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Ditch-Runner
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a couple days back I got up to let Betsy ( one of our dogs that sleeps in my room ) out to potty about 3.00 am
so while we were up I got her meds and mine as it was close enough time for both of us to take them ( she has allergy meds )
I let her out then I walked to the sink and took my pill . so I thought AAAAHH wait it hit me just after I swallowed it I thought wait a minute I had took her pill mine was still on the counter. well crap .
so I let her back in gave her her pill then did some searching on what a dumb thing I did .
not funny but countless hits on the exact same thing with the same meds people had took or even give to the kids . by mistake . some like me had both meds in different hands and then ate the wrong one ( old man move for sure )
I would have been heaving in the bath room if it was not going be OK so I was doing a lot of searching not just the first one to pop up in my search lucky no danger or harm done on a one time ordeal .
but I did chase the cats around later on that day LOL
just a note be careful especially if half asleep . do not have yours and any one else even the dogs meds out at the same time
very lucky and one of the dumbest things I have did in a long time . embarrassed yes but just a heads up to all to be careful
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Sounds about like something I would do D\R! 😲
My morning pill routine is a bit complicated. I take a mix of meds and vitamins around 9 AM each day. I do it all from 3 pill bottles at a time that are all placed on a cupboard shelf in exact order. There are 3 sets of 3 bottles. I mentally take a good look at each handful of 3 (knowing all of them by type, shape, color, and size, before swallowing them.
Quite often, I get interrupted by my pair of K-9's who are anxious as all heck to get out the back door which is close by while in the middle of my pill routine. Many times I forget just which set of pills I was taking!!! End up going without something for the day. I know they make a large "pill minder" case for taking quantities of meds but I would probably forget to fill it anyway!
Don't worry, boys. In the nursing home, they take care of your meds for you.🤤
Glad it turned out ok, but yes it could be a very dangerous mistake. Be careful.
Might have gone sideways had I followed thru. My Lab Dixie was taking 4-32.4 Phenobarbital tablets a day. So I wasn't sleeping a night so I decided to try them out. She weighed 70 pounds and I weighed 230. So a little math and I needed about 12 pills. Someone called on the phone just as I was about to take them. On the phone for an hour and then I went straight to bed. Forgot to take them. Well I was speaking to a friend, his wife is a nurse and told him. She got on the phone and chewed me out and said I would have most likely went in a coma with the overdose. Scared the daylights out of me. Animals have different dosage than humans.
I have a tub full of vitamins that live on the table in front of me, plus several prescription meds beside the tub. Every day I have to stop and think or read my notes on what to take when. I spread them out over 3 meals, so I don't have to take them all at once. Back when I was a lot younger there was only a bottle of One A Day vitamins on the table. It's amazing how things go rapidly downhill as you get more seasoned (OLD).
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All good so long as you didn't mistake Betsy's water bowl for the toilet.
Just a little tip that works well whether you remember to take a pill... vitamins or anything. After taking flip the bottle and leave it rest on the lid.
Some time ago I picked up a container divided into 14 compartments
2 weeks it works out for me
But that morning I got minefrom my container and Betsy's from a different pace and proceeded to screw up
Speaking on drugs we had dog sadly no longer with us about 4 yrs ago but she was taking the exact pain med I was for a time
I had to jump thru hoops and see pain docs to get mine even though it was at the bottom of the controlled list.
any way at that time I could call the vet get 100 of the exact pill by just a phone call for Betsy our dog
I still think that was crazy
Our dog "Lela" is just getting through her last antibiotics capsules for an ear infection. Getting those things down her is a real PITA!! I tried taking the capsules apart and dumping the powder into various meat and fish products, but that dog could detect the bad taste and refuse to eat.
My wife comes along and seeing my misery, just opens Lela's mouth and sticks a capsule way back in her throat. Closes her mouth and rubs away until she swallows! 😐️
I'm such an amateur at this stuff!
Liverwurst is your friend. NEVER met a dog that wasn't crazy about the stuff. Just iinsert the capsule in a small chunk, they will swallow without chewing, no muss or fuss ... promise !
We had a Norwegian Elkhound that developed seizures. The only way we could get her pills down her throat was to wrap the pill in a small piece of cheese. She would inhale it then. Later on, we found out that she had a brain tumor. It got so bad we had to put her down.
It still pains me to think about her.
Joe
I once took an accidental double dose of Metoprolol along with my regular BP medicine (forgot to split the pill). Couldn't stand up or walk without getting swimmy-headed for the rest of the day.
Then there's my SIL who snatched a fresh out of the oven homemade doggy treat, thinking it was a cookie. He said he couldn't get rid of the gritty feeling in his teeth for hours.
I tried -braunschweiger with the capsule in it. She ate the meat but spit out the dang pill!! Tried it a few times and the capsule was ruined. When I just broke the capsule open and put the powder into the braunschweiger, she put the meat in her mouth and spit it all out! Darn doggy!!
Wormed quite a few hounds in my life.
our male Weiner dog has a ear infection issues ( right ear ) I think were headed to a specialist with him next up the list the local vets have been throwing stuff at him for close to a year with no real results
any way started out using peanut butter but he will growl and run if he smells it now 🤨 than on the cheese he has got very leery of it also . when giving him pills so the list grows on what we mix or wrap it in . from chicken , beef . to what ever it takes that day to help , just putting it in his mouth and holding it closed some times works but you may aslo have a few bite marks as a result . 😣 thank goodness he is just a small dog the other two dogs have no real issues with cheese or peanut butter but being big dogs they just swallow it one bite the Weiner dog not so much
but still better than trying to a cat to take any meds 😲