{"id":4138,"date":"2011-09-18T17:46:41","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T00:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/?p=4138"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:59:22","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:59:22","slug":"bipolar-disorder-meds-yikes-i-almost-made-a-pretty-bad-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/bipolar-disorder-meds-yikes-i-almost-made-a-pretty-bad-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"Bipolar Disorder meds: Yikes! I almost made a pretty bad mistake….."},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>I\u00a0 had a pretty scary experience today.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am good about taking my medications. I basically have no life if I don\u2019t use my Lamictal along with my management plan. They can\u2019t work alone- so meds are my lifeline.<\/span><\/p>\n

I have small amounts of my meds in many locations as I move around town a lot and may forget to put my daily meds container in my purse.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here’s where I put them:<\/span><\/p>\n

1. My glove compartment<\/span><\/p>\n

2. My mom\u2019s house<\/span><\/p>\n

3. My house<\/span><\/p>\n

4. My daily dose in my purse- I fill this bottle every night.<\/span><\/p>\n

Today, I was putting a bottle of meds at my mom\u2019s house and had my daily bottle in my backpack.<\/span><\/p>\n

I took out both bottles at once.<\/span><\/p>\n

My daily meds are 700mg Lamictal \u00a0(my Lamictal is much higher than most doses), Ativan for sleeping if it\u2019s a rough night, a pain pill for a hip injury that I use if the hip is driving me crazy and I can\u2019t sit\u00a0and work- and an iron pill. <\/span><\/p>\n

The other bottle had the extras for my mom\u2019s cupboard – so a lot more pills.<\/span><\/p>\n

I first emptied my correct dose in my right hand.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then I opened the extra supply bottle and poured out the contents into my left hand to check how much I had in there. \u00a0\u00a0And then, believe it or not\u2026 as crazy and awful as this is- instead of taking the small daily dose- I cupped the hand with all kind of pills in it and put it in my mouth!<\/span><\/p>\n

I immediately realized what I had done and only a few went into my mouth- they were all pretty wet when I spit them out. \u00a0None were swallowed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lamictals\u2026.Iron pills\u2026 Ativans\u2026 and\u00a0two pain pills all at once! Yikes!<\/span><\/p>\n

That was some fast spitting!<\/span><\/p>\n

My point:\u00a0 It\u2019s hard for people with bipolar disorder to gets their meds straight every day. Can you imagine having to take so many pills throughout the day- every day of your life!\u00a0 It sometimes gets really confusing. <\/span><\/p>\n

The meds from my mouth dried and all is fine. I\u2019m lucky they didn\u2019t disintegrate!<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m sure you have stories too. <\/span><\/p>\n

Whew, disaster averted!<\/span><\/p>\n

Julie<\/span><\/p>\n


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\"\"<\/a>I had a pretty scary experience today.<\/p>\n

I am good about taking my medications. I basically have no life if I don\u2019t use my Lamictal along with my management plan. They can\u2019t work alone- so meds are my lifeline.<\/p>\n

I have small amounts of my meds in many locations as I move around town a lot and may forget to put my daily meds container in my purse.<\/p>\n

Here’s where I put them:<\/p>\n

1. My glove compartment<\/p>\n

2. My mom\u2019s house<\/p>\n

3. My house<\/p>\n

4. My daily dose in my purse- I fill this bottle every night.<\/p>\n

Today, I was putting a bottle of meds at my mom\u2019s house and had my daily bottle in my backpack.<\/p>\n

I took out both bottles at once.<\/p>\n

My daily meds are 700mg Lamictal (my Lamictal is much higher than most doses), Ativan for sleeping if it\u2019s [ Read More ]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11646,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4138\/revisions\/11646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}