Insurance will sometimes pay for an R.N. to come to your home and help monitor the situation. Check with your doctor, social worker and your insurance company to see if this is available to you. It will help if you feel like all the decisions do not have to be made by you, and if you are confident you have a place to go with your questions. Use a med tray. These are plastic boxes with squares for each day of the week and slots for medicine times.
Many people fill the box for the whole week.
You can get these at a local pharmacy. You can also use and egg carton and mark each slot with the name of the day of the week and the time the medication is to be given. Call the pharmacy before you try to fill the prescription. Some drug stores do not carry all pain medicines. Use the same pharmacy.