I wear a watch that I have set multiple alarms throughout the day for my meds and recently I have been sleeping through my 5 am alarm for my first dose of thyroid meds but Im still taking my thyroid meds or so I think the container is empty but I can not remember taking them and my watch says I was asleep when my alarm went off ….. this is driving me mad not remembering I feel like I have dementia .
Has anyone else done this ?
I’ve found that I forget things more if I’m stressed or anxious…. This is a double edged sword, as I then worry I’m becoming more forgetful!
Perhaps your body is asking for a lie in Batty1, rather than getting up at 5am. Could you take your morning dose when you naturally wake up, rather than needing an alarm?
Unfortunately Im not taking only thyroid meds so Im stuck taking them when I take them or I run out of hours in a day … I feel like Im going mad because I can’t remember taking them (I did take it) however my sleep tracker says I was asleep … instead of sleep walking Im sleep pill taking …I hope this doesn’t become a common occurrence.
If you put your levothyroxine/T3 by your bed in a weekly (or daily) pill dispenser
You just take and drop back to sleep
Checking the pill dispenser will confirm that you did take your dose (or if you forgot/slept through )
I do use a pill dispenser by my bed and it was definitely empty … however I could have dropped them into the abyss also known as my bedroom floor… lol…. Not worried about just wanted to see how many of us have done this.
In healthy people with healthy circadian rhythms cortisol levels will determine when they fall asleep and when they wake up naturally.
I have a theory that adrenaline levels get screwed up when cortisol levels are "wrong" (either too high or too low), but I have no proof. I've never had my adrenaline levels measured.
I have high cortisol and that always made it hard for me to get to sleep, but in the mornings I found it very hard to wake up too. I wonder if my adrenaline levels were too low in the mornings so I always felt like a zombie when I did wake up.
In people with low cortisol, perhaps their bodies produce extra adrenaline to wake them up when they should be awake.
But I stress - this is just my pet theory based on my own experiences of a life time of high cortisol.
I go to bed at 11pm every night fall asleep fairly quick and I wake up at 5am take thyroid pills and fall back to sleep for 2 more hours …. Today it just didn’t happen maybe it was the spring forward time change that messed me up … it bugs me that I can’t remember taking them. … just hoping Im not losing my mind and others have done this.
Yesterday mid morning, as I sat at my desk, I put my noon 2.5 Lio in a little cup ready to be taken.
When my alarm went off at 12:30, I looked in the cup and it was gone.
I thought hard… HAD I taken it?!?!
I could not remember but I knew it wasn’t in the cup. Figured I had taken it but forgotten.
So I carry on. Get some work done, write some emails. Have a little lunch. Had orange juice in the cup where my meds had been.
Then.
I glance in the cup, and in the little layer of OJ left in the cup was my Lio. Tiny little white bits of what had not yet dissolved. I hadn’t remembered taking or not taking it, and didn’t see it although I looked with purpose IN THE CUP!
Moral of the story - you are not going mad, I wouldn’t even say it’s brain fog that is at play (but prolly that too), but for something we do repeatedly every day, it uses a different part of our brain and we truly can do it without thinking. And therefore with no memory. Add to that that you are in the middle of sleeping!
Lol… its crazy
Happened to me many times, took the wrong dose, double dose, not enough, literally seconds earlier cutting pills and not remembering what I swallowed
If it’s any help… when my kids were little and coming out of nighttime nappies, I use to get them up to go potty around midnight every night. I’d haul them out of bed, sit them on the potty and they’d have a wee and then I’d put them back to bed again… out of all four of them, not one of them ever woke up during this entire procedure and I never had a wet bed after that. They never remembered being got up in the middle of the night either.
It seems that once something becomes a habit like that it pretty much happens on a subconscious autopilot and, unless something unusual happens during that event, you won’t remember…
I think this is helpful
Omg i feel like im goin mad...
is this normal or am i going mad
Feel like I am going mad
I feel like im going crazy!
