Gelibo Weekly Pill Organizer, 3-Times-A-Day

Keeping track of your medications can be challenging, especially if you have to take them more than once a day. If you have multiple medications going morning, noon and night, it’s easy for one or two doses to fall through the cracks.

A daily routine is key to staying on track. It’s important to get in the practice of taking your pills at a certain time each day. If you have medications you need to take with food, breakfast, lunch and dinnertime can be ideal. Soon, you’ll find it’s automatic.

But the best tool you can have in your kit is a pill organizer. These boxes not only keep everything in one place, but you’ll also be able to tell, at a glance, whether you’ve taken your medication that day.

If you have to take pills three times a day, look for an organizer that has three compartments, one for morning, one for afternoon and one for evening. You can buy these as one big unit, but that makes your pill organizer fairly large. Newer organizer sets give you a separate three-compartment box for each day, then a larger box to store everything in. This allows you to take that day’s pills along with you.

• In addition to the right pill organizer, you’ll also need a way to keep yourself on track. One method is to put your pillbox where you’ll see it when you’re doing things like getting your coffee in the morning or making dinner at night. Another is to set timers to remind yourself that it’s time to take your medication.
• You might not be able to use your pill organizer for all your medications. Some medications may need to stay in the original container while others have to be refrigerated. Check the directions carefully before moving your pills to an organizer. If you have doubts, ask your doctor or pharmacist.
• Check out the size of the compartments in any pillbox you choose. If you take large-sized medications like fish oil, you may have to be pickier about your organizer, especially if you’re required to take two or three larger pills at once.
• The printing on some pill containers tends to fade or wear off over time. Keep this in mind. You may find the printing wears out before the container itself does.
• The lid on each container is important, as well. You’ll want one that stays firmly in place; otherwise, your medications might spill out in your bag. But if a lid is too tight, you may struggle to open and close it.