Why I use a 7 day pill dispenser

[Bagrat]

Ten years ago I would never have believed this would happen!! HappyNew Year one and all.

[jeanjeannie50]

I agree with you totally Bagrat and have 2 x 7day pill boxes that I use. Wouldn't be without them as I'm so forgetful. Happy New Year and wishing good health to everyone.

Jean

[BobD Volunteer]

100% agree. Mind you this last week and a bit it has been hard to know what day it was LOL 😁

[Bagrat in reply to BobD]

I totally concur Bob.!!

[Hidden]

Join the club……members growing all the time…..all the best 👍

[BenHall1]

Happy New Year Bagrat ..... gosh you've been on here some years now, haven't you. I just adore that photo ....... its me! its me! although I must say I do cheat a bit I exercise all the care possible when I cut up the blister packs and put the individual daily blisters into the right days on the pill tower I use. Day 2 of 2024 .... so far so good !!!! 😂😂

[LadyLawson]

Yep I use one too. I also have an alarm set on my phone twice a day to remind me to take my meds. A belt and braces approach which works for me. Happy New Year everyone!

[Blimeyohriley in reply to LadyLawson]

Me too! I have a dispenser for my 6 daily tablets. A reminder on my phone, a reminder on Alexa and a reminder about the reminder on Alexa. Lol. It doesn’t help I have ADHD too affecting my working memory. My worst fear is double dosing. I’ve had a major panic a few times but thankfully it wasn’t so. Hence all the reminders and dispenser now. Thank goodness for technology 😊😆

[Bagrat]

Re "some years". I've met Princess Alexandra twice, once whilst serving and again much later! She asked the standard "Royal" question "Have we met before?" I replied "Yes Ma'am but it was some years ago". Must be about 10 years on here and without a single metamorphosis!!

[Suesouth]

I have a 4x7 day box, like you couldn’t remember if I’d taken one of the pills, wouldn’t be without it!

[Czech_Mate]

I have a box marked 1 to 7. Sometimes get confused whether 1 is Sunday or Monday. 🤔😏

[Fastbeat]

I have a 7 day pill box,but also a daily box(breakfast,lunch,dinner,bedtime)which i transferto every mornig when i have my firstdrink of the day,must add didn't mean drink drink,just tea orcoffee.lol😄

[Bagrat in reply to Fastbeat]

I have little one upstairs marked MTWTFSSX as it has 8 spaces! for early pills. Downstairs the pictured on which I love

pill box

[Finvola]

Happy New Year to you too Bagrat. I became a convert to the little boxes after taking my morning dose twice and couldn't remember how or why I had done it.

[pottypete1]

I’m like Bob, got a day to day box and then forget which day it is.

Happy New Year

Pete

[Jackiesmith7777 in reply to pottypete1]

My husband told me he had taken his atorvastatin tablet last night when I asked him . Three guesses what I saw in his pill box this morning ? ? Last nights tablet that he told me he had taken 😬 I wouldn’t have known if we didn’t have the pill box thingy with days of the week on .

[Bagrat in reply to Jackiesmith7777]

I must admit I have a sneaky look at my husbands pill box after breakfast!He used to put both our pills out every evening until I went to take mine only to discover I'd got his, and he'd already downed mine inc 100mg flecainide ( no ill effects whatsoever!) That was a few yearsback when the pill boxes became a fixture!!.

[pottypete1 in reply to Jackiesmith7777]

My brother in law recently took sleeping tablets instead of paracetamol for 3 days, he couldn’t understand why he was so tired.

Obvious they are nothing like each other but when I said to my sister “do you think it is the beginning of dementia’ she said he has always been scatty.

Still a worry he was 86.

Pete

[Bagrat in reply to pottypete1]

Yes it is a worry, also different drug companies using diff colours for same meds. Another worry laden situation an addict on warfarin and diazepam. Some over lap with colour blue!Years ago a friend of mine took her dog's phenobarb (dog had epilepsy) for several days, she also felt sleepy.

[Carnationmac]

Happy New Year, Bagrat.

Yes I have a 7 day pill box and I set alarms on my phone to remind me to take them at the right time 😂, I hope I don’t lose my phone. X

[Rosemaryb1349]

My 7 day pill box begins with Sunday but my blister packs commence with a Monday. I have, more than once, just opened the first lid on a Monday and taken all the contents then later in the week I look at the box in confusion and try to work out why I am on the wrong day. Going to get out my marker pen and some labels and re-name them I think. 🤔🖋️

[wilsond]

Happy new year to you too!

[Qualipop]

No problem with pills. I only take 3 but I put them out in a box each week. My biggest problem is taking an opiate painkiller in liquid form every 3 hours. I can't very well measure that out daily. I try to write the ti me on the bottle and also on my wrist ( looks like a tattoo. But if anyone distracts me I forget to write it down or occasionally I work out the time wrongly or misread the clock and have taken it far too early on occasions. The first time I double dosed I rang 111 and they couldn't have cared less; just told me not to go to sleep. If anyone has any ideas about liquid meds please do say. Taking two very high doses of oxycodone within an hour is NOT a good idea. We just got Alexa so I'm trying her for reminders now.

[Bagrat in reply to Qualipop]

Have your physicians ever suggested long acting oxycodone (oxycontin) with access to the liquid for breakthrough pain or are you a quick metaboliser? Some people just break down oxycodone faster than most.

[Qualipop in reply to Bagrat]

Oh yes, tried that 20 years a go and ended up taking far more for breakthrough. It just doesn't work for me.

[Bagrat in reply to Qualipop]

Everyone is different.!!

[Dudtbin]

my husband reminds me, my phone reminds me, then my watch, then my husband again and i still forget!! Happy new year .

[Bagrat in reply to Dudtbin]

Sounds about right!

[kitenski]

Can anyone recommend a particular 7 day pill box at all?

[Bunkular]

I've been using 2 dispensers because 1 pill is in the AM and the rest are for 12 hrs later. I would never remember if I took them otherwise. One of the pills - statin actually causes brain fog so that's why I don't risk forgetting.

[RobertTonkiss]

Hi all and Happy belated new Year to you all. I was forced into start using a 7x4 pill box about 10 years ago basically due to the amount of medication I have to take which increased substantially after I was diagnosed with Aortic bivalve syndrome/disease as well as the medication I was taking to battle my Rheumatoid arthritis. It was basically a matter I couldn’t really carry around all the medication boxes and remembering which ones I had taken. Having the pill boxes I put together each week has meant I can see at a glance what I’ve taken and what is due. It’s no disgrace as I’ve worked out I am currently taking a on average 32 tablets a day dependant on the doses I have to take on a particular day.

[Camelia23]

No, don't say stupid it's just our minds are not quite as efficient!

[Desanthony]

A few times recently I have gone to my daily pill box dispenser and realised I haven't taken my morning pills or didn't take the pills the night before I'm blaming the excitement of Christmas, traveling all over the place delivering presents having visitors stay and looking after cousin's dog all in about 2 weeks. Now things have calmed down I have not forgotten them since. I still thought today was Sunday as our usual Friday bin collection didn't happen yesterday but scheduled for today - so really I should have thought today was Friday. Seems like we have had a week of Sundays and no Saturdays recently. Hopefully from now on with the usual scheduled bin collections I will be able to get back into a routine - again. HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!

[Bagrat]

I totally get this. I woke this a.m. convinced it was Tuesday!! Routine is everything.