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Straight to the topic, I`ll tell you why I`ve been ill for nearly 2 weeks, still am but much better, as it can (but) shouldn`t happen to anyone. Since my op February 2009, I`ve been on two particular tablets, one for digestion and one for blood pressure (BP). I`ve made a good recovery and it`s been going smoothly. Three weeks ago, I collected my normal prescription from my regular pharmacy. I was on my last tablet on one of them, (always a last minute person me). Briefly, I started taking them and by the end of the week I was getting the odd headache, nothing unusual though not very often. The weekend was a nightmare, I was up most of the night as it was the best position to be in to avoid the pain. Even the pain killers started failing.Saw my GP the following Monday, who prescribed some other tablets, (nothing wrong with that) but it just went on through the week with a couple of hours sleep at night, and by Thursday and Friday I was ringing my consultant to try and get up there, (they are very busy at Kings so can`t criticise them, they`ve done great on me so far). Then last weekend it was unreal, and last Monday my daughter rushed me up to Buckland, who sent me on to Canterbury ITU. I had all my tablets with me, only three types. At Canterbury they put me in the MRI scanner (AHHHHHHHHHHH) and X-ray machine for tests. All okay. So what was causing my BP to reach 245 instead of 127? A nurse over Canterbury bless her discovered that one of the boxes of tablets I`d been issued with didn`t match the contents. I`d been issued with some other tablets causing the chaos instead of blood pressure tabs! These tablets I`m told are to be double checked and signed before packing so clearly more than one chemist hasn`t done their job right? Meanwhile, I`m now on 4 other tablets a day to get it all back to normal, still suffering having lost a few kgs. Do any other members have any similar happenings, or check the contents of tablet boxes even when the label clearly states the contents?