To put in a claim for medical negligence.

Nurses and midwives sometimes make drug errors. You will struggle to find one who hasn't. This is because we are human and all humans make errors, especially when under pressure.

If the midwife apologised to you it's highly likely they've followed procedure and reported the error. From this report their seniors will look to understand why this happened and learn from it.

By all means complain but this reads like you are after a payout and blood for something that cost you nothing.

I don’t think OP is in the U.K.

I also googled symptoms and, and it could be fatal

Of course an ibuprofen overdose could be fatal - an overdose of pretty much anything can be - but I highly doubt the dosage you were given was anywhere approaching that level.

You’ve suffered no long term harm. The nurse apologised and will have had to write a reflection on it and she will never make that error again.

You're not vile at all. I know exactly what those symptons were you suffered. It's very scary when you are given medication without a sufficient gap. It could have been a lot worse as unpleasant as it was. You and baby are fine. Concentrate on that x

Oh behave yourself 90% of Claims I’ve heard about in real life would be considered vexatious by somebody, usually the losing party.

Your post is full of "could haves". Let it go, you sound vindictive. You came to no harm.

The only thing NHS understands is money so if you don’t put in a complaint and demand compensation for the anxiety and trauma caused by them overdosing you
They are unlikely to learn anything or put in preventative measures to stop the next person potentially being fatally overdosed.
When you put in a complaint with the NHS and arse covering exercise commences immediately there’s no black box thinking in terms of just learning from mistakes apologising and moving on
It becomes a case of who can we throw under the bus for this one?

I think it would be reasonable to make a complaint - it might help stop it happening to someone else. I can't imagine you could make a claim for compensation though.

By strong and very strong can you say the number of mg.

I suspected that was why I couldn’t find it listed anywhere it should have been.

Presumably you aren’t in the UK as ibuprofen suppositories aren’t available here. Dizziness doesn’t appear to be a symptom of overdose either. So no harm occurred, and assuming your country has similar laws to the U.K., a court would only award compensation if harm occurred (and often not even then).

Assuming there really was a drug error of some kind you absolutely should complain and expect to receive an apology, though.

And you will get laughed out of court. And a large bill.

There’s nothing here that suggests that the OP has even received a dose outside of therapeutic limits. Just that there was an error because that wasn’t the dose she was supposed to be given.

You can’t make a claim for “possible” future conditions @PluckyChancer !!!
Have a read of what constitutes medical negligence OP - speak to a legal firm. Be prepared for vast expenses of legal fees and a lot of stress even if you won (you won’t) and ask how much you’d lose if you pursue legal action and lose. Courts take a dim view of vexatious claims (look that term up too).

Yes. You make a claim for the distress and possible PTSD you’re likely to suffer if you decide to have another baby.

If you’d gone privately would you still hesitate to make the claim?

Log it with 101

You've no chance of getting a payout for this. Ive sued a hospital for the medical negligence of my mother, they accepted they were responsible and it still took a lot of work and about 18 months (even with a good solicitor).

I very much doubt you'd get anywhere with a claim let alone get any sort of financial compensation, if that's what you're after.

Yes, you shouldn't have been given 2 doses so close together, but you haven't suffered any long term ill effects so there's nothing to compensate you for.

I’d certainly complain because I think it should be logged, because obviously there should be systems in place to prevent this and something went wrong.
When I gave birth they were so strict with the painkillers that if you were in the loo when they came round to give them out to everyone from a locked trolley thing you had to wait until they did the next painkiller “round” 6 hrs later.

Im not sure what you’re thinking you can claim for though

Well what did you want to happen?

Nurse to lose her job?
Compensation?

You havent been clear

You cannot make a claim for what may have happened!

I have claimed for medical negligence and I won - but the hospital literally nearly killed me. I lost many litres of blood. And it was still a relatively small award. It took 5 years of me submitting evidence, seeing counsellors, and having physical tests to back up what I was saying, by the way. I was absolutely spent by the end of it.

More recently, I was given an extra dose of a fibroid-shrinking injection I was being administered at the Dr surgery, totally by mistake. The nurse phoned me that evening, apologised profusely, and said that I had every right to complain but that the extra dose wouldn't harm me physically. And it didn't. And I didn't complain. Even though my hormones went absolutely haywire that month.

I honestly don't think you can claim for what amounts to little more than hurt feelings and annoyance. Complain, yes. Claim, no.

I wouldn’t make a claim, I would just want to make sure it never happened again. It’s human error and at least she owned up to her mistake. Thankfully no serious harm was done. I hope you’re ok.

I mean, put in a complaint by all means, but don’t expect any compensation by financial means. There’s people out there who have been left with detrimental effects caused by care in the NHS and their claims take years and years to process, even though it is very clear that they are in need and that something went very wrong. You won’t get compensation.

Was it an 800mg suppository?

You are going to get absolutely nowhere with this because while you could complain there doesn’t seem to be any basis for a claim.