Taking Your Medications On Time, Every Time

You know that sinking feeling when your doctor gives you a new prescription to take. Havoc has been wreaked on your daily routine. The first few days, you'll likely be at least kind of OK remembering to take your new medication. Or, you've been here before, you'll start twitching wondering whether or not you've taken the right pills at the right time.

The problem is that not all medications are the same. {Some need to be taken half an hour before eating}. {Others need taking at with food}. Still others shouldn't be taken too close to eating. Some medications are to be taken first thing on waking. Other pills have to be digested last thing at night. And anywhere else your doctor thinks he can fool you.

Remembering which pill should be taken when is a job that taxes most of us. Just one pill a day when you wake up? That's fairly easy (if you don't have kids) - just put the pot next to your toothbrush.

4 tablets when you go to bed - probably easy as well.

But two pink tablets twice a week, another giant lozenge alternate Sundays, the stripey color pill with your evening meal each day? It's starting to get that you need your own personall assistant to nag you!

And then just when you're getting used to everything, your doctor prescribes a change or thinks that you'd be better off with this new wonder potion.

One possibility is to get hold of a neat little pill dispenser and a set of rewriteable labels to help remind you. And after that what you'll also need is to place it somewhere there's enough opportunities to see it during the day to remind yourself and you're all set.

Another way is to teach your mind to remind you to tell you to take your tablets. Chances are you're now thinking you can't remember anything at your age. But the good news is that it's a technique that doesn't rely on your conscious mind to do anything at all.

Find out how easy it can be to remember to take your medication here.