Are you struggling with keeping your mental health on track and finding yourself accidentally skipping doses of your meds or not being able to remember if you took a dose and worrying about doubling up on one or more medications?
At P.S. Psychiatry in Doylestown and King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, Dr. Mitchell Kho and his team provide medication management services to help you stay on top of your medication compliance and improve your daily life and state of well-being.
The struggle is real
Chronic health issues typically have symptoms severe enough that they negatively impact your day-to-day life. Such illnesses require strict medication oversight to keep symptoms in check and stop progressive diseases from worsening.
When it comes to mental health, medication management is even more important, as the wrong dosage can allow the amount of medication in your body to fluctuate too far outside of the desired parameters.
If you aren’t getting the right amount of the right medications at exactly the right time every day, depression, anxiety, ADHD, PTSD, or other types of mental health challenges can become impossible to keep up with.
That’s where a team to help you with medication management can be a game-changer.
Conditions that can be improved with medication management
There are many health conditions that are chronic and require constant medication to control unwanted symptoms. These include both general health conditions, such as heart disease, hypertension, or diabetes, and mental health disorders such as:
Substance abuse disorder
Eating disorders
Insomnia
Attention-deficit / hyperactivity disorder
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Depression
Anxiety
Bipolar disorder
Mood disorders
Post-traumatic stress disorder
All of these conditions can benefit from medication(s) prescribed and managed by a qualified medical professional.
4 benefits of medication management
If you need help with medication management, our doctors will complete the following steps with you to ensure you’re getting exactly the help you need and are never over- or under-medicated.
We conduct a review of all of your medications, talk with any other doctors who are treating you to discuss how your medications interact, raise or lower your doses to give you more stability and create a plan to help you stay on track with taking your meds.
Here are some of the invaluable benefits you can expect to receive from appropriate medication management:
1. Avoid medication overload
When you’re managing multiple health conditions (both mental and general), there can be a lot of medications to keep up with. Medication overload is real, especially as you age: nearly 20% of older adults take 10 or more medications every day.
2. Reduce your side effect risks
Most medications do come with a laundry list of potential side effects. You can have mild, moderate, and severe reactions even when you’re taking your medications correctly. Plus, some medications can interact with others and have to be taken at different times of the day. Medication management lets us get a birds-eye view and help you avoid unwanted side effects.
3. Improve your outcomes
We want you to get the most out of your medications. That’s why we’ll routinely meet with you for check-ins and evaluations of how your medications are working. This can lead to better outcomes and prevent you from being stuck in a cycle of taking meds that aren’t benefiting you.
4. Lower risk of rehospitalization
If you’ve been hospitalized or living in a facility for your mental health condition and are moving to a more standard living situation, medication management can help ensure you bridge that transition. Studies show that medication review, patient education, and plans for compliance with medication protocols can significantly reduce your chances of readmission.
If you need medication for mental health and any other health issues, we can help.
