Article: Count prescription pills to make sure you get right amount

Dear Heloise: After reading your hints to readers about double- checking prescriptions, I'd like to add one more: Count your pills, especially if you get your prescriptions through a mail-order pharmacy in 90-day supplies. I do this on a regular basis now after once discovering that an order was eight pills short. That can add up to lots of $$, or worse, you can lose track of the number of pills you have taken. -- Sue, San Clemente, Calif.

We have gotten several letters from readers stating the importance of counting pills. So give them a count to make sure you get the right amount every time. --Heloise

Dear Heloise: Since we seem to have to make our dollars stretch more and more, I would ...

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