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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 494891" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>Aaarrrggghhh!</p><p>Flutter - you're just asking for trouble that way!</p><p></p><p>MOST medications are either fairly dependent on timing, or VERY VERY dependent on very accurate timing... </p><p>For example, plain old BCPs should be taken at the "same time, plus or minus 1.5 hours"... so, within a 3-hour time window.</p><p>Some of the medications expect far more stringent than that.</p><p></p><p>What you are likely seeing is either...</p><p>1) the result of practically double-dosing... if you take at 3 pm today and 10 am tomorrow... that's a fair overlap.</p><p>or</p><p>2) the result of significant gaps... if you take at 10 am today and not until 3 pm tomorrow... that's a 7 hour gap.</p><p></p><p>medications should by default always be taken <strong><u><em>at the same time every single day</em></u></strong>. </p><p></p><p>Our house is on a breakfast-and-supper medications programme... breakfast is at 6:45, 5 days a week... and at latest, 7:45. Supper is 5:30... maybe 5:00, no later than 6. Even if we're cruising down the highway making mega miles and just "munching" as we go, we have "supper" (something to eat and drink and medications) at supper time.</p><p></p><p>The only medications that don't work that way are the ones that are taken "as needed"... K2 has prescription pain-killers... for those rare occasions when nothing else touches the pain. Start at whatever point in time... but from there, its minimum 4 hours between doses.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 494891, member: 11791"] Aaarrrggghhh! Flutter - you're just asking for trouble that way! MOST medications are either fairly dependent on timing, or VERY VERY dependent on very accurate timing... For example, plain old BCPs should be taken at the "same time, plus or minus 1.5 hours"... so, within a 3-hour time window. Some of the medications expect far more stringent than that. What you are likely seeing is either... 1) the result of practically double-dosing... if you take at 3 pm today and 10 am tomorrow... that's a fair overlap. or 2) the result of significant gaps... if you take at 10 am today and not until 3 pm tomorrow... that's a 7 hour gap. medications should by default always be taken [B][U][I]at the same time every single day[/I][/U][/B]. Our house is on a breakfast-and-supper medications programme... breakfast is at 6:45, 5 days a week... and at latest, 7:45. Supper is 5:30... maybe 5:00, no later than 6. Even if we're cruising down the highway making mega miles and just "munching" as we go, we have "supper" (something to eat and drink and medications) at supper time. The only medications that don't work that way are the ones that are taken "as needed"... K2 has prescription pain-killers... for those rare occasions when nothing else touches the pain. Start at whatever point in time... but from there, its minimum 4 hours between doses. [/QUOTE]
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