my new invention, seeking funding

[texaninnyc87]

who wants to fund my new product? its a keychain pill holder that is also a flashlight. maybe this exists already, but i've searched online to no avail.

when i started meds recently my amazing social worker person told me she tells all her new patients to get a weekly pill organizer thing and also some kind of pill holder they can carry around in case, for whatever reason, they cant access their meds at the time when they normally take them. seeing the sense in these two ideas, i purchased both. im on stribild, which is one pill once a day, so the organizer isnt super useful but it'll help me see how many i have left and i can also put my vitamins in it so whatever. i bought a keychain pill holder online for .03 (some deal on buy.com in case you want one) its a little metal tube, perfect for one stribild and a few klonipin (in case i freak out or something). it looks a lot like a mini mag lite. i was thinking, it should just be a flashlight/pill holder. i dont feel comfortable disclosing to everyone just yet, and no one would think twice about my having a flashlight on my keychain. i guess i can tell people the pill holder is for my klonipin but then they'll just think i have crazy panic attacks all the time....
discrete, and multifunctional, pill case/keychain.
thoughts? criticism? cash deposits? 

[Solo_LTSurvivor]

who wants to fund my new product? its a keychain pill holder that is also a flashlight. maybe this exists already, but i've searched online to no avail.

when i started meds recently my amazing social worker person told me she tells all her new patients to get a weekly pill organizer thing and also some kind of pill holder they can carry around in case, for whatever reason, they cant access their meds at the time when they normally take them. seeing the sense in these two ideas, i purchased both. im on stribild, which is one pill once a day, so the organizer isnt super useful but it'll help me see how many i have left and i can also put my vitamins in it so whatever. i bought a keychain pill holder online for .03 (some deal on buy.com in case you want one) its a little metal tube, perfect for one stribild and a few klonipin (in case i freak out or something). it looks a lot like a mini mag lite. i was thinking, it should just be a flashlight/pill holder. i dont feel comfortable disclosing to everyone just yet, and no one would think twice about my having a flashlight on my keychain. i guess i can tell people the pill holder is for my klonipin but then they'll just think i have crazy panic attacks all the time....
discrete, and multifunctional, pill case/keychain.
thoughts? criticism? cash deposits? 

Why worry about sticking pills in one of those contraptions when you can just insert a cotton ball dipped in poppers and unscrew the cap and discreetly blast off whenever you feel like it?

[texaninnyc87]

oh i had a bad incident with poppers and open flames, so i try to stay away from those unless some serious fisting is about to go down.

[leatherman]

i dont feel comfortable disclosing to everyone just yet, and no one would think twice about my having a flashlight on my keychain. i guess i can tell people the pill holder is for my klonipin but then they'll just think i have crazy panic attacks all the time....

i've been using a key fob over a decade and think it's a great way to handle the issue of being out of the house when it's time for my meds.

but in response to your issue about taking the meds in public, I'll tell you the same thing I tell lots of people. Do you realize how many people take medications? For all sorts of reasons? Do you realize how rare it is for someone to ask? and how little they really care about the answer?

In the past decade, I think only one person has ever asked and I simply said that they were my daily meds and I laughed off the fact that nearly everyone is on some sort of med or other. Unless you tell someone those are your HIV meds, they will never know. Besides you can always lie. LOL Say they're blood pressure meds. Say you'd rather not talk about your health issues at the table. Politely say it's none of their business. Suggest they're special multi-vitamins. Say they're the only thing that keeps you from going postal and killing people that ask about your medications. 

I would suggest that it's some slight internalized stigma that makes you fearful that people will think these are HIV meds. It's this same kind of internalized stigma that makes some people fearful to work an HIV information table because someone might think they have HIV. My advice is to try not to worry so much. HIV is just one of thousands of diseases that plague mankind that requires daily medications. If you don't give HIV so much power, you won't worry so much that someone might ask about your meds.

However I will say that I do like the pill fob/flashlight combo. That would combine some of the things on my keychain and streamline it a bit.

[thunter34]

I wonder if there would be a market for a dildo pill dispenser...