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Posted: Jan 4, 2012

I've got the local respiratory creeping crud.  Saw the doc and he prescribed prednisone.  The pharmacist had to call him back today.  Prescription was written for 20 tablets, "1 on day one then 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 on successive days once a day".  I'm thinking that this makes no sense at all.  All of this MT work pays off.  He meant 6 on day one then 5 on day 2, 4 on day 3, etc., but the rx was written exactly as above.  How do common folk ever know what they have is not right?  Shouldn't the phamacy have noticed this when they filled it to begin with?  Why is it left to me, the patient, to say this can't be right?

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yes, the pharmacy should have noticed this - nm

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Error on Label - Christine

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Several weeks ago I was prescribed a course of prednisone for tenosynovitis. The prescription read "take two tablets a day for five days, then one tablet a day for five days." I took two for five days, but took one in the morning and one in the evening, then one a day for five days. The nurse at my doctor's office said for the first five days the two were to be taken together, and not a morning and evening dose, as I did. She said the pharmacist should have made that more clear. I thought they type exactly what is written by the doctor. It annoyed me because the prednisone did not help the condition, and maybe if I had taken two at a time for five days it may have. I feel your "pain."
(Literally.) Those things should not have to be figured out by patients.

two tablets a day is different than one tablet twice a day - don't think that's an error

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Gray area - Christine

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It would have been very clear if it read to take two tablets in the morning for five days, instead of saying to take two a day. The nurse agreed, and said it should have been made more clear. She said the mistake has been made by several patients. A simple rewording would eliminate any confusion.
you're right - they should eliminate confusion with proper instru
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