I complained to my doctor about the way prescriptions are filled.
I go annually and get a prescription renewal for the next ‘year’ which consists of an initial lot of 90 pills and 3 refills. When you do the math, that’s only 360 pills. What am I supposed to do for the other 5 or 6 days before the next year starts?
I guess they assume you will forget to take them 5 days and it’ll come out even.
What I have done (without anyone saying it was a good idea) is instead of taking my meds the same time I will move it back an hour or two over the course of a week or two and then gain one dose. I figure if the pill is good for 24 hours it’s probably not a problem to go 25 or 26 hours.
Clever.
But the wisdom of it probably depends upon the condition for which you are taking them ;-)
I think a lot of these arbitrary numbers are a ‘computer thing’.
(It worries me that we’re dumbing our human lives down to the parameters of various AI capabilities...everything has to be expressed in a way that a program can understand; and most computer programs available to business are still pretty simple.)