Diana: Starting and changing medicines – The potential impact of a new medicine
Listen to patients and health professionals speak about their experience with taking multiple medicines.
Diana
Female
Age at interview: 22
Number of medicines: 13
Cultural background: Anglo-Australian
Diana describes one of her medicines as ‘my little miracle’ as she is no longer chronically tired.
Since I've started the Oroxine, it's been an absolute life changer. I went from constantly having a [unclear] to about midday at work, not remember what I'd done when I got home that night, being constantly controlled by OCD feelings because I couldn't remember what I'd done, constantly sluggish. I would sleep eight hours of a night, sleep both the train ride into work and home and it still wasn't enough. To now, I'm up before midday; I can be up at 8 am and feel fantastic. I have enough energy when I get home that I can actually exercise now. As clichéd as it is, I call it my little miracle. It's the one medication I'm okay with being on for the rest of my life because, yeah, there was an issue, but I can see a difference.
The Living with multiple medicines project was developed in collaboration with Healthtalk Australia.