How do you schedule all of your pills?

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Today I have had the task of trying to figure out a schedule for my daughter to take her now 21 pills a day since we are starting the antibiotic regimen. This is her pills for 6 days:
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Some have to be taken with food, some without, and some not near each other. It made me think 1. If I have to do this for myself when I am old I am in trouble. 2. This is insane! So how do you manage your pill regimen?
 
I have tried different ways but honestly haven't found one that I really like. Right now I just leave them all in the bottle. I considered a pill box but with 4x Mezavant a day it would have to be huge. I understand the with/without separate issue. For example pred needs to be in the morning so I can sleep, iron can't be taken with milk/ calcium so they need to be separate, Mezavant is two times a day, and when I was on abx it was 3 times a day. I hope others chime in with helpful suggestions.
 
I tend to take most of my pills in the morning (most are supplements, and a beta blocker). Humira is injectable so that doesn't count obviously. 6MP, lexapro, and ativan are all at night, along with more supplements.

I use an AM box and a separate PM pill organizer/box. They really keep me on top of taking everything.
 
My pill management sort of looks like your picture. Right now it is very unorganized due to trying to find a combination of pills that I can metabolize and trying to find out the reason why I cannot metabolize a lot of medication. I take delzicol and librax in the morning, right as I get out of bed, so that I can have breakfast in an hour or hour and a half, which I use to get dressed and wake up. (Don't know if this is a good combination, but just started on the librax on Friday and am working on fitting it into my schedule, haha, what is that?). Prednisone with my first snack/meal of the day along with vitamins and birth control, so that I can sleep at night. More vitamins and probiotics with lunch. Sometimes will add a second sachet of probiotics between breakfast and lunch or split the probiotics in half due to it tasting horrible and making me full if I mix it in a beverage or food. Delzicol 2-3 hours later, as I am usually not hungry in the afternoons. Librax again somewhere in this period, as it is to be taken 30-60 minutes before meals. Dinner two to three hours later followed by Librax shortly before bed. Flovent in the morning usually before going to work and in the evening after dinner. I think that is all I am on at the current moment, but I would have to go count medications to see if this is right. Working on moving to Humira in the next couple of weeks, tapering prednisone, and moving off delzicol as soon as on Humira, so will eliminate 4 pills of delzicol immediately and 4 pills of prednisone in time, but this is my current schedule. I do see that you found a pill box that you can fit the delzicol pills in (or what looks like delzicol), kudos to you on this, as I cannot find one with big enough slots to put it in, so I just leave them in the bottle on the side of the pill box that the others are sorted into. I do have some PRN medication and when needed I usually have to rearrange the whole med schedule, as taking Flovent and prednisone for CD and EGE and having asthma sometimes do not mix well.
 
Would the pharmacy blister package the meds for you. I worked in a group home years ago and all meds came in a blister pack with day and time. Meds were actually kept in a binder.
 
Would the pharmacy blister package the meds for you. I worked in a group home years ago and all meds came in a blister pack with day and time. Meds were actually kept in a binder.

My grandparents have this done. Its a life saver. Their doctor called and found a pharmacy to do this. Its great!

We do the same as your doing. I use a 2 wk pill box.
 
I should have asked about this option. Something tells me my pharmacy wouldn't do it though. I asked them for tips or help with scheduling all of her meds since the pharmacist was so adamant we don't take a certain pill near another pill, even space them apart, etc. She was quick to say "we don't do that".

My biggest concern is some of these she is taking at school so it has to be clear when & with what she is taking. Only 3 weeks like this so I figure probably by week 2 we will have the hang of it. Anyone have a good suggestion for an alarm app for iPhone that works really well for multiple alarms? She is going to get sick of her alarm going off 8x a day.
 
I was going to suggest blister packaging as well. My parents have this done and it is really helpful! I do believe you may have to pay a bit extra for the service. If one pharmacy doesn't do it, perhaps you can transfer the prescription to another that will do it.

If not, you can try making your own 'equivalent' by buying two or three of those plastic pill containers - you can have a separate package for morning, afternoon and evening and then make up your own labels for the times.

On the iphone, you can set multiple alarms and label each one separately. But is this what you want to avoid? ie She is going to get sick of her alarm going off 8x a day. But, I'm not sure how an app would be different??

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I am trying to avoid the most annoyance so she doesn't start ignoring the alarms. Teenagers are so finicky sometimes...
 
The 1st one I checked out was the my IBD app because she already uses it. No alarms for pills. We downloaded the mymedschedule. Has it for both android (my phone) & her phone (iPhone). It took a while to get everything in there but definitely has all we need.
 
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