Peter H: Starting and changing medicines – Reducing the number of medicines taken
Listen to patients and health professionals speak about their experience with taking multiple medicines.
Peter H
Male
Age at interview: 71
Number of medicines: 9
Cultural background: Anglo-Australian
Peter H has recently been able to stop one and reduce another of his medicines for high blood pressure.
The Felodur, I used to be on 10 milligrams and I asked … and I was also on Coversyl and the Felodur went down from 10 to five and the Coversyl was … no, it says Coversyl here. What was the other one, it's not [unclear], anyway he cut that out at my request because my blood pressure was so low they weren't worried about that.
The Living with multiple medicines project was developed in collaboration with Healthtalk Australia.