As I arrived at work today, I thought to myself "Oh crap - did I take my meds this morning?" This is not particularly new, but it also doesn't happen too often. I am generally in a very good routine about my meds. They are kept in the same location, I have a weekly pill box which I fill up every Sunday, and I order three months worth of pills through Medco. It's a good setup.
But on those mornings when I find myself questioning whether I took those meds, I find myself going over all of the different options...
- can I take an hour+ out of my workday to go all the way back home and check? It's one thing if I'm walking towards the subway, but already at work?
- If I keep a "spare dose" on me for emergency situations, can I ever be 100% sure that I did, in fact, miss a dose? Double dosing is not something I want to do...
- do I simply miss a dose and hope for the best?
I find myself almost invariably coming back to this third option, but I also think of all the people out there who, for whatever their illness, have even more challenging pill regimens than my own. I take meds in the morning, and meds at night, and I am not bound by specific times, just looking to generally try and take them regularly and about 12 hours apart.
I can't imagine having pill regimens that required me to take pills three, four, five times a day... different pills at different intervals... even having to wake up in the middle of the night to take a dose.
I suppose all I can do is continue to make every effort to be as diligent as possible in my schedule, and hope that if and when I do miss a dose, by brain doesn't make me pay.
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Thursday, October 28, 2010
Monday, June 7, 2010
Missed meds
Haven't missed a dose in ages, but I missed on yesterday morning. D'oh.
What can I say. Sometimes I am a forgetful maroon. Hopefully it won't be an issue.
I have never understood when I DO have a seizure and my doctor says "did you miss any meds," why if I have, it never seems to have "likely have made an impact or been a trigger!" :-)
I'm on three medications right now, so hopefully that in and of itself will prevent any seizures or seizelets from rearing their ugly little heads.
Time will tell.
Hopefully I don't have a seizure within 43hrs, 29mins and 46hrs, 12 mins from when I normally would have taken my last dose. That could be bad. Could result in a seizure.
(Sorry to sound flip and glib. Just my mood.)
What can I say. Sometimes I am a forgetful maroon. Hopefully it won't be an issue.
I have never understood when I DO have a seizure and my doctor says "did you miss any meds," why if I have, it never seems to have "likely have made an impact or been a trigger!" :-)
I'm on three medications right now, so hopefully that in and of itself will prevent any seizures or seizelets from rearing their ugly little heads.
Time will tell.
Hopefully I don't have a seizure within 43hrs, 29mins and 46hrs, 12 mins from when I normally would have taken my last dose. That could be bad. Could result in a seizure.
(Sorry to sound flip and glib. Just my mood.)
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