I take medication for my blood sugar and a statin for cholesterol. Quite likely, I will need to take medication for my blood pressure as well. I also take a specific set of vitamins recommended by my eye doctor due to my eyes' macular degeneration. I keep these pills in a nice pill box that allows me to separate them out by day of the week as well as morning and evening--which is helpful because one set of medicine is supposed to be taken during a meal and the other just before bed.
Yesterday, I was headed to bed knowing that I still needed to take the evening medicine. For whatever reason, I looked at my pill container and thought that I had not taken my meal medicine (which often happens on Wednesdays since we eat dinner at the church), so I swallowed Thursday's dose despite having taken Wednesday's dose earlier (I had remembered).
This sort of mess up is not life-threatening with this particular medication, but it did have a significant effect on my intestines through the night and until about lunchtime today. It's bad enough that I have to take the medication to begin with, but screwing up the dosage like that is tremendously frustrating--and inconvenient. I was quite uncomfortable.
I remember looking forward to getting older.
Yesterday, I was headed to bed knowing that I still needed to take the evening medicine. For whatever reason, I looked at my pill container and thought that I had not taken my meal medicine (which often happens on Wednesdays since we eat dinner at the church), so I swallowed Thursday's dose despite having taken Wednesday's dose earlier (I had remembered).
This sort of mess up is not life-threatening with this particular medication, but it did have a significant effect on my intestines through the night and until about lunchtime today. It's bad enough that I have to take the medication to begin with, but screwing up the dosage like that is tremendously frustrating--and inconvenient. I was quite uncomfortable.
I remember looking forward to getting older.
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