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Medication Adherence
Medication adherence means taking your medicine the way it was prescribed by your doctor:
- In the right amount – correct dose
- At the right time – example in the morning and before bed
- In the right way – example twice daily
- For as long as your doctor recommends you take it
Tips to help you stick with your medication plan
- Take your medicines at the same time(s) each day. A regular clock/phone alarm can help
- Link it with something else you do around the same time(s) each day, such as brushing your teeth
- Keep a calendar or chart to write down when you take your medicines. Place a reminder note on your calendar a week before the medicine is due to run out
- Put a reminder note on your refrigerator, phone, medicine cabinet, or bathroom mirror
- Remember to refill your prescription. Put your medicine in pill boxes
- Ask friends or family to help remind you. You can remind each other!
- Use one pharmacy.
Talk to your doctor
- About any allergies to medications
- If you have any side effects with the medications, you are taking
- Before you stop taking any medications
- If you take or use any medicines prescribed by another Doctor or over the counter products such as cough syrups, pain relievers or herbal remedies
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last updated: September 25, 2019
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