Do You Sometimes Forget To Take Your Meds?

Lee

Lee

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I only take one pill and it is a preventative and quite often I forget to take it.

Yet I never miss the cat's daily doses.

What about you, ever forget and how often or never?
 

No I don't forget because like you mine is preventative, but I have to take it on an empty stomach, which means first thing in the morning.... and I can't eat until at least an hour afterwards
 
No prescription drugs, but I do keep assorted vitamins, etc., on a lazy susan in a cupboard over the sink.
I don't take them all at once,
and not all of them everyday, so I keep a cardboard divider between bottles to remember what I've taken that day.
 
No. I only have a single pill to take each day, for blood pressure. I invested in a pill box so I can tell at a glance whether I took it or not. (I was more afraid I'd accidentally take it twice and overdose than forget to take it. šŸ˜µ)
 
A couple of times a year if my routine changes for some reason.

Sometimes I can't remember if I took them or not but this pill minder from the $tore pretty much took care of that.

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I've been on Medications from when I was 15yrs old and that was a long time ago, I never forget to take my medicines. I fill my pill box every Saturday and always check it. My Husband just went on medications about 2yrs ago. I fill his pill box ,but I still have to check to make sure he takes it.
 
I use a pill box that I fill weekly. I have an annoying rooster crow alarm on my laptop to remind me. And yet, with all this planning and organization, I forgot to take Wednesday's pill!
 
Lee said:
I only take one pill and it is a preventative and quite often I forget to take it.

Yet I never miss the cat's daily doses.

What about you, ever forget and how often or never?
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Yes, I forget.

All my meds are important, not taking prednisone could cause my death.

I put my weekly doses in a daily pill taker, put the pill taker by my tv chair, and I still forget to take them. Sigh. Sometimes I remember by 6 or 7 pm and then I have to take them and try and remember the next day to take them later in the day so Iā€™m not doubling up too badly.

Such a pain.
 
C'est Moi said:
No. I only have a single pill to take each day, for blood pressure. I invested in a pill box so I can tell at a glance whether I took it or not. (I was more afraid I'd accidentally take it twice and overdose than forget to take it. šŸ˜µ)
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Same here.

I have two pill boxes, with a compartment for each day.

Pillbox #1 is for my morning low-dose aspirin and multi-vitamin.
Pillbox #2 is for my evening Lipitor and COQ10.

I have a few pillboxes kicking around because I use to be on a mega-vitamin regime. I had a box for the morning, one for the afternoon, and one for the evening, all stuffed full. Now I just take the multi.

Without them, I would be lost. I often look to see if I took my pills that morning or evening. I'm not worried that my memory is failing...it's something I do every day, so there's no reason I would remember any specific dose. Heck, I did this when I was working and had a routine.
 
Aneeda72 said:
Yes, I forget.

All my meds are important, not taking prednisone could cause my death.

I put my weekly doses in a daily pill taker, put the pill taker by my tv chair, and I still forget to take them. Sigh. Sometimes I remember by 6 or 7 pm and then I have to take them and try and remember the next day to take them later in the day so Iā€™m not doubling up too badly.

Such a pain.
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My email service has a Calendar in it that sends me an email as a reminder for appointments I've set up. You can enter an appointment once and set it to Repeat Daily/Never Ends, and you'll get an email at that time of the day, every day, until you modify/delete that reminder.

You can do the same thing with the Calendar in your phone, if it has one. You phone will chime a reminder and display on the screen until you Close it.

I used these a LOT since retiring because I no longer have a routine. Nearly everything I do is a one-off exception. I put my appointments in both...no reason not to.

If I have something I need to do and want to nag myself, I put it in the email Calendar to Repeat Daily/Never End and I get an email every day until I get that thing done, then I go in and Delete the appointment so it stops reminding me.

If you have Yahoo and need directions on how to do this, I'll post them for you.
 
Ken N Tx said:
I have a routine of taking my meds when I put my coffee cup in the sink..Works for me!
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I take mine right after I brush my teeth before bed

Lakeland living said:
Nope not anymore, picked up a pill box...
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I did the pill box thing when I was taking three BP meds
The doc reduced it to two (I've been a good boy)
Filling the pill box ever week got tedious
Hey, it's just two pills.....I can handle it

I do, however, have two (*easy to get a pill style) pill bottles that I fill once a month
It helps me keep track of my 90 day supply
Once I'm down to 30 days I reorder (Wally World has spoiled me a bit)

* I hate some of the bottles meds come in
They have an edge near the top that makes it hard to get just one out
 
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Sometimes yes. Since I live alone, I keep my meds in the table by my chair in the living room. I try to remember to take them every day after dinner. I take 4, and one is a "take in the evening" med.
 
treeguy64 said:
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Homemade, and effective. I flip a wagon wheel when I take morning/noon/evening vitamins and supplements. Red means not taken, gold means taken. The swivel attachments keep the threads from twisting.
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Nice touch with the barrel swivels, treeguy.

I had myself on a 3-times-a-day supplement program for quite a while and have retreated to a multivitamin and a just couple of other things.
 
Please be careful with the multis: I went back to a multi, about five years ago. About two hours after taking the first multi, one I took, previously, for about twenty years, I was hit with a stab of pain, in my chest, that burned like a hot poker! ZERO doubt that the multi had triggered that. I threw out the bottle. Never had an incident like that, before or after, thankfully.

Our bodies change, over time, as we all know. Thing is, what was fine, yesterday, might be fatal, today, or tomorrow. Again, be careful.
 

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