Diana: Knowing about multiple medicines – The internet
Listen to patients and health professionals speak about their experience with taking multiple medicines.
Diana
Female
Age at interview: 22
Number of medicines: 13
Cultural background: Anglo-Australian
Diana has found the internet can be depressing and scary and does not always meet her need for information.
Everything on Google seems to come back to worst case scenario. So oh, I've bumped my toe, oh it's cancer. Which, if you don't know what you're actually searching for, you can do a lot of fear mongering to yourself. Having gone through seeing a few members of my family fight cancer, it would be nice if there was resources out there that you could look in, go okay, I'm not healing properly, what could I take that … like vitamins that would help. Instead of always just going straight to worst case scenario.
The Living with multiple medicines project was developed in collaboration with Healthtalk Australia.