Hi all
I thought it might be fun to learn from each other what reminders and routines we all use to remember to take our tablets?
I use a 7 day pill box and I leave them next to the bed as I take first thing when I get up and last thing when I go to bed.
I am the oddity though that I break my dosage into 3 and to remember the midday one use my telephone repeating alarm at 3pm everyday.
What do you do?
Use a 7 day pill box next to me bathroom cabinet. If I leen my teeth I see my pills and can see at a glance if I have taken that day/time dose. That reminds me I need to fill it this morning!
I have a little dish prominently positioned where I pass about 20 times a day and have a checking look - daytime there should be two tabs (Flec and NApixaban) and from 9pm it should be empty. It just remains for me to remember to take the morning dose at 9am!
The only times (so far) when I have forgotten a dose has been when my normal routine has been changed.
I take my Thyroxine as soon as I get up then as I always go straight into the shower & not ‘clock’ watching I have the 9am alarm on my phone for the morning Apixaban. I always find the 9pm dose is just habit now
I have a 7 day pill box too. I also have alarms set on my phone that go off at 6.00 pm for my beta blocker and again at 8.00 for my Magnesium.
Used to take my warfarin when the bleeps for the six o clock news came on the radio!!
Now I am on Edoxaban and its on the table where i eat my breakfast and put my make up on.
I do the same but for some reasoon for the first time in 3+years I forgot my morning tablet yesterday took it later and was going to move my second tablet to a couple of hours later but I had a bad tummy upset so to in intents and purposesm I was not anticoagulated yesterday as didn't keep down any medication. After two immodium today everything is going well.
I have two 7 day pill boxes. One contains my Flec and Metoprolol which I take twice daily an hour before food, the other my warfarin which I take mid breakfast, along with vitamin tabs.
I make my own muesli of nuts, seeds and fruit and because it all takes a lot of chewing I sit at my PC to eat it. Trouble is I become so absorbed in what I'm looking at on screen that I sometimes forget whether I've taken a certain vitamin or not. As I take each vitamin I'm meant to place the container on the dresser to the side of me, but still get confused! Think I'm losing the plot!
I have an alarm set on my mobile for my 5pm Flec and Metoprolol. I'd never remember to take it before my evening meal otherwise.
Jean
I set an alarm on my watch but as it sometimes decides to turn itself off I have a backup alarm on my iPhone and I’ve learned not to turn it off Snooze before I take the tablet (Apixaban) because I have been known to get distracted between the phone and the Pill Mug - yes, the strips are stacked in a mug🤷🏻♀️
I take anything up to 20 tablets a day - only anticoagulant x2 daily at breakfast and then just before bed for AF. I don’t use anything to remind me - my body reminds me by just not working if I forget! Result - I don’t forget or need reminders.
I take all morning tablets and inhalers as sopn as I get up. I use my phone alarm at 6pm for edoxaban and at 8pm for bisoprolol and inhalers for asthma.
I also have an ap on my (Samsung) phone - 'My Therapy'. This I find really useful, with all my meds and times entered it sends reminders, and repeat reminders if I don't take notice, at each medication time.
I also record measurements on it for daily blood pressure, heart rate, oxygen sats, peak flow and temperature.
I had a long awaited first appointment with the cardiologist yesterday. He was quite impressed with this record of my bp and heart rate, displayed either as a table or graph.
I totally recommended this app. I also have it installed on my tablet and enter the data to that too as a backup.
I only have reminders for my rivaroxaban, as I feel its the most important. Google Home reminds me to take it at 6.30 every evening. I also have a Garmin Vivoactive smartwatch which reminds me at 7 pm in case the Google reminder didn't work. I also have a husband who asks me every evening if I've taken it. For everything else (beta blocker, BP meds, ppi) I rely on my memory.
I use the vibrating alarm on my Fitbit and keep my pills in a seven day box
I have a 7 day pill box. Since my cardiac arrest have had problems with short term memory so have an app on my phone called My Therapy, it goes off at the times when I need to take my pills and tells me which ones I need to take x
I have phone alarms for taking tablets. For drugs taken twice a day I take one from the top strip in the morning and one from the bottom strip in the evening so I can see if I've missed one. I also have a card with what drugs to take and when so when I visit the drug box I can check .
My wife also keeps asking if I've taken the tablets and that's better than an alarm clock.
7 day pill box by bed . Morning ones before I get up! Night dose phone reminder at 9 pm as I forgot that one a few times by leaving box upstairs ... 🙄
I have the free Medisafe App on my iPhone. It annoys you either by intermittent buzzing or with a red symbol until you acknowledge you have taken it.
Notifications on my phone. I take my Apixaban an hour apart from any other Rx meds since I've read that is best.
I have a 7 day pill box, but also get Alexa to tell me at 8am and 8pm 'Take Your Medication". Works really well!
7 day pill box in the bathroom. I take the am ones all together with a puff of my inhaler and I take the pm ones when I go to bed. No particular times, depends when I get up or go to bed!
As well as having individual daily boxes I have also set the Reminder on my mobile. It plays a lovely Minuet to tell me it’s tablet time 🎻🎹🎺
I use a sharpie to mark out the days of the week on the foil. I (almost) always remember the breakfast pills, as we take supplements at the same time every day. The evening pills I use an alarm on my mobile, and also on my Fitbit. It's useful to have both, as it's the evening ones I tend to forget about. Breakfast is about 9am, so the alarms are at 9pm.
Thank you for this post - it reminded me to take my tablets lol
I use a one day removable pill box from my 7 day kit. Every night I fill it. It sits beside my bed and I take the first 3 when I right wake up. I carry it into the kitchen where it sits on the worktop all day. The 4 evening ones I take at 10. If I forget or there’s a change in routine it gets picked up when I come to fill the container for the next day.
My husband takes his on waking and going to bed. He just moves each packet to the right side of his clock as he takes them. In the evening after taking his bedtime one he moves then back to the left.
How many medications do you take (heart related only)?
Self dosers, how do you do it?
Did I take my tablet or not? Edoxaban. 
