“jUsT uSe A cHeCk LiSt”

I TRIED THAT! GUESS WHAT? I KEPT FORGETTING TO CHECK STUFF OFF!

The stress of keeping lists up-to-date is such a big barrier for me 😭

You have to remember to fill it.

🤷🏼‍♂️

Damn I want my meds back :(

My partner got me one of these pill popper things (amazon link is the best I could find, sorry) that gets around having to fill it myself. Yeah you have to remember to mark the day but it works well for me, was that or one of those timer lids as there were definitely days I missed doses or weren't sure if I took my meds and didn't want to risk double dosing.

Ugh. I did this at night once with mixed up pills. I was up until 6AM.

Nevermind that said list gets randomly forgotten amidst the attempts to manage that nigh-constant chaos... thus begetting a new list when the search for the former becomes futile, and the cycle renews.

Forgetting to check things off is mostly for whatever notekeeping app d'jour is on-call at the time. 🙄

FWIW, if a 2x dose worked, I'd already've asked my prescriber to up my Rx. (No idea what more Vyvanse'd do, though, so maybe I should?)

But, hey, when this planet is suddenly threatened by a voracious horde of tunneling varmints? Well, I've got skills that make post-apoc survivalists sploosh. 🤌🏼

C'mon, space moles. Lemme show the world I've trained these last decades for something, eh? 🤞🏼🥹

I set alarms on my phone until I got in the routine of taking meds with breakfast and before bed, and I always keep the medicine organizer visible in the kitchen so I see it every day when I get up and when I go to put my cup from the day in the dishwasher. But that also builds on those routines as well.

The app AMdroid has been essential since I can set different sounds for different alarm categories and make them more or less persistent anf it's easy to skip one when I remember without having it annoy me later when it goes off, but still not have to disable the alarm entirely and forget to turn it back on. And it's way more reliable than Google Tasks or some other takes apps, and is an alarm sound that I have to stop instead of a single notification sound that I'm likely to ignore.

Anyway, there are other apps with similar functions. But the right app can make all the difference. I have it set up for several things I do everyday since I can't form habits, at least until I form a reliable routine which usually doesn't happen unless there's some event to trigger it that I can't ignore, like waking up or going to bed.

They've apparently been MIA for a few months now and might be out of business, all things considered. 😅

Have you tried being more organized?

Medications work different for everyone!

That said, if taking a double dose for you is anything like it is for me then I'd recommend never doing that unless you want to replace your brain with a demon who who knows he only has one day to exist and wants to take the rest of the world with him.

Fuck. Now I don't remember if I took my meds today.

This is why you get a pill organizer. That and so you can check if you took your meds that day.

Also prevents the "accidentally took amphetamines with my night time meds" which while rare is worse than the "took them twice this morning"

I have one. It's pretty crucial. But yesterday, it ran out, so today, I have to "wing it".

Why, what happened?

This is going to be wilder than I thought. 12 hours in, still legs shaking and eyes wide open. I even made a fruit and raw veggie plate instead of binge eating candy at night, omg!

I feel like a raver with a plate of apple slices.

Plus side: Still killing it with the todos.

the answer is always more

I always take my pills at the same time I put on deodorant. It means I can quickly check if I took it.

Organize? Me???

I bought two of these a while ago. One for day and one for night meds. It would be super helpful im sure, but they have sat empty since the day i bought them.

I lost my health insurance and ironically enough, my ADHD has made it really hard to get back on track. Luckily now I got my health insurance insurance back and will hopefully be okay soon tho. I forgot how disorganized and a mess my life used to be when I was unmedicated. It sucks. I have been feeling anxious and all over the place and feel so stupid. I procrastinated on fixing this fairly easy problem that would have made me feel better once I got a new doctor, but instead I kept suffering. ADHD is crazy lol

I also forgot to take it after posting that comment and your comment reminded me.

If I was a woman I would get pregnant all the time.

I also forgot my vyvanse today so I decided it was a nappin day but I am pleased to report that birth control pills came in blister packs (that I still forgot to take so I got an IUD and that was a lifesaver lol)

This is such a useful tip honestly. Combining it with another routine that's easy to check would be a lot more helpful than pill organisers for a lot of people

Been there brother, hope you ready for the crash tomorrow

This sounds like a person that learned methods to manage their ADHD before trying meds.
If its not habitual its bound to be forgotten.
Also I don't wear deodorant very often.

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.futsch1.medtimer/

I use this, very helpful until I click taken on the app and then forget my med anyway lol

Vyvance worked perfectly for me for a week. Doc wanted to just raise the dose but I was so creeped out by how fast I acclimated I switched. Concerta worked and I didn’t acclimate to it, but now I just feel the doom all the time.

Sigh

I bought a 4-times-daily 31-day pill case. Thats 124 compartments, plus theres an extra stick because they come in a grid, which I use for travel, for a total of 128.

I fill it whenever I get my new bottles, and sure, its kinda big, and I never use all 31 sticks because I only take meds once a day, but it does mean I only have to fill it once per refill (90 days).

Thats a level of remembering I can do. Plus if I ever have to swap to twice daily, I have plenty of spares, just working from the other end.

Only real downside is you need to re-label them, and if you take meds daily, you need to use two sticks a week, with an empty compartment.

Or if 1-month intervals are fine for you, especially if you take meds twice a day anyway, you can just use it as-is :)

I’m on generic Vyvanse and have had a similar experience to you. I went up to 40mg but didn’t notice that much of a difference to the 20mg, so I asked to go back down. We added a regular short acting Adderall 5mg booster to go along with the 20s. That combo seems to work relatively well for me, but I think the long-acting Concerta + 5mg booster was the best fit in relatively recent meds history. I switched about 2 years ago to Vyvanse because it was very hard to find the correct Concerta ER dose in stock consistently at my pharmacy .

Yeah. I swear by my med organizer. Too many Rxs. Also

I made you something

The doom...?

I'm not sure if I should be flattered or insulted.

Everybody learns some methods before trying meds, it's a practice I started a few weeks after I started taking meds.

At the very least it doubles your chance of remembering. Connect them with a rubber band if you have to.

Coworkers are puzzled why you are sometimes a smelly, grumpy mess. This is probably how daily shower makes it into "productivity advice".

I guess that can happen when you are a type who gets calm from stims? Also, I think it's the "high" you acclimate to, but, at least in theory, the medical effect targeting ADHD symptoms could work the same.

I have insurance, but pay out-of-pocket anyway. There is a theoretical path to get it covered, but not worth the hassle, as long as the meds help me generate the money.

There's no crash if you take one pill every morning.

I accidentally took 4 times the amount of dexamphetamine once because I thought the pills were 2,5mg instead of 10mg. At school the teacher complimented me saying he had never seen me as invested in the lesson as I was...

I beg to differ

I take 40mg in the morning and 20 at noon, when I take the afternoon dose I put the 20mg tab on top of the morning one. Now I just need a system to actually remember taking the afternoon one :/

Imagine being on death row and your date of demise keeps getting closer. Every time I eat Piada I feel like “is this my last fucking meal?”

It’s profoundly unpleasant.

My doc never suggested mixing them. He just said “let’s go up.”

I mentioned the doomies to him and he suggested a higher dose. No, that doesn’t make a functional human being, that makes Ted Kazinski. I can’t win.

So what are you dreading exactly? I just hate that it takes my personality away.

-gestures broadly-

Ha ha. Say no more.

That's easy: go get pills - it's empty - I've just remembered to refill it.