Remembering tablets...

shegar

I take 2 different types of insulin 4 times a day at different times, before I take the insulin I have to test my blood to see how much I need to inject, after doing this for 36 yrs its easy to remember..........I also take 9 different other pills twice aday morning and night and when I sit down to eat I always put my tablets near my plate with a glass of water.........my husband also has epilepsy on 2 different tablets 8 tablets a day like you they are upping his mg s weekly to try to stop the seizures ......also I put his next to his plate morning and night, its really a routine that you must get into.........

You worry me a bit about how you skip breakfast with having to take insulin.....:eek:how do you manage that???.........try and get a routine where you put your tabs and injections by your breakfast bowl, and same for the evening meal and tabs.......

Humphrey10

shegar wrote: »

You worry me a bit about how you skip breakfast with having to take insulin.....:eek:how do you manage that???

I don't inject the insulin for that meal, if I don't eat the meal... I'm on MDI not mixed insulin so don't need to eat a set amount at set times etc. I need less in the morning anyway, the long acting one is more active then. Which probably means I need to split the dose of the long acting one, as it should be active all day (levemir - doesn't last 24hr)! But tbh, I really can't be bothered with that atm got too many other things to worry about right now.

Think I might have to start eating breakfast so it's a reminder for the keppra too.

fallen_angel_69

I work in a pharmacy and a lot of pharmacies offer if you ask a dosset box or flexi pack. Different people call them different things .The ones we do we call flexi packs. Basically all it is ,is a tray with 4 rows across stating time of day and 7 rows down so that's one week They can fit your medicines in one of those It takes longer to do so most places will ask you to call back Where i work these are used a lot of the time. They are extremely usefull if you take a lot of medication a day each hole holds around 10tabs but depending on the size of the tablets and the patience of the technician and pharmacist you can get around 12 tabs in per dose. These are also great if you are on a titrating dose This is where the dose changes daily.The pharmacy won't charge you for doing it in a flexi packthey just like longer to do it

Rebob

I have a blister of each of my tablets in a glass by the kettle so I see them as I make my first and last cup of tea of the day......still forget a lot of the time if I miss a few and get out of the habit.

HOWMUCH

Humphrey10 wrote: »

I was on tablets for the diabetes for a few years before starting insulin (it's a slowly progressing form of type 1 diabetes), and never was 100% at remembering the tablets! So I don't think it's getting used to taking them that is the problem, I think that because the insulin is more fiddly to do that it's easier to remember if I've done it or not.

Type 1 diabetics do not start on tablets, you will be Type 2 who has progressed onto insulin, but that could be due to you not taking your medication 100%

Take you tablets with your meals.

RuthnJasper

I would've suggested the mobile 'phone reminder as others have. You can also use Microsoft Office Outlook, or your other email system, whether at work or not, to set up automatic reminders, so you can 'message' yourself to take your pills (pops up on screen even if you're not using that program at the time - as long as it's open somewhere in the background).

You'll get there - I remember mine automatically these days; it's when the dog gets prescribed some that I struggle...!

Good luck! xx

Humphrey10

HOWMUCH wrote: »

Type 1 diabetics do not start on tablets, you will be Type 2 who has progressed onto insulin, but that could be due to you not taking your medication 100%

Don't be ignorant, it's quite offensive really - you clearly have access to the Internet, so it would be easy for you to look up about diabetes, instead you spount nonsense - why?

I'm not a teacher, I'm not going to educate you, use the internet to educate yourself. I'll give you two clues - you are wrong about type 1 diabetes never being treated with tablets. See if you can find out the name of the 'subtype' of type 1 diabetes that would be treated with tablets first, then I will stop assuming you are an idiot.
You are also wrong that if someone has type 2 diabetes and has to take insulin it means they haven't taken their medication 100%. Where on earth did you get this strange idea?

Raksha

http://www.mymedschedule.com/ these folk will send you an email reminder, useful, if, like me you are an internet junky. It's US based, so I don't think it will send text messages to the UK, but I find the email message just as useful.