[Butterfly_Faerie]

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I don't know if I took my Remeron twice tonight. I remember looking at the click and thinking that I got to remember to take my pill..... I brushed me teeth, and hopped into bed.
Got back out of bed, opened up my purse.
and there is my pills at the bottom of my small black purse.
Underneath my sunglasses, wallet, etc.

So I must have not taken it right???? You'd think that if I did then my pill bottle would be sitting up top somewhere?

I freaked out and calling my shrink up.

Major [censored] panic attacks

Tingling all over the body

shakes, teeth chattering

Why am I forgetting this?

You'd think that after nearly an hour of thinking I took 2 pills with Remeron being a sleeping aid, you'd think if in fact I did accidently double dose from 30mg-60mg that i'd be sluggish, drowsy etc.

Does that make sense?

OH GOD.

I'm scared

[Larry_Hoover]

The best thing to do when you mess up on whether you took a pill or not is to count them, and work it out on a calendar from when they were filled at the pharmacy. Of course, this works much better when you count the pills as soon as you get them, because some pharmacies don't count so good.

Second, 60 mg of Remeron is very activating. It seems counter-intuitive, but there are two very distinct modes of action for Remeron. The first one, the sleep inductive effect, is actually the most powerful at 15-30 mg. In fact, for a lot of people, at 30 mg that effect is already diminishing. I could explain that more fully, if you'd like.

At 60 mg, the sleep-induction thing is generally totally gone, and all you get is the antidepressant effect, which is pretty stimulating for most people.

You're right, your meds wouldn't likely be at the bottom of your purse if you took some tonight. If you did take double the normal dose, you'll get through it without too much difficulty, but you may have trouble sleeping tonight.

I hope you just try and relax, breathe deeply, get centred, and get off to bed.

Lar

[ktp]

Sundance:

I'm sure all is fine.

I know it's very hard to relax when you're in a panic attack. Maybe you should count your meds. Larry has an excellent point. I do that with mine as soon as I pick them up from the pharmacy and then count them at times when I'm not sure if I've already taken it. It is an excellent way to keep up with it when sometimes we forget.

If you really think your in trouble, please do what you have to do to make yourself safe. Maybe a call to the pharmacy to ask about possible effects would help you. Although, Larry's posts are very calming and make a lot of sense. Perhaps you should just try to lay down and get some rest.

Take Care and best wishes.
Kimberly

[eskielover]

As Larry said, if you just double the normal dose you may be a little uncomfortable, but it is not serious & no where close to an overdose to worry about.

I will never forget an overdose experience I witnessed while in the ER. A spanish speaking lady came in with her child. He wasn't feeling well after taking a med. She brought in the bottle with her to show the doctors what he had taken. The pill was to be taken "once" a day. When asked how many he was given, it was "once" (11 in spanish). Now, that was an overdose even though it was a simple mistake.

I have found that different people react differently to a larger amount of a drug. I have taken too many to relieve my chest pain when nothing else would help. When sent to the ER by my psychiatrist, they didn't believe that I had taken that amount. That doesn't make any difference as to the physical effects is can have on your body, so I was observed for several hours before being released. They never did believe the amount I really took. But is wasn't 2 either.

You'll be ok. Nothing that a good night sleep won't take care of.
Debbie K

[Butterfly_Faerie]

I don't think I did take the double dose last night, because if I did i'm sure I would have been out of it, with a sedated feeling. I did count my pills and they seem to be ok..

So I don't think I did, but I didn't sleep well last night, freaking out, wanted to throw them back up just in case.

Alot of tingling and I kept thinking of the worse case scenerios.



But I don't think that I did.

[Butterfly_Faerie]

Aparently my Psychiatrist left me a long message at my home on my phone, but I have yet to hear it. She did phone me about an hour or so ago here at my Boyfriends place and she told me since my Anxiety has been bad etc that maybe a meds change is likely not the best thing to do right now cause i'll just get more anxious over that. So she told me to go up to 45mg starting tonight, just to get myself stablized and then I'll go up from there.

Last nights attacks were so draining i'm feeling the affects of it today.... I still see her on Monday to figure stuff out, so hopefully it will be a good session.

Aparently 30mg of Remeron is only a theraputic dose, kinda like having 50mg of Zoloft... didn't know that until today.

[emwell]

Sundance : Your post so reminded me of me just a few weeks ago. Somehow, after the initial panic, I sat down and wrote about my feelings. I am trying to do that more and more. This is what I wrote after panicing over my pills.

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Tuesday afternoon was such an idiot. I went to take my afternoon adderall. I had 2 pills in my hand. I then went to throw away a cigarette box. As soon as I threw the box away, I immediately knew that I had thrown something in that I shouldn’t have. At first I couldn’t think of what it was I wasn’t suppose to throw away. After stopping and thinking, I knew it was the adderall. I managed to find one of the two pills. Now I am obsessing over the other. I will try to forget about it, and do what I went online to do.

It has been about a half hour and I am still thinking of that damn pill. Now I can’t remember if I took 2 or 1. I cannot remember opening my pocket book or the pill bottle a second time. I am such an idiot.

</div></font></blockquote><font class="post"> I wasn't so much afraid of side effects if I had taken too many. I was more angry that I threw tham away and had to try and remember what it was I had thrown away.

Writing this makes me think I am wackier than I thought.

[Butterfly_Faerie]

I have been having more obsessive thoughts. Even last night even though I did not take my meds until after 11:30 roughly at night I questioned myself, did I take them? Even though I know that I didn't.

The remeron is making me groggy in the morning since I've gone up in dose. Sucks.

I also didn't have my session today because my shrink was sick, but she scheduled me in for tomorrow so hopefully i'll get to go to that and figure out what to do about all of this.