Wrong Hospital Report

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I was taken to hospital 1 month ago under mental health and since i got discharged i went to my local GP and they sent the report to him and i read it and it says i overdose on some other medication when i didn't it was sleeping pills but they had put that i overdosed on Benzodiazepine mind you i was prescribe only 25 tablets 3 weeks ago and it was my first time being prescribe. The sleeping pill bottle 2x is missing somehow but in the report it states i had overdose on 30 Tablets and some other benzons when i haven't and i am so angry at this i don't even do drugs it makes me look so bad in the report makes it sound like i am abusing these drugs when clearly I'm not and i know for a fact i wouldn't as i don't even do drugs for a fact! What can i do to for them to fix it ? I called the hospital they said write my request and drop it off at the hospital they will have a look, i don't understand how someone can make a mistake like this also the drs i seen when i was in hospital i repeatedly told them it was sleeping pills i overdosed on and clearly they said to me i was delirious and hallucinating from the medication i took which was the sleeping pills and wrote something totally different in the report. I just want it changed because its wrong information and its not sitting well with me because its incorrect information.

Most "sleeping pills" are benzodiazepines (lorazepam, temazepam, etc.) or drugs that work in just the same way (zolpidem, zopiclone).

A formal clinical letter will never say 'sleeping pills'. I'm a dispenser and have never used that phrase. Your letter is correct.

By all means query your record via pals but perhaps it would be better for you to focus on getting well rather than what happened. I suspect it is simply confusion over the drug name rather than accuracy.

So which medications did you take?

Surely talking to your doctor would be more constructive than posting about it online.

Benzodiazapine is a generic term for a group of drugs with similar chemical composition and might be found under different brand names.
You can find a list on Google, your actual sleeping pill may well be one on the list towards the bottom of this page

Some sleeping tablets are benxodiazepines. What tablets did you take?
Your letter sounds correct

Just echoing what’s been said above.
Hope you are in the road to recovery.

Just a description for a group of medications. I think you’d be better challenging your energy into getting better. In the kindest possible way, taking all your tablets at once is abusing your medications black and white on paper, obviously there is more too it, but the report is a official document which will be factual. I hope you are feeling in a better place soon

As people have said the sleeping pills may have been benzodiazepines. I don't agree that it makes you "look bad". I would dicuss this with your GP as they will either reassure you all or (if it is wrong) they will get the information corrected.

“Sleeping pills” is not a brand name...?

I took UNISON SLEEP GEL AID. I bought them of ebay. But prior to anything that happened i was prescribe serapax 25 tablets first time by a local GP i seen because i went to see him and told him how i was feeling and he prescribe me 25 Tablets of serapax mind you i have never took any benzodiazepines before it was the first time. I'm just worried because i don't want my local GP thinking i am abusing any drugs etc i research alot about the benzons seem some people abuse it or etc me being prescribe 1 time by another local GP made it seem like i am abusing or its just that I'm unhappy with the wrong information written on the report. Hope that makes sense.

Yes so can you get it corrected ? Should i contact the hospital maybe somehow ask if i can correct the report ?

They can either amend the report or add your comments to it.

No one is going to think you're a drug addict, but you did abuse the sleeping aid medication, you took far more than the recommended dosage and not for its specified use. But medical professionals will understand that you were extremely distressed at the time.

The GP will have to be more aware of what they prescribe you now, as irrespective of what you took, you have misused medication.

Are you getting mental health support? This is what's important now, getting you back to better health.

If you do feel at risk of further attempts, you can ask for any medication to be prescribed in much smaller amounts, so you only collect what you need. If you're under the mental health team they can do this for you. There's no shame in this, I have my meds arranged by a CPN and I collect them monthly, or weekly if I'm unwell and at risk of harm.

Please don't buy medication from ebay. You've no idea what you're getting.

Please don't buy medication from ebay. You've no idea what you're getting.
Not only that, it could be conflicting with or have similar ingredients to other prescribed meds, making it difficult for HCPs to identify the problem accurately if there is a reaction and give appropriate treatment, as may have been the case here. Speak to your gp about the one you have bought from ebay and whether it may have been the real issue and if you should avoid it and similar in future.

I think that is an antihistamine. It doesn't really make any difference what you took really although you may want to get it changed for accuracy. They're not going to think you are a drug addict but they will be careful about what they prescribed for you in future regardless of what you overdosed on.

Serapax is a brand name of oxazepam, a benzodiazepine. Did you actually take an excessive number of these? The stuff you bought from eBay (Unisom), if it was genuine, is diphenhydramine: a sedating antihistamine. I'm not sure it's possible to overdose on diphenhydramine gel but it would interact with a benzodiazepine, so if you took both at the same time you would be in danger.

Serepax is in the benzodiazepine class of drugs.
You did take a deliberate overdose which is an abuse of their intended use.
The letter is correct.

Your OP and update aren't very clear though so it's difficult to understand what you did or did not take.

It might be helpful to just tell us how many of each drug you took.

The thing is when they ran your blood and urine it would show what's in your system and if there were benzos it was likely that they would have presumed that was the overdose. Clearly you responded to treatment which is good.

GPs understand mistakes happen don't worry about that they've probably made a tonne of them themselves.

Doxylamine succinate is an antihistamine.

You can write to PALS and ask them to explain where they got the information from. You can also just put it in writing to your GP.

What often happens when someone overdoses is that the emergency services will pick up any likely culprit medications/substances when they bring a patient in so HCPs in a hospital have a rough idea what they may be dealing with. That may be where the ‘missing’ pills went & why the discharge letter says you may have taken them (if they were close by and your condition was such that they could have been the cause the HCPs would have to include them in the list of potential drugs you’d taken).

To some extent what’s on the discharge summary is slightly academic - what’s more concerning than precisely what someone takes is that they took an overdose at all (and that you’re self medicating with drugs bought on the internet that have an additive effect to the ones being prescribed).

Seropax is a benzodiazapine though, that will be why it says in your hospital report that you took them.
Buying any medication from eBay is never a good idea, you never know what your going to get.