Emma: Problems with multiple medicines (II) – ‘Authority required’ medicines
Listen to patients and health professionals speak about their experience with taking multiple medicines.
Emma
Female
Age at interview: 41
Number of medicines: 19
Cultural background: Anglo-Australian
Emma has to be especially organised with her medicine that requires authority, so that she does not run out.
I have had some difficulties with getting the midodrine because it's a drug approved by the TGA. I have to go to a hospital to get them. So I do have to drive from my home to a big hospital to go and get them. I can't just go to the local pharmacy to get them. So I do have to order and make sure that I realise I don’t have enough with about a week's notice so they can get them from the manufacturer because it's not something they keep all the time just because of the cost. I guess not too many people take them. But leaving it to the last minute, I actually have been close, like maybe having just one tablet left. I have been lucky. So I haven't actually missed any.
The Living with multiple medicines project was developed in collaboration with Healthtalk Australia.