I can set up an every 2 day repeating event on my phone's calendar, fwiw.

Thanks lisah. I didn't think that was possible, but I'll try to figure out how to do that.

Maybe just try a wall calendar in the kitchen, or wherever you normally take pills, sj? (I'm so analog, I know.)

Analog doesn't run down its batteries. I was thinking a pill caddy filled in on alternate days.

I worry about Francesca getting into a pill caddy. So I stopped using one. Maybe a can find a little planner cheap somewhere. Out wall calendar is filled with appointments.

Wall calendar option sounded brilliant to me! I looked at my iPhone alarm and every other day wasn't an option, but there is probably an app where it is.

I had a bunch of hunky lumberjacks at the house today taking down 3 trees. Now I have lots of firewood.

lisah, I figured out how to do an alert every other day on my phone calendar. Thank you! I love living in the future.

The last couple of weekly pill containers I've had include a slide lock which should keep her out of it.

Congrats on the job, askye!

I have this system, it's very low-tech, for my thyroid meds. I take it when I get up, and have to wait an hour to eat, so the bottle is in the bathroom, on the toilet tank. Actually, there are two bottles. The doc kept upping the dose, and the pharmacy kept filling the old dosage plus the new dosage, so I wound up with 100mg pills while I was taking 112mg, and 112mg while taking 125mg. The pills are tiny, but it's okay to cut them, and H has a pill cutter. I used to take half a 100mg on Wednesday and Saturday, in addition to the daily 112mg. But I had two bottles of 112mg left when she bumped me to 125, so we sat down and worked it out. A quarter 112mg. pill is...carry the one, divide by...28mg. So if I take 112mg every day, and 28mg. every other day, in two days, that's 252(ish)mg, thus 126mg per day.

So now all I need is to be reminded did I take the quarter pill yesterday? Or the day before?

My extremely high tech solution is a wooden tile the shape of a scrabble tile, about twice that size, with an X on one side and a checkmark on the other. It lies on the back of the toilet tank next to the pills, and when I get up in the morning, if it's X side up I flip it over before I take the single pill. The next morning I flip the checkmark over before I take the quarter and the whole pill.

That's it. H cut the tile, carved and painted the checkmark and the X, and I've been using it for a year without a problem. I don't have to *remember* shit. I look at and flip the tile while I'm reaching for the pill bottle,, and take what it said. Moving on, no trying to remember, no second-guessing.

Not as much fun as an iPhone alarm, but I couldn't think my way through that before coffee.

Yeah, I go with pill box because I try to do without when I'm too lazy to refill it, and then inevitably hit a morning where I'm like "wait, shit, did I take that or not??"