Sunday draws to a close and I am considering writing another post. I have a lot to write about, but much of it takes work, which is why I generally ramble a bit then stop.
It’s lucky I did sit down tom type, as my Warfarin were by the side of the keyboard and this reminded me to take them. Normally I keep all my pills together but these had become separated. That makes it seem like something that happened, rather than something I did. In fact, because of the different ordering cycles of my varied pills, they don’t always arrive at the same time and in this case I picked up Warfarin on its own, wandered home and put the pills by the side of the computer instead of in the box. Once that happens I sometimes struggle to remember to put them in the right place.
My normal pills, I have one a day and get two months supply at a time. Regular as clockwork. methotrexate is ten pills on one day of the week, and they only let me have four week’s supply at a time. Folic acid, which I take on non-methotrexate days, is issued as a two month supply, generally on alternate months on the same day as the methotrexate. The Warfarin comes in 100s and I have to take 2½or 3 tablets a day depending on the results of the regular tests. And then I have the injector pens once a fortnight, but they are delivered so that’s not a completely different problem.
I hope you’ve been keeping up. I, to be honest, find it all a bit tricky and have to rely on my diary. You can see why people get mixed up. Fortunately I take them all at the same time so I don’t have problems remembering to take them at different times. That will, I assume, come later.
At one time I had a plastic device to pop the pills out of the packets, as it’s tricky when you have arthritis. The plastic device didn’t actually make it easier and I used to drop a lot more.
You can list this under “things they don’t tell you about getting older”. I’m thinking of writing a series of blogs about it, but you know how it is – I’ll do a couple then I’ll forget . . .
Do the best you can. Actor David Carradine had his problems, but his advice in one of his books was to 80% eat well 80% of the time. That might be an attainable goal.
Very sensible advice, and easier than perfection.
I used to have pages of prescriptions but counter intuitively, I have got better as I have got older (for the moment at least). I have got a system to remind of when to take the two medicaments that I still need, but it is not entirely foolproof – as I have proved – many times.
It is a tribute to your exercise regime and sensible diet. I really should try it. Not sure about foolproof systems, we seem to have a better class of fool these days. 🙂
I would like to think that it is a tribute to exercise and diet but it is more probably just dumb luck.
Whatever it is, it seems to be working. That’s got to be good. 🙂
Sounds very complicated!
It is, particularly as my memory is not what it used to be. 🙂
This is such an unpleasantly dominating routine
The alternative is that I eat less and exercise more. I keep thinking of it, as I’m not really an admirer of pills. Wouldn’t be so bad if they had them in fruit flavours . . .
I think I am very lucky at 79.5 YO to only take the one tablet a day.
Very lucky, or very sensible. 🙂 I actually need a prescription for self control when close to food.