2024-10-21

National Check Your Meds Day 2024

    taking medication

One day I began to question my mother's compliance with her prescriptions. This brought about a change in the way we handled her daily requirements for health care. Now each morning I prepare all the items she is supposed to take for health maintenence and at 5 pm that day we do a recheck and take any remaining medications.

We have found this somewhat more tolerable than those questionable practices whereby I think she would go days without taking any of her meds. I then added a few nootropics and some other OTC metabolic health items I thought might help.

Today is National Check Your Meds Day. It happens annually on October 21 under the auspices of the National Community Pharmacists Association. It was established in 2017 by the US Department of Health and Human Services who I view as a bunch of irrelevant politically motivated ninnys anyway based on their handling of so-called 'plandemics' like COVID and Bird Flu which are being used as an attempt to control we tax payers. In theory this day is for patients to bring their prescriptions to their local pharmacists for review.

Now, while I think this is well and good I have reviewed her meds with her physician and I am sure she is taking those medications prescribed. Since she is on Express Scripts pharmacologic consultations are really not ideal any way.

Pharmacists can remove any prescriptions that have expired, update prescriptions as necessary, and answer consumer questions. If nothing else, it’s a rare chance for consumers to get free medical advice. I don't feel the need for pharmacists in my life. I should be able to go and buy those medications I want to take off of the shelf. This does not happen in a medical industrial complex out to control what you may or may not do. Thusly, there is a dark web and black market whereby you may skip these controls. The only problem with this is having the wherewithall to insure you get what you pay for. This additional vigilence in acquisition also adds to the cost. Caveat Emptor: let the buyer beware