[Blueberrybook]

Ugh. I accidentally took one of my night 300 mg. Seroquel pills this morning with Lamictal, Klonopin, and propanolal (usual morning meds). I'm sure it doesn't help that I took one last night as prescribed.

I went for a walk this morning and had the feeling that something was wrong at the start but went anyway. During the walk, I saw 4 trees in an area that has 2 trees for about 5 seconds. I put it down to the effect of the street lights and blinking since it was dark out. Later, I thought I saw a dark figure of a man hide behind a tree in front of me during my walk. I doubt he was real in hindsight. Anyway, that was enough to turn me around to walk in the other direction, and I noticed I was getting clumsy, and that's when I remembered I took a 300 mg Seroquel accidentally this morning. I was going to keep on walking, but suddenly my right earbud stopped working. I couldn't get it to work, and one thing that drives me crazy when I walk is if one side of the earbuds stops working. I finally made an intelligent decision to come home. (I did check the earbud later, and it still is not working on the one side, so that really happened.) I have never hallucinated before except in the hospital after major surgery while on morphine and all kinds of medication.

Now, I'm sleepy, but I'm too agitated to sleep. I have laid down and tried to sleep and can't. I'm still clumsy, and typing this post is challenging me when I'm usually an extremely good typist. I called my pdoc's cell phone finally, but it went straight to voicemail. I left a message telling him I took the extra Seroquel & to call me back about what to do about it. Hopefully, I hear from him soon. I am supposed to go to a birthday party this afternoon for one of my nieces and one of my nephews and wonder if I should stay home and if I do, can my husband and daughter still go and will I be OK at home alone?
The party is at my parents' house, roughly a 1.5 hr. drive from home.

I cannot believe I did this again. I took night meds accidentally last month too, and that was the first time I ever did it, and I have been on psych meds over 20 years. Maybe something else I'm on is causing me to be forgetful about what type of pills I put in my pill boxes and what I am taking each morning?

[Nola0250]

I did something like this once and I was a mess all day. Way too much to cover it up and go to a party! I think the extra dose will make you feel weird and sedated but it is probably ok for you to be alone. I would just stay home if I were you. But I can't tell how freaky it is and how much is just sedation. If you're pretty freaked then you should have your family stay home with you. Maybe just say you all have a virus.

[hopeless2015]

I actually did this a couple weeks ago, when I got to work I was like why am I so tired, then I realized I had taken my Seroquel. Uggg

Sorry that happened. I was thinking "pill box" till I got to the end and saw you already use one. Hmmm. The only thing I can think to suggest is what I do, that started at a point where my prescriber was changing my meds a bit too much and I was getting a bit flustered from my usual easy fill routine... I physically separate the bottles of am and pm before I start to fill the am and pm containers. The ones that are both am and pm I put in the middle. My am and pm containers are separate entities. I fill the am. Then the pm. So far, so good.
(Apologies if you weren't looking for ideas...)

[Blueberrybook]

Ugh...I felt a mess most of yesterday. I went to the birthday party because hubby didn't want to leave me home alone. I did lie down and sleep a little since the party was at my parents' house. After that, I felt a little more human. I was glad I went because one of my sisters drove down from the Dallas area with my nephews (about a 6 hr. drive as my parents and I live in the Houston area) and she had done a lot of geneaology work for an upcoming family reunion next month and brought it with her. That side of the family was my maternal grandfather, and he was one of 13 siblings, so it was a lot of work. She had a lot of interesting stories she had gotten from people in the family, (some she can't share at the reunion - people in jail for various crimes, known alcoholics, one person who went completely insane, killing all the family chickens by stuffing corncobs down their mouths while the family was away, cross-dressers back in the early 1900s), when both sides of that family immigrated to the U.S., copies of birth, baptism, death certificates, draft cards, etc., interesting facts about name misspellings and changes, strange deaths, etc.

Pdoc called me back while I was at my parents' house and said it was OK to take my normal dose of Seroquel last night. This morning, I'm feeling OK though I slept a few hours more than normal.

[HALLIEBETH87]

Do you use a pill box?

Yep, that’s the thing about taking drugs is the overdosing. Taking just one pill above dose is overdosing even though people uses it more in referring to cause of death as in died by overdose.

I feel the same about the Lamictal that I take....I use a pill box because I tend to forget or not remember, especially when an alter took the meds.....so I look to see if the box is empty.

[Blueberrybook]

Yes, I do use a pill box, a couple in fact. Somehow, 2 Seroquel halves ended up in my morning box. Then, I was thinking that’s funny, I usually only take one pill spilt in half in the morning (propanolol because it is cheaper to buy fewer 40 mg pills than more 20 mg pills), so then I put the 2 halves of Seroquel together in the morning. Ugh, that was miserable! I have to be more careful about which meds I take in the morning.