Written by Melinda
Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
The amount of pills I take every day just continues to increase. And, only THREE of them are prescription. The rest? Supplements. I got sick of carrying around a baggy full of pills with a little typed card inside that I pull out every “dose”. I’d go down through the list and divvy out my pills, and figured it was time to get a better system. So, I went to Walgreens today and bought this pill organizer.
As soon as I got home, I laid out all the bottles on the kitchen cabinet and filled each pill section with its appropriate dose of pills. Let’s see if I can name them all:
- Multivitamin
- Calcium Citrate
- Sublingual B12
- B Complex
- Vitamin C
- Vitamin D (Dry)
- Vitamin D (gel cap)
- Alpha Lipoic Acid – non wls related
- Chromium Picolinate – non wls related
- Wellbutrin
- Spironolactone
- Iron
- Probiotics
- CoQ10 – non wls related
- And now, add a Ortho Evra patch which gets changed 1x weekly (thanks again, Mirena!)
Oh, and also… some anti-biotic that the doctor prescribed for a week after the Mirena IUD to prevent infection. And, don’t forget that with malabsorption, I’m not just taking one multivitamin a day. NO sirreee! I take 3 (THREE) a day, same for the other supps… I need more than one per day (all dosages for different supps vary). You can see now why I needed the little pill organizer, just to keep them all straight. If that weren’t enough, I have added reminders to my cell phone. It goes off at the time of day that the dosages are due. My memory has gotten pretty bad (thanks, Mirena!) and in the meantime, while waiting on the symptoms to subside after the removal… I’ll use this organizer… Makes me feel kind of like a senior citizen.
