Are Too Many Pharmaceuticals Round And White?
Last week one of the nine pills I take was changed from a small plain cream pill to one that was white, slightly larger with a slash on it.
I now take nine pills daily of which five are white and round, with two having slashes on them.
It didn’t cause any confusion with the dispensing, as I made sure I only pre-loaded a week’s drug containers. But, when I went to fill up Tuesday’s and Wednesday’s containers for this week, I couldn’t find the new drugs, as I’d confused them with the other drug with a slash and put them in the wrong drawer of the cabinet, where I store the drugs.
I put the confusion down to two many similar white drugs.
As a child, I used to build radios and amplifiers, so to avoid mistakes electricians and engineers started to use colour-coded wires, for all the different signals.
It became important, as some voltages used in high-power amplifiers could kill you. As Keith Relf of the Yardbirds was!
But then white drugs are cheap, just like grey cables.
The Anonymous Widower 
I agree – I am on more meds than you, and I find there are too many white ones. The other thing is that the pharmacy I have used for many many years (Boots) closed down local stores. The good thing about Boots is that they manufacture a lot of the drugs they dispense. So each medication looks the same every time you get it. The one I am using now is a local chain, and they are excellent and very helpful. But they dont manufacture drugs, so they often look different each month. There are 2 that are very important and are usually large round tablets, but in this last prescription they are both small oval shapes. So when I look at the container I check them into there doesnt look to be enough tablets.
Liz P
Comment by nosnikrapzil | November 28, 2024 |