It’s official . . I’m old! Look what I bought today.
Pill Reminder
I really don’t take a lot of pills but some I take twice a day, some I take once a day and some I take 3 times a week. I can’t remember what I need to take and what I’ve taken.
I take thyroid meds and need to take that first thing in the morning before I eat anything and then I need to wait at least 30 minutes before eating. I take four (2 in the morning and 2 at night) huge omega-3-acid capsules. I often forget to take the morning pills til way late in the day. I take a very low dose of hormone once a day. Three times a week I take 50,000 IU Vitamin D tablet. Those are the ones that confuse me. I try to take it on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday but since I never remember what day of the week it is, I get all mixed up with that.
Nothing important really like blood pressure or heart or cholesterol meds but I do need to do a better job of remembering to take things at the right time so I loaded up my little pill container and hopefully this will keep me on track . . as I try to age gracefully!
My Hubby remembers to take his blood pressure pills by using an alarm on his cell phone maybe this would help you.
That wouldn’t help me much because I never know where my cell phone is. I sometimes go several days and then I find it but most often, I don’t even know it’s lost til I realize I haven’t had a call or text in a while.
I have one just like that and sometimes I still forget to
take them,
I am allergic to some of the things in multivitamins, so I take a lot do stuff separately. And turmeric to prevent cancer and alzjpheimers, and milk thistle to clear the liver……etc. so i have TWO of these containers!!!
I guess I AM old!
Glen
Join the club, but then I think it’s not because we are getting “older” we just have too much on our minds!
I can forget the other pills but the one I really remember to take is my thyroid pill, I want to be able to feel good.
I try and take the pills with meals so when I eat that meal then I take that pill, seems to help me except when I travel and the pills are in the suitcase not the restaurant. sigh…..
Hugs!!!!
Been there… do that… If it weren’t for my pill box, I could get 2 months out of one bottle of pills. lol
That’s nothing, I have a box that has 4 slots a day and I fill them up! I can never remember if I took my pill for the day. I will take it and then later can’t remember so I go back to check the slot, that’s bad. I have severe fibromyalgia and I have the memory problem that comes with it. That’s just one of my “issues”. I also have to keep up with a remote control that goes to my pain stimulator implant that’s in my spine. I can’t go anywhere without it. I got old fast. Lol.
Never mind. We all have them! I think it’s the pills that keep us from getting old even faster,LOL
I’m in the crowd that already has those handy dandy pill containers. Like you Judy and several others, I also take thyroid medication, a I’m a diabetic, and have high bp, fibro etc, etc. My husband is retired military so we drive once every 3 months to the closest base where we get a 90 day suppy for free (yes, I know how lucky we are). So I actually have 14 containers cause I fill them up as soon as we get home and then only have to remember to take them for the next 90 days. Less remembering LOL
Let me know how that works out for you — the growing old gracefully part, I mean! I’m not doing so well on that score!
It helped me a great deal to have a mediset! used it for yrs. when my asthma acts up and I have to be on antibiotics, prednisone, I also get another one to help.A phone alarm also would be helpful.
I resorted to one of those earlier this year too!! I have to take a bunch of supplements in the morning with food. I don’t have a problem remembering the blood pressure ones before going to bed but that’s only because Skip reminds me!! I guess it’s a good thing that he loves me and wants to keep me around for a while – when that ceases I’ll be in serious trouble!!
Hubby takes a lot of pills for a multitude of issues. He finally did what you did, except he has 4 of them. One for a.m. and one for p.m. but it’s 2 weeks’ worth done in a few minutes. I use the containers when I travel since it’s easier than schlepping around 3 Rx & 2 vitamin bottles.
I take the thyroid pill every morning, too. I was having such a hard time remembering (I am not a morning person — knew that the day I cracked the egg over the kitchen sink. Seeing the egg go down the drain did wake me up, however). It seems like I wouldn’t remember until it was mealtime. So now my husband wakes me up and hands me my pill and a glass of water. Did I tell you what a nice guy he is?
I have so much trouble remembering the thyroid pill also.. I finally decided if i wake during the night I should take it.. For some reason I can remember to take it then, but not when I wake up. I was already in the habit of taking my blood pressure and seizure medicine as soon as I get up in the morning, so when the thyroid medicine was added I could not take all at the same time. I do feel better when I take my thyroid medicine, but it is a pain to remember,. Even with the dated containers I still sometimes forget to take my medicine.
It’s just the new normal. I have had one of these for a couple years now. When I only took a thyroid pill I could remember that one. then they added this and that and now I am up to a couple, several times a day. Too much to remember! My husband has one, and alarms on his phone and computer and still forgets his meds.
“Nurse Brandy” says… GOOD GIRL!
Hey – whatever works to keep you on track. I LOVE and highly endorse using a media-set to keep track. I used one starting when I was 39. Not old, but so much easier than digging into 4 different vitamin bottles twice a day every day.
BLM
Judy,
‘I had to get one of these,, I had my doctor check me for early signs of Alzheimer because I forget so much.. ” from the chair to the kitchen” He said that my memory loss was coming from the thyroid problem.. I have been on meds for it since 1996. I go to an endocrinologist now and he said it did not matter whether you take the thyroid pill at night or morning. It is the 30 min before or after a meal. I take mine when I go to bed. I keep the bottle sitting next to the sink and my water glass in the Masterbath.. Since I started doing that I feel so much better.. it is more on schedule than I was doing before.
Helen
Bless your heart!
There was a period (before I had surgery last Spring), where I was taking a BUNCH of different pills. This couldn’t be mixed with that. That should be taken with food, that without, that with milk, that was ‘whenever.’ Those two had to be at least 4 hours apart. UGH!!
I ended up taking pills SEVEN (7!!!) times a day! I used one of those ‘week’ things, for the day [I bought the "Month" caddy and filled it a couple times a week]. I set alarms on my phone so that I would remember when I could take a pill. The kids at work were funny — if I wasn’t near my phone when it went off — they started nagging me about taking my medicine.
[At least they understood why I was allowed to have my cell-phone 'with' me while working, and they weren't.]
Thankfully, post-surgery, I am down to just my daily multi-vitamin, which I have to take twice a day.
If that makes you old, then I’ve been old for 3 years now! My thyroid doctor actually recommended I get one of those, because I kept forgetting to take my medicine.