Emma: Taking complementary medicines – Interactions with other 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 only takes the complementary medicines her doctors suggest, because many of them trigger her food intolerances.
The only things I would take would be Amcal one a day. It’s a multivitamin. That’s because I've got food intolerance. So a lot of … I can't eat a lot of foods that have got vitamins. The Allergy Clinic has recommended that one just replace things. So probably vitamin B6 as well. They’ve all been recommended by doctors. So I haven't chosen to take anything. A lot of the things I may have tried in my younger days, like alternative kind of things. I can't take, I just found out they're not good for my intolerance. So I stopped all those kind of things and just stuck to what I've been told to take.
The Living with multiple medicines project was developed in collaboration with Healthtalk Australia.