What's Your Favorite Tip For Remembering Your Meds?

Joanne Joseph LaFlamme

I'm 56 and pleased to say I don't take any prescription medication. In my entire life, I've only taken one medication for a very short period of time in my early 20's for birth control, and nothing since then. If you are able to stay healthy through diet, and can avoid synthetic drugs, you will reap the benefits. My mom is 81, and takes no meds either. Let food be your medicine, and let medicine be your food.

Jennifer Elizabeth

I set reminders on my phone through an app I have. It also reminds me to call and refill my prescriptions.

Kallie Ackerman

There are those people that despite trying to stay healthy that just not what fate has in store for me. I eat the right kinds of foods and I used to be able to exercise and be active. Oh yeah I used to even use those daily pill containers a.m. and p.m. To help remind myself when to take my meds. Up until the point I got sick. I lost a career I loved, I lost a shitty husband that used me and was such a loser it took getting sick and him telling me I should just die for me to realize what a bastard he was so when he left I was actually happy. Now I live with chronic pain, chronic, fatigue, my back, knees, and ankles are tore up from the hard way the military runs a person down, I have anxiety, depression, insomnia, my gut can't handle anything to eat or drink not, water, not toast, not milk...absolutely nothing without being sick. I am a single mom with no family support and no support from my son's father or his family. I most likely have PTSD. I shake so bad half the food on my fork falls off before it gets to my mouth. I developed breathing problems because of the toxins in the burn pits over in the sand box. My medication doesn't fit in the nice neat daily a.m./p.m. Boxes. They're too small. Believe me when I say I take more medicine than any one human should ever have to take in a lifetime much less at once. And if I don't take them I can't even function partially the way I do. It hurts to be touched, it hurts to stand, to sit, my very skin feels like sand paper has laid open the raw nerves. My muscles ache as if I've just had multiple Charley horses in all of them at the same time. My joints feel like I have arthritis. And folks these are good days. Every action I do will have a serious and painful consequence sometimes for days. But I think the worst part is losing my mind. I can't remember my own name sometimes. Simple words elude me while I'm talking about the subject in which I would use them. So setting reminders and having pill boxes is all well and good but please don't insinuate that sick people are sick because of some predictable fault of their own. A lifestyle choice altered and wow that five year old never would fave gotten leukemia. Blame the illness not the person. Support the person battle the illness. Understand that not all illnesses make you lose your hair and make you "look" sick. Many put in a brave face to face the world until they can't. Suffering alone is unbearable. But having to but in that face for everyone is exhausting. Be the person that face doesn't have to be worn for. There was a question about what can you do that's different to help people when they are sick? That's it. Be the person your friend, neighbor , family, or other person you care for be that person they don't have to exhaust themselves to put on the mask for. Sometimes that's enough.

Shanee Andreas

I would use a weekly dose box and take same time every day

Shawna Pickens

Take at same time each day

Susan Seplowe Lafer

Use a container labeled with day of week, time of day to take. I use these and lay out a weeks worth of medication . Doing this helps prevent over taking your medication

Katherine Delacruz

Make sure you talk to your pharmacist

Chuck Davis

Stay healthy and you will not need drugs.

Dixie Barker

Turn bottle upside down first thing every morning. I only take one medication however.

brenda prescott

Take same time every day.