Background: Non adherence to medications is one of the biggest challenges for health care system nowadays. Medication non adherence is especially an issue for non-communicable (chronic) diseases where it accounts for nearly 74% of all deaths globally. Reasons for medication non-adherence vary from person to person. The current study was designed to explore the possible hurdles in the path of medication adherence so that appropriate measures can be taken to rectify them. Methods: It was a questionnaire-based study where questionnaire was circulated through social media platform WhatsAppand responses thus obtained were analyzed using Microsoftexcel Sheet and results were expressed as percentages. Results: In our study, forgetfulness 78% was identified as the major hurdle to medication adherence. Other important barriers were doubt regarding the healing power of the medicine 61%, apprehension about adverse effects of drugs 61%, belief that natural remedies are better 60%,participants discontinuing their medications once they felt symptomatically better 57%, participants considering frequency of drug intake troublesome 51%. Participants complaining that they had inadequate knowledge about their disease and drug prescribed 41%.Subjectsfinding their medications costly 40%,subjects believing that by consuming drugs on daiy basis,their life may become dependent on medications 40%. Conclusion:A number ofimpediments to medication adherence were found in our study sample.Attempts to address these hurdles on individual basis can go a long way in reducing the unnecessary burden on the health care system and by and large overall well-being of the community will definitely improve.