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©2013 UpToDate ® Print Email Identifying problems in taking medicines Review your medicine record Keep a record of when you take your medicines for about a week. Inaddition to the time of day, write down where you are and what you aredoing. After a week, you can review the record and answer the followingquestions to help you see where you are having problems: Are times of dayrelated to problems in taking your medicine? What times are notconvenient? Did you miss a dose or take it late more than twice duringthe week? Which doses were most often missed or late? Dosome locations interfere with your medicine schedule? How often are youaway from home when you need to take your medicine? Does this cause aproblem? What locations cause the most problems? Dosome activities interfere with your medicine schedule? What activitieshave been related to missing or being late taking your medicines? Whichof these activities occur on a regular basis? Doother people interfere with your medicine schedule? Do you feelembarrassed to take your medicine in front of certain people? Who? Dopeople tell you that you don't need to take so much medicine? How oftendo you see these people? Domoods or feelings interfere with your medicine schedule? What moods orfeelings cause problems? (For example, does feeling sad or discouragedmake you feel like taking your medicine?) How often and when do thesefeelings occur? Identifying problems in taking medicines During the week, did you miss or were you late in taking your medicine because: 1. You felt good and decided you didn't need your medicine. Often Sometimes Never 2. You felt good and forgot. Often Sometimes Never 3. You were involved in an activity and forgot. Often Sometimes Never 4. You were interrupted and forgot. Often Sometimes Never 5. There was a planned change in your normal routine. Often Sometimes Never 6. There was some unexpected change in your normal routine. Often Sometimes Never 7. Your medicine caused you to be sick (side effects). Often Sometimes Never 8. You ran out of medicine. Often Sometimes Never 9. You felt the medicine may not work as well if you used it too much. Often Sometimes Never 10. You felt that the medicine wasn't working. Often Sometimes Never 11. It was inconvenient. Often Sometimes Never 12. You were confused about what medicine you should take. Often Sometimes Never Look back over your week's records and your answers to the questions above. Use this information to identify the problems you have most often in taking medicine as prescribed.

©2013 UpToDate ® Print Email Identifying problems in taking medicines Review your medicine record Keep a record of when you take your medicines for about a week. Inaddition to the time of day, write down where you are and what you aredoing. After a week, you can review the record and answer the followingquestions to help you see where you are having problems: Are times of dayrelated to problems in taking your medicine? What times are notconvenient? Did you miss a dose or take it late more than twice duringthe week? Which doses were most often missed or late? Dosome locations interfere with your medicine schedule? How often are youaway from home when you need to take your medicine? Does this cause aproblem? What locations cause the most problems? Dosome activities interfere with your medicine schedule? What activitieshave been related to missing or being late taking your medicines? Whichof these activities occur on a regular basis? Doother people interfere with your medicine schedule? Do you feelembarrassed to take your medicine in front of certain people? Who? Dopeople tell you that you don't need to take so much medicine? How oftendo you see these people? Domoods or feelings interfere with your medicine schedule? What moods orfeelings cause problems? (For example, does feeling sad or discouragedmake you feel like taking your medicine?) How often and when do thesefeelings occur?