Ratzakratza!!

[JB]

Pill bottles.

Old people take more pills in a week than they (we) ever did in a year when we were younger and had small children in our home. Most of us live alone or with other old people anyway.

A three year old can open a modern pill bottle quicker than a 70 year old.

It is all I can do to get my fingers to type a post, then edit out all the errors.

Why can't we get pills in a bottle that can be opened without painful effort????

I thought it would be smart to fight the cap off and leave it off. Then I knocked over the PERGACLOSICPEP bottle and had to pick up about 90 pills from the floor, one at a time. They cost about $4 each.

It's a dad-gummed conspiracy I tell you!! Discriminating against old folk.

No, I don't feel better now.

 

[Limited-Time]

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What a PITA. I know at one time you could request non child proof caps when having your prescriptions filled, at least you could at CVS. And for a while they supplied 2 sided caps. Put on one way they were child proof, the other they were not. Might be worth checking in to, Or you could always transfer the meds into a more convenient container like a small tupperware type. I'd just be sure it was big enough to hold the original prescription bottle as well as the meds.

 

[dave11]

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Our Walgreens also has the reversible tops.

 

[roscoe]

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Open it once.
Put the bottle, cap, literature, and pills all in one ziplock bag.

 

[Turin]

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well some brands can supplie special caps for elderly people you should ask your pharmacy my mother in law she is not that old she has a box with 7 separate little drawers where she puts her meds for the whole week maybe thats handy you only have to get your meds from the bottle ones a week

 

[BoatBuoy]

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Reminds me of the old man who went to see his doctor with the complaint that he couldn?t ?perform? in the bedroom.

The doctor gave him a 30-day prescription with instructions for him to return after taking the prescription.

Well, 30 days later the old man went back. The doctor asked how things had been going.

The old man said ?not so good. I got that prescription filled. Then I tried and tried with no luck. My wife tried and tried with no luck. She tried with her hands, she tried with her mouth, she even took out her teeth and tried?.but we still couldn?t get the top off that damned bottle?.

 

[tashasdaddy]

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Roscoe, ever tried to open a zip lock bad with arthritic hands. it's the same story. i love beanie weenies, the small can, now comes with the pop to can. i've almost given up. even the jello pudding cup, try to get that foil off.

 

[bootle]

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Get a pill box like the one that Turin described.

 

[thurps]

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Ahhh, the golden years.

 

[CATransplant]

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Getting old is better than the alternative, but limitations keep increasing.

My beautiful wife (who is 11 years younger than my 63 years) announced a couple of weeks ago that the carpet in the living room had to go. "No more carpet in the living room!" OK, I said. I'll just tear up the carpet and install whatever laminate floor you select. No problem.

Well, it wouldn't have been a problem a decade ago. I started on the job last Monday. Uff da! First it was tearing up the old carpet, then removing the tack strips and scraping at the old glue someone had used for another floor before the carpeting. Did I mention the 20,000 or so staples the carpet layers drove into the floor to hold down the carpet padding?

Up and down. Hundreds and hundreds of deep knee bends. Finally, yesterday, I laid the new floor. More deep knee bends. Hold the strips at just the right angle, and they snap together. Off by 2 degrees, they don't.

It's in. Looks nice too. My wife is overjoyed that the cats have a hard surface to throw up their hairballs on. I still have some moldings to do, but that's going to have to wait until I can stand up straight without help.

But, my several pills do come in the easy-open bottles. Even the Advil, thank goodness. I think they're available at all pharmacies. You just have to ask for them.

 

[f_inscreenname]

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I am a forty year old flooring installer and laminate kills me with all the up and down. At 63 I will have to pay someone.

"i've almost given up. even the jello pudding cup, try to get that foil off."

That is what I have "kitchen pliers" for. They have so many uses.

 

[CATransplant]

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I am a forty year old flooring installer and laminate kills me with all the up and down. At 63 I will have to pay someone.

"i've almost given up. even the jello pudding cup, try to get that foil off."

That is what I have "kitchen pliers" for. They have so many uses.

Thanks for that. So it's not just my decrepitude, then.

 

[JB]

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Getting old is better than the alternative, but limitations keep increasing.

I would agree with that up to this point, CAT, but both of my parents, in their 80s and in dementia, felt the opposite for at least a couple of years before they finally went to their justly deserved reward.

Old folks (older than me) are sometimes referred to as "Waiting for God". I have known many that got impatient with the waiting.

I intend to make the most of what time I may have before that attitude arrives. iboats and my many friends here make that easy.

 

[PW2]

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I just had to replace my cell phone. All I need is a simple phone, and I had a simple Nokia, that worked just fine. Until, that is, I put it thru the washing machine. I never saw a warning anywhere that said the washing machine would be bad for them! Imagine my surprise when I found that out!

At any rate, I got a new Nokia. That thing will apparently do anything up to and including baiting your hook! Text message, Instant message, email--Gawd only knows what that thing is capable of doing. Unfortunately they had to make the screen menu choices, if you can figure out how to even get to the menu, so incredibly small you need an electron microscope to see them, and to be of further help, the made them in pastel colors to avoid anything as aesthetically annoying as contrast between one to another.

Why don't they make a phone that's just a phone?

 

[triumphrick]

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Yep..Yep.. all sounds too familiar. Just hit the big six-oh and have noticed some changes. Those fingers of mine sure are stiff in the morning...and something else isn't.

Here's a goody...

An old man visits his doctor and after thorough examination the doctor tells him: "I have good news and bad news, what would you like to hear first?"

Patient: "Well, give me the bad news first."

Doctor: "You have cancer, I estimate that you have about two years left."

Patient: "OH NO! That's awefull! In two years my life will be over! What kind of good news could you probably tell me, after this???"

Doctor: "You also have Alzheimer's. In about three months you are going to forget everything I told you.

 

[CATransplant]

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I would agree with that up to this point, CAT, but both of my parents, in their 80s and in dementia, felt the opposite for at least a couple of years before they finally went to their justly deserved reward.

Old folks (older than me) are sometimes referred to as "Waiting for God". I have known many that got impatient with the waiting.

I intend to make the most of what time I may have before that attitude arrives. iboats and my many friends here make that easy.

I hear you on that, JB. I'm hoping that point is a long way off for everyone I know.

 

[MikDee]

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I hear ya JB, sometimes I wonder if anyone considers us old folks when they design something? Cell phones, watches, organizers, electronic devices, either it's too small for me to see, or not loud enough to hear, or my fingers are too big, or old, & not nimble enough to use them! Text (on everything) including directions, they can print it out in 25 languages, but I need a magnifier to read the 2 pages in english, irregardless of the 50 pages in a foreign language
I roll outta bed, and it takes awhile to get rid of the stiffness all over my body, to finally get moving. Getting down, or getting up, if I drop something is a major issue for me, and those pill bottles, even when I get past the child safety lock, a lot of times the lid is so small in diameter, my hand can't grab it good with out hurting, and for sure I don't have any strength in it when that happens.

Then try and find a seat in any public place, or big store, to rest your weary bones,,, no way! What is it, inconsiderate, or illegal?

Yet, they keep building bigger stores, & bigger malls, and with them, bigger, & bigger parking lots, my arthritic knees don't get any better, just worse! orthoscopic surgery for a torn meniscus for me tomorrow! as if my knees aren't bad enough.

After retiring from 35yrs in commercial construction as a pipefitter/welder, I guess I'm lucky that it's only my knees, not my back, or other items that are affected.

 

[avenger79]

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how about opening the bottle and then putting the pills into a container that is easier for you to open?

I will admit I'm not old yet, (by my own standards of course) but I sure am less tolerant of things then I used to be.

 

[JB]

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I do that when traveling, avenger. I have one of those seven chamber thingies, but a luggage inspector gave me heck for carrying drugs without the prescription label attached. Said he could have busted me but I reminded him of his Granpa.

One more advantage to being old. We need more.

 

[Tim Frank]

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I do that when traveling, avenger. I have one of those seven chamber thingies, but a luggage inspector gave me heck for carrying drugs without the prescription label attached. Said he could have busted me but I reminded him of his Granpa.

One more advantage to being old. We need more.

You could get your pharmacist to print you some extra "proper labels" for your travelling arsenal.
Clears the customs problem and reminds you of the dosages etc.

If your house no longer has child-proof issues, you can request non-childproof from the pharmacy. If you have young grandchildren that may be a non-starter.