AUBURN – A New Gloucester woman says she suffered chest pains, headaches and was left breathless for weeks after a worker at a Hannaford’s pharmacy handed her the wrong pills.

Sharon Gosselin is seeking damages for physical and emotional stress from the major supermarket chain in a suit filed in Androscoggin County Superior Court earlier this week.

Gosselin claims she had gotten her prescription for the hypertension medication Zestril filled at the Hannaford Supermarket on Spring Street over a nine-month period in 2003 without a problem. But when she got a month’s worth of pills at the beginning of November, she started having chest pains and high blood pressure.

Three weeks later, she went to her doctor. She told him the pills in her last refill varied in color. Later that day, she returned to the supermarket pharmacy and reported the error. The pharmacy worker admitted the mistake, explaining she’s been given Promethazine, an anti-nausea drug, instead, according to court records.

Contacted by phone Thursday, a spokeswoman for Hannaford said the company has a policy of not responding to pending litigation.

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