{"id":4289,"date":"2016-03-02T21:18:23","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T21:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/?p=4289"},"modified":"2016-03-02T21:18:23","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T21:18:23","slug":"personal-medication-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/personal-medication-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Medication List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even if you don\u2019t participate in the MTM Program, it\u2019s still a good idea to create a Personal Medication List. While your doctor may have a list of your medications in his or her files, you might be seeing more than one doctor. Having a Personal Medication List can reduce your medication risks and prevent medical errors. It may also help you and your caregivers keep track of what drugs you need to take.<\/p>\n<p>Create your own medication list or use one of the many online medication list templates that you can print out.<\/p>\n<p>Whichever method you choose, always remember to do the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Update your medication list each time your medication or dosage changes, or you begin taking a new medication.<\/li>\n<li>List all prescription medications, over-the-counter drugs, herbals, vitamins and minerals.<\/li>\n<li>Include the dates you started using each medication.<\/li>\n<li>Be sure to write out any drug allergies or side-effects you have or have had in the past.<\/li>\n<li>Cross out medications when you no longer use them, and write the date and why you stopped using them.<\/li>\n<li>Be sure to share your list with each of your doctors at every visit so they can compare it to the list they have for you in their system.<\/li>\n<li>You can also ask your doctors, pharmacists and other health care providers to update your list for you at every visit.<\/li>\n<li>Keep the list in your wallet or purse.<\/li>\n<li>If you go to the hospital or emergency room, take this list with you.<\/li>\n<li>Share your medication list with your family or caregivers, too.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even if you don\u2019t participate in the MTM Program, it\u2019s still a good idea to create a Personal Medication List. While your doctor may have a list of your medications in his or her files, you might be seeing more than one doctor. Having a Personal Medication List can reduce your medication risks and prevent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":1364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,19],"tags":[381],"class_list":["post-4289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medicare","category-newsletter","tag-mar2016"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/meds.bmp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZZGa-17b","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4289"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4293,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4289\/revisions\/4293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}