EZY DOSE Weekly AM/PM (7-Day) Pill Case, Medicine Planner, Vitamin Organizer, Large Easy Fill Compartments, 4 Times a Day, Clear Lids, Blue, BPA Free

I bought the small version of the EZY dose® Pharmadose® Pill Planner. It’s roughly 6x4”, which fits exactly where I need it under my 7-day pill minders.Since I use two 7-day morning and evening pill minders for only my handful of morning pills, I needed this to hold my evening pills for 28 days. I’ll use each row in the pill planner going across to hold a week’s worth of evening pills. All four rows will provide what I need for 28 days.One of my pictures shows the pill planner I am replacing. That old one has a removable cartridge for each day, which I illustrated by removing the four-cell cartridge for Sunday. I never used that function.To load the pills in the old unit, every cell had to be opened, so I had to open each one in turn while making sure the daily cartridge didn’t pop out of the tray. I’d open every lid before loading the entire planner.Since the lid for each cell is on a solid plastic hinge, it won’t stay open all the way, so that limits the target I must hit to get the pills to go in. Because of this, I would try to drop each pill onto the lid of the neighboring cell and hope that the pill would go into the cell where I wanted it. Sometimes, a pill bounced off the lid where I dropped it and either went skittering its way across the counter or popped into the wrong cell where I’d have to get out some tweezers and fish it out.One of the main reasons I bought this EZY dose® planner is that the internal tray comes out and I’ll have access to every cell all at once. I put in only the last few days of my evening pills, since I'm already in the 4th week in my 28-day pill regimen. I already hope I'll never have to do without a removable tray, again.I’ll have to see if I have any problems with my smaller pills getting stuck when I empty out a cell. Others have mentioned this problem in their reviews. Just inspecting the unit, it does look like the really small pills could get caught in certain places.As for now, I’ll address some concerns that I’ve already seen with my new pill planner and then share my final thoughts:The inside tray:The inside tray is made from very thin plastic, but it is somewhat stiff and strong enough to hold its capacity of pills without breaking if it is handled carefully. Rough handling can break or bend the small storage cells, but a person would have to be intent on hurting those to ruin them. Another possibility for damage to the cells would be an inability to control ones grip, but short of that, the tray is likely to last for many years without any issues.In one of my pictures, I tried to show the small tab at one end of the inside tray to help pull the whole tray out. Once the end piece is slid out, just grab that tab and pull the whole tray out for easy filling of the cells. When you put the tray back and try to slide the end piece back, you might need to press that tab slightly to get the end piece past it.The button on the locking bar to release a lid for the daily pills:The button on the end locks all seven lids in place to prevent lids slipping and letting pills fall out of their cells. To operate a lid to uncover a cell, one must push the button, first. I plan to use that feature only when I need to keep everything in place during a trip. For everyday use, I plan to push each day’s lid up to, but not into, the slot to hold it in place. That way, I can easily slide the lid for each day as needed without bothering with the button.Note: The instructions on the package also include the steps to remove the locking bar altogether if you would rather not deal with that every day. You could put the locking bar back into the unit before packing the pill planner for trips. Just be sure to remember where you put the locking bar when you aren’t using it in the pill planner, so you can retrieve it when you need it.The sliding lids:The lids over the cells click into place at the edge of each cell in turn, so I would uncover only the cell I need, turn the whole planner over to empty that cell’s contents, and then push the lid back in so I can set the planner back in the cupboard under my 7-day pill minders. At least for now, the rest of the lids won’t be going anywhere by gravity alone. If the tabs on the lids wear down enough over time that they get loose enough to let the lids slide by gravity alone, it will probably be many years down the road and it will be time for me to get something else or another one of these, anyway.Final thoughts:I searched a while to find this model. I doubt there’s anything better on the market right now at any price for managing daily pills in the evenings the way I do. I’m glad I bought this. I’d gladly buy another if I lost or ruined this one.

I have now had this pill organizer for FOUR YEARS(!!). Daily use, 100+ times traveling. The signs of wear are that the black paint is coming off the day names and the Friday slider slips down a half inch (annoying but doable, doesn't lock into place anymore, so I have to hold that slider up when I flip the organizer over to drop my pills into my hands, or else Friday pills come out the small hole). It looks a little scuffed but is surprisingly not scratched up.This is the best pill organizeris the best I've ever used. That's an accomplishment for this little organizer because I started taking daily meds over 10 years ago. In that time, I have researched and considered dozens of pill organizers and tried many.Durable: I TRAVEL FREQUENTLY, moving between cities for 1+ overnights at least once a week, sometimes four times a week. It sits in my laundry basket, the catch-all for all kinds of items including heavy backpacks, so the organizer gets squashed quite a lot by various amounts of pressure. As I said, I've used this for almost three years now and it's still functioning optimally.Big slots: These squares are the only ones I've found that are BIG enough to actually hold my medication. I currently have ten small-ish pills in one box and it's not even a third full. The other box is about halfway full with twelve pills, most of which are large supplement pills like vit B, vit C, multivitamin, and Omega-3. Unheard of in all my research. That means that this dispenser is quite large. It won't fit in a purse but fits easily in a backpack. The width and depth are smaller than my laptop, but the height is thicker than a laptop. The size of the squares is unheard of in my research and vital for my use. All the others are puny and fit like five large pills. People, what about us with chronic illnesses??? I know there's a market for this but no one has capitalized on it yet besides this super great dispenser.Secure: I was concerned that my child would get into this box to get the pills out but he's never touched it.1-the organizer by itself looks boring. I like that because it reduces his interest.2-the organizer is designed like a flat box with a lid and two latches on the side closest to me, designed kind of like a very squashed treasure chest with one of those latches hanging vertically for a padlock (couldn't think of another metaphor). The two latches don't have a padlock but they take both coordination and strength that a young child (probably) wouldn't be able to operate. Each latch requires good thumb strength to pull it open. A child trying to do both latches at the same time - it would be quite difficult for the child, certainly way more difficult than any other organizer I found where all the child has to do is pop a little lid open using a fist around the container and one finger.3 - if my child wanted to open the slats on the top, he might be able to. I haven't opened the container in close view of him, and the little handle blends in due to being clear plastic, so that hasn't been a problem for us but might be for someone else. Still, this box was the most childproof with this much pill space that I could find.Filling & Dispensing: this organizer actually opens two ways.To FILL the container, I pop open the latches. The top, the blue side, of the organizer lifts up and away from me. Now the organizer is laying on the ground like the two sides of a book with the lid away from me and white boxes open closest to me. The blue side is shaped so that the white side is tilted a bit towards me while the lid is open, making it easier to see what teeny pills I've put in that sometimes hide from view.The organizer comes with LABELS at the top for days of the week. I'm on a different filling schedule, so I put sticker labels on top of the days of the week so it now says my day. I use two rows for one week and two rows for the second week so I'm only refilling every two weeks, which I like. Aint nobody got time fo dat filling up a pill box for a half hour every week vs 45 minutes every 2 weeks.Because of the design for dispensing, using it my way is very easy. Here's how it functions for DISPENSING. Each column has a single clear plastic slat. At the end furthest away from you, there's a little handle. When you are getting pills, you hold the little handle, slide the slat towards you, and it slides out close in front of you. It sort of clicks into place when you get to the end of one box, so it naturally prevents you from accidentally sliding it a centimeter too far and pills dumping out. The slats are surprisingly durable. As I said, I've had this for nearly three years. I try to be careful about bending them, but many, many times I've accidentally pushed on the slat while it was stuck out. It's so sturdy with just enough flexibility that none have ever broken even with various amounts of pressure against them.The single slightly negative part of the whole thing is that I have to TILT the container fully upside down and jostle it a bit to get all the pills because for some reason if I only tilt it 45 degrees from the ground, some of the pills stay in.I am still incredibly impressed even after almost three years. I have never thought to myself about finding something else because I'm so satisfied with this one. I highly recommend it.

This is HUGE. I mean, HUGE! I wish I'd have gotten one with wheels! Ok, not quite that huge, but I can't imagine anybody needing one this big. Still, I needed a pill organizer, so I tried it. Besides being huge, the little sliding windows on the top (that allow you to only open the day that you want) don't lock closed, so when I open one day, then turn it upside down to get the pills out, the windows for the other days can also open and dump pills! I have to keep it upright and pick each pill out. This is really not usable.

Exactly what I wanted!

I have gone through 3 standard door pill organizers for my son’s pills and they all have broken the same way. So far I really like this design. The side was easy to open and the front pill slide are neat. I like the fact you can make it have the lock on or not. Just an fyi if you have lager pills get the bigger size one. There’s just one pill that gets stuck but it’s a night time med that gets stuck under the door. Other then that I like this one.