seperis | irritating moment in time

I've felt icky the last few days. While going through my bag, I found my thyroid medication and checked the number left (one) and the date for refill (nine days ago).

...so possibly, the reason I am falling asleep for twelve hour naps and feeling really not-great when I get up could possibly be I missed about a week and two days of medication cumulatively in this last 30 day period. I honestly can't remember the last time I took it before today (I think I took it Sunday?)

However, I remembered to drink a lot of water. IDK, I need a keeper or possibly some sort of like, you know those ankle things prisoners (or say, Neil from White Collar?) wear? I need one of those. To remind me. To take my medicine. So I can function. Like a person.

for a week I'd be shivering with cold, watching my hair start to fall out and falling asleep over my work desk. I always put it out the night before somewhere where I'll see it. I feel like I'm dying slowly if I miss more than one dose. I did miss a week once and I never want to go through that again. *g*

The ritalin counteracts (somewhat) the sleepiness or I would have made the connection so much faster. I mean, I should have when I went to sleep after taking a ritalin one night, but it just literally did not occur to me.

I think--and not sure, but I'm trying to remember to track--that it's been in the last two weeks, which would explain why since Friday I've been pulling twelve hour nights plus nap. I'm not sure I'd have remembered if a.) I hadn't seen my bottle and b.) work today was horrific; I kept losing not just my train of thought but forgetting things minutes after doing them, and when I'm on ritalin, I'm three hour blocks of near perfect memory. It was freaking surreal.

If I didn't have twice daily alarms set on my phone to remind me to take my meds, it'd take the pain making itself known for me to remember.

Letting them wear off like that is brutal and usually means extra meds to get everything back under control.

I do the same thing -- I set the alarm on my phone. I even have an alarm set an hour before I have to be at work because I tend to get distracted and the next thing I know I'm running late.

I do stuff like that. On particularly forgetful days, I even set them to remind me about things in the oven, stuff like that.

I'm going to have to set my phone for it. This is possibly the worst month I've ever done on this.

=( Hopefully, the planned phone alarm and the meds case will keep you from any more bad months.

Needing 12 hour naps is not fun.

Yeah, that was seriously not good. I knew something was wrong at work because I take ritalin and for me, I can feel it click and my focus goes on. Today, I lost track of everything I was doing and forgot--forgot literally--what I'd done with some queries. This has been going on since last week but I just didn't make the connection at all.

Adding in all that sleep? Yeahhh. This weekend has been the weekend of way too much time either sleeping, half-sleeping, or napping.

I absolutely depend on a little plastic case with seven compartments. Get one! They do the remembering for you!

Yes, this. I was coming to pimp this.

One of those Mon-Fri, Morning, Noon, Evening, Night boxes. One can load them up once a week and they keep track for you.

I am getting one and setting my phone.

I have one of these as well, though mine has AM and PM compartments too.

I find these are best for letting you know you forgot your meds.

They do! Mom even found one where you can separate the days and carry around, say, just Tuesday. Very handy for camping.

*points* What they said. The only way I remember a) to take my medication, and b) that I've already TAKEN my medication is to have one of those days of the week morning/evening pill boxes to keep it all in. Otherwise I'd lose track completely.

This too. I have like 5 different ways to keep track of my meds like that, depending on my week and where I am and if I am traveling, etc.

*nods* I just can't believe I didn't notice that.

Totes getting a box.

Psst. Your phone has alarms and a calendar. Also google calendars can email and text you when it's time to do something.

...google? Really?

Yep! It has about 3 or 4 different ways of nudging you and you can set up several like a snooze alarm if you want.

Yup. And you can probably sync your phone's calendar to your google calendar too.

(That's what I do. So I get both my phone visuals and google's texts while only having to enter things once.)

You're also geeky enough to want this suggestion: I also have an email set up purely to track health stuff. I email things like "took med x" for things like the add-on pain meds, so that two hours later I can actually answer the "when the heck can I take another one" without accidentally poisoning myself.

I can nag if you'd like. I have nagging-skills!

I might recruit you.

When do you usually take it?

there's been days when I've actually considered finding out if I can get medication bubble packed like we make the residents do at work, so I can just look at the card and know if I've taken my damn pills or not.

Oh man YES PLEASE.

I have a link to a place where you can buy the equipment, looks relatively cheap and easy actually.

Link plz? That's the best idea I've heard.

http://apothecaryproducts.dirxion.com/ Page 193

While more expensive than a pill case, if you truly need this solution, it doesn't look too expensive in the long run.

edited at: Date: 2010-03-10 02:13 am (UTC)

Thank you so very very very much. *bows*

I keep my once a day medicines with my toothbrush and toothpaste. Then I always remember, because there is no way that I'm leaving the house without brushing my teeth.

I have a routine at night. All my pill bottles are in special places in my cabinet and I have to go in a very specific order to take the pills (we're up to seven different pills of four different medications not counting the stuff I take as needed) and I have to go in that exact order. If I do that, I'm good. If I don't do that, I forget what I've taken and it's horrible and a nightmare and aiee!

I stopped forgetting to take my pills when I found out that missing ONE DOSE sent me into withdrawal symptoms so bad I couldn't function.

*g*

I remind several people to do important things (like drink water and use the ladies' room) and I can nag you about meds if needed.

:)

Since the very first thing I do every morning is head for coffee, I keep my synthroid next to the coffee pot. That way its built into my automatic routine. Take synthroid while waiting for the first cup to be ready. I find I am more consistent if its part of my routine during the part of the morning where I'm on autopilot. the minute its no longer on the counter there, I always forget. Sucks to not notice until you're already having symptoms.

I used to keep my amino acid supplements by my laptop for just that reason.

Set an alarm on your iPod with this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0xt1QVsigc) to play?

HOW does the ipod alarm work? Do you hear it even if you're not listening to it? It's possible this has mystified me for a while.

Well, my iPod charges in my speakers at night, but actually, if you just have the headphones plugged in and keep it somewhere near your head, that's usually enough. You know how penetrating the sound of someone else's music can be when you're sitting on a bus? Yeah, like that.

I keep it on my desk, next to my computer, in a 7 day box.

this is what happens to me when i forgot an antidepressant or anticonvulsant, ugh (which has been the last - three weeks? fucking psychologist refuses to let the pharmacy refill it until i break the agoraphobia to come in to see him, and i only JUST GOT OVER THE WITHDRAWAL EFFECTS OH MY GOD /rant)

i hope you get back on & better soon, bb, have you tried alarms on your phone? also i'd volunteer to join the nagging club :D

I've managed to train myself into taking the one pill I take on a regular basis (merely a vitamin) first thing in the morning, since I keep the bottle right next to the water bottle on my nightstand that I inevitably make a grab for as soon as I get up. (Or even before I'm "up," since I have to get out of bed and across the room to hit the snooze button on my alarm and may have a drink on the way back.)

ETA: And having actually read the other comments, I see I'm such a fucking lightweight on the pill front. But, yeah, this is me adding a vote to inserting it into the morning zombie moves.

edited at: Date: 2010-03-09 09:48 pm (UTC)

Have to agree with those who have already commented. Bubble/blister packs have saved me. I don't think people who don't deal with daily medication really can understand how hard it can be to get them all down the hatch at the correct times and on the correct days. *pets her own blister pack* Don't be too hard on yourself for missing doses, just do what you can to not do it again, that's what I always get told. *nods* Good advice, I think.

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