The best advice I can give is to buy a book called “The PILL Book”.
I had to buy a new one very year as a Med tech, as they became obsolete the very next year, according to the higher ups.
If you spot one that is a year or two old) at a thrift store or Flea market GRAB it!
It is pretty dry reading, but if you look up the meds you are on, you will continue reading other stuff.
It will give you a leg up!
I was amazed how many meds (and coffee) can give you tinnitus, which can be torture for some who already suffer from itT
It will give you a good idea of what meds do, and why they are prescribed!
Look up the over the counter stuff too!
Like I said I don’t take perscription meds and I only go to my primary care doctor once a year in order to get blood work done. I have found if you go to the doctor and mention one little problem the first thing they say is, “Here take this”
Now I know when I have a bladder/urinary track infection I need something for that so I will take an antibiotic then.
My father lived to be 95 and he never took Rx’s nor went to doctors. He did take aspirin.
On the other hand my mother lived to be only 76. She went to doctors all the time. She had a pill book and took everything they prescribed for her plus over the counter stuff.
When I was young I was on all kinds of medications, expensive too! For digestive system problems. My friend was in nursing school at the time. I went to visit her and started reading her drug book. All the drugs I was taking had opposite side effects. Constipation and diarrhea, etc.
I decided then and there I wasn’t taking any of them anymore, and didn’t.