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09-07-2022, 07:24 PM
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I'm supposed to take 4 pills every day for 10 days. I have 1 more dose to take tonight. After taking tonight's dosage, I'm supposed to have 4 pills left to take tomorrow to finish my bottle. Unfortunately, I would instead have 5 pills left after taking tonight dosage. I must have skipped a dosage on one of the days. Not sure when. What should I do?
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09-07-2022, 07:32 PM
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Originally Posted by FrankAce
I'm supposed to take 4 pills every day for 10 days. I have 1 more dose to take tonight. After taking tonight's dosage, I'm supposed to have 4 pills left to take tomorrow to finish my bottle. Unfortunately, I would instead have 5 pills left after taking tonight dosage. I must have skipped a dosage on one of the days. Not sure when. What should I do?
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You will be fine…best this happened at the end of your ten days |
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09-07-2022, 07:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Lola The yorkie
You will be fine…best this happened at the end of your ten days
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I'm not sure when I skipped my dosage though. It could've happened anytime during this period. I just know I have an extra pill left over. Should I take the extra pill? If so, when?
Last edited by FrankAce; 09-07-2022 at 07:42 PM..
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09-07-2022, 09:16 PM
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Location: The Bubble, Florida
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Originally Posted by FrankAce
I'm not sure when I skipped my dosage though. It could've happened anytime during this period. I just know I have an extra pill left over. Should I take the extra pill? If so, when?
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Continue taking as directed until they're all gone. If you took one 2 hours ago and you need to take one every 6 hours, then take one in 4 hours. And then take another six hours after that. And just keep going until they're gone. |
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09-07-2022, 10:22 PM
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Continue taking as directed until they're all gone. If you took one 2 hours ago and you need to take one every 6 hours, then take one in 4 hours. And then take another six hours after that. And just keep going until they're gone.
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This. ^^^
Just pretend you didn't know you missed one and keep taking em as directed |
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09-08-2022, 12:26 AM
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It doesn't hurt after 4 or 5 days if you miss one pill. Your system has already built up enough immunity and taking that last pill will reinforce what is already in your system. Not a problem.
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09-08-2022, 02:52 AM
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For antibiotics, the tradition during the 80 years of the Antibiotic Age is to prescribe a ten day course, but IIRC, that rule is not one of the ten chiseled in stone and brought back down the mountain by Moses.
Antibiotics have probably worked completely by day 3. If they haven't, you've got a resistant bug, but we usually over-prescribe to minimize the chance that any resistant mutants can take hold....In the case in question where the missed pill was at the end of the course, it's neither here not there whether or not the skipped pill is taken. ...Had this occurred early in the course, I'd recommend taking the missed dose when you realize it happened, then get back on the right schedule from there....
...For drugs one takes regularly, making up a missed dose depends on the med-- you don't want to double up on many diabetic meds (risk of hypoglycemia) and probably for anti-hypertensive meds (risk of hypotension/passing out)...In general, skip a med you think you missed and just get back on schedule at the the time of the next regular dose....For insulin-- a T2 should probably just forget it and get back on schedule. at the next regular dose, but for T1 (especially a brittle), where risk of ketoacidosis is a possibility, a dosage adjustment would be called for.
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09-08-2022, 06:17 AM
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Originally Posted by guidoLaMoto
For antibiotics, the tradition during the 80 years of the Antibiotic Age is to prescribe a ten day course, but IIRC, that rule is not one of the ten chiseled in stone and brought back down the mountain by Moses.
Antibiotics have probably worked completely by day 3. If they haven't, you've got a resistant bug, but we usually over-prescribe to minimize the chance that any resistant mutants can take hold....In the case in question where the missed pill was at the end of the course, it's neither here not there whether or not the skipped pill is taken. ...Had this occurred early in the course, I'd recommend taking the missed dose when you realize it happened, then get back on the right schedule from there....
...For drugs one takes regularly, making up a missed dose depends on the med-- you don't want to double up on many diabetic meds (risk of hypoglycemia) and probably for anti-hypertensive meds (risk of hypotension/passing out)...In general, skip a med you think you missed and just get back on schedule at the the time of the next regular dose....For insulin-- a T2 should probably just forget it and get back on schedule. at the next regular dose, but for T1 (especially a brittle), where risk of ketoacidosis is a possibility, a dosage adjustment would be called for.
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Different antibiotics require different courses of treatment for different reasons. When I have dental surgery I'm given a Z-pack, a 3-day treatment.
The longer-course antibiotics will make you feel better within a few days. But that doesn't mean it's killed all the bacteria. It just means it's killed enough of it that you feel better. If you stop taking the antibiotics when you feel better, the bacteria it hasn't killed yet will grow, and you'll feel sick again. You take it until it's gone, to ensure that ALL the bacteria it's trying to kill is dead. Doesn't mean you have a resistant bug, and it doesn't mean that resistant mutants can take hold. It means the longer-course antibiotics take time to get ALL the bacteria it's supposed to get. That is how they work, it's working as intended. |
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09-08-2022, 09:35 AM
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Just keep taking them on schedule until all are gone. Likely no harm done. Don't sweat it.
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09-08-2022, 09:56 AM
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The usual advice is...
if you miss a dose, take it as soon as possible, but don't take a double dose.
I would just keep up the schedule of every 6 hours, adding the missed pill on at the end.
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