Shows the time since the pill bottle was last opened.
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You're my fiance uses one of those. I have an app that does something similar.
I've got a reminder app so I know when and if I should take certain medicines or already have.
True adulthood is realizing you need a pill organizer
A pill organizer plus an app to remind me when it's pill time and when it's time for a refill solved this problem for me.
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Being an adult with adhd is buying one of these after one too many days where you could feel your heartbeat in your extremities
And then sticking them in a drawer and forgetting to fill/use them.
looks towards drawer guiltily
Doesn't help. It's empty 95% of the time.
😭🫂
It sounds like a joke, but I've basically stopped forgetting pills. Plus, it's a lot faster to take them
did i already hit that doobie or was i about to?
And now you know why old people have those weekly pill planner boxes.
I have a coworker near retirement who said he refused to use one because he didn't want to feel like an old man. I told him my 30 year younger ass uses one. He just sighed and went "yeah, you're right I should get one".
I got one of those when I had to go on antibiotics for a few weeks. Best decision ever. My brain has enough to keep track of already, no need to add another.
An old dog like me struggles to learn new tricks, but I gotta tell you... Getting a set of 7 day pill organizers (the package contained 3 containers with 7 compartments in each) has worked nicely. There's a white one, a pink one, and a purple one. I put my morning pills in the pink one, my afternoon pills in the white one, and my night pills in the purple one. It's easy to tell at a glance as to whether or not i need to take these or if I've already taken them.
It's nice having daily supplies metered out in whatever too because it means not having to risk bringing the main bottles containing my entire long term supply everywhere. This way if i lose any its only one weeks worth and not the bulk source
I did something sort of similar except I only took pills once a day when I got it.
I got one of those 4x daily whole month pill case sets, because I’m very very bad at remembering to refill the damned things weekly, and want to do a ton all at once whenever my pills come in. It had an extra without a date on it to fill out the grid (32 total), so that one is used for travel, and was good for 4 days.
Now I’m taking pills twice a day so I use the first two weeks’ cases for morning and the second two weeks for evening and that’s room for 56 days, perfect time to renew the 90-day prescriptions. My travel case is now packed for 2 days, but I can just as easily grab the two extra cases to get 4
But if I ever end up needing to expand to more doses a day, and I’m not getting younger so that’s likely at some point, it’s still big enough for a month. Pre-planning, yeah!
As someone who can genuinely swallow ~15 pills in one go, I don't have this problem :D
Why not? I don’t have trouble swallowing the pills, but remembering swallowing them.
I've never forgotten that I've dished out a handful of pills and pelicanned them in one go
Sometimes I feel like I need a more advanced pill case that's like one of those lock-out cat feeders. I get one serving and then no more for you, mister.
First thing that came to my mind as well! For those not wanting to watch a short: it's Hank Green showing a cap that shows you a timer since the last time the bottle was opened.
Depends, are you in Ibiza?
we’re going to eat pizza!
Relatable. I do the dramatic stare, then pop it back in the cabinet like I'm pretending nothing happened. Adulting should not require courtroom-level memory reconstruction.
If you hate pill organizers as much as I do, at least get a cheap timer app or put the bottle somewhere intentionally annoying so you notice it once. Also furious that standard pill bottles still don't have date trackers. It's 2026, fix your packaging, pharmacists.