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How do you keep track of your medicine? (lemdro.id)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I was trying to find some medicine today and realised I need a better system to organise what I have and know what I don’t have. Currently, everything is kind of thrown into a drawer.

Ideally it will be seamless enough that it doesn’t become a chore when I need to add or remove something.

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Thank you for all the suggestions thus far. I just want to make a small clarification.

I'm not looking for a system to organise the medicine/vitamins that I am currently taking (although the ideas provided are super useful). I'm thinking more along the lines of a "stock management" system for the stuff I am not actively using.

I came across this software as an example.

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[–] CosmicCleric 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I was trying to find some medicine today and realised I need a better system to organise what I have and know what I don’t have. Currently, everything is kind of thrown into a drawer.

I have a specific container (blue tupperware-like food bucket with a thin silver handle, that has holes in it for ventilation, and is normally used for holding vegetables and such in the kitchen) for my medicines.

Inside of the container is divided with a piece of cardboard into two zones, one zone for one set of medicines that I taken at one time of the day, and another set that I take at another time.

I find this a lot easier while at home than having to constantly refill pill boxes, and I only use pill boxes for when I'm traveling.

As far as ordering new stuff, I try to keep one extra of every medicine that I have, and when I finish one medicine and I'm opening the next bottle of that same medicine, that's the time I call the pharmacy and order a replacement. On the fly inventory management basically. I store these extra meds in a bag that also goes into the blue container. The fact that they are in a bag separates them from my other medicines, it's my inventory area.

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