Yikes! A royal goof-up!!!

[Guest guest]

Okay folks, today I did something so royally stupid, and I'm in a bit

of a panic about it.

This morning, I think I took a Sonata instead of a Kadian - that

wouldn't be much of an issue, except that this morning I had an

appointment at my pain doc's and they did one of their surprise urine

tests!

When (if) they find no Kadian in my system - let alone Sonata in the

middle of the day - that's a violation of my pain contract. I could

lose my wonderful lifesaving pain doc, and all hope of having any

pain control in the future! That would literally be the end of my

life.

I'm going to call the nurse first thing in the morning and explain,

and hope that by telling them before they get the results they will

give me a break. They do know me very well there, and I've been a

model patient for three years with this doc. He's a single-doc

practice and keeps it very small, so he knows all his patients

intimately, and his staff of two (one nurse and one office manager)

both are wonderful and know me as well. My only hope is that they

are able - given today's legal climate - to give me a break! I'll

over to come in on demand for more urine tests, bring my bottles in

for a pill count - whatever they want to make it good.

The bottles were sitting side-by-side, they're both capsules

(granted, one blue and one green - maybe I can plead color

blindness??), and I was in a huge hurry and half asleep at the time.

I knew something was wrong with me this morning - I was driving to

work after the appointment (which I'm fine to do on my opiods) but

this morning I couldn't keep my mind on the road. It was really

strange. I felt like my head was all stuffed with cotton. I blamed

it on my allergies at the time, not knowing what else it could be.

It wore off after a couple of hours, which the Sonata would have

done. Plus, my pain spiked something awful about four hours past my

med time, which isn't normal. I had to take a couple of

breakthroughs to get through the day, which is unusual for me. When

I got home from work and went to take my night meds just a little

while ago, I realized that the Sonata bottle was where my Kadian

bottle usually is. I don't know how many Kadian pills I had left -

I've missed a couple of doses before so it's not " to the day "

accurate - but I'm almost certain now that that's what happened!

Geez, could I be any dumber? Keep your fingers crossed for me that

there is still forgiveness for an honest mistake.

Cheryl in AZ and in A Panic