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Originally Posted by bluebicycle
Good to know I'm not the only one who struggles with morning meds!
I always wake up at different times and my mornings are never the same. That's what throws me off.
I would use a phone alarm to wake up and take my meds, but I like to wake up naturally. If I use a phone alarm and wake up earlier than I need to, then I feel tired the whole day.
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I had an issue with this too and found that when I switched to putting the alarms at 11:30 am and 11:30 pm, I did a LOT better with remembering. AND with dosing. (It had previously been set for earlier, but I'd often be out running errands when the pm one went off. Taking meds in grocery line? Yeah right(!) Lol.)
The problem that I'd had with dosing was taking night meds at "bedtime", which is not a terribly consistent time for me. Then morning would come, and, on autopilot, I'd take my morning meds. Only when I'd start feeling like crap did I realize. Then have to ride out, them already being in my system. This was mostly an issue with my lamictal, because there was a
reason I'd had to go to split dosing at higher doses(!) And this craptastic phenomenon would only really happen on workdays (on account of otherwise not getting up that early). Not fun.
Back to 11:30 solution. It was a matter of figuring a set of times that fit the parameters of being likely to be awake and likely to being in a location condusive to taking (it's lunchtime on workdays). Only tricks are to remember to pack the morning meds for work (which can be solved by carrying a backup set) and and actually
taking them when the alarm goes off (as opposed to "in a minute", because distraction --pretty much a given(!)-- would lead to forgetting).
And ABSOLUTELY a pillbox. I was hopelessly confused before that.