What If I Am Still Taking Many Medicines?
After completion of cancer therapy, you may need medication to treat
• temporary side effects from your cancer
• temporary side effects from your cancer treatment
• permanent changes due to your cancer
• permanent changes due to your treatment
For example, you may need medications for treatment of
• nausea, poor appetite
• pain
• mouth ulcers
• stomach or duodenal ulcers
• infection
• malnutrition
• constipation or diarrhea
• cough or asthma
• dizziness
• sleep disturbance
• depression
• anxiety
How Can I Keep Track of My Medicines?
Taking your medicines properly is an important part of recovery, just as it was of treatment. If you are taking more than one medicine or are taking medicines more than once a day, you will do well to buy a “pill minder” to organize your pills. The pill minder
• serves as a daily reminder to take your pills
• serves as a daily check that you have taken your pills
•lets you know whether you are running low on your pills (if you run out of medicine as you fill your pill minder for the following week, you can get a refill without missing a dose)
You should also keep a log of changes in your medications. If the dose of one of your routine medicines is changed, record the date and change in dose. If you are given a course of new medication, record the dates started and stopped, as well as the drug name, dose, and frequency of administration.
Details about your use of medicines are very important for evaluations of your condition and for decisions about further tests or treatments.
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