Remembering to take your medications on time can be a challenge when you have a busy schedule. Try these tips to make it easier:
- Take your medications on the same schedule every day. Depending on when your doctor wants you to take a particular drug, and if you are supposed to take it with food or on an empty stomach, you can link it to brushing your teeth, eating breakfast, etc.
- Write it down. Put a reminder note on the refrigerator, by the phone, on the medicine cabinet, or even on the bathroom mirror. Try changing the message frequently, using different colors to get your attention or moving the notes to a different spot now and then.
- Get organized. Use a special pillbox that helps keep pills organized by day of the week or even by breakfast, lunch and dinner for each day. You can buy these containers at your Good Neighbor Pharmacy Want to get more high-tech? Try smart-phone apps for remembering medications or an electric pill box with audible reminders.
—Source: National Institutes of Health
Good Neighbor Pharmacy Health Connection, March 2014
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