Okay...
before we get all crazy with this...
I am the first to admit that I have not always been compliant with medication recommendations.
But, I got over it... and the lupus is much better managed since I got smart enough to realize that telling the doctors EVERYTHING makes for good treatment.
My prescription "issues" circle around the problems with medication side effects and not wanting to slog it back to the doctors' offices to deal with that.
That is a big deal when you are no longer able to drive.
Now I have an excellent working relationship via the telephone with most of the doctors and the pharmacy.
Cuts way down on the stress.
Some folks start to get some results, feel a little bit better and...
zip...
cut out the medications without realizing that it was the medications that were making them feel better.
Some of us with lupus just get so gosh darn sick of having to take pills all day long, day after day after day that we just get frustrated and quit. From what I have seen of this approach people wind up VERY ill.
And some of us are suffering so much that we double dose with or without intent.
Here is an excellent article about non-compliance to prescription medications:
Just What the Doctor Ordered? Not Exactly - New York Times
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