Ask your doctor or pharmacist the following questions and write down the answers:

• What are the names of all your medications?
• What is the specific condition each medicine is treating?
• How often do you need to take your medicine?
• What time(s) do you need to take your medicine?
• How should you take your medicine?
• What are possible side effects you might experience?
• If you experience any side effects, what do you need to do?
• If you forget to take any of your medicines, what do you need to do?

Then, you have to do the following:

1. Tell your doctor and pharmacist about your medical history, all the medicines you are taking including prescription, over-the-counter and herbal preparations, and about any allergies or sensitivity you may have to any medicines.
2. Try to get all of your medicines from the same pharmacy so the pharmacist can check for drug interactions and can help answer questions about side effects.
3. Take your medicines exactly as directed.
4. Do not take someone else’s medicine without referral to your doctor
5. Do not dispense your medicine to someone else.
6. Store medicines in their original, labeled containers.
7. Turn the lights on at night when taking medicine.
8. Have your medicine reviewed by your doctor once a year.
9. Get rid of any medicines that have expired or that you do not use. Avoid its use again