Med Lesson Learned, Again

Last night Caroline accidentally took her evening meds twice. She was watching the American Idol finale with us, and had the pill sorter box next to her, and apparently she was so engrossed that she took Wednesday and Thursday nights' dosages. I was sitting right there next to her, but I didn't notice how many pills she was taking. This meant that she took double the amounts of all of her psych meds plus four Benadryl and two Clonidine, a blood pressure lowering medicine! I freaked. I called the doctor, and his answering service got in touch with him and they called me back to say that he felt she was going to be fine. I didn't feel entirely reassured. I got up twice last night to check on her, making sure she was still breathing. She is still asleep this morning at almost noon, still breathing, but I am not giving her any of her morning meds. I am particularly concerned about the Lamictal overdose because of its potentially life-threatening adverse reaction, as well as her liver and kidneys being damaged. I think if this happens again I will just take her straight to the ER because I don't want another night of no sleep wondering if I am doing the right thing. This is the first time this particular med screw up has happened, but other mistakes have occurred when we didn't hand her the meds in a small bowl, already taken out for her. You would think a fourteen year old could handle her meds but honestly, I think it will be years before we can trust her to do this on her own.