How can I encourage my mum to take her medication pills regularly?!
Question: Well my mum takes depression, high blood pressure, high cholestorol and diabetes tablets. She is supposed to take it 3 times a day but she only takes it once and she is started to feel the effects of it. Like headaches and high blood pressure and swelling legs.
How can I make her take her tablets when she is suppsed too?
I want to do this because I love my mum and it is for the benifit of her health.
Thank you x
Answers: Well my mum takes depression, high blood pressure, high cholestorol and diabetes tablets. She is supposed to take it 3 times a day but she only takes it once and she is started to feel the effects of it. Like headaches and high blood pressure and swelling legs.
How can I make her take her tablets when she is suppsed too?
I want to do this because I love my mum and it is for the benifit of her health.
Thank you x
Unless she really wants to get these things under control, there is not much you can do to get her to do it.
This is on the same level as an alcoholic or smoker giving up the alcohol or cigarettes. They will not do it until something really bad happens.
You might go get 3 of those weekly pill boxes. the plastic ones that have the days of the week on the little lids?
I do this to remind myself to take the darn pills!! I do forget to take them. After all, I went 50 years and rarely had to take even an aspirin! Then, whammo! I got slammed by the doctors with about 10 different pills to take!
Get the boxes in different colors. I use clear for morning, pink for lunch, and blue for dinner. Just set them on the table near her place.
The diabetes probably makes the depression that much worse. I know when I had high glucose levels, I was very much depressed (those meds don't work for me).
Don't be the police tho!! that will just make her determined not to do what she knows she should.
Do you do the cooking? Make nice salads, dark green leafy veggies with other good things, and a bit of meat. Make the salads as interesting and inviting as you can.
You are a good kid!!
she's a grown woman-you can't. for whatever reason she is choosing to this. hand it to her if you need to. i could see my kids saying to me something like mom take your pills, i don't want to have to babysit you. THEN REMIND HER OR PUT IT IN A MED CONTAINER. what do you want, blah, blah, blah
It is very important for your mother to take her pills as she should, especially with all that it sounds like she has going on. Although it may be difficult for you to tell her what to do, being the child and all, do some research for yourself. Research the many things that can happen if she doesn't take her pills as she should in the long run. High blood pressure can lead to stroke, and many cardiac (heart) issues. High cholesterol can do the same, especially along with hypertension (high blood pressure). Severe diabetes could ultimately lead to a possible amputation of a limb, foot or leg, due to the decrease in circulation. If she doesn't want to listen to you after you do your research, leave your information laying around the house. She may not look at it while you are around, but if she is home alone, she just may read it. If she is experiencing side effects from taking several medications together, she should speak with her doctor about them, to get the medicine or doses changed for her benefit.
Good luck to you, hope I could help!
Have her read this post. It might make re realize how important it is to you. She just may put herself in your shoes and think....Oh, I should take better care of myself so I can be here for this child's future.
Depression is treatable just like diabetes with a pill.
If she still does not want to take the meds, she does not need to be "bumming" you out by letting you know she is not taking her meds.