- Weddings are always bad ideas, for those attending and for those throwing. #hungover #
- I wish I could go on vacation every month out of state. #daddywemissyou #
- Back from dinner. Did I miss any-HOLY SHIT WTF HAPPENED! #
- "This is madness!" "THIS…. IS…. PHARMA!!!!!" #badjoketake2 #
Idle question. I’ve wondered about this for a while, and I can’t think of a better place to ask. I got acute bronchitis while on a business trip. I was given a prescription for hydrocodone, which I filled when I got home. As I sat in the parking lot of the pharmacy, feeling 2000% miserable, I thought, “Maybe I should have some now?” But… I didn’t. I was beat, and didn’t want to play with fire. So I got home, took the teaspoon specified on the bottle — and felt like I’d been hit by a Marlin Perkins Tranquilizer Dart Special. Understandable: I was sick, I was beat, I’d been unable to sleep the night before, etc.
The next morning, as per the prescription (twice daily!), I took another teaspoonful… and *wham*. Again with the tranquilizer dart. Enough so that I grew suspicious (four hours later, when I could reasonably think again). That was when I realized that the bottle they gave me held 1.5 oz. But it also “held” 60 doses at 1 teaspoon each, according to the label — which comes to 10 oz. Or, roughly, a 6:1 ratio. Good thing I’m overweight!
So: what’s the correct protocol here? I realize the pharmacy fucked up, but I really don’t want anyone getting in trouble. It’s water under the bridge, now, but is this something I should have called out? I know everyone has an off day sometime, but how are things like this dealt with? It was a CVS, if that makes any difference.