We will give you just the right amount and you need to remember to call your doctor, make sure to get a confirmation of the prescription renewal, check with your pharmacy that they received it. Go and get your medication. All that within 3 days of you running out. Also the pharmacy is out of your medication and we’ll get it on about 4 to 7 days. Now you need to remember to call them to check if they received it every day. And that’s how I spent two weeks without meds. I didn’t feel any withdraw, but my wife had to constantly remind me to do things that I could do without reminder while I took them. This is the dumbest system ever.
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and delays in picking up meds don't count towards the 30 day wait until your next script can be picked up, so waiting 2 weeks for the pharmacy to figure things out is 2 weeks of meds you don't get back. the 30 day clock doesn't start when the script is sent in or even when it's filled, only when you actually pick it up. so dumb
That part is so frustrating. With the delays now I'm just trying to take less because I know I'm going to be without it.
My ADHD meds are on backorder. I have 4 doses left and no clue about when the pharmacy will get them in. I call my pharmacy every day and they have no clue when they'll be in.
If you are in the US, try Costco pharmacy. They have been a godsend during the shortage in my area.
There aren't any cotscos near me. I live in a very rural area. I may see if my pharmacy can send the script somewhere that does have the medication. They do that sometimes, but only if it isn't a shortage in our entire area. :/
Yeah, every time I have to get any other medicine I'm always blown away. The doctor is just like "what pharmacy do you go to?" Like, uh, excuse me? They just phone it in??? I have to physically take a physical piece of paper and physically go to the pharmacy but you're telling me the norm is to just call it in???
Outsider without adhd here... Is this really a thing? If the medication makes you feel better how would you forget to take it?
Poor memory is one of the symptoms of ADHD. We get easily distracted and often have time blindness, meaning it's hard for us to tell how much time has passed and estimate what time it is. I have to take my meds 3 times daily roughly 4 hours apart. If I don't set alarms, I'm screwed.
It's my first time hearing of the term "time blindness" and it fits so well.
One of my favorite sayings is people with ADHD have two time settings, "Now" and "Later." When you come to us with a request, we think it must be done NOW unless you explain otherwise. Then, it gets puts into the "Later" pile, which ranges anywhere from 5 minutes to 5 years.
LOL. This resonates with me so strongly and I don't know whether to laugh out loud or break down crying..
Time blindness and hyper focus are so prevalent! And that’s how you forget to eat lunch and you suddenly need to eat right now at 5:47. No time for a sandwich, just put the bread in the mouth and the jam after, it’ll mix up into a sandwich in your stomach.
I see, thanks! This community helps me understand
You're very welcome, thank you for being curious and asking!
Sounds like you’re on Ritalin? You might try name brand Concerta (NO GENERICS!!). It’s just extended release Ritalin in a fancy patented delivery mechanism that all the generics can’t copy. It lasts all day and I just have to remember to take it before noon once per day.
Part of ADHD. You forget things, beneficial or not. I usually realize when I'm on the way to work, then do the math of turning around for it, and how late I'll be if I do.
Don't forget to factor in the anxiety of being late versus the anxiety of work without the meds.
One of the downsides of adhd is, if left untreated, it can lead to substance abuse. One of the upsides is it's easier to "forget" that you're addicted to something. I once forget to drink caffeine for a few weeks. Just slipped my mind. I still had the withdrawal symptoms. Headaches, low energy etc., but my brain would not connect the withdrawal to the substance, because from my perspective caffeine did not exist. It was a weird experience.
I've done that a few times. I also quit smoking that way when I ran out of cigs, didn't buy more right away, then forgot to ever buy more. I started back up months later, switched to vaping, then forgot about that too when I moved the vape from it's designated spot to an area of the house I don't frequent.
I'll just add that routine is in itself a major challenge - for me, I don't have routines as much as I have laying things out in a way that reminds me to do things regularly. For my meds, I just take it once in the morning, but the one routine I try my best to maintain is flipping the pill bottle upside down. If it's upside down, there's a high chance I either took it, or forgot to flip it before bed, but it's a visual reminder so that I don't need to actively remember to take them on routine, but if I see the pill bottle in a state, I know what action to take.
That's probably one of the hardest things I've seen family members try to understand. I'm not trying to imply anything about you, this is just a related example, but I've had family members see my ADHD family members as just being lazy or intentionally ignoring things, or thinking they're just selfish or whatever. The problem is, even if it's beneficial, a part of ADHD is not having control over where your memory and focus is being put. You may want something, but that doesn't mean you'll sustain attention or effort to achieve it, and conversely you may place it in places you really don't care about to a very consuming degree...
By the way, they make medicine bottle caps that have a timer showing when it was last opened. Super handy for this.
Imagine a pull that if you don’t take it you forget things. So if you forget it once, you may forget the next and so on. Also, the medication is not a miracle cure. Things are easier to think about and remember, but it’s still a process and sometimes you just forget.
The way ADHD works is that things that others would just instinctively do or remember to do, you have to actively think about. Its like if I ask you how do you breathe, or walk, you think of it and it happens, then ADHD analogue would have to think, use this muscle, contract, hold release, okay, next one, and so on. It’s draining, and when you forget to do it and others realize it, they’re dumbfounded why you didn’t walk or breathed, you must be so lazy to not even want to walk or breathe…. The medication allows you to think okay walk now, instead of each action separately, but it’s not just think and it happens still.
I often forget mine.
That, or I cannot, for the life of me, remember whether or not I actually took my medication. Or locked the door of my apartment, or my car.
Both patterns are a fairly classical presentation of ADHD.
It's so much easier to be distracted and completely lose track of time with ADHD. Your mind doesn't necessarily think about things that are "boring" like taking medicine. Or even eating. So you forget to do it. I literally have reminders on my phone to make sure I eat because I have gone days without eating until someone noticed me looking all fucked up.
It is absolutely a thing. Forgetfulness, absent-mindedness, short attention span, etc. are common symptoms of ADHD. The meds generally wear off at the end of the day, so by the time the next day rolls around, you're back at baseline, which includes the forgetfulness.
ADHD can be incredibly debilitating and I think it's something that most people don't really grasp despite how well-known the disorder is.
I always want to wait till I eat to take my meds and then I forget to eat and then I forget my meds
Adhd makes you more likely to struggle with daily routine. I have failsafes to make sure I take my meds nowadays, but I used to struggle a lot with it.
Autistic person jumping in - we too may have issues remembering to do beneficial things like take meds, eat and drink, and even use the bathroom (thankfully usually the body gives a stern reminder before it's too late with that one lol).
Routine is important to many autistics, but personally to me, it isn't really time dependant, so I have the same breakfast every day but it might not be at the same time every day (don't sleep well, sleep patter varies widely), so taking pills at the same time each day is asking me to use a system I don't usually (go by body signals as best I can tell and order of actions, not by time). I hope that makes some sort of sense?
Just to add on, since it's a stimulant, it has to be taken before a certain time every day. Unlike something like antidepressants, which if you miss a dose you take it as soon as you can, if you miss a stimulant, you can't take it again until the next day
It's actually super easy to forget to take your meds. I have autism not adhd but my daughter has adhd. She is chaotic and can't keep to a routine. She tries, but you know how it goes. I forget to take mine when my routine gets changed which has happened a lot lately.
You can't take it past a certain time or you won't sleep. It's not like antidepressants where you can take it at any time. If it's 11am and I remember why I'm so spacey, I gotta wait until tomorrow.
I sure am addicted to being able to function normally every day.
Or me this morning... "Did, I take my meds this morning? My water was on the counter right next to where my meds are, no I definitely didn't take my meds... right? No, i totally didn't, but what if I did? [Proceeds to count out pills in bottle.] For the record... I did take it.
Pill caddies are great for keeping track. There's a good reason why old people use them.
Pill containers for one day is also good. Stick whatever you need to take in there in the morning, go about your day. If you have pockets you'll feel it there and remember to check.
I still manage to forget to take the green pill come noon sometimes though.
I unapologetically have pill caddies for my morning, noon, and night pills--no way I'd remember or keep track without them.
Yeah, just posted another comment, but I have my bottle flipping trick. If it's upright before the afternoon, I didn't take it. I take it, and flip the bottle upside down. Then if I see the bottle upside down after noon, I flip it upright.
I still have days where I need to try to mentally piece together, "Did I drink water? How thirsty was I? Was I really thirsty, and just drank to hydrate and NOT take my pill or did I drink to take the pill and forgot to flip it? Did I take it and just forget to eat? How much have I been singing on repeat this morning?"
I've seen so many people without ADHD describe taking Adderall, making it sound like the god damn drug from Limitless (and is probably what inspired that movie TBH), and then people who take it for ADHD also sound like they gained the super power of "not fucking up constantly."
So I've wanted to try the shit even before I found out I had ADHD myself, and want to try it especially now that I know I have ADHD.
That's just an ADHD thing. They can do a line of coke and all it does it allow them to feel like they don't have ADHD for a little while.
That was exactly my experience. It was the most boring drug ever, just made me focused. My friends were partying around me, and I was like "cool, I can plan my meals for the week in my head. Yay."
I guess YMMV on whether focused is boring or not. I agree that I never really found stimulants to be super interesting, but thats partly because it was too expensive to do coke just to work on whatever project was on my mind.
God dammit. I haven't been diagnosed but literally every single post to the letter sounds like me.
I REALLY need to get medicated.
You should probably get diagnosed before medicated. ADHD has overlap with a ton of other mental illnesses. Maybe you're autistic. Maybe you have BPD. Or are bipolar. Or just depressed.
Always see a doctor before taking medication.
This meme literally doesn't apply to you then!
Jokes aside: It was the memes that piqued my curiosity, then got me reading more formal sources, took an ADHD self test which I scored fairly high on but there were a few things I didn't really see in myself. Waited a year to see if it was just me obsessed wiith another idea that would go away like all the others after a week or two.
Well I couldn't shake the feeling and now that i knew some of the symptoms to look for, I was noticing the symptoms I hadn't thought applied to me before.
Anyway, I went to a doctor and a therapist and am now, for the first time in my life, developing positive routines and habits and enjoying things that aren't exceptionally interesting.
tldr: saw myself in a meme, doc agreed, now i take pills that make life easier.
Thank you, I forgot to take my meds today LMAO
Dont get me started on this
yeah but the point of it is that it is addictive to other people
Adhdictive
*I'll see myself out*