Forgetting To Take Medicine...

[7Cs]

I remember to give my son his medicine but somehow manage to forget mine. We're supposed to take it at the same time everyday. We have the daily medication boxes sitting right next to each other. I've forgotten to give him his maybe 2x in the last year. Sometimes I go through stretches of not taking mine for almost a week. I remembered to take it yesterday and made it a point in my head to try and start taking it regualarly again but then tonight I realized I missed yet another day.

Selective memory? Dissociation process? How can I remember to take mine?


I have timers set on my phone for waking up, when to take him to school (don't forget the keys), when to pick him up, his afternoon and evening medicine and for his bedtime.

I was thinking about adding one to take our morning medicine but I seem to always give him his.... just not mine.

I'm going to add it in there now and see if it helps.

 

[Virtues]

I do the same thing. I always remember to take my night time meds because I wouldn't sleep with out them, but seems to forget my morning and afternoon meds.

 

[recoveringfromptsd]

I myself had a lifelong history of missing doses or forgetting to take my medicine, so far I have done well with taking mine on time this time around. I have to wonder if my forgetting was part of my symptoms that were not controlled back then.

Try putting your medicine box where it is in the way of doing something else at the time you should take it, for instance, if you get up in the morning and brush your teeth, put it in the way of the tooth paste, once you have that down, try concentrating on bringing something to wash the meds down with each morning