bad habit tossing back all my meds at once

Blueberrybook · Jul 30, 2024 at 03:43 PM

Anyone else have this bad about about just tossing back the entire handful of morning or night meds and swallowing them without a single glance at what they are swallowing or if all the pills are even there? I definitely do this.

I have to be more careful; H wants me to check them off one by one on the pill reminder app, but ugh, they've got an option where it will say, "Take all 9 PM meds at once" and I'll choose that option without even going over what pills I have in my hand, and it will just check them all off at once.

This afternoon I am having auditory hallucinations again. I often get them off antipsychotics, but geez, I think I only accidentally skipped one night of Seroquel?! I think. I guess unless I already accidentally skipped other nights last week, but I don't think so. Ugh, I'm confused if I had Seroquel in my pillbox or not lately! I think I took Seroquel last week, I felt pretty stable then and was sleeping well, and it was only last night my sleep was crap.

I REALLY need to break this habit. Does anyone else do this too?

MuddyBoots · Jul 30, 2024 at 03:46 PM

Do you use a pill box (or two)? I used to do this because I had one pill box for AM and one for PM but kept them in the same place, but I ended up separating them and putting a sticky saying "morning" and "night" on them.

And then I ended up a slave to weekly blister packs and eventually daily med monitoring....

Nammu · Jul 30, 2024 at 03:53 PM

I do that.
I have pill boxes. One am, one pm that I keep in separate rooms. I’m very careful about filling my boxes so I’m pretty confident when I just take the pills without looking at them. The only thing is he added gabapentin to my night meds, they are too big to add to my handful. I sometimes forget them since they’re in a separate bottle.

unaluna · Jul 30, 2024 at 04:28 PM

My problem is dropping them on the floor or in the couch when i empty them out of the little box and then not being able to find the missing one. So then i have to borrow one from another day box. But no, i never mess up my doses. Too high or too low could probably unalive me. I always think thats my "get out of jail free" card, that or pneunomia, but then i am very scrupulous.

Blueberrybook · Jul 30, 2024 at 04:47 PM

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Originally Posted by unaluna

My problem is dropping them on the floor or in the couch when i empty them out of the little box and then not being able to find the missing one. So then i have to borrow one from another day box. But no, i never mess up my doses. Too high or too low could probably unalive me. I always think thats my "get out of jail free" card, that or pneunomia, but then i am very scrupulous.

Oh, I have the problem of dropping them too and messing up my boxes.
I have a morning pillbox and a night pillbox and one for vitamins. Usually, I am pretty good about getting all the right pills in for night and morning, but somehow, I screwed up.

Both my gabapentin & Seroquel (300 mg) are pretty big, but I can still toss all the night meds back and swallow them at once. Same with morning. Vitamins takes 2 times b/c of big fish oil, vitamin C & magnesium pills. But I really need to just stop doing this...sigh

MuddyBoots · Jul 30, 2024 at 04:48 PM

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Originally Posted by unaluna

My problem is dropping them on the floor or in the couch when i empty them out of the little box and then not being able to find the missing one. So then i have to borrow one from another day box. But no, i never mess up my doses. Too high or too low could probably unalive me. I always think thats my "get out of jail free" card, that or pneunomia, but then i am very scrupulous.

Ohh I'd do that with the horribly designed blister packs all the time. Once I met on the street with my then CM to get them and dropped one. Did not take sidewalk med.

Blueberrybook · 05:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Nammu

I do that.
I have pill boxes. One am, one pm that I keep in separate rooms. I’m very careful about filling my boxes so I’m pretty confident when I just take the pills without looking at them. The only thing is he added gabapentin to my night meds, they are too big to add to my handful. I sometimes forget them since they’re in a separate bottle.

I have AM and PM pillboxes too labelled "Morning" and "Night" and they are always in 2 separate rooms. Since H added the AM & PM labels to the pillboxes I haven't mixed up the entire morning & night pillboxes. I have done that in the past, but I would figure out that mistake as soon as I took the night meds once in the morning & was nearly falling asleep and had to muscle thru the day.

I did go back and check my night meds and all the other nights this week do have the Seroquel in them; I even checked the little ID number on the pills since the Seroquel and gabapentin I have look very similar. All there. So I either just skipped yesterday somehow when filling the box for this week assuming I took everything correctly last week.

neverending · Jul 30, 2024 at 05:04 PM

I also have am pm pillboxes. I am very careful in filling them as I am on approximately 20 prescriptions counting morning and night. I never double check the pills. I always gulp down the handful.

Blueberrybook · Jul 30, 2024 at 05:10 PM

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Originally Posted by neverending

I also have am pm pillboxes. I am very careful in filling them as I am on approximately 20 prescriptions counting morning and night. I never double check the pills. I always gulp down the handful.

I don't have 20 prescriptions but with all the take this in the AM, take 2 of these morning and night, take this only in the PM, take both AM and PM I have a massive tangle of psych pills on top of what the neurologist and GI docs prescribe. It's easy to make a mistake especially since my concentration is often SHYT thanks to BP.

Nammu · Jul 30, 2024 at 05:17 PM

I’m curious how many gi pills do you take? I’ve got 4 prescriptions but more than 4 pills

unaluna · Jul 30, 2024 at 05:33 PM

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Originally Posted by MuddyBoots

Ohh I'd do that with the horribly designed blister packs all the time. Once I met on the street with my then CM to get them and dropped one. Did not take sidewalk med.

Giving new meaning to the term "street drugs"

My latest order of Immodium came in the WORST packaging ever. You cant even poke them through, you have to cut thru the pkging to the tiniest dam pill that then just flips into the bathroom wastebasket and is gone!

Nammu · Jul 30, 2024 at 05:42 PM

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Originally Posted by unaluna

Giving new meaning to the term "street drugs"

My latest order of Immodium came in the WORST packaging ever. You cant even poke them through, you have to cut thru the pkging to the tiniest dam pill that then just flips into the bathroom wastebasket and is gone!

Oh that reminds me there was something that I had to take a few years ago, don’t remember what it was but yeah. I finally sat down at the table and used a scissors to cut the blister pack open and put all the pills into an old medicine bottle. Oh, it was such a pain.

bizi · Jul 30, 2024 at 06:12 PM

Sometimes I drop a pill and usually find it pretty easily. But on rare occasion I can't find it and we have cats and they have been known to eat a pill that She ended up eating . we rushed her to the vets saying that she ingested an anti psychotic He ended up giving her something to make her throw up. But he was being very nice and put a nasal tube down her and pumped charcoal down her throat.
Every time that we would then go back to this vet I always felt a bit embarrassed by the whole thing. We switched vets to this all night hospital for pets and it is closer and don't have bad feelings about our new vets.
bizi

Blueberrybook · Jul 30, 2024 at 06:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Nammu

I’m curious how many gi pills do you take? I’ve got 4 prescriptions but more than 4 pills

Right now I'm just on ompezerale and colace from the GI doc. But the first 2, 3 years after I had surgery, I also took famotidine and lactulose and on top of that even Miralax too. Luckily, I was able to stop taking those since things settled down with my heartburn & constipation issues.

Blueberrybook · Jul 30, 2024 at 06:31 PM

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Originally Posted by bizi

Sometimes I drop a pill and usually find it pretty easily. But on rare occasion I can't find it and we have cats and they have been known to eat a pill that She ended up eating . we rushed her to the vets saying that she ingested an anti psychotic He ended up giving her something to make her throw up. But he was being very nice and put a nasal tube down her and pumped charcoal down her throat.
Every time that we would then go back to this vet I always felt a bit embarrassed by the whole thing. We switched vets to this all night hospital for pets and it is closer and don't have bad feelings about our new vets.
bizi

I am SOO afraid of this happening since we have 3 cats. I don't want them swallowing APs or ANY human pills including OTC drugs. I get terrified when I can't find a dropped pill and usually get my daughter to search for it if she's home b/c she has much better eyesight than H and me for spotting small things like that.

MuddyBoots · Jul 30, 2024 at 06:53 PM

[QUOTE=unaluna;7434456]Giving new meaning to the term "street drugs"

/QUOTE]

I think you just cured my addiction

I've lost pills on the ground too, and have freaked tf out over it because of having cats (and them being anti-seizure meds, but that's secondary). I used a black light so they would be more obvious (and then found out my Bean was a fcking madlad before he got fixed).

unaluna · Jul 30, 2024 at 07:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Nammu

Oh that reminds me there was something that I had to take a few years ago, don’t remember what it was but yeah. I finally sat down at the table and used a scissors to cut the blister pack open and put all the pills into an old medicine bottle. Oh, it was such a pain.

Im afraid if i do that with these, they will suck all the water out of the atmosphere and become ineffective and thats not a chance i want to take with my gut/butt.

Blueberrybook · Jul 31, 2024 at 05:40 AM

@Nammu
I think my total prescriptions are 11. One of those is for fibromyalgia that I only take when I have a flareup. The neurologist prescribes 2 of the meds (gabapentin & oxycarbazepine). I wanted to stop those b/c I don't think they are helping my neuropathy, but the pdoc said to stay on them that they have some psych benefits to me. Then, there are 2 from the GI (colace & omprazole). But all the others are psych meds. It's a boatload of meds.

Nammu · Jul 31, 2024 at 07:12 AM

Blueberry I have 4 GI meds but still have trouble with reflux and my esophagus. An iron pill I only take once a week and 3 meds for sleep 1 for psych although my pdoc prescribed all those for sleep as he’s adamant that sleep is good. Then I take 1 for anxiety and two more from my pcp. Yeah, a boatload. I’d love to get rid of the GI pills, that stuff started after I tried metformin. That’s why I’m not wanting to try any more weight loss drugs. Aside from the fact I associate losing weight with a bp episode.

raspberrytorte · Jul 31, 2024 at 10:58 PM

I have a pillbox weekly organizer that has individual pill organizers for Sunday - Saturday, with slots for AM, noon, and PM meds. I just fill them all once a week. I don't look at what I'm taking, I just take it. I trust that I put the right meds in. I'm technically supposed to be taking meds four times a day, but I don't feel like taking meds all day so I just combined the two daytime doses into the noon dose, so I'm only taking meds three times a day. It works out fine. I take my morning meds at 7AM, afternoon meds anytime between noon and 1:30PM and nighttime meds at 9PM (or later if I'm out or something).

I'm on a ton of meds too. Sigh. Oh well. Don't plan on being on all these meds forever! Hoping new psychiatrist will take me off topamax and loxapine since I think they're both pointless.

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