A plastic pill box is not expensive and you can buy one at a drug store. Ask your doctor for a medicine chart that you can check off when you take a dose. Don't share the capsules with your friends because you need your full dose. Never buy medicine on the street. The medicines you get on the street may be old or too weak to work.
Some people sell old drug capsules that they fill with other medicines.
You can get sicker if you take your medicines the wrong way. Always take your medicines the way your doctor has prescribed them. Fatal lactic acidosis has occurred in pregnant women receiving the combination of didanosine and stavudine. This risk is increased in patients with advanced HIV disease or a history of neuropathy. Frequent side effects in triple combination regimens are nausea, headache, diarrhea, rash, vomiting, and neuropathy.