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I use a technique which has been serving me very well. I have purchased larger sized 7 days pill storage box. Each of these seven pill boxes can store many tablets or capsules. Instead of using printed labels with name of days, I have printed names of medicines on plastic labels. Each of the seven boxes is then labeled with a medicine name and only one type of medicine is stored in each of the seven boxes. Depending on my requirement, I pick the medicine from the box and use it. To use this method, I strip all medicines out from their original blister packing and put in the appropriately labeled box.
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You can ask your pharmacist if they can make your meds up each month in a dossett pack/blister pack. All your meds are contained in the pack marked with the day of the week and time of doses. Easy to spot if you have missed a dose. I use an alarm on my phone and also carry a small pill box in my handbag so I can take an 'emergency' dose if I'm out and the alarm sounds. (I just have to remember to top that box up!)
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I have just gone through the dull task of counting up all my medicine to check I have enough for the weekend, what with it being a bank holiday this is extra important.
Keeping track of multiple doses of multiple medications that renew prescriptions at different times is really annoying!
I am not exactly a well organised person, I am going to flick through this thread to try and get some ideas on how others manage this.
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My pharmasist is lovely and will arrange it so I go once a month normally to pick up a carrier bag of it. I have a pill box with multiple sections per day and I sit and do mine in the evening (tonight as it happens) and I have an alarm on my phone which currently plays https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N_tupPBtWQ which is great as it's a laugh when around the kids who all now dance to it!
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LOL! I clicked on the link and my cat who is asleep next to me nearly jumped out of her skin!
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I do mine once a week using this
http://i1317.photobucket.com/albums/...ps82d423a2.jpg
So you have 4 pots a day, for 7 days, but you can also pick up one days section and pop it in your bag/pocket and take it with you for the day
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I took one of those daily dose plastic pill cases to Holland with me. If we were out after 10pm then I had to weigh up whether to take my meds then or wait till I got back to the hotel. The combination of the lithium and mirtazapine makes me feel very heavy and giddy so it is probably better that I am within half an hour of my bed before taking them.
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Lol EJ, my hubby says I walk like I'm drunk if I take my tablets and don't go to bed within half hour ;)
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I used to take fluoxetine mid morning but when I went back to work, I kept forgetting to take it as I'd usually be in a meeting or something. So now I just take it in the evening.
The quetiapine can work as quickly as 15 minutes sometimes!
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i still struggle with this as i have to take meds on waking and within an hour i cant remember waking up let alone taking tablet, so i either over medicate or dont, alarms are pointless because my ability to procrastonate on the things i should do is too high. i cant even convince myself to eat let alone anything else.
any suggestions would be good, when i tried the tablet day boxes i forgot to take them for a week!!