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Med Helper (iOS, for iPad) review. [Image description: A screenshot from my iPad. In the upper left corner It says “Butt Pill” and under that, “Phenadoz”. “Put one suppository up butt every six hits for nausea.” Then there’s a place to enter dosage each time you take something. Below it is a list out every time I’ve taken it. A single entry would have words like: “12 hours, 48 minutes / 1 Tablets (Total: 3)”] I’ve been using this to track my dosages of PRN meds. And also meds that I have to take with verbal phone prompting, which is always hard for me because it requires short term and working memory, language comprehending, willingness of the phone prompting person to say “butt pill” instead of a vague term like “medication” (could mean anything) or a word that doesn’t really mayo to meaning in my brain like “suppository”. I do best with physical promote – hand me the butt pill and a glove and then I can self administer independently part that first hurdle of initiation. So since I don’t have that physical promoting at 3 am, I use this time track whether or not I’ve taken it, and whether it’s too late or early. If I forget to use the program, I just enter in my dosage, click on the entry, and adjust date and rune. If I put it in the future by accident, the warning goes on the main page, but does not refuse to list a future date. Oh and leaving a but pill out doesn’t help because it melts outside a freezer, and also it teaches remembering to use vision, muy most scrambled sense. I am usually meaning-blind and have to work in order to see with meaning when I can at all. The only way to get something to catch my eye is to block something I need to use, with it. A note left on the wall week rarely’ve read with conscious meaning. A post it note on my laptop or iPad screen, OTOH, will get read as it is intruding its way into my brain by preventing me from doing something I’m already trying to do. It has two places to enter a medication name. The first is what you cask it, the second is what a doctor would call it. Or you can use it to enter both brand name and generic name. Anyway, using this app for a week has taught me how bad my sense of time is. I’m meticulous about dosage. But I often take it too late or too soon. Now I can look at this chart and see when I last took it. Then I can make an informed decision even when groggy at night, which is the time I screw up on meds most, due to nobody being here to brook’s unless I push a button. But lacking a desire to become a “frequent flyer”, I don’t call for help every time I need meds. Only if I couldn’t initiate our froze up or couldn’t cross through a doorway, would I call for help. That and things like cat hairballs, medical emergencies, and drainage bag or Osmolite spills. It also tracks how much meds you have left and the number turns yellow when it’s getting low enough to need refills. You set that number yourself. The numbers of amount left and refills are not intuitive at all and I have to fudge the numbers sometimes to get them to come out right. But once the numbers are in, it works beautifully to track how much you have left. It has several units of measurement it can use: tablets, capsules, mg, mL, drops, applications, mcg, puffs, sprays, and g. It would be massively improved by letting the user add custom units. You can also track doctors, appointments, and lots of other medical info. I wish it was password protected. But I only use it for tracking self-administered meds, so I haven’t tried all parts. For that purpose it’s better than any other iPad meds app I’ve tried. YMMV. For my particular uses I’d rate it 8/10 where 0/10 is totally awful and 10/10 is perfect. There’s a lot of uses I haven’t even discovered yet. But it’s probably already saved me from inadvertently overdosing on Benadryl, so I’m very happy with it. It doesn’t try too hard to look pretty, just functional. I’ve tried other apps that are gorgeous but very difficult for me to use. This could be because of my variant of autism, or because the apps aren’t as good for my very particular purpose. Again, YMMV.

Med Helper (iOS, for iPad) review.

[Image description: A screenshot from my iPad. In the upper left corner It says “Butt Pill” and under that, “Phenadoz”. “Put one suppository up butt every six hits for nausea.” Then there’s a place to enter dosage each time you take something. Below it is a list out every time I’ve taken it. A single entry would have words like: “12 hours, 48 minutes / 1 Tablets (Total: 3)”]

I’ve been using this to track my dosages of PRN meds. And also meds that I have to take with verbal phone prompting, which is always hard for me because it requires short term and working memory, language comprehending, willingness of the phone prompting person to say “butt pill” instead of a vague term like “medication” (could mean anything) or a word that doesn’t really mayo to meaning in my brain like “suppository”. I do best with physical promote – hand me the butt pill and a glove and then I can self administer independently part that first hurdle of initiation.

So since I don’t have that physical promoting at 3 am, I use this time track whether or not I’ve taken it, and whether it’s too late or early. If I forget to use the program, I just enter in my dosage, click on the entry, and adjust date and rune. If I put it in the future by accident, the warning goes on the main page, but does not refuse to list a future date.

Oh and leaving a but pill out doesn’t help because it melts outside a freezer, and also it teaches remembering to use vision, muy most scrambled sense. I am usually meaning-blind and have to work in order to see with meaning when I can at all. The only way to get something to catch my eye is to block something I need to use, with it. A note left on the wall week rarely’ve read with conscious meaning. A post it note on my laptop or iPad screen, OTOH, will get read as it is intruding its way into my brain by preventing me from doing something I’m already trying to do.

It has two places to enter a medication name. The first is what you cask it, the second is what a doctor would call it. Or you can use it to enter both brand name and generic name.

Anyway, using this app for a week has taught me how bad my sense of time is. I’m meticulous about dosage. But I often take it too late or too soon. Now I can look at this chart and see when I last took it. Then I can make an informed decision even when groggy at night, which is the time I screw up on meds most, due to nobody being here to brook’s unless I push a button. But lacking a desire to become a “frequent flyer”, I don’t call for help every time I need meds. Only if I couldn’t initiate our froze up or couldn’t cross through a doorway, would I call for help. That and things like cat hairballs, medical emergencies, and drainage bag or Osmolite spills.

It also tracks how much meds you have left and the number turns yellow when it’s getting low enough to need refills. You set that number yourself. The numbers of amount left and refills are not intuitive at all and I have to fudge the numbers sometimes to get them to come out right. But once the numbers are in, it works beautifully to track how much you have left.

It has several units of measurement it can use: tablets, capsules, mg, mL, drops, applications, mcg, puffs, sprays, and g. It would be massively improved by letting the user add custom units.

You can also track doctors, appointments, and lots of other medical info. I wish it was password protected. But I only use it for tracking self-administered meds, so I haven’t tried all parts. For that purpose it’s better than any other iPad meds app I’ve tried. YMMV.

For my particular uses I’d rate it 8/10 where 0/10 is totally awful and 10/10 is perfect.

There’s a lot of uses I haven’t even discovered yet. But it’s probably already saved me from inadvertently overdosing on Benadryl, so I’m very happy with it. It doesn’t try too hard to look pretty, just functional. I’ve tried other apps that are gorgeous but very difficult for me to use. This could be because of my variant of autism, or because the apps aren’t as good for my very particular purpose. Again, YMMV.

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