nope, fingers tend to get numb after not reading Braille after a while, but that's about it :)

I've actually had the opposite problem. I go rock climbing a lot, and if I'm reading anything more than one line, I need to file down my callouses to be able to read the Braille better

On otc stuff, I used to get the pharmie or whoever was helping me trap the critters to read the directions on use. The same applied to prescriptions. When my son was little I used a Sharpie to label medicine spoons or actual measuring spoons for appropriate doses. Braille labelers are very useful for this type of thing.

My blind mother forewent directions and let us 'take a swig' of whatever it was we were in need of. That was the 70:s, tho. We lived so I can't immediately fault her logic. She also very rightly said that the stuff never tasted good enough for us to be greedy so she wasn't worried about us overdosing. That, too, was correct.

That would make it worse actually. Because then the finger would be less sensitive and it would be harder to read.

not usually. However, chose to give up guitar because I did not like what the practicing did to my fingers and found it a bit hard to read Braille with calloused fingers. I don't think I ever was that good with it anyways.

My fingertips are actually quite soft from touching a lot of things (you know, the way leather gets when people touch it a lot?). I'm deafblind, though, so extra touchy.

Most pills feel different or are different sized. There's also varying sized bottles and possibly other formulas you could switch to for more variances.

For example, I had a chalky white pill that had a distinct, slightly mildewy smell. It was also in a giant bottle that none of my other pills came in. But, if I had more chalky or mildewy smelling pills, I'd have considered other formulas, which all came in capsules of varying bright colors if I remember correctly. I had a lot of medications, between 16-20 pills a day and more when I was taking pain meds, but I had mostly different types.

- 12 chalky, mildewy fuckers

- One squishy, ovular thing

- One big as fuck antibiotic that was roughly the size of my thumbpad and felt like swallowing a spoon

- 1-4 round pills in a blister pack, I think I started with 4?

- 2+ large, round ones

- 1-3 hard capsule shaped pills

- 1? pill, smaller, in a blister pack I think? or maybe that was until I got the bottle? I can't remember

- slightly powdery round ones, I think they were grape but could be wrong

I kept track just by knowing which pill was which and how many I needed. If I had to do it now, I would probably just keep a lid for each of the bottle sizes and use my pen friend to record them, or go to a pharmacy that has the device that records info onto a label and gives you a player.

The pen friend is like that, but you get various sized and shaped stickers, and it reads them to let you record custom voice stickers and play them back with the device.

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Not sure that's braille on your pill case, guy. Unless you 1: had it added custom or 2: got it from somewhere that specialises in that kinda thing. All the pill cases I've seen (I don't take meds, but I know way too many people who do) don't have it unless they did it themselves. Also I can't speak for anyone else in here, but to be able to read the sign on the bathroom door, I first have to find the bathroom door. Since that's probably going to require I ask someone, it somewhat reduces the need to read the sign.