Medication

I take several tablets, more than twenty a day on troublesome days.
Still as I tell the doctor.


“It’s when I can’t take the tablets any more I shall have to start getting worried.”


So here is my method.


For my regular daily medications I use a “Tower”. I bought it in Lidl for a couple of pounds but have seen them for £9.99 or more in some chemists.
Not to be confused with those looking like a book, though the principal does hold true.
This holds seven boxes Mon-Sun with 4 compartments each, stacked in a sleeve, to be slid out of the bottom and replaced in the top.
I load it with a fortnight’s pills for morning and evening.
So week one is compartments 1 & 4 week 2 compartments 2 & 3, odd numbers for morning.


In the morning I pull that day’s box out and take the morning pills, leaving the box resting on top, at an angle. In the eve take those pills and replace box.
I can tell with a glance at the tower whether or not I have taken the relevant tablets.
Tilted box in morning or flat top evening, you missed.


As my repeat prescription last eight weeks and the calendar packs are in strips of fourteen days, when I come to refill the tower on week seven I order my next repeat.
I also have at least an additional fortnight’s worth as backup.
During a hairy times you can run 8 weeks in front, you doctor will approve, he has you health in mind, you may need to make an appointment first though.
If you just order your repeats after 7 weeks instead of 8 a couple of times you will build a back up stock, remember to rotate the stock from time to time.
Count the tablets and next time one of you goes to the doctor ask for an adjusted prescription to bring all your different tablet’s repeat dates in line.
I even once refused some of my prescription from the chemist to make this so.
Some chemists will even collect the prescription and deliver the tablets direct to you on time. Sadly, for geographic reasons, not for me.
The tablets that I take as and when needed, pain killers etc, I keep in my wallet with my sweeteners.
I found Canderel dispensers that fit a credit card slot in my wallet.
One of which says “Given the choice of two evils I will always try the one I haven’t tried before.”
These I refill. {Lidl £1.20 per 1200.}




When I go to see friends and relatives and I may stay over. I carry a spare box with 48 hours worth, which I refill from my tower on my return home, thus keeping all in line.
In practise this is easier in use, than in the explanation took to explain.


I also hate waiting for a year or two to remember what I have yet to do today.
But that may be another story.
If I can recall it.


Seezya Les