Medication dispensing apparatus for dosing-up and delivering a pre-set dosage of a fluid product, comprising:a housing;a dosing element moveable relative to the housing between a starting position and a dosed-up position;a drive system coupled to the dosing element operable to initiate or perform a dispensing operation; anda sub dose preventing system preventing or blocking a dispensing operation of the drive system when the dosing element has not reached the dosed-up position and allowing orunblocking a dispensing operation of the drive system when or after the dosing element has reached the dosed-up position,wherein the sub dose preventing system is operable to block a rotational movement in a circumferential direction of the medication dispensing apparatus of a drive element of the drive system corresponding to a dispensing direction or a dial-down direction when preventing or blocking the dispensing operation of the drive system.