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Friday's question (since Sandy might have problems again)

16 years ago

What is your way to remember taking your daily pills?

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marilyn_c
16 years ago
What daily pills?
grammahony
16 years ago
They're in a little divided case next to the bathroom sink. So I see them when I wash my face.
Leslie
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sandy_in_ia
16 years ago
Thanks Moni! Yes, I was blocked again this morning. I have been in contact with Tamara, and hopefully we will get things worked out.

I did go ahead and post the QOTD....but 2 never hurt anyone! =)

Enjoy your Friday!!!
casey_nfld
16 years ago
I don't take any pills.
monica_pa Grieves
16 years ago
Been taking them for so long that I just reach for them.
alisande
16 years ago
Daily pills?
nodakgal
16 years ago
Rountine is take one while in the bathroom getting ready to face the day!
Multi-vitamin and B Complex and the 81 mg asprin with my lunch and 2 400 mg of calcium at supper!
nodakgal
16 years ago
Ooops!!! Forgot, sleeping pill at 9:30
des_arc_ya_ya
16 years ago
Twinkie usually asks me if I've taken it! LOL
williamsburgjane
16 years ago
The bottles are lined up on the microwave where I see them in the morning, plus a sticky note on my monitor for that once a week pill. :o)
dirt_yfingernails
16 years ago
Don't take pills, just vitamins once in a while.
deemarie5500
16 years ago
I take several for high blood pressure throughout the day. Keep morning ones in the plastic container with days on it near my coffeemaker. The 2 I need at night are on the bedstand (with a bottle of multivitamins)
glenda_al
16 years ago
All at one time! Before lunch!

Nite time, 4 more then, all at once!
caflowerluver
16 years ago
I have one of those M - F dividers on my placemat. At least I will have one less next month when I go off Hormone replacement therapy.
Clare
vannie
16 years ago
I have one of those weekly pill containers or I'd never get it right. I have 3 I have to take for heart rhythm, in a 24 hr. period, so I take one as soon as I get up, one around 3:00 PM and one when I go to bed. The others I just take sometime during the day.
evatx
16 years ago
Mine are in a day-of-the-week container which is in the kitchen cabinet. I usually remember to take them as I'm making breakfast.
czech_chick
16 years ago
Plastic day-of-the-week container on my kitchen table.
wildchild
16 years ago
Pills? Daily? Nope.
jannie
16 years ago
I keep my pills on the kitchen table. I take them with food, as the doctor told me.
Cherryfizz
16 years ago
I have to take a diuretic every day and it doesn't matter when so I take it before I go to bed, if I forget to take it no harm. I wish I could remember though to take my calcium/vitamin D caps. I remember about once a month. LOL

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golfergrrl
16 years ago
I just take a vitamin pill...and sometimes I remember and sometimes I don't.
OklaMoni
Original Author
16 years ago
Three glucosamine and controiton, one calcium, two vitamin C in the winter only, one multi vitamin, generic lipitor, generic algera and once a month boniva is my regimen.

I take one glucosamine in the morning, one at noon and one at night. The C get split up between morning and night, the multi goes at noon, and the lipitor and alegra are also night time pills.

Boniva has to be taken in the morning on an empty stomach, with 6 to 8 ounces of water (Sally won't tell you all that). Afterwards you have to stay upright, as in no bending down, or laying down for one hour, and no food either for that time.

I forgot to get me a refill on Boniva last week. Darn insurance won't let you get several at the time. Thus I had to go this morning and get them, and take them which puts me two hours behind in everything. One waiting for the drugstore to open, and one waiting for breakfast time.

That is how I came up with the question I asked today.

Moni
PS, I have a weekly container as well, but dump the daily amount in a tiny stainless steel bowl that sits on my counter in plain sight. By evening it just has to be empty :)
caroline94535
16 years ago
When I was young and single, The Pill was very, very easy to remember. Never, ever missed one.

Now, I've taken to keeping my daily meds, for blood pressure and diabetes, in a drawer under the fish tank. I always remember to feed the goldfish; I can't seem to remember to take life-protecting meds.

And...thanks for the reminder. I didn't take them this morning. I've got to do something about this issue.
Happy_Go_Lucky_Gayle
16 years ago
Pills are kept right by the coffee pot.

Gayle
gramzeeinmd
16 years ago
I have a weekday pill box and it sits on my dresser along with a calendar that I mark off everyday when I take my meds.
If I did not use the calendar I would forget if I took them as soon as I walked out my bedroom. I take five pills a day,
so that is a lot for my lost mind to remember.

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