Lyn: Adjusting to multiple medicines – Positive outcomes that help people adjust
Listen to patients and health professionals speak about their experience with taking multiple medicines.
Lyn
Female
Age at interview: 67
Number of medicines: 1
Cultural background: British-Australian
Lyn has been able to maintain an active social life and increase her voluntary work because of her medicines.
I wouldn't be able to do what I do without my medication. I know that. It gives me the ability to go out and do my talks for COTA, they haven't affected my brain to the effect that I can't do something a bit more meaningful. I was looking to get more involved in health issues for older people and I spoke to COTA about it and then they've now made me a consumer advocate, so I'm going to be sitting on a couple of councils, to see how I go.
These are my training wheels ones. My first meeting is next Monday, so I'm quite excited about that. My brain isn't at all to the fact that I can't cope with those sorts of things. I can read documents that are quite wordy and understand them and that was the thing that I was afraid of, that it may affect me to the effect that I couldn't cope mentally with some task that I wanted to do and I'm very happy that my talks with COTA have shown me that I've got the ability to do that, because I write my own sessions after a plan and, depending on which group I'm talking to, I change those sessions around and I'm able to do that with no difficulty whatsoever and I'm really looking forward to taking on a bit more mental work, something that's got to make me think more clearly and these medications haven't stopped me from doing that.
The Living with multiple medicines project was developed in collaboration with Healthtalk Australia.