Thank you. I will never buy a bed again without wheels on. This one has trendy chrome type feet and I had the choice of either type. You live and learn!
Oh yes, would be problem with a cat, they're so inquisitive. I have to take my thyroid one the minute I wake up, then heart ones an hour later (still in bed then). It drives me crazy and always seems to happen when I'm running short of that particular tablet.
Same here but greedy dogs. If I want them to take a tablet they force their mouths shut but If I drop one they both rush to hoover it up as if it were a lump of steak. So far No disasters but now I am super careful. X
Thank you John. I have to take a tablet the minute I wake up, then another an hour later, it needs that spacing between them. Then I have to wait another hour before I can have my breakfast.
Do you keep them in a pill box? One of those that is a seven day box. I put my pills in a small plastic glass and "drink" them from the glass. Then drink my water to swallow them. Works for me. So far haven't lost any. I do lose them if I try to take one or two straight from the bottle they are in. My partner has shakey hands and I often find some of his on the floor. And we have 3 inside cats. Luckily most medicines don't smell too good so they don't seem to want to mess with the pills on the floor. Maybe it's something in the human make up. Once we start getting older we start dropping our pills. I have that under control with the way I do it. But what about all the other stuff I drop? 😲😂😂
I have mine in a seven day pillbox by my bed, which just contains my heart ones. My Warfarin ones which I take mid breakfast are kept in front of my PC. You've made me think that perhaps when taking them out of the pillbox perhaps I should immediately place them into one of those small plastic medicine cups. I will give it a go, thank you for the idea.
Great Jean. I usually find any pills I drop thankfully but I have found pills, albeit very occasionally, that have been dropped and I’ve not even realised I have. Have no idea when or how! I have a cleaner once a fortnight and again very occasionally, there will be a tablet on the coffee table that she has found. Yes, I have a dos box but somewhere between opening that and tipping them into my hand one of the little beggars has made the great escape! x
Thank you. You've hit on it Frances, it's the pills bid to escape! I think putting them in one of those little plastic medicine pots to transfer them to our mouth is a good idea, rather than holding them in our hand to do so. I'm going to give that a go.
Oh Jean if only you knew. Next to my pill box I have a dainty little glass dish about 2” square which I put the meds in ready to take. I can also see if I’ve taken them or got distracted. Then….somewhere between tipping them into my hand and before they reach the mouth which is about 2 seconds, one of the little so and so’s has been known to make a bid for freedom. I have been known to count the tablets in my mouth with my tongue just to make sure there is 4 there. x
You've made me laugh. I think I'm going to use one of those little plastic medicine pots and tip them from there straight into my mouth. No holding them in my hand to drop. X
Yep, same here. Can’t let something as small as about 3mm get the better of me! x
A related problem is that if you have to cut a pill using a pill-cutter (in my case Sotalol which is a very small tablet) it often disintegrates or results in one "half" of the tablet being much larger than the other. This results in a lot of wastage. You could try tipping the pills from the pillbox onto a flat surface- if you then drop one then it's likely to fall back into the surface making wastage less likely.
Thing is I'm in bed when I take them and just sit on the side of it to make it easier and I have a small bedside table. Once out of my pillbox these little blighters make their bid for freedom. Belinda has given me the idea to take them from my box and put straight into one of those little plastic medicine pots, then I'll take that straight to my mouth. I have to take two separate doses before I get up and they have to be at least an hour apart.
Two points, one, my mum hated taking her diuretics and after she died we found dozens under her chair where she had accidentally dropped them on purpose. Relates to your poem! Two, I have my tablets in foil and certain ones, riveroxaban and digoxin in particular, jump out of the foil never to be seen again.
How do we keep sane! Your poor mum, I don't blame her for hating taking her tablets, but they're such a necessity when you have a heart or other serious complaint that may damage your body organs. I think square pills may be the answer to prevent us dropping them and at least (hopefully) they couldn't roll far.
It happens to me too as l take mine in bed. It is usually among the bedding somewhere. I can never find it but my partner comes in the bedroom and finds it almost straight away. The trouble with having square pills, they would hurt your throat going down. Good poem by the way.
Thank you Cha. It's enough to drive you mad isn't it - all that searching and the mystery of where the pill's gone. I get a torch, kneel down and shine it over the floor, but very rarely do I find the little blighter.
It's really strange how things like that happen isn't it! It's like they're alive and making a last bid for freedom. I wonder if in a few hundred years time they'll be found and scientist will be enthralled to find out what they contained. This time now will probably me labelled 'the pill era'. 😂
I thought it was restricted, but it wasn't. I left the forum and then tried to join back and post too soon. I sent an email to Helen who is listed at the side of this post.
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