AmeliaTek Medication Compliance

Here is another way to “keep it routine” so it’s easier to remember to take your medications.

If your prescription says: “Take 1 tablet at bedtime.” When do you take it? Just before you turn the light out? What if you change your bed time? What if you stay up very late one night? Is very late still “bed time” ?

If your actual bedtime is variable, those “bedtime” doses can be a real challenge and can cause many missed doses.

The actual relationship with “going to bed” is not critical. Doctors may write “take at bedtime” to be sure it’s the last dose of the day and it probably will be taken on an empty stomach so it won’t interact with food. Here again, it’s better to set a specific time for those doses late in the evening (say 10PM) and take them routinely – around the same time every night - regardless of when you actually put your head on your pillow.

Irregular eating habits are another challenge. If your prescription says: “take with meals”, skipping meals may cause you to miss doses, too. That’s not good for you. Routine mealtimes are always better, but you can set a reminder to have a supplement drink and take your drugs with that, if it’s uncertain when you’ll have time to sit down to a meal.

Many diet plans require several small meals per day to avoid getting that “hungry” feeling. These plans usually get the best weight loss results. It’s easy to set reminders to eat something or drink a supplement routinely throughout the day, and stay on your diet or on your medication schedule.

There hasn’t always been easy and convenient reminder technology like OnCellRx. Now that some of us are becoming independent via such technologies, it is a good idea to clarify some of the medication prescriptions so we can properly follow the Doctor’s orders.