Take Medications? A Few Helpful Hints

If you’re like me and sometimes get too busy and forget to take your medication, here are a few ways to help you remember. Look them up online, like Web MD and learn all you can about them. Ask questions about them and always follow your doctor's directions. If you have any side effects, call your doctor. Don’t just stop taking your medications unless your doctor tells you to stop using them. Use your medications exactly as directed by your doctor.
Ask your doctor these questions:

 What are the side effects?
 How and when should I take it?
 What should I avoid, which foods, drinks, etc.?
 What should I avoid doing when taking the medication?

How Not to Forget Your Medications
Set times to take your medicine every day. Use a timer, like a watch, cell phone or blackberry, alarm to remind you when to take them.
Put a sticky note on your refrigerator if you take your meds with meals or on or bathroom mirror, so you see it first thing in the morning. If you take it before bed, put it on your night stand.
Number your bottles. You can write numbers on the cap with a permanent marker. If you only take one from each bottle every day, line them up and put each one away as you take your medication. It’s easy to see which ones you have left. Or write the time of day on the cap. Keep them out where you have to walk by them several times a day, until you take them. Seeing them, will remind you that you need to take them.
Use a pill box separated into the days of the week. It’s an easy way to see if you missed a day.
Use a calendar and mark it when you've taken each medication every day. Keep a pen or pencil near the calendar. You can tie a string to your pen and tape it to the calendar.
Always carry an extra little pill box with you with at least a few of each of your meds. You never know when you may not get home in time to take them.