iOS 18: Health App Medications
It doesn’t list interactions for things that are not in the medication app, like vitamin supplements, antacids, NSAID painkillers, etc. All of which had very clear, urgent warnings in the prescription paperwork, but because they aren’t the two medications in the app there’s no warning.
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Despite being able to OCR the prescription info, there’s nothing to OCR the side effects info and log that.
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I needed to take it once a day but the number of pills started high and tapered off twice over the following days. The app lets you put in a dosage to schedule, but I couldn’t find any way to vary it over time.
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This was also a drug that should be taken with food, but there’s not a “hey, eat something” notification you can configure to come up before it’s time to take the drug. The antibiotic should really not be taken at a time anywhere near when you’re going to eat certain things, or even have most vitamin supplements, so I also have to mentally track when I do those things too.
Another quirk is that the notification to take your medications comes through on the Watch without mention of which medication you need to take[…] It’s also always plural, even if you’re only taking one medication at 1:00 PM, which is confusing.
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> Another quirk is that the notification to take your medications comes through on the Watch without mention of which medication you need to take
Not just that, if you use 2 Watches, you’ll get **the same, already taken** medication notification **again** when switching to the other Watch…
> The app lets you put in a dosage to schedule, but I couldn’t find any way to vary it over time.
I ended up adding two identical medications (except dose) when I had to change from taking one pill to two pills. There was another related scenario that I don't remember the details of where I had to create multiple instances of the same medication.
Overall it's a pretty barebones affair but it has kept me taking my meds every day, which was not always previously the case.
"the notification to take your medications comes through on the Watch without mention of which medication you need to take"
There are plenty of medications that you don't necessarily want the person sitting next to you to know you take.
TIME TO TAKE YOUR HERPES MEDS
Etc
