything else as I watch my show, I just finish my drink. I glanced at my clock and it said it was Thursday and since I couldn’t remember if I had taken pills already I decide to take Thursday’s pills.
Then I’m thinking…didn’t I take pills already? I had a flash that it was Wednesday and that confused me. Now I look at my computer’s clock again it’s Friday. So if that’s the case then yes I took Thursday’s pills tonight, and yesterday I took Wednesday’s pills.
I think I’m more on a highly confused situation of what day it is than an actual situation of an accident over doze…
Well about an hour later and am feeling fine. I’m getting tired though and I think I going to try and lay down. I think if were to notice any side-affects from a possible overdose I’d feel it by now. I’ve calmed down a great deal and thanks for the support and help. I did write a note and am going to keep it at a computer just in case my parents can’t wake me up letting them know it was purely an accident. I don’t want to leave it exactly where it will be seen in case I’m wrong so i don’t panic them. I’ll just leave it in my room next to my medications, but honestly I think all that happened was I got my days confused and I really didn’t take 2 dosages. I’m usually quite alert when I take my pills and if today is Friday, then taking Thursday’s pills means I did it right.
My my, how our minds & sanity can unravel so quickly…
Itsvprobably not going to do much except make you sleepy, the doc wouldnt prescribe it if it was that easy to OD so I would just carry on with your next dose and if you need to get a pull box so it doesnt happen again x
I just wanted to say thanks for the help. I’m fine, I didn’t go to the hospital or ER, I just stayed up a couple of hours to see if any side-affects would happen because I know here unless you’re a real emergency they tend to charge you extra for going into the ER, and aside from high anxiety I was fine last night.
I think what happened was I just got my days confused, I took Thursday’s pills while Looking at Wednesday’s slot thinking it was Wednesday night going into Thursday morning…when in fact it was Thursday night going into Friday morning. This evening I have my pill organizer completely filled so I know when I take tonight’s pills it’ll be the right night. I don’t know what set off my train of thinking that I over-dosed.
I just took eat easy today and relaxed, nothing bad happened, or at leas not yet, the day isn’t over yet…but thank you all for the help.
If I were you, Id just get a good night sleep. Actually in fact what I would do is phone the local psych ward and talk to one of the nurses. They will be able to put your mnd ay ease.
the biggest concern there would be if you took 1600 mg of seroquel…it would probably just knock you out…800 mg a day is supposed to be the max dose, but on occasion I have heard people take more.
It was good to stay up and see what happened…
this link shows what can happen but I notice the person who took 1600 mg also was only on 100 mg a day so that would be an overdose for them…if you are on 800 mg a day and your body has tolerance to that it probably wouldnt be as bad as someone on only 100 mg taking 1600…still it mentions heart and blood pressure issues, so can be a concern
PS: also, that doctor answering is wrong saying 300 is the max dose, as it is actually 800 mg