KNOW-HOW: Taking your medications on time

Many people suffering from epilepsy have problems with taking their pills on time. This may be due to our lifestyle or more likely - memory difficulties which many AEDs cause.

Taking your tablets ON TIME is very important part of treatment as forgetting or delaying them may cause loss control over seizures.

There are several ways how to prevent it:

- Setting the alarm on our mobile phones or using one of Epilepsy Apps (described in this post)

- "Basic" medication dispenser - you can buy them for just a few pounds from local chemists, eBay or Amazon.

or, for those or you who have severe memory problems, special medication dispensers with the alarm and vibration like this one


 You can buy it from around £15



REMEMBER! TAKING YOUR PILLS ON TIME IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THING FOR EFFECTIVE MEDICAL TREATMENT. DO NOT IGNORE IT!

Why? I used to do that when I was a teenager, kept forgetting to take my meds. My neurologist kept assuming incorrectly that the particular drug is not working, kept changing them and my epilepsy became extremely drug-resistant.

Do not ignore your epilepsy. It may cost you a lot. Not money I'm talking about...Care about it before you will be "taken care of" it!

*N.R.