Health Tip: Remembering Your Medicine

(HealthDayNews) -- Do you keep forgetting to take your medication?

If so, use these tips from The U.S. National Heart Lung, and Blood Institute to jog your memory:

• Put a picture of yourself on the refrigerator with a post-it-note saying, "Remember to take your medication."
• Keep your medication on the night stand next to your side of the bed.
• Take your pills right after you brush your teeth and keep them with your toothbrush.
• Ask a friend to leave a reminder on your answering machine and don''t erase the message.
• Place your medicine in a weekly pill box.
• Establish a buddy system with a friend who''s also on daily medication and arrange to call each other every day.

-- Felicity Stone