Sue: How people feel – It gets better over time
Listen to patients and health professionals speak about their experience with taking multiple medicines.
Sue
Female
Age at interview: 65
Number of medicines: 16
Cultural background: Anglo-Australian
Sue regards the worst thing about the number of medicines she takes as being the work that is involved. This can be unrelenting but she just gets on with it.
I think the drudgery of it. This is work and here they are, get them out again, I try not to think about it but doing all the paperwork and keeping on top of everything. So it's just constant, it's chronic work: chronic condition, chronic work, just has to be done. It seems to get harder as you retire. I feel like … well can't I just sit back and have a holiday now, but no I've got to keep on top of all this, got to keep working at it, but you just do.
The Living with multiple medicines project was developed in collaboration with Healthtalk Australia.