I am going to have to figure out taking new medicine

I agree, I would prefer 6 hours but this old lady has to try and get more sleep... And that is what I did, except I try to get up at 9... cause the only thing I've gotta do is put the dog out.

@ElicBxn Then take your first dose between nine and ten, and then figure four hours from there. so say you take one at nine Am, your next would be 1, then five, then nine and then one.

@kaylachan and that's what I put into my phone to get me to take them. I often run late taking my afternoon medicine on Wednesdays because working on the trash. I hate to stop, wash my hands and go take it. Generally speaking if I'm near the end, I'll wait. I'm sure this new medicine can be done the same way.

I have to sleep sometime, and I have always been bad at sleeping. Actually, getting back to sleep. I can do it with my liquid medication because it is right by my bed. I have a little fridge by my bed. I do not have to swish it around and spit it out which is what this medicine is calling for. Two minutes of a stinging medication, yes it stings, and then spitting it out is going to have me awake. I know for a fact, doctors don't want us to do things that would make our health worse. Now, I wouldn't wake up any one else if I did it, like taking my liquid medicine (that I swallow) at 6, Connie, a former mylotter's, mother moved in with us and did just that. She had an alarm (one of those old 'Big Ben' type ones that had a manual alarm) on a pie plate at 4 a.m. The next day, after I dragged my super tired butt home from work, I told her that wasn't happening again. She could take the medicine when she went to bed and when she got up but she was not waking the super light sleeper again, in the middle of the night! She went and b*tched to her daughter who told her she wasn't going to be waking me up in the middle of the night. If she doubted it, she should call her doctor. I guess she either did that or just did something else because it never happened again.

@rakski I think if you asked a doctor between taking a medicine early or skipping a dose you would probably have them say, take the dose early and go to bed. It isn't like something that is going to kill me if I take a dose early. Heck, before I decided I could wake up and take a dose and go back to sleep I was taking a stronger medication at about 6 to 7 hours - depending on when I got up.

@ElicBxn maybe you can skip the one when you are sleeping. You need to sleep to heal too

Yes, but I don't want to wake up to do it. If I wake up, I have a hard time getting back to sleep. This morning I got 2 calls before 8. I didn't know what time it was and snarled at him. The second call I just told her it wasn't 8 yet. The next call was after 8, but I had fallen back to sleep. I don't really remember that call, but went back to sleep a third time. The first time was after taking my morning meds at 6. I suppose I could do it then, but I know I would be awake at that point. I mean, load the medicine, take it and swish it around for two minutes; then spit it out in the trash can. I could preload it and have the trash can by the bed, it is more the 2 minutes of swishing that would wake me up... or I'd go back to sleep with it in my mouth.

@BarBaraPrz I don't know. I do know that next week I'm going back to the doctor, so, at least until then. I don't normally get up until 9. I did it then, and just did it about 1, next stop 5 or 6ish and then 11 or midnight.

@ElicBxn If I had to do that, I'd take one swish at midnight, then the second at 8am, third at 1pm, and fourth at 7pm and back to one at midnignt. Rinse and repeat. How long do you have to do this for anyway?

I now have my phone set for the task. It doesn't taste bad, but it is just a pain in the butt. I know I'll now have to drag along a new liquid medication if I'm not going to be home to do it. And try and do it on time. Of course none of the times are coincide with my other liquid medication.

@ElicBxn Of course not. That would be too easy

It is more like a mouth wash, I put it in and swish it around for 2 minutes and spit it out. I'm would do it 6 hours apart, but I also need to sleep...