Medication

Do you have your medication /tablets sorted for you by the pharmacy, or do you sort them yourselves ? I have always sorted my own medication with no problems ,ordering them as needed but I have recently changed the pharmacy where I get them from, now they come all sorted in little pill boxes,with dates /times to take them, but I am finding it very different , the tablets are different colours/sizes and marked take at a different time to when I usually take them,Also I no longer have to order them ,they are sent to me automatically, but Ive still got a lot from my previous supplier.I will have a word wit the pharmacist ,see what he suggests about using them up

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I take a large amount of medication and each Saturday morning I sit and sort them out into the dosette boxes, one for the mornings and one for the evenings.

My problem is that being under three different consultants they are always changing the medication dosages. This throws my GP prescribing into a tail spin. They prescribe 28 days worth of meds, but despite my constant requests that they get everything sorted, so that one request for a repeat script is all that is needed once a month. It has ended up that I am constantly emailing to request medication as it is all out of step. Plus, they dont seem to realise that there are more than 28 days in a month!

It is driving me mad. I end up thinking, bugger, I will do without, in an effort to get it all synchronised.

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My pharmacy which is based inside my doctors orders my repeat medicines for me. My Chest specialist has changed my dosage but the surgery hasn't despite the specialist writing twice to them. So I have had to buy meds online before now. Order online by 2pm, checked by in house doctor, arrives next morning by 9:30 am. Takes my surgery 4 days just to produce prescription.
Last week I went and bought those pill dispenser plastic boxes that I will fill with what I take per day.

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I use a pill dispenser box for Tony's medications & sort them on his behalf.

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I order repeats as and when I need them it's a bit of a lottery if they prescribe them when I need them or if I'll have to make an appointment to see a GP to get them, such a waste of NHS time IMO .

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This is a common fault Cee Cee,28 days are not enough for a month ,also as we our drugs are often changed they do not go in sequence.I am still finding it hard to get used to the idea of my meds being prepared for me as Ive always sorted them myself.It doesnt help much because not all my pills are included as they vary ,also they are put in a different order to what Ive always taken them. Im thinking of tipping them all out of their containers and putting them in my seven day pill box,in the order Im used to

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I do the same for Mr M don't know what he will do when I am no longer around.

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I always used a seven day pill dispenser ,and .I ordered then sorted out my meds myself, but when I changed Pharmacies the new one orders a new prescription from my Dr and puts them in separate daily containers. I still have quite a lot of meds. left from my last prescription, but the Pharmacist said not to use them now, use the new pre packed ones , this seems such a waste

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I was taking Warfarin, but back in March, because of another medical problem, I was takin into hospital and Consultant took me off the Warfarin and gave me Tinzaparin injections instead. Three months on, and he weans me off Tinzaparin again and restarts Warfarin. II'm now still using the Warfarin tablets that I had sitting on the shelf before my hospitalisation.