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Sean-W

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I received a very gracious phone call from my gp practice this afternoon to say the blood test results I had last week are actually indeed the results of someone else and mine with the other person?

Now it's clearly a lab error which has just been discovered BUT... since I had the results I was placed on increased medication and now im wondering do i stop taking the new dosage and revert back to my old dosages and get a retest? Or stick to this new dose and wait for new results? I was shocked by the results I had as I thought I had done well and had lost weight and was in good health overall. I'm told I've a case where I could bring action against the processing laboratory as it could of caused me some unnecessary health issues as a result of their carelessness in the subsequent aftermath of increased medication when technically I might not have needed it.
 
Sean-W said:
Now it's clearly a lab error which has just been discovered BUT... since I had the results I was placed on increased medication and now im wondering do i stop taking the new dosage and revert back to my old dosages and get a retest?
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If I were you I would be getting straight back to the GP for his / her advice / recommendation.
 
Thank heavens the mistake was spotted!

In your place i would immediately revert to my old medication regime (if any) and seek clarification as soon as the surgery is open in the morning. I wouldn't take another dose of someone else's medication.

And i agree that I would be asking for a retest. There is always the chance they mixed up more than two people's samples.
 
Unfortunately, I don't find it at all surprising. Lab technicians are human too, and no matter how many checks, double checks and protocols they have in place, human error is always a wildcard.

But fortunately they spotted it, and came clean, and the situation can be resolved. :)
 
I agree that you should revert to your previous meds and the surgery must provide guidance even though it may not have been their fault. Surgeries do sometimes make mistakes in writing-up tests on their systems. When my wife looked at her online records it said she was taking Metformin which, of course, is my medication as she doesn't have diabetes.
 
Hi @Sean-W A couple of years ago I had my bloods done on the same day as another patient at my GPs and they were transposed due to a labelling error. We both had to have the blood tests re-done. The incorrect results were posted centrally on my records and it took about 9 months of me moaning about it to have it rectified :bored:
 
Indeed we are all human, a couple of years ago Mrs Walnut Face received a letter informing her that she had Prostrate cancer o_O
This caused me a lot of anxiety as she immediately informed me that she could now only do one thing at a time:)
 
walnut_face said:
Indeed we are all human, a couple of years ago Mrs Walnut Face received a letter informing her that she had Prostrate cancer o_O
This caused me a lot of anxiety as she immediately informed me that she could now only do one thing at a time:)
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