My doctor told me to put my meds in another room with an alarm so I have to get up to turn it off.
Unfortunately I don’t live alone so that doesn’t work.
They: It’s a highly addictive drug.
Me: SHIT, I forgot again.
I just made it my routine.
Can’t forget if it’s essential.For any future Ops that wants to know my schedule:
Wake up
Make breakfast and brew tea
Eat while watching a bit of media
Take meds
Get ready for work
Go work.Methylphenidate poutine
Had poutine yesterday.
Quite tasty (but I need to do it with my ingredients. The stall was a bit stingy)
You have a routine? Man, just be nice. I forget to blink if I’m too distracted.
What worked for me was taking my meds the same moment I put on deoderant. That way I can double check whether I took them by smelling my armpit before I leave the house.
Meds I actually do alright with, mostly because I don’t function without them.
My nerf instead is being dehydrated af.
Not unusual that my only fluid intake besides a gulp for downing the meds is about 400ml of tea for the whole day.
And in the evening I start notice that I have a headache and didnt drink anything for the whole day ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
i can absolutely drop out of a routine randomly
Me: “Ah, I’m finally set in this routine”
My brain: “lol what routine”
Couple days off sick or on holiday: “I’ve never met this routine before in my life.”
My workplace has moved offices which has changed my commute from a 10 minute bike ride to a 15 minute drive. My daily routine is in absolute shambles.
That really sucks
The real struggle is staying focused during the few seconds between turning off my alarm and getting my meds. One little maneuver could cost 51 years
Don’t mark the alarm done till it’s in your mouth. Snooze the alarm 5 min if you must
I’ve managed multiple times to forget if I took them or not during the snooze.
This is my trick for everything that needs to get done. Never turn it off before it’s done
I’m just going to do this first…
Shut up shoulder devil
Hey, I remembered to get my kid his meds. That’s almost a win, wait… what was I doing?
The fact I saw this just after realising I forgot to set my timer for my ADHD med and have no clue when it’s next due 😅
Here’s my secret effective tip: have blood pressure issues that cause palpitations when you forget your meds for a couple hours. Who needs alarms when you can feel like shite for the rest of the day?!
I use https://f-droid.org/packages/dev.corruptedark.diditakemymeds
You can even set it up to require photo evidence of you taking your meds.
Thank you this seems so useful!
Do you know if it changes with the time zone you’re in?
It does at least respect daylight savings. I guess it uses whatever your phone reports as the current local time.
You just need a reminder to check your reminders.
I genuinely have a reminder to check my reminders 😂
Genius!
It’s reminders all the way down
What happened 5d ago? Do that again
Accidentally dismissed the alarm.
I keep forgetting to take my meds this week.
they say to get one of those daily pill calendar things, but thats too much work to fill all the time.
Fill each one with three or four pills! You’re not going to accidentally take all three, but it’ll still keep track of whether you’ve taken it or not.
Or get the box that’s sun - sat morning, afternoon, evening boxes, then it’s three weeks at a time.
I just got a little tab that hangs off and it has 7 poppers on it, and you pop in the day of the week when you take it. No refilling
There are Sundays where the thought of having to spend 5 minutes filling up my pills for the week kept me in bed for hours.
I’ve got two, so I have a whole week of time to keep forgetting to refill it.
I feel this so deeply. Friend or neighbor needs my help for hours? No problem. Work a crazy long day? No problem. Vacuum for fifteen minutes? Practically impossible.
This is part of why I have a robot vacuum. Press a button on my phone, done.
Then it eats the socks that my kids didn’t pick up like I asked…
If I’m being good I do it Saturday night, after I take the last dose and empty it. But I’m rarely being good.
I have one but if it’s not physically in front of me I just don’t think of it.
Having something to check off helps.
I’ve got 2 daily alarms, 15 minutes apart and still manage to occasionally miss taking them.
Fuck… I think I forgot to send in a refill
Lmfao same
As a person recently diagnosed. I have a pill bottle with my daily dose. I refill it in the evening on my comedown to make sure I don’t forget it. I do sometimes forget in the morning when I go into the office though.
Thanks for the reminder, I had genuinely forgotten this morning. Why is it so hard?
