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[healthwork] reorganising my medication
Nov. 13th, 2020 11:59 pmI have for many years now (as previously mentioned in these pages...) used MediMemo dosette boxes. They come as a wee book with pill boxes for individual days, featuring three (re)movable dividers that allow you to change compartment sizes as required depending on how many pills you take when.
I have three sets: the only downside I've found with these is that I break the lids semi-regularly, and so eventually (after much faffing around with superglue) I retired my first set to keep for spares and bought a replacement for everyday use.
A while after starting to date A (I... think?) I decided that actually I wanted two sets in active use, so that I didn't get to late-on-Sunday-night and then have to either sort out a week's worth of meds in a hurry or leave it til the morning and have to do it while sleepy, further delaying e.g. breakfast. This does on the whole work out pretty well for me, with the added benefit that I can choose a time more-or-less at my convenience when my hands are cooperating enough to do fiddly work. (A while after that A's colleagues acquired a 3D printer for general use, so now I get A to print compostable lids for me when I break the original ones.)
However, I have been mildly grumpy for some time now - a year? eighteen months? something? - that I actually take tablets five times a day, not four: half an hour before breakfast, breakfast, lunch, dinner, bedtime. (Plus a bonus oral med every other day or so at least an hour in all directions from any other oral meds, plus a nasal spray, plus any top-ups...)
Which required me to have (1) executive function and (2) manual dexterity First Thing, Before Food, which is on the whole a Bad Plan, or at the least one that has mixed success.
AND THEN. A FORTNIGHT AGO. I realised! That I could take some of the dividers from my set-for-spares! And give myself five compartments each day! So I don't have to sort the breakfast-meds from the before-breakfast-meds every morning while half-awake!
This is working out great and I'm pretty certain I'm being rather more reliable about dosage and timing, so, chalking that one up as a Victory.
I have three sets: the only downside I've found with these is that I break the lids semi-regularly, and so eventually (after much faffing around with superglue) I retired my first set to keep for spares and bought a replacement for everyday use.
A while after starting to date A (I... think?) I decided that actually I wanted two sets in active use, so that I didn't get to late-on-Sunday-night and then have to either sort out a week's worth of meds in a hurry or leave it til the morning and have to do it while sleepy, further delaying e.g. breakfast. This does on the whole work out pretty well for me, with the added benefit that I can choose a time more-or-less at my convenience when my hands are cooperating enough to do fiddly work. (A while after that A's colleagues acquired a 3D printer for general use, so now I get A to print compostable lids for me when I break the original ones.)
However, I have been mildly grumpy for some time now - a year? eighteen months? something? - that I actually take tablets five times a day, not four: half an hour before breakfast, breakfast, lunch, dinner, bedtime. (Plus a bonus oral med every other day or so at least an hour in all directions from any other oral meds, plus a nasal spray, plus any top-ups...)
Which required me to have (1) executive function and (2) manual dexterity First Thing, Before Food, which is on the whole a Bad Plan, or at the least one that has mixed success.
AND THEN. A FORTNIGHT AGO. I realised! That I could take some of the dividers from my set-for-spares! And give myself five compartments each day! So I don't have to sort the breakfast-meds from the before-breakfast-meds every morning while half-awake!
This is working out great and I'm pretty certain I'm being rather more reliable about dosage and timing, so, chalking that one up as a Victory.