I'm on 6/7 pills per day, of 5 or 6 varieties and until now, I have ordered via the surgery online app, then taken a trip to the chemists to collect them. Each week, on a Sunday I fill up a plastic pill organiser, with meds for the morning, meds for the evening, followed by double checking I have got it right - it's quite a fiddly process opening all the blister packs and putting them in the right order, plus chasing them on the carpet when I drop one of them.
I was aware you could ask the chemist to do the organising, but they have enough to do and I assume it will be a manual process, I was also aware you could use an online service to get them delivered to your door, to sort yourself into doses.
What I didn't know, probably because it is new, was that there was an online service that offered them pre-sorted, into pouches or blister packs, split into up to four per day. I only split them into two, because I need to take one pill twice in the day, with another only taken alternate days.
When i initially enquired, they said their pack machine would not be able to deal with the alternate day pill, they would have to just add that in the box for me to manually sort out, but they arrived this morning with them pre-sorted.
I though I had requested pouches, like a series of tear off plastic bags, in a continuous roll, contained in a box, so quite compact. What actually turned up was the blister pack version - A weeks supply in a card container about the size of large paperback, with see through blisters, 4 per day x 7 days x 8 weeks supply. They will only pre-sort them, if you need more than 4 meds per day.
I was expecting mix ups, because first they had decided one of the meds conflicted with another - which I have been taking for a couple of years, so had to be revised. Then at the last minute the doctor revised another med, doubling the dose, but failed to realise more would be needed. Until I spotted the error and emailed the doctor to revise the prescription and asked her to correct it with the supplier urgently.
They have been absolutely excellent to deal with, really on the ball in answering enquiries, machine sorted and sent out yesterday via DPD 24 hour and delivered this morning.
If anyone else fancies giving them a try, they are called simpleonlinepharmacy.
I was aware you could ask the chemist to do the organising, but they have enough to do and I assume it will be a manual process, I was also aware you could use an online service to get them delivered to your door, to sort yourself into doses.
What I didn't know, probably because it is new, was that there was an online service that offered them pre-sorted, into pouches or blister packs, split into up to four per day. I only split them into two, because I need to take one pill twice in the day, with another only taken alternate days.
When i initially enquired, they said their pack machine would not be able to deal with the alternate day pill, they would have to just add that in the box for me to manually sort out, but they arrived this morning with them pre-sorted.
I though I had requested pouches, like a series of tear off plastic bags, in a continuous roll, contained in a box, so quite compact. What actually turned up was the blister pack version - A weeks supply in a card container about the size of large paperback, with see through blisters, 4 per day x 7 days x 8 weeks supply. They will only pre-sort them, if you need more than 4 meds per day.
I was expecting mix ups, because first they had decided one of the meds conflicted with another - which I have been taking for a couple of years, so had to be revised. Then at the last minute the doctor revised another med, doubling the dose, but failed to realise more would be needed. Until I spotted the error and emailed the doctor to revise the prescription and asked her to correct it with the supplier urgently.
They have been absolutely excellent to deal with, really on the ball in answering enquiries, machine sorted and sent out yesterday via DPD 24 hour and delivered this morning.
If anyone else fancies giving them a try, they are called simpleonlinepharmacy.
