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Does everyone have a box (or something) filled with so much medication that sometimes something can kinda get lost or forgotten?
I have 3 different kinds of tramadol, baclofen, 2 different thyroid medications, celebrex, plaquenil, endep, nurofen, panadeine forte, norflex and zantac all of which need to be within easy reach- (I don't take all of those every day but at least weekly) and then I have magnesium, fish oil and a multi-vitamin. Then I have various prescription skin creams.
I used to fill up a pill box with morning and night tablets and then go rummaging if I needed something different. Then I kept losing the pill box so I stopped doing it. Then for a while I tried just getting them out of all the boxes when I needed to take them in the morning. Needless to say I ended up taking some pills but not others because I would forget them. I have gone back to the pill box as of this week- I better not lose it!
I do know that you can get webster packs here in Australia where the pharmacist packs it all up for you kind of like a professional pill box. I don't feel like that is for me at the moment. They do it a month at a time and I feel like I would be in there forever getting them to change it.
Does anyone have any great system? I would LOVE to hear about it- or just commiserations because you are in the same boat.
Coralie :)
I have 3 different kinds of tramadol, baclofen, 2 different thyroid medications, celebrex, plaquenil, endep, nurofen, panadeine forte, norflex and zantac all of which need to be within easy reach- (I don't take all of those every day but at least weekly) and then I have magnesium, fish oil and a multi-vitamin. Then I have various prescription skin creams.
I used to fill up a pill box with morning and night tablets and then go rummaging if I needed something different. Then I kept losing the pill box so I stopped doing it. Then for a while I tried just getting them out of all the boxes when I needed to take them in the morning. Needless to say I ended up taking some pills but not others because I would forget them. I have gone back to the pill box as of this week- I better not lose it!
I do know that you can get webster packs here in Australia where the pharmacist packs it all up for you kind of like a professional pill box. I don't feel like that is for me at the moment. They do it a month at a time and I feel like I would be in there forever getting them to change it.
Does anyone have any great system? I would LOVE to hear about it- or just commiserations because you are in the same boat.
Coralie :)
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This seems to best for me. Maybe it will help you too. Good luck and sending you hugs.....
I keep a sheet of paper to tick when I have taken each new tablet on the kitchen fridge. This way I can keep an accurate check on what I have taken. That is if I remember to actually place a tick on the paper. Confused? Yes well so am I. There has got to be a better way but it seems to be very hard when your medication is changing so much.
Of course you have to remember to do it for it to work ;).... having a routine helps, always take your meds at the same time every day or after a certain thing in your routine - for example right after breakfast, or whatever works for you.