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How do you adjust taking medications with seasonal time changes?

Transplants | Last Active: Oct 25, 2019 | Replies (13)
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@rosemarya

I invite all, especially the newly transplanted members.

Once again it is time for a reminder!
Daylight Saving Time 2019
began Sunday, March 10
ends Sunday, November 3

For me, going backward and going backward is confusing, especially when traveling and changing time zones. So, during the evening of Sat Nov. 2, I will put on my thinking cap in a new frontward or forward position as I reset my med alarm to the time change.
What will you do? How will you manage your medications?

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JK | @contentandwell | Oct 25, 2019

@rosemarya I have been told, when I was inpatient for my TKR, that there is a “grace period” of about an hour either side of the time you regularly take your immunosuppressants. I generally take them at about 6:30 in the morning and then go back to sleep for another hour because I wait an hour before eating, but if I wake at 6:15 I’ll take them then and turn my alarm off.

For the time change I will change it over two nights, in half hour increments. As you know, you are supposed to take them either with or without food, but to be consistent. I find without food is easier because when we travel west I’ll take them in the middle of the night and I don’t need to think about eating. That has worked out well for me but one of these days we will probably go in the other direction, a European destination, and that will be a whole different problem.
JK

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