Moody cow 87 Posted April 28, 2017 Report Share Posted April 28, 2017 All the best chulla you will be fine Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted April 28, 2017 Report Share Posted April 28, 2017 Ayup Chulla, tell em you want some bigger oss pills ! Chin up youth, you will be fine ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chulla 4,946 Posted April 29, 2017 Report Share Posted April 29, 2017 Thanks again everyone, your best wishes are appreciated. Jill, are you contending for the Nottstalgian poet laureate position? (the pay's rotten). Â Â No more 'oss pills CF - now its anti-sickness pills (Metoclopramide Hydrochloride), a steroid (Prednisolone) and anti-diarrhoea pills (if needed). I still take the three previous daily tablets. All I need now is a good memory to remember how many of each, how many times a day. lol Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted April 29, 2017 Report Share Posted April 29, 2017 Chulla,I can highly recommend the little plastic pill dispensers (not sure what they are called) they have individual daily containers with four compartments for different parts of the day. I have a months supply, and if my meds are staying the same I fill them up, put four away and keep one handy, or you can just fill one weeks supply at a time, it saves having boxes of pills on view all the time. Mine only cost £1 from the cheap shops. Just remember to keep a few in their boxes for hospital visits, the docs like to see the original boxes, which is understandable. I have used this method for about ten years and find it so helpful, I can see at a glance if I miss a pill. Good Luck Miduck. PS Very handy to slip a days strip in your pocket if you are off gallivanting. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,646 Posted April 29, 2017 Report Share Posted April 29, 2017 I keep my pills in an old "nuts and bolts" dispenser,washed out of course,I have marked the bottom of it with the ones to take AM and ones to take PM,I only used this because I'm a tight wad and wouldn't buy a proper one   Rog 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,331 Posted April 29, 2017 Report Share Posted April 29, 2017 My auntie in Southwell who is 87 today has her medication delivered to the door, prepacked in something that looks a bit like Rog's nuts and bolts box. There are four compartments for each day, containing what she needs to take. Ingenious really! Â Me, I try to wake up around 4am to take my microscopic thyroxine tablet on an empty stomach. I keep the tablets under my pillow and I'm usually half asleep so end up dropping the bl66dy thing in the bed! Â Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,109 Posted April 29, 2017 Report Share Posted April 29, 2017 I keep my 'medication' in two bottles. One called Jameson's, and the other called J & B. It works fine for me ! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,614 Posted April 29, 2017 Report Share Posted April 29, 2017 Paul uses a little box with the compartments for all his medication. He fills it up at the beginning of each week.  Before he started using it, he was often forgetting whether he'd taken certain ones, so it's really helpful 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,331 Posted April 29, 2017 Report Share Posted April 29, 2017 The thyroxine is my tablet medication. Liquid medicine is delivered by courier in a box marked Laithwaites!! Good stuff! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted April 29, 2017 Report Share Posted April 29, 2017 Mrs C fills my medication box cos I struggle to get the tablets out of the foil. A "Dosette" box is used to put each days meds in. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DJ360 6,736 Posted April 29, 2017 Report Share Posted April 29, 2017 Dave, I've only just read your latest 'cos I've been away. I waon't say 'keep your chin up' because that's your nature anyway. i'll just say 'all the best'. I can also recommend the pill box jobbies. Itake 8 pills per day although only 6 are prescribed.. the others being Omega 3 and a multivit. Since I only have one of each per day.. I just have single compartments and I swallow the lot in one go first thing then it's done..  My Mum had those pre-packed meds as she had a lot of heart problems and who knows what else going on.  Col Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted April 29, 2017 Report Share Posted April 29, 2017 Thanks catfan, 'Dosette box' I can never remember the name. Brilliant little invention. It seems that they are quite popular. I had my first ones from 'EastgateMarket' Ingoldmells, mostly now it is from the cheap shops, Poundland etc at £1 a time I can renew as often as I like. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nonnaB 4,900 Posted April 29, 2017 Report Share Posted April 29, 2017 Thanks Lizzie I'm fine. A few aches and pains but trying to avoid certain foods. Since mum has been with us I'm eating more biscuits ( hundreds of cuppas a day) and things I dont normally eat. Last year I was so well with walking and watching my diet. This year has gone to pot. I know age has something to do with it too but I could do with losing a couple of pounds. Trousers are getting a bit tight. Still take my cod liver oil capsules and evening primrose caps. Dont know if they do anything but will carry on with them. C.L.O. I've been taking for years and I rarely have a cold, so they must do some good. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chulla 4,946 Posted April 29, 2017 Report Share Posted April 29, 2017 Now that I'm popping pills like a hippie, I will have to get myself a dose box - did think about it, now I will. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted April 29, 2017 Report Share Posted April 29, 2017 Poundland is the place Dave ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,646 Posted April 29, 2017 Report Share Posted April 29, 2017 Or an old nuts and bolts dispenser  Rog Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chulla 4,946 Posted June 29, 2017 Report Share Posted June 29, 2017 Chemo #4 today. Things seems to have settled down after a very shaky start - won't go into detail but after the first session I was back in the hospital for a four-day stay with neutropenic sepsis and anaphylactic reaction to Tazocin, during which they discovered that IÂ was allergic to penicillin. Things were much better after the third infusion - think they have reduced the chemo dosage. Â Further to what I said about the trial, I am not taking the new AstraZeneca tablets, only the chemo. One of the heart electrical signals was too high and has precluded me from having the Part 2 of the trial. Â #1049 I don't know. I'm sure! The Alfreton Amazon is always telling us that she is a mardy scaredy cat when she is visited by anything resembling pain. For heaven's sake, gel, your Alma Mata was Manning; didn't they instill into you the value of a stiff upper lip? Why do you think they made you wear grey flannel drawers - character building to prepare you for anything in life. Let's have less Baching and more purring. 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,331 Posted June 29, 2017 Report Share Posted June 29, 2017 #1067 Â Ay up, Chulla. Looks like you're another candidate for a cream cake after today's ordeal! Hope it goes as smoothly as possible. Â By the way, the only 'stiff' accoutrement at the dreaded Manning was the white games blouse which was supposed to be starched! Mine never was...too uncomfortable. Â I'm a self confessed, 5 star, copper bottomed coward when it comes to medical matters so you, Michael Booth and Carni have my utmost admiration! I'll just join you in a cream bun when it's all done and dusted...in the name of solidarity! Â 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chulla 4,946 Posted June 29, 2017 Report Share Posted June 29, 2017 The chemo session is not bad, it just that they sometimes have a few stabs at trying to find a vein in the back of your hand. When they find it they then push the cannular needle right in down the vein. The scars from previous IV stabs are still evident. Jill!, Jill!, can you hear me? Quick someone, a glass of water. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,614 Posted June 29, 2017 Report Share Posted June 29, 2017 Sorry you had such a bad reaction to the drugs, Chulla, but did you enjoy your stay in hospital after a while?  The nurses' uniforms these days aren't what they used to be in my day - I'll say no more, but eyes used to follow us up and down the mens' wards - at least in the orthopaedic Ward when all that was wrong with the patients was mostly broken bones and knee cartilage problems.... 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DJ360 6,736 Posted June 29, 2017 Report Share Posted June 29, 2017 Hi Dave.. your trials make my little moans sound like what they are.. little moans.  Wishing you well my friend.  Col Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chulla 4,946 Posted June 29, 2017 Report Share Posted June 29, 2017 Yes, Margie, although I wasn't expecting anything other than an overnight stay, I did quite enjoy it. The nursing was excellent in every regard, and the food also, and when the 'problem' occurred they displayed what I considered to be superb professionalism and totally stabilised me within two hours. Before I was discharged  I told one of the seniors that he had an excellent team, and I meant it. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted June 29, 2017 Report Share Posted June 29, 2017 I am at a bit of a loose end so I just keep checking NS throughout the day whilst awaiting my 6.15pm appointment. Just read your post Chulla. I wish you all the best Miduck and we are all rooting for you. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,429 Posted June 29, 2017 Report Share Posted June 29, 2017 Hang in there, Dave. Â We're all rootin'Â for yer. Â Yer never know I might even pray for yer. Â Â Edited to add:. And you too, Carni. Â I'm sure all will go well for yer. Â Soon be cream cake time. Â 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chulla 4,946 Posted June 29, 2017 Report Share Posted June 29, 2017 It's being so cheerful that keep me going (Itma catchphrase) Â Â 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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