Whether we use prescription, over the counter or natural remedies for ailments, we all must have a place for these. I was clearing off the ones that have ended up on top of my fridge and bringing them back to the shelf in my bathroom linen closet where they belong. I think I need a better system that puts them near to where we bring them to use or something.

Where do you put your medication and how is it organised?

We have medicine all over the house.  I really should get it organized.  At least I know where it all is.

• I have a small basket of my occassional use medicine above the kitchen cabinets; I never took it down from DD's baby days even though now DD (5 in March) knows not to touch.  I use this basket for the extras; for example the open bottle of children's tylenol is in my DD's ziptop bag but the waiting-to-be-used bottle is in the basket.
• DH has a rubbermaid drawer on his night-table to hold all his meds.  He has 8 prescriptions and 4 vitamins/supplements that he takes daily and a couple of prescriptions he takes as needed. 
• DD's meds, asthma spacer, and the ear thermometer are in a gallon ziptop bag since we move it from room to room as needed.  I also keep tissues and peppermints in there for when we need to take the bag with us.  Tissues are for the obvious and we use peppermints for upset tummies.
• My prescriptions are on my night-table.  I have my meds for when I wake up and can't move b/c my neck is thrown out.  (Some people throw out their backs; I'm the weirdo who throws out her neck.  I've woken up almost paralyzed from pain and not able to lift my arms more than 6 inches from my side, so I like those to be near me in case I wake up in agony.)  And my BCPs are on my night-table and I take one each morning.
• The only thing not in any of these places is my OTC migraine medicine which is *always* in my purse.  I take it about 4 times a week, usually at work, so I keep it with me at all time.

Hi ... I have a cabinet in our bedroom that stores our meds within shoe boxes. The cabinet is wood and has two doors - a plastic 'baby lock' is between the two handles so grandbaby is safe. Hubby and I each have our own shoebox.    

 I have to take several medications daily and keep those in the kitchen. They're in a certain area of a corner cabinet. Other things like cold and pain medicine along with salves, are in a cardboard box in the linen closet. 

My glaucoma eye drops must stay refrigerated, and they have their own place in our fridge. All other prescription meds are in a drawer underneath our microwave. All OTC meds are in our bathroom medicine cabinet.

Meds are kept in our master bathroom in a cupboard that is higher up on the wall. I am the only one with a regular prescription and it's in there. We do keep tylenol and infant tylenol in a high cupboard in the kitchen so we have a pain reliever on each floor of the house. The boys' vitamins are in the kitchen as they take it in the morning. My vitamins are in our bathroom b/c I take them at night.

I organized when we moved to our new house. At the old house, we had meds in our bedroom, in each bathroom, in the kitchen, etc. Now, our master bath and a pain reliever in the kitchen. Probably safer with small boys to keept things centralized and paid closer attention to.

 I think I need to go through our cabinent.  I pulled out some icyhot to use last night and it expired October 2002.....

mamasjob:

Probably safer with small boys to keept things centralized and paid closer attention to.

Children pose entirely different challenges when it comes to meds. Keeping them apart is a high priority.

AmyC:

I pulled out some icyhot to use last night and it expired October 2002.

Ummmm....

Sooo....when was the last time you looked under your bed, how about way back in the closet or the bottom of the desk drawer?

 Those actually get fairly frequently...we just don't use things from the medicine cabinent very often I guess.  I think I also didn't really think about the fact that it could go bad.