how are you at taking your medication?

Jmayfair · Sep 20, 2020 at 04:10 PM

I make my best effort at it but I still occasionally forget to take them in a timely manner.

Moose72 · Sep 20, 2020 at 05:27 PM

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Originally Posted by BethRags

I never forget my meds. If I'm even a couple of hours late with taking them I'll know because I start feeling dizzy and have brain zaps. I don't understand how others are able to skip meds. But maybe it's because I do take them so consistently, so when I miss a dose my body really notices.

My problem this year is that, for some reason, I have gotten my dosages messed up several times. That feels disorienting and disturbing.

I hate having to be on meds. Hate it. It makes me so sad, and I worry about the damaging side effects. But the alternative would have been tragic for me. Also, when all is said and done, I'm grateful that there are medications to treat MI. My great-aunt had a mental illness and spent 41 years of her life in a "mental institution", as they were called. She was 19 years old when she was admitted in 1919 and age fifty when, on Thorazine, she was able to leave the hospital and live with family. She died a few years later.

That's sad about your great-aunt. I'm glad they don't do long-term institutionalization now. I'm almost 50 and I hope I don't die soon!

Moose72 · Sep 20, 2020 at 05:30 PM

I forget my meds several times a week. I have them in blister packs- one for morning and one for bedtime. All I have to do is open it, pour the pills into my mouth and swallow (with water). But I wholesale forget to take them and when I wake up in the morning, the night time meds are still sitting there and/or my morning pills are still there when I go to take my night meds.

*Beth* · Sep 21, 2020 at 12:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Moose72

I forget my meds several times a week. I have them in blister packs- one for morning and one for bedtime. All I have to do is open it, pour the pills into my mouth and swallow (with water). But I wholesale forget to take them and when I wake up in the morning, the night time meds are still sitting there and/or my morning pills are still there when I go to take my night meds.

A few hours after you forget, do you feel weird in your head...like, brain zaps? Or nausea?

Sep 21, 2020 at 03:23 AM

I was good at taking it every day at the right time for years until my recent backpacking trip. I left in a hurry and forgot my meds, and then I never went back to my ex-boyfriend's house where I was living to pick them up and now I'm living with my sister, with nothing but her stuff and what I brought on my trip in a backpack haha. It's a complex situation, but basically I've been off meds for a month now. I'm not doing any worse so I think I'll just wait until I get a new psychiatrist to get back on them. I was only on Trileptal anyways.

Soupe du jour · Sep 21, 2020 at 05:48 AM

I've pretty reliably taken my medications during my trip. Only the first couple of days I missed my morning doses. I have taken them at slightly different and varying times, though. You do your best when there is no set routine.

It really is crucial that I take all of my medications during stressful times.

I have been going to bed a bit earlier than usual. That's probably for the best.

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Jmayfair Member Member Since Feb 2020 Location: NYC Posts: 75 4	Sep 20, 2020 at 04:10 PM #21 I make my best effort at it but I still occasionally forget to take them in a timely manner.
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