taking meds

mig
mig Member Posts: 7,154
edited 8. Aug 2011, 04:52 in Living with Arthritis archive
Hi all, how do others take their meds?first thing i take blood pressure meds then about half hour later i take anti flams and omeprazole and then pain meds,should i be taking them all together or is the way im doing it ok,i dont seem to have any probs doing it this way.Mig

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  • hileena111
    hileena111 Member Posts: 7,099
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi
    I suppose we all eo it differently.....I take morphine about 6.30am and sit or stay in bed for ages {about 7.30-8} to try and let them kick in....then on getting up take epilepsy tablets......with breakfast I take omneprozol, and paracetamol and iron.....that means a few hrs between the morphine and paracetamol to try and hold pain at bay.Then naproxam at about9
    Nothing until lunch then paracetamol
    roughtly tea time paracetamol
    6.30'ish morphine again
    9pm Naproxam
    bed paracetamol iron and epilepsy
    Sort that out LOL
    Love
    Hileena
  • valval
    valval Member Posts: 14,911
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    hrt and allergy meds before breakfast
    hydrocloroquine and omega 3 then ibuprophen or co codamol after and dureing day

    evening hydrocloroquine and blood pressure med after eating (doc said taking pain meds in evening stops any dizzyness it might cause val
    val
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I used to take things at different times, but when hospitalised I just given the whole lot, in a cup, and it was down the hatch, with the nurse looking on, one after the other. I now use the 'hospital method' and no problems so far. DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • julie47
    julie47 Member Posts: 6,041
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I take my meds in two batches.....ones I need in the morning after breakfast and then the others I need after my tea.....so that they are taken on a full stomach. (they are all mixed, one drug doesn't get preferencial treatment :lol: )

    Juliepf x
  • Daveboy
    Daveboy Member Posts: 26
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    BP tablets in the morning, pain killers as and when
  • Poppyg1rl
    Poppyg1rl Member Posts: 1,245
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    First thing I take is the lanzoprazole then 15mins later folic acid tab, celebrex tab, Sulfasalazine tabs, trammies if I need them.
    Co co's as and when, celebrex and amitriptyline in evening. Plus enbrel injection and I'm SO glad I'm injecting methotrexate now otherwise that'd be even more tablets one evening a week :grin:
    Xxx
    'grá agus solas'
    'Love and Light' translated from Irish. X
  • hileena111
    hileena111 Member Posts: 7,099
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi
    My naproxam is slow release so has to be taken 12 hrs apart
    Morphine is the same
    as for paracetamol if i need them...try to fit them in between to stagger the pain killers if that makes sense
    #Hileena
  • Ankyspond
    Ankyspond Member Posts: 626
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    All in one go for me, less to foeget. X
    AS Sufferer
    Live, love and enjoy life, live each day as though it's your last!
  • madwestie
    madwestie Member Posts: 383
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I take mine in as few goes as i can, asthma tabs painkillers gabpentin and ranitadine as i sit on the edge of the bed to get up, then i eat 2 digestives with my hot water bottle before i am 1/2 way human. then painkillers at 10ish gabapentin at lunch, painkillers at 4pm then plaquenil at dinner and the rest (11) of them as i go to bed.
    I inject mtx and for the last 5 days 6 prednisolone in the morning. not to mention inhalers.
    shake me and i rattle.

    The sad thing is all that and i still only feel 1/2 human most of the time still i dread to think what i would be like without them.
  • skezier
    skezier Member Posts: 11,333
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi Mig,

    Just take mine morning, dinner time and night time regardless of time if that makes sense?

    I sometimes forget the folic acid though.... Got to try and remember it really :wink:

    I think its what ever suits really. Cris x
  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 29,838
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi MIG

    Morning, noon and teatime. Then there is a bedtime supply :lol:

    Some are better with food for definite as they uspet you belly and Val some l deliberately take before bed as they dont make me feel so good.

    I think the only 'rule' l have is to take the lanzop first thing :smile:

    Love

    Toni xx
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    madwestie, I am little concerned. Why are you eating hot water bottles? :smile: I can just see you, sitting there, nibbling away. Any particular colour preference? How do blue ones taste? :smile:

    I know what you meant but, oh boy, did that make me laugh! I apologise. :oops: DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • mig
    mig Member Posts: 7,154
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    just reread the hot water bottle one :!: :!: Mig