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This is a very handy gadget once you figure out how the timer works, but you have to reset it all each day. Once you have the current time entered you have to set the alarm using how much time is left before you want it to beep. You don't set the alarm like a clock. It's confusing at first, but it can work. If it's 8 am clock time and you need to take a pill at noon, you have to set the alarm to beep in 4 hours. If you also need to take one at 2pm you need to set the second alarm to beep in 6 hours and so on.

I recently received a "Gift of Life" through a Liver Transplant and taking my medications on a timely basis is imperitive.Presently I must take over 35 pills and medications daily. This Pill container with the countdown timer is just what I need.It will hold all of my pills needed for a 24 hour day and the timer with the loud audible beeper has saved me from forgetting it is time to take my medicine many times when I was away from home or fell to sleep and needed a reminder. The timer is easy to set and the size of the unit is small enough to keep with me at all times. A good example of needing a reminder just happened as I am writing this. The beeper just sounded and I took my medicine. I just might have forgot otherwise.If I have to find any fault with this product that would be because of the "childproof" nature of the product it may be difficult to fill or retrieve the pills for someone with weak or imperred finger strength. For me however it is just what the doctor ordered!

I've had the Lumiscope 1247 pill case/timer for a few years now, and I find it very handy. If you need to take medications one, two, three, or four times per day, I've not found anything else like it. It has some clever features to it, such as the way it segregates your four medication doses, and the way it can keep track of timings for all four doses -- it's like four timers in one. But they are countdown timers, not alarm clocks. You set any or all of the timer(s) to go off "x minutes/hours from now," like a kitchen timer. Since it can remember each timer setting, if you load the pill case about the same time every day, you don't have to re-set the timers, just start them going, then stop them (but don't clear them) when each goes off. You can then re-use the timing setting the next day. (Read the instructions carefully to make sure that you've properly stopped the timer when it goes off. One button press only tells the timer to immediately begin the countdown again. You have to press the button twice to suspend timing until you're ready to start it again. This is probably why some people have gotten what seem to be confusing results with the timers.) When the beeper goes off, it doesn't just beep -- it does one, two, three, or four short beeps, so visually-impaired people can tell which timer is going off. Also, a red LED flashes one, two, three, or four times so the hearing-impaired can tell what alarm they're seeing. Other features including a large enough capacity to hold big pills, and an access door that locks the device in one position to prevent spilling the other pill doses. It has easy-to-feel Braille markings, and it can serve as a clock. I downgraded it one star only because I feel that it may be difficult to use for some people with weaker or arthritic hands ... for example, twisting the unit to move from dose to dose, or opening the pill door (although both can be done with the hands open instead of in a grasping motion). With lots of pills, the easiest way to load the case is by separating the two halves, and that would be tough for some people (a dinner knife is helpful for doing that). Otherwise you can load it through the pill access door. Finally, I wish the plastic was less smooth and more "grippy" ... I may put some friction tape on mine to make it less likely to slip out of my hands. But overall, this is a very useful device ... and it's under twelve bucks.

I really like this product. I bought it based on the review below. There is one thing I don't understand. When setting the alarm, I need it set for every six hours, do you set it as a clock? 0600, 1200, 1800...Or set is for 0600, 0600, 0600...Or what? Mine just seems to go off at non specific times. After awhile I just gave up. I know once I fiure out how to make it go off every six hours it will be exactly what I need. Until then it is collecting dust. And yes, I did read and reread the instructions...

I purchased my Lumiscope 1247 pillbox/timer at the end of the last summer. It took me quite a long time to get used to setting the timer, but once I did it successfully I have had no problems. It is absolutely NOT necessary to have to reset it each day - my alarm goes off every 8 hours, round the clock, no matter which time-zone I am in (went to Italy, U.S. and the Carribbean, and never had a problem). In the last couple of weeks, I noticed that the gray cover (over the control buttons) had become loose - to the point of falling off. Besides just falling into my pocket, it has fallen to some pretty dirty areas (restaurant and public restroom floors). I have come close to permanently losing the cover several times, and this would be too bad, because the buttons then could be easily (unintentionally) pushed, which would wreak havoc with my meds. I am curious to discover if this has happened to anyone else and what they've been able to do about it.Lumiscope 1247 Electronic Pill Timer