If you’ve ever been given medication to take then you know the problem. Your routine has changed. The first few days, you’ll likely be at least kind of OK remembering to take your new medication. Or, you’ve been here before, you’ll break out in a cold sweat and be constantly worried whether you’ve popped the correct pills at the right time.

It would be easy if all medications were designed to all be taken at the same time. No chance. {Some need to be taken 30 minutes before you eat}. {Others need to be taken at with food}. Yet others shouldn’t be taken too close to eating. Some medications are to be taken first thing on waking. Others last thing at night. And seemingly at other random times.

Remembering which medicine should be taken when is a job that taxes most of us. Just one potion a day when you wake up? That’s fairly easy (if you don’t have kids) – just put the pot next to your toothbrush.

4 pills when you go to bed – probably easy as well.

, another giant lozenge alternate Sundays, the stripey color pill with lunch each day? You’re going to need a secretary to remind you!

And then once you’ve got everything set up in a nice routine, your doctor decides you need something new or different to try instead or as well.

One way is to get a nifty little device that holds all your current tablets and some labels to tell you when to take them. All you need to do then put it somewhere prominent where you’ll almost trip over it at the right times of day and you’re sorted.

A different method is to train your mind to remember to tell you to take your tablets. Now you may be thinking you have difficulty remembering much anyway. But the neat thing about this is that it’s a method that you don’t actually have to think about.

You can find out how to remember your medication here.