Medication Checklist

Make sure your doctor knows all the medications you are taking. Sometimes mixing medicines can cause severe side effects.

Make sure your doctor has a copy of your list, and keep a copy with you. If you have to go to the emergency room, it could be a big help to the doctors.

Prescription Drugs

The doctor gives you a prescription, and you fill it at the pharmacy. You might take it every day or just while you are sick.

Non-Prescription Medications

These are medicines and vitamins you can buy at a drug store or health food store without a prescription. One of your doctors may have recommended them, or you might have chosen them on your own.

Examples:

• Pain medications: ibuprofen (such as Advil), naproxen (such as Aleve), aspirin
• Antacids and acid reflux medicines (such as Tums, Rolaids, Pepcid)
• Allergy, cold and cough medicines
• Menopause medications
• Prostate medications
• Joint medications (such as glucosamine and chondroitin)
• Laxatives and/or anti-diarrhea medicines
• Niacin
• Vitamins (daily multivitamin, individual vitamins such as C, A, E, etc.)
• Calcium, selenium
• Echinacea

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