 Hi there, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosalier. I want to do a video today about a really useful smartphone application for Android that I've been using for the last few months for keeping track of medications And it's really good called MedSafe. Now if you're trying to take a few different prescription medications Now I'm currently on a bit of a health kick I've done a couple of videos recently talking about my gallbladder surgery and all the digestive issues that kicked off and I'm just really kind of determined to Put a dent in those at the moment. So I'm trying to get off a drug called a proton pump inhibitor a ppi I'm trying to make sure I take my multivitamin every single day. And for that reason I've Put all my medications that are in my medicine cabinet Into this app and I'm using it to keep track of everything now You can use something like this a pill counter the system I'm going to recommend is that you use both a pill counter and a medication tracking app Now the advantage of doing a system like that would be that If you forget to take a medication or you can't remember if you took that medication And perhaps you forgot to log it in at MedSafe Maybe your phone is out of battery. Maybe something else happened Then you can go and just check the pill box to see if physically the pill is there And likewise you can cross-check any other directions. So I just think it's useful sometimes I have forgotten if I took a drug and Some medications you really don't want to take a second one If you're in doubt actually like what the one of the two Prescription drugs I'm currently taking is in that category. So I'm just going to go and jump into the app over here Now this is the android version that you're seeing and this is a home page that when you log in you're going to get to So this is actually my medication log for today. You can see that I took Well buterin at 9 26 in the morning. This is a drug that you take when you get up I'm down to 20 milligrams now on my on epazol, which is good Um, and I took that at 10 22 because I took it at about 10 30 yesterday Now you can be much much more diligent than I am in terms much more rigid in terms of configuring your dosages What I've done is basically set up a once daily Calendar alert for myself to go into my medsafe to see. Okay, did I take one two three for me right now? It's multivitamin Well buterin and I'm epazol And and that's basically enough for me But if you are taking a bunch of prescription drugs or a drug that you need to take at a very specific time Then all that functionality is built into the app, which is great. So let me just show you a little bit of that so You have here a medication manager now I've just kind of thrown in Every medication I've pretty much ever been prescribed and have summer around my house But I've done a couple of tweaks and that's what I wanted to show in this video So if you take amitriptyline for instance, there is a You can half a dose of amitriptyline to get 10 at least where I'm based. There isn't that That dosage out of the box and there's 20 now what I've done is actually given a name I've named the medication with its strength. So you can see I've called this amitriptyline 10 What you can do is I mentioned that you can be very diligent and set yourself reminders So if you want to take them if you have to take the medication at a specific time for argument's sake 10 a.m Or even let's say 10 30 If you want to just scroll through this guy a little bit It's going to take a while doing this from my computer But let's say it was I don't know 10 20 Was your dosage time and you take one so you can set all this now another helpful thing that you can do Is you can configure a schedule. So let's say the doctor gives you a course of antibiotics It's a one-time thing. So you can say, okay I'm starting on the 30th of august and I need to take the antibiotic for seven days And what will what will happen then is medsafe will give you reminders for seven days and after seven days Uh, it knows that you're done because you've told that you're done Um, I've uh, I'm just logging at the moment ongoing ongoing treatments and you can also set the recurrence cycle So you've got a lot of options here in terms of telling This this application exactly how you take your meds Now there is an option for strength and you can see that I've set my strength to 10 milligrams now the reason that I've Also given the I put the strengths in the medication name. There is a reason I'm just going to show you that now So if I go back to the home screen of medsafe over here and I want to log a dose of No, sorry wrong button there If I want to see okay add a dose So this is where you're supposed to go when you're logging something So what's missing here is the strength. It doesn't come up in the site even though that information is there So that's why I've um called amy tryptolin 10 milligrams. I've added the 10 into the med name as well So if I'm Taking different dosages I can make sure that I'm logging the right one. So let's say I took 10 milligrams of amy tryptolin right now And I can just save that and now if I go back to my home screen That dosage is logged at the time I'm recording this video, which is 10 30 at night now I can also on take if I want to Remove that and now it's going to come up as a mist dose or I can also delete it So I'm just going to delete this dosage. So you can do pretty much everything now. Um, I've actually logged Supplements currently I'm only taking a multivitamin, but if there's anything else that's really good for my stomach I would put that in here as well I even went to the extent of putting coffee into my medications list You can see I've added coffee here one tablespoon and half a tablespoon And the reason for that is The one of the drugs I'm taking or the the main drug Well buttern you don't really want to consume too much in the way of caffeine With that drug. So therefore I'm even putting really the only caffeinated beverage I consume I'm putting that there. So I'm just I just have a central Source of information for really all medications. I'm taking there isn't really much else to see In the application. The only negative I'm going to say about MedSafe is it's a brilliant brilliant smartphone app. Um, unfortunately It doesn't have a cloud interface. So what I would ideally like to do And you've got updates here as well. That's the that's the last screen really to To point out a a really good feature would be if it had a web interface that you could log Your medication from the internet as well and those two would sync There is a premium version that what I'm using what I've just shown you here is the basic free version I did try to find a medication logger that had both a smartphone app and a web interface And I didn't really have success But I would say that this is pretty much good enough for my needs Sometimes if my phone is out of battery or whatever, I'll write a note of my google calendar To enter to enter this dose into it But if you are using this probably good idea to make sure that your phone always has a bit of power So that you can log in your medication dosage. So that was MedSafe for androids I think it's a really really good tool. I will put a link to us in the play store And if you are taking different medication supplements This can make taking different drugs a lot safer because you can set up reminders So you don't miss dosages if you're diligent about logging everything and you will get into the habit of using this app It's quite intuitive Then that's going to get around the problem if you forget dosages So I feel a lot more confident taking these two different drugs With this app on my side than if I didn't have it Thanks for watching this video Feel free to subscribe for more videos about everything related to tech Linux backups and other subjects for myself