‘DidIt!’ Reminds People To Take Medication

PALM DESERT – Tracey Delaney spends her days running a busy jewelery store on El Paseo, so when her doctor told her she needed to take a daily medication it was a struggle for her to remember.

“I tried every trick in the book to remember my pills,” Tracey said. “I’d put it on the bathroom sink, I put it in the store, and I would just continually forget, ‘did i take it this morning?'”

Tracey says she constantly came up short about 6 or 7 pills every month, because she was double dosing.

“It was frustrating,” Tracey said. “I wanted to throw those pills every single day.”

Then tracey discovered the DidIt!.

It’s a simple device to know if you took your medication.

You stick a strip with the days of the week on the side of your bottle and flip the tab for each day of the week when you take your pill.

There is even a number two tab if you need to take a second pill.

A local woman invented the DidIt!.

Suzanne Dubarry takes thyroid medication, so she came up with the DidIt! a couple years ago, as a way to remember if she did.

“I cannot tell you the difference,” Tracey said. “I was given a topical and pills so I put them on both jars and I would just mark it when I had done it that day.”

Suzanne started marketing the DidIt! earlier this year and they are in pharmacies around the country and she hopes she can help slow what she calls a non-compliance epidemic.

“People have no idea how critical non compliance is and how important it is to take your medication,” Suzanne said. “I think most people think ‘oh, that will never happen to me.'”

But, not taking your medicine as directed can have serious consequences.

“Just over and under medicating, just not knowing did I take it or not and taking it when you shouldn’t have and vice versa is responsible for more than 25% of all emergency room visits and 10% of hospitalizations,” Suzanne said.

Suzanne says the biggest misconception about the DidIt! is that it’s for the elderly.

But, she highly recommends it for parents especially if their kids are taking liquid medication, ear drops, or inhalers.

And, if there is a baby sitter or secondary caregiver, you’ll be able to keep track of when the medication was taken.

Locally, you can find the DidIt! at Town Center Compounding pharmacy in Palm Desert.

There are several different combo packs that all sell for under $5.