Karen: Benefits and disadvantages – Being able to do things
Listen to patients and health professionals speak about their experience with taking multiple medicines.
Karen
Female
Age at interview: 37
Number of medicines: 8
Cultural background: Anglo-Australian
Karen’s condition means she has reassessed what is important to her and what she wants from life. Medication is helping her to achieve those things.
One of the other advantages is I've had to step back and look at what are the really important things to me that need to keep happening and what can go by the wayside and, in that process of working out what's really important to me, it's more important that I can do those things, like still be as independent as I can be and like spend that time with my nieces and nephews especially and my family. That means that, if medication is what I have to do to do that, then that's life and that's the pay-off and I'm trying to be OK with that.
The Living with multiple medicines project was developed in collaboration with Healthtalk Australia.