Peter H: Starting and changing medicines – Reducing the number of medicines taken

Listen to patients and health professionals speak about their experience with taking multiple medicines.

Peter H
Male
Age at interview: 71
Number of medicines: 9
Cultural background: Anglo-Australian

Peter H has recently been able to stop one and reduce another of his medicines for high blood pressure.

The Felodur, I used to be on 10 milligrams and I asked … and I was also on Coversyl and the Felodur went down from 10 to five and the Coversyl was … no, it says Coversyl here. What was the other one, it's not [unclear], anyway he cut that out at my request because my blood pressure was so low they weren't worried about that.

 
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The Living with multiple medicines project was developed in collaboration with Healthtalk Australia.