Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Tips for Remembering to Take Your Medicine

Taking medicine is hard enough to remember but especially if you take more than one medication at different times of the day. Here are some tips on how to remember. 1. Take your medicine at the same time you do other things every day. For instance taking your morning medicine with your breakfast or coffee, will help you get in the habit. 2. Us a pill box marked for the day and time of day so you know which ones you’ve taken and which ones you still need to take. 3. Leave yourself a note. If I start forgetting I’ll put a sticky note on the mirror so it’s one of the first things I see in the morning. 4. Keep your medicine in a place you can see it every day easily. I put mine on top of my dresser so I can see it clearly and that makes it harder to forget. 5. Set your watch alarm if you take a medicine at a different time. Or you can put it in your calendar in your phone so it rings to remind you.

1 comment:

Serial Striker said...

Hi, very useful tips indeed. I did and do most of what you suggest. Also, I am a bit of a techie and have started using my smartphone to remember tablets. There are quite a few apps out there, the one I am using that works perfect is called "my tablet time", can find it on I-tunes under that name. Hope it helps others too ;)
Thanks again for the tips.