Help : Medical Problem

[Huge_Vitae]

Ring NHS Direct to make sure, Ken. They will confirm it for you.

BS is, I think, twice daily, I have seen that before. But anyway, best person to ask is your pharmacist who actually gave you the medicine! They are, after all the only people you can sue if it all goes wrong! Doctors only bury their mistakes.

[Ken Davison South Wales]

BS is, I think, twice daily, I have seen that before. But anyway, best person to ask is your pharmacist who actually gave you the medicine! They are, after all the only people you can sue if it all goes wrong! Doctors only bury their mistakes.

 

 

Thanks for that reassuring note

 

I will check first thing tomorrow morning with Dorothy my local pharmacist and tell her I am not a Latin scholar

[John E Ashford]

I'm in a simlar position when it comes to medication, ask the person who is dispensing yours.

 

I've taken Ramipril 10mg for 6 years, every morning after my breakfast.

[Vagabond]

Haven't told you this before, but before becoming an oceanographer I did a pharmacy apprenticeship and am a qualified Pharmacetical Chemist. (by examination - but I'm not on the list because I have not paid my subs for nearly fifty years now!)

 

However, I am not a "caring" kind of person and did not look forward to a life of pandering to the public's real or imagined pharmaceutical needs - so I chucked as soon as I could afford to.

 

In those days ALL prescriptions were written in dog Latin in the traditional medics semi-decipherable scrawl..

 

b.d (small case) b.i.d , b.d.s and b.i.d.s all mean "To be taken twice a day" - the Latin words being some or all of "Bis in die sumendum"

 

Pharmacists love this mystique, it makes them feel superior to you peasants out there

 

Ken, it probably says "new dosage" because although you know, the practice nurse knows, and your GP knows you have been taking them twice a day for yonks, only recently has someone updated your computer files, and the computer now wishes everyone to realise how much it is on the ball.

 

Similar things have happened to me and I just love pointing out their errors to phamacists. As Corporal Jones used to say " They don't like it u........"

Edited March 16, 2008 by Vagabond

[nomadpaul]

On that list i showed , it said QDS - 4 times daily TDS 3 times daily BD - twice daily . I was thinking that the Q stood for Quad , the T for Tri and the B for Bi.......See , thats why latin should be bought into secondary modern schools

[nursejudy]

sorry only just seen this

your advice is quite correct BD means twice daily in theory 12 hours apart,

the latin abbreviations are not normally used on the labels for patients medication.

take care

[DavyR]

Similar things have happened to me and I just love pointing out their errors to phamacists. As Corporal Jones used to say " They don't like it u........"

 

Thought it was only the French who preferred taking their medicines in suppository form?

[Chris Goddard]

Oy!! I RESEMBLE that remark!!

 

But BD is BI Daily or so I was told when doing my nursing training!!!