Yesterday, started off like every other day... Yogurt & blueberries, read the news, HealthUnlocked, email, FaceBook, eBay, yadda yadda, yadda...
It wasn't until early afternoon, that I realised, I didn't feel great. I didn't even feel slightly "good." "Hmmmm? What's this all about than?"
I became more and more lethargic, stiff, achy and discombobulated as the day went on... I passed out on the couch watching Episode 10 of Orange is the New Black and woke up very confused, as I was apparently watching Pointless! ...which it truly is! : O
I had zero energy and suggested to Hubby we order in. Fajitas it was!!!! ...although, I was lacklustre about them as well!
It wasn't until about 20:00, I sat straight up, looked at my husband in disbelief and said (rather loudly!) "DID I TAKE MY MEDS TODAY?"
Of course he had no idea... but more importantly, nor did I!
I tortured and berated myself for the next 30 minutes or so, but no matter how hard I tried, I could not recreate my actions from 12 hours ago... I ate? Yes. I washed my bowl? Yes. Did I take the f _ _ _ _ _ g pills? I have noooooooo idea!
Reluctant to take 30 mg (in case I had in fact taken my original 30mg) I popped 15mg and called it a night.
I slept from 8:30ish last night, to 7:15 this morning. "Hmmm, guess I needed to sleep."
Today, I feel groggy, but ok... I have had my Yogurt & blueberries and my 30 mg of Pred!
We shall see what today brings!
Note: Photo provided, is an actual photo of me from yesterday, at around 20:00.
PS: No need to suggest I get a pill box... I have one. I was using it up until last week... then, I got lazy! : (
Ah well at least you know the pills work.... you look very fetching in the new photo btw, should make it your profile photo here and in Facebook. Just in case folk didn’t believe you are ill ‘cos you, quote:”look so well..”
I don’t use a pill box. I find the daily brain usage of “what pill and where did I keeps Pred head at bay. Now I’ve uttered that I shall probably forget all mine tomorrow.. 😉
I've done it Melissa- we all have at some point - but it is a bit scary. first time i wondered what would happen if i doubled up - but worse what would happen if I had completely missed a dose - maybe I figured it could be DEATH ... !!!? (LOL) Well I did something like you - took 'some' and fingers crossed. I can't even recall if I ever figured out whether i missed that dose - but with an effect of up to 36 hours I think most of us would be OK.
*laughing* Yes, I know the "I'll die if I take 30" and "I'll die if I take none," so in the end I took 15 and figured if I died, f _ _ _ it!
I think this is actually the second time I've forgotten, but before I remembered at like 13:00, so it was too horrible...
Thanks, yes I thought that photo captured the "REAL" me yesterday! : )
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We’ve all been there, done that & got the T-Shirt!
I’ve now decided that as well as the Daily Pill Box (now decorated with Glittery Letters as the original ones rubbed off!) I’m now setting a 9am Alarm on my phone to double check! You swear you won’t do it again but as many will testify Yep, done it again! 🤦🏻♀️
One of my pred stuck to the side of my pill bowl on Tuesday, I only found out pm, did feel awful and wondered why - so they do help! Best laid plans eh.....
You're looking gorgeous! What a dilemma! Hope today is better (p.s. you may have been watching "impossible" which is not brilliant - as pointless is not on at the mo! And as, when I read your posts/blogs you are usually in sync with my train of thought, I would be crushed to think you didn't enjoy pointless too!).
Ahhhhh, perhaps! It was one of those shows that ask ridiculously difficult questions and to which I know NONE of the answers. Hahahahahahahaha...
So sorry Pongo13, prepare to be "crushed." I am a boorish, plebeian by nature and yes, POINTLESS is a show I truly detest... although saying that, I can't think of a "game," show that I do like!
Indeed we can! I'm surprised though that you aren't content with just observing Alexander Armstrong in action; the mature lady's eye candy - ahh but then I recall you have your own "toy boy" (not a term I like much but says it all) - pointless then for you to waste your time! X
You probably did forget them....you did the right thing taking a lower dose at that time of night - hope you feel better now? Oh and thanks for the photo, at least I'll recognise you on the 8th!! xxx
Yes, I had a system like that... then as I said I got lazy and cocky! Back to the egg cup me thinks!!! *laughing* Because I have a teensy bit of OCD in me, I count my Pred at least 3 times, before popping them in! Crazy.
OMG! I LOVE IT! Hey you may be be a "mature" woman, but you're NOT DEAD! I love flirting with younger men... not in sexual way, but in a fun way! I think they enjoy it too... it's an interaction with a woman that they don't have to stress or think about... they know they are not being assessed or judged. ....and hey, he "had the most amazing blue eyes," you were obliged!!!!!
We learn the hard way! Hope you’re feeling better. Thankfully, after my horrible day in fact week I do feel better. Helped along by a letter from the Breast screening unit giving me the all clear. I didn’t think there was a problem but the screening was so damed painful I was concerned. It had never been so uncomfortable in the past. I’ve also seen myself in the attached picture.... most mornings.
I’ve been fortunate in the past it’s never been so uncomfortable. I seem to worry about everything now a days, pointless I know. I was on to the worse case scenario before I’d left the building! It’s just been one of those years where nothing has gone smoothly and I’m tired. I’ve been looking after himself with his new knee and a friend whose suffered a sudden bereavement. We are supposed to be heading off for a couple of months in the caravan. Small space less to be bothered with and where we go very poor mobile signal....lovely. For two months I’m going do as little as possible, verge on the selfish. Light exercise, read.....sleep. That’s the plan, although my worry gremlin is muttering, believe it when the van is attached to Landrover and we’re heading west..
You'll do it, it's the pred that causes the mind to work overtime, but you don't believe it at the time, it feels like the end of the world sometimes, I'm the same, my family are good at keeping me grounded when I get too agitated and for once in my life I listen!! I feel very jealous you going 'vanning' but think of no-one but yourself and enjoy! It will all still be there when you get back...have a good one Jean you deserve it.
Bless you. The mind definitely works overtime, blooming exhausting. When himself wanted to buy a caravan I wasn’t a happy bunny but I love it. Life is so simply. I will keep in touch with everyone, just have to find a Wi-Fi connection. This site has helped keep my sanity. I’m very aware that compared to some I’ve been very fortunate this will at least go.
Yep, been there too. It's like falling off horses 7 times, you're not really in the club until you've done that.
I take my pred at 2am as it really is the best time for me. I have an alarm permanently set at 2am (as well as my 7am wake up) and I put my pred out by the bed (and a little bottle with a mix of CoYo and coconut water) when I go to bed at 10pm. Then I can wake up briefly at 2, swallow the pills and go straight back to sleep. I haven't forgotten them since I've been doing this...so far!
Wow! If I woke up to takes pills at 2:00am ... you guys would be subjected to a lot more RANTS than you are now... I'd never go back to sleep!!!! Fingers crossed you don't forget EVER!!!!! It so sucks.
Hmmmm. I can the "she that shan't be named,"now... "Are we WAKING UP???? Is it time to wake up? Are those birds I hear? I'm thirsty! I need to pee. I'm hungry. Let's go look out the window!"
Where do you find these picture? I laughed and laughed. Quite a change from Mrs Nails granddaughter! Why do they make us in charge of our meds , we are sick. Sometimes filling the dose boxes feels like rocket science.
Hahahahahahaha! I am so happy you like my photos! A lot of time and effort (probably was tooooo much time and effort) goes into choosing just the right one, on GOOGLE Photo, of course! I know right!!!! Half the time I can't remember if I ate breakfast, let alone if i took my highly dangerous meds!!!!
Don't feel too bad...I do the same thing! But I do it with everything, my check book is a mess so I have to go online to see what I paid and what's left in the account. I have actually started writing down EVERYTHING! Lovely picture, we could be related!
Dear God! I have just returned from seeing Ian McKellen playing Lear in London. Amazing he’s 80! He filled the stage with power and energy! He gets soaked through in the “ Lear on the Hill” scenes, every night. The madness of losing your faculties is sooo poignant!
I hardly dared to read your post. You forgot your tablets - you didn’t take more? You felt the illness creeping and the limbs stiffening?
Ohhhhh, that must have been fabulous!!!!! I do hope you enjoyed it to the max!!! Yes, it was a messed up day to say the least... I could have played King Lear by 8:00 that night!!!!! And yes, two days on now, and I am still here... although Esmeralda, I am not! I am the female version of "Quasimodo." A half-blind, half deaf, bad haired, wrenching in pain, hunched over monster! ...buy hey, I'm alive right! ; 0
Hi mamici,it must have been the dreaded brain fog,l often cannot remember if l have taken the preds or not,then you are not sure what to do.l am sorry you had such a bad day,your picture does sum up how we feel sometimes,and it would even scare MB’s Tedski if he set his eyes on that ! I hope you are feeling a lot better now xx.
''I looked, at my Husband, and said 'Did I take my pills today'?''. Silly question perhaps but, unless he actually saw you take them, just 'How The F..k' Would He Know??
On a, far more, practical note- I don't use a Pill box either, what I DO do though, is Sort Out- my tablets- the previous night before bed. If I find, that I need, any extra tablets ordering I fill out the 'Paperwork', there and then. I put the 'First Thing' tablets, along with a glass of water, next to the Alarm Clock. The rest, all thankfully, taken After Breakfast on the 'Side', in the Kitchen, so there is Absolutely NO Way that I can Miss them. It's worked for me, for Twenty-one years now...…IF I ever, feel like, I may not have taken them then I only have to look, in the kitchen.
Try this method, much easier than those Pill Boxes.
You crazy girl, USE THE PILL BOX. We all suffer “pred brain” in varying degrees. Not every day, but fairly regularly, I have to check my pill box to make sure that I have taken my meds. Without the box I wouldn’t have a clue!!!! Hope you feeling back to normal today, you wouldn’t want to look like the picture you posted for too long. Brilliant pic by the way, it depicts how many of us feel every now and then. Xx
Thank you! I am back to "normal," whatever that is!!!!! Yes, yes... pill box, I hear you! ; )
Tempted to laugh but I know to my own peril how bad that situation is, done it far too many times. My wife now asks me every day “have you taken your tablets?”. So been there done that and got the tee shirt as they say😂😂😂
Late to the game here, but also been there done that.
I'm pretty pampered these days. My husband, not only makes me breakfast, snack, lunch (packed in lunch box), and dinner, but also puts my morning meds in a small bowl next to my tea 😬. And even with that level of pampering, I still will forget to take my meds!
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