Walking how much pain?

daska

I believe you can get Boots to load them as well - sorry no direct experience of this but a chat with the pharmacist might elicit some other ideas?

Edit: Went looking for cheaper prices for you and found a Medelert pill dispenser at £44.99

and I would think you should be able to claim a VAT exemption so remember to take that into account when looking at prices.

TOBRUK

Saversue wrote: »

Wow, very interesting but very expensive. Can't see how many pills it holds, to dispense in one go, ie 22 at bedtime. Might give them a ring to find out more. thanks

Hi Saversue, I used to have this problem of not being able to fit all my pills in a pill box, thankfully the number I take have been reduced a little and they only just fit in! I have to have a pill box otherwise I can never remember whether I've taken them or not!

If some of your pills are the same i.e. you have a number of the same to take, could you ask the GP if there is a higher mg of that pill - e.g. I take pregabalin 600mg a day and they come in doses starting from 50mg - I have them in 200mg capsules. I used to have them in 100mg so as I now have 200mg capsule, so the number of those pills have halved. The same with some of my other meds.

Sorry, I'm struggling a bit today with 'brain fog' so finding it hard to explain things!;) Hope you understand what I'm trying to say!

Flippin heck Daska, that pill dispenser is very expensive isn't it?! I know a great deal of things that make our lives a bit easier are expensive but that I think is too much!

Saying that mind you, I found a nail clipper (on a stand) which I could manage (I think) to use with my foot, and that was £36! At present I have to ask someone to cut my nails as I only have use of one arm, but that pill box is something else!

woody01

It grudges me a bit when i see some people exit their vehicles with blue badges & hop skip jump off down the street, Sometimes with a stick but thats not for support i think they are auditioning to be ginger rogers.

What an ignorant observation.
My daughter has a blue badge and can walk a little at a time.
She is however severely disabled.

Does that make her less entitled than some that can walk around a Sunday market?

daska

TOBRUK wrote: »

Flippin heck Daska, that pill dispenser is very expensive isn't it?! I know a great deal of things that make our lives a bit easier are expensive but that I think is too much!

Saying that mind you, I found a nail clipper (on a stand) which I could manage (I think) to use with my foot, and that was £36! At present I have to ask someone to cut my nails as I only have use of one arm, but that pill box is something else!

When considering whether something is 'too' expensive I try to work the price out over a year. £96 for the Pivotell is £1.85 a week, or to put it in a different context it'd pay for about 8 minutes for my agency carer...

Thankfully I don't have a lot of pills to take, in fact it's just 2 a day atm, so it's not worth it for me. But someone who forgets easily and who suffers discomfort as a result might consider it very reasonable.

tattoed_bum

hi saver sue I hope you dont mind me butting in but I use a craft box for my pills like this and I wrote the days on It with A permanent marker pen http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Small-Craft-Storage-Box-15-Compartments-/370340179765?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_Storage&hash=item5639feaf35 I use 2 of these

TOBRUK

daska wrote: »

When considering whether something is 'too' expensive I try to work the price out over a year. £96 for the Pivotell is £1.85 a week, or to put it in a different context it'd pay for about 8 minutes for my agency carer...

Thankfully I don't have a lot of pills to take, in fact it's just 2 a day atm, so it's not worth it for me. But someone who forgets easily and who suffers discomfort as a result might consider it very reasonable.

Yes, I know what you mean, for me, I had to get something for my pills because my memory is so bad and I live alone, so no-one here to remind me! It's just the initial shock of seeing a price like that. I shouldn't be shocked really as I am always looking for something to make life easier and the cost of these things are pretty high.

I have just bought another one handed keyboard (as my old one died on me) and that was £305 - luckily I didn't have to pay the VAT.:)

I like your thinking, the way you work the price out over a year - when you put it like that ... well, it's a good way of looking at it. I shall have to remember that when I am trying to justify buying something in future.;)

only_mee

I put mine in them transparent plastic cups you can get, (i take a fair few tablets) generally make up a weeks worth at a time then stack them up in three piles morning afternoon bed, i set the alarm on my phone for the afternoon ones.

Saversue

Thanks DASKA, TOBRUK, TATTOED BUM, and ONLY-ME, good to 'talk' to such nice people who understand. I will look into your ideas and as you said I don't have to pay VAT.
Tobruk, I am already taking the highest level of meds, I understand what you mean, except the Gabapentin because the 600mg tablet costs about 10 times as two 300mg and my GP is no longer allowed to prescribe it, so now I have to take 9 x 300mg per day instead of 3 x 600mg and 3 x 300 mg.

sunnyone

Saversue wrote: »

Thanks DASKA, TOBRUK, TATTOED BUM, and ONLY-ME, good to 'talk' to such nice people who understand. I will look into your ideas and as you said I don't have to pay VAT.
Tobruk, I am already taking the highest level of meds, I understand what you mean, except the Gabapentin because the 600mg tablet costs about 10 times as two 300mg and my GP is no longer allowed to prescribe it, so now I have to take 9 x 300mg per day instead of 3 x 600mg and 3 x 300 mg.

Lyrica is the newer, better version of Gabapentin and it has less side affects but it costs more, Im much happier on Lyrica and the dosages are much lower when compared to Gabapentin for the same amount of drug in your system.

Saversue

sunnyone wrote: »

Lyrica is the newer, better version of Gabapentin and it has less side affects but it costs more, I'm much happier on Lyrica and the dosages are much lower when compared to Gabapentin for the same amount of drug in your system.

Very interesting, I will mention it to my GP, but doubt he will change it unless I give him a good reason, must already be costing the NHS a fortune.
What side affects did you have, I am guessing acid reflux, slow digestion and constipation, or did it make you drowsy?Nothing seems to make me sleep during the night - only in the mornings.