The Role of Medicines
Medicines can have two names, one is the Trade Name, the name it was first sold under and a second name, which refers to its chemical nature.
What is generic brand?
This medicine, Clozaril, has a strong side effect that can slow the movement of the bowel, leading to a serious side effect.
What is constipation?
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How would you treat this side effect?
Talking to a doctor or nurse practitioner at your local clinic can be challenging due to limited time. Making this kind of list before your go in to the appointment can help the discussion.
What are the pros and cons of the medicines or medicine you are taking?
Acceptable answer: What are questions?
Taking medicines at the same time, every day.
What is a routine?
This resource has been around for over 100 years and provides safe and reliable information about medicines.
Who is your pharmacist?
Learning more about the medicines you take will help you decide if it is the right medicine and help you to take it safely. This resource person, who has been around for at least 100 years, is probably the most knowledgeable when it comes to medicines.
Who is a pharmacist?
Restless legs, are more likely to happen with the category of medicines, used to treat psychosis.
What are anti-psychotics?
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How would this be addressed?
Is the category of medicine doing what you were told it would do?
What kind of dose will be the most effective for my symptoms?
My symptoms are gone, should I remain on this medicines?
I don't have schizophrenia, should I be taking an anti-psychotic medicine?
How can these side effects be addressed?
My psychosis was from use of meth, do I need an anti-psychotic medicine?
What is preparing a list of questions for your doctor or nurse practitioner?
Placing medicines next to a coffee pot or a bed-stand are attempts to improve medicine adherence.
What is using your daily routine to improve medicine adherence or taking medicines?
This Minnesota medical treasure's website provides information about medicines and diseases. Started by a farm family in the 1800s, it is now world famous.
What is the Mayo Clinic?
Different types of medicines treat different symptoms or signs, whether heartburn or anxiety. In mental health, there are roughly this many categories.
What are 5 categories?
Daily Double: Can you name them?
Serotonin antidepressant medicines, like Paxil or Prozac, may cause problems for persons involved in intimate relationships.
What is a change in the libido? or what is sexual side effects?
You're thinking of stopping the medicine so you can have a few drinks. What might you ask the nurse or doctor at your appointment instead?
What is the risk of mixing medicine and alcohol?
Daily Double: what is the relationship of alcohol and or drugs to your mental health?
You feel you have too many medicines and would like to reduce the number to maybe one or two a day.
What is simplifying your medicine routine?
Definition: Using multiple medicines to treat symptoms is called polypharmacy or many-pills.
This Android and I-store app provides accurate and up-to-date information about medicines. In addition, it acts as a pill identifier.
What is Drug.com?
Medicines can improve the likelihood of recovery: stable housing, work, school, but only if this happens:
What is matching the right medicines to the right symptoms?
Credit for "what is taking them consistently"?
This mood stabilizer, used to treat bipolar, mania, may lead to severe toxicity if its blood level exceeds the therapeutic range of 0.6 to 1.2.
What is Lithium?
Daily Double: What are signs and symptoms of toxicity?
Your doctor or nurse may want to know if you have used or currently use street drugs to treat mental health symptoms or signs. The term for this is called:
What is self-medicating?
Container holding a week's supply of medicines.
What is a pill box? or medi-minder?
Another app that provides the latest articles on mental health and medical health and considered reliable by the medical community.
What is WebMD?
Medicines can relieve suicidal thoughts, psychosis and mood swings.
What is symptom management.
Starting medicines, stopping medicines, increasing doses, lowering doses of medicines make the patient " blank" to side effects.
What is vulnerable to side effects?
You worry that the medicine you are taking may cause too much weight gain and lead to diabetes. You ask the doctor to take precautions. What tests should she order?
What are blood sugar, cholesterol and insulin levels?
Acceptable answer: What is blood sugar?
Daily Double: What blood test can tell you your average blood sugar over the last three months?
Android app or I-store apps that help a person take medicines on time.
Daily Double: This pharmacy has a medicine refill app, just take a picture of the bottle and the pharmacy will refill that medicine.
What are calendar apps? Alarm apps? Medi-Safety apps? Pill Reminder and Medication Tracker?
A number you can call to learn about medicines.
What is 211?