Medication/Supplement tip slide:
I’ve been meaning to post this for a long time and just never got around to it or thought of it when I was online:
I learned this tip from a visiting nurse who came to the house in January. It’s one of those “Duh, why didn’t I think of that” things. I also wonder why I never read about somewhere.
It was very helpful to us in sorting my aunt’s meds, which at the time were more numerous and confusing. I keep meaning to use it with my supplements.
Some meds you take in the morning, some at night, some once a day, some three times, some with food, some without, etc. The same with supplements. It’s even more confusing in some ways because some you want to take together because they work together and some work against each other and you have to space them out.
Get one of those large pill organizers for seven days a week that has four rows: morning, afternoon, evening and bedtime.
Take a sharpie and write “1” on the Sunday box of the morning row, “2” on the Sunday box of the afternoon row, and so on.
Then take the meds/supplements to be taken in the morning and write a “1” on the cap. Write a “1,3” if it is a med to be taken once in the morning and once at night.
That way, when apportioning them for the week, all you have to do is go by the numbers.
Probably a number of you already knew this, but I didn’t, so some of you might go “Duh” like I did.