Keep Taking The Tablets

[Caribeing]

Why can't instructions on medication labels be more straightforward, we are working out the following instructions! Take one tablet twice a day for one week, (so that is two tablets per day) then increase each week until taking four tablets twice a day, so does that mean three tablets a day the next week and four tablets a day in the fourth week or is it four tablets twice a day making that eight tablets a day?

[Mamyalynne]

Yes ,Danny, Eth said that yesterday and I would agree.

[dannyk13]

Sorry Lynne, didn't know there was a previous thread.

[Mamyalynne]

Doubly difficult.

[Mamyalynne]

This thread Danny - 12.50 yesterday.

[Mamyalynne]

Extra confirmation is good.

[ethandron]

Oh to have back the simple life of a few years ago when the only tablets I took would be an occasional paracetamol...

[dannyk13]

At the moment I am on 8 different types of medication so I have a gadget that warns me when a tablet is due (if only it also said what it was I needed to take)

[Sqad]

/// then increase each week until taking four tablets twice a day///

Increase how much?How many per day?

One tablet a day for one week.......3 tablets a day for one week?

You are assuming that it means....4 tablets a day for the 2nd week.

I am afraid that this thread and answers is based on assumptions, which is what the OP is querying.

[ethandron]

Danny, I have a few of those daily organiser box things and find it helps me to fill a whole weeks worth in one go. I'd forget what to take, and when, if I didn't. Or even if I'd taken them....

[Mamyalynne]

Poor lad.

[Mamyalynne]

I agreed with both Ethandron and Danny re the means of increasing as my Mother had a similar plan once for a medication - perhaps the OP should indeed return to surgery if a medically trained person cannot fathom it.

[Mamyalynne]

Well thank goodness your nephew has you - loneliness on top of a health condition is wearying.

[Sqad]

Mamy

\\\\\Why can't instructions on medication labels be more straightforward\\

That is the question posed by the OP and i think that the above posters have taken her question very lightly.

[ethandron]

The answers are based on common sense.

[dannyk13]

And experience as a patient.

[Sqad]

^^^^^ then they shouldn't be....they should be based on fact.

Who's common sense?

[Mamyalynne]

Why can't instructions on medication labels be more straightforward - Goodness knows.


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