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 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.
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.
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)_/¯
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.
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.
The Things 3 app doesn’t get first class OS support, so there’s little chance of these reminders working versus the default Reminders app, which has the ability to notify and stick those notifications to your home screen
Even better, use the Health Medications feature in iOS and set high priority notifications that scream and put an unbearably huge notification on your lock screen
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
This is my trick for everything that needs to get done. Never turn it off before it's done
I've managed multiple times to forget if I took them or not during the snooze.
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?
They: It's a highly addictive drug.
Me: SHIT, I forgot again.
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.
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.
Thank you this seems so useful!
You just need a reminder to check your reminders.
Genius!
I genuinely have a reminder to check my reminders 😂
It's reminders all the way down
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 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.
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.
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 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...
Yeah I have four cats and two of them are long haired. It's too much for the roomba I tried.
Fair.
I've got two, so I have a whole week of time to keep forgetting to refill it.
I have one but if it’s not physically in front of me I just don’t think of it.
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
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.
You have a routine? Man, just be nice. I forget to blink if I'm too distracted.
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)_/¯
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.
i can absolutely drop out of a routine randomly
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
Me: "Ah, I'm finally set in this routine"
My brain: "lol what routine"
I've got 2 daily alarms, 15 minutes apart and still manage to occasionally miss taking them.
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 😅
What happened 5d ago? Do that again
Accidentally dismissed the alarm.
Fuck... I think I forgot to send in a refill
Lmfao same
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.
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?
Read this just in time to not forget mine 😂🙏🏻well, I hope, they are downstairs, on my way
Haha, so typical, I nearly missed the timeframe after all 😌 so much stuff happening on the way down…
Im in this picture and I didnt consent to it
The Things 3 app doesn’t get first class OS support, so there’s little chance of these reminders working versus the default Reminders app, which has the ability to notify and stick those notifications to your home screen
Even better, use the Health Medications feature in iOS and set high priority notifications that scream and put an unbearably huge notification on your lock screen
Don't you know how to calendar things?
literally adhd tho
O i know that's the joke.