100% of the time you don’t pick up your medication, it will not work. The World Health Organization emphasizes the importance of medication adherence to patients throughout their entire treatment. Non-adherence is shown to account for up to 50% of treatment failures and about 125,000 deaths every year in the U.S. While working for a large chain pharmacy, I saw a lot of non-adherence to medication and— trust me—nothing beneficial comes out of it.
Most pharmacies now offer text message alerts when your prescription is ready to pick up. I highly recommend signing-up for these reminders so you know exactly when to pick up your medication without those annoying “robocalls” we are all too familiar with. If you forget to call in refills for your medication, pharmacies can set you up with automatic refill so it will be ready every time you run out. It’s your body and it’s time to take care of it.
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