Judy: Problems with multiple medicines (II) – Minor problems or no problems at all
Listen to patients and health professionals speak about their experience with taking multiple medicines.
Judy
Female
Age at interview: 72
Number of medicines: 9
Cultural background: Anglo-Australian
Judy feels well and finds her tablets easy to take. Any problems with her medicines have been minor and very easy to resolve.
No. I guess that, because as I said, I don't feel that I'm ill, I just get on with life. I don't know whether I should confess that I don't take regular blood tests, you know, needle-prick type tests. Nobody has insisted that I do that, but I find that my three-monthly bloods always come back really good. There has been the odd occasion where my blood pressure's been a bit of an issue, but that's settled down now. We've sorted that out. So, really, just get on with it.
The Living with multiple medicines project was developed in collaboration with Healthtalk Australia.