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My memory isn’t bad for my age, but recently I kept forgetting to take the second dose of my calcium and Vitamin D combi.
I have to be honest though, it was making me even more tired than usual even if I did remember, so I’m back on the OTC Vitamin D which is a higher strength than the combi and I only have to take one a day.
Meds are Vitamin D, Multi vits, garlic oil capsule, Vitamin C and glucosomine with breakfast which are kept in the cupboard, and cancer meds plus ezitimibe for cholesterol at night which are kept on the bedside table.
Easy. I can remember that!
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Why is it so easy to forget important things like meds? I do it all the time and wish I didn’t…
Luckily the cancer and ezetimibe are the only ones on prescription and I take those at night so that I have my hot flushes then rather than during the day.
When you have been taking meds for so long, I wonder if they are still doing any good…
I wonder that too sometimes, and we are convinced that pills from different manufacturers vary. I shall be on my post cancer meds until 2029 having had them changed in 2019 when I had my second strike. The hot flushes are still the same, but I can live with that.
Two bites of the apple? That just isn’t fair…
Getting rid of Humphrey in 2016 was a doddle, but Dick in 2019 was a different kettle of fish. Still, I’m OK and that’s what matters. How’s Anita?
We’re not really sure yet, Di… our hospital is in a state of covid confusion these days. No one seems to know whats happening and such things as updates have gone out of the window. She seems better when we speak on the phone, but she says she still feel weak and her breathing is not brilliant. Hopefully, someone might decide to tell us something today…
My thoughts are with you both Jen.
Thank you, I’m sure it helps…
❤
After so many surgeries, adverse reactions to propofol anesthesia, intubations, comas and now fighting this blasted COVID-19 monster… I keep forgetting to take my Ginkgo Biloba (memory) pills! LOL
Bless you Ami. Keep safe.
I’m not at the point of having to split up my meds but I can see a time when I’ll need the morning, noon, and night pill caddy!!
Hubby’s got a morning and afternoon bx, though takes all his meds first thing. My Mum had a box that was already preloaded by the chemist for all of hers.
Take my vitamins in the morning.
Likewise.
Thanks for sharing Di! A small aside; Vitamin D should not be taken daily unless the doctor has prescribed it. It can cause overdosage ( hypervitaminosis- D) you should get your levels checked to see that it’s not over the limit. That can be toxic.
Thanks for the advice. The doctor recommended 25 micrograms of Vitamin D a day after my surgery so that’s what I’m taking.
I’ve been given this advice so I passed it along. Fat soluble vitamins can accumulate in the body so getting their levels checked is advisable after 3-6 months.
Thanks again. Since my reply, I’ve looked it up and the site mentioned 4000 IU per day as a maximum. I looked up a converter and this equates to 100 micrograms. I’m taking a maximum of 35 (25 for the OTC and 10 in my multi vits) but I’m due a diabetes check next month which will include bloods and I’ve already got a reminder to ask them to check my calcium levels, so will add Vitamin D to that. Always good to know these things.
You’re welcome.
wish we could remember our meds! We forget them a lot! or my alters move them and get distracted and then they dont get taken!
That must be a worry Carol Anne.
I have to sort mine out too. There are some days that I go and I see some of the little compartments still full and don’t even remember that I forgot to take them! 😅
I seem to have got into a sensible routine now.