Any trick to remembering to take vitamins/meds?

RFBsbride

I am HORRIBLE at remembering to take vitamins and meds.  I'm especially bad when it comes to taking meds that have to be taken "a half hour before eating" or at specific times of day.  I've always been bad but I'm really, really trying to turn over a new leaf and take my daily vitamins and my Metformin and Synthroid religiously every day.

Any tricks that you use to remember?

I've tried setting an alarm on my phone, but I can't have an alarm going off at work and I've tried setting up "meetings" on my work calendar and that only works if I happen to be at my desk when it pops up which isn't always the case.

Any other tricks?

Sunshine05

I'm on the same meds.  I keep them in my bathroom, on the counter.  I take my Synthroid right away in the morning before I shower, get ready, etc so that by the time I eat breakfast it's been 30-60 mins since I've taken it.  Then I take my PNV and all of my Metformin at once at night right before I go to bed.  It's the only way I can remember it since I can't take my PNV at the same time as my Synthroid... so I take it at night with my Met.  Everything is right next to my sink, so I see it in the morning and at night.  Hope that helps!

NicoleeBonsai

As soon as I get to my desk in the morning, I pull out all my vitamins (prenatal, calcium, flax seed oil, folic acid, vitamin d. All my meds are injects) and put my pills for the day in a little dish. After breakfast I take the first half and after lunch the second. I used to not to that and I would forget to take them altogether or I would forget if I took the first set of pills.

Good luck!

Hopeful Mama G

I have a hard time remembering mine too!  I have 3 pills of metformin and I almost always get two in, but three is super difficult.  I am trying to set up a routine to help me remember to take all my pills.  I will usually eat something as soon as I get to work or in the car to take my first pill (this is the one I have a hard time with), and the take my allergy, another metformin and PNV at lunch and finish dinner with my last metformin.

 

Wish you luck on getting into your routine!

SLPMel

I'm not great with meds-but I take my Synthroid before I get out of bed (I don't need water to swallow meds).  Then I come downstairs and I do the Estrace and the Endometrin.  I have been doing my second dose of Endometrin at 3 PM, and then before I go to sleep I do my estrace and the Endometrin.  Getting on a schedule is key to me!

bfvickery

I have a huge calendar and write them down on that master list.  I put a box beside each med and check them off as I take throughout the day.  Helps my Type A mind

Temp935838312504158

I try to keep my meds next to the stuff I use daily to help remind me. For example, the baby aspirin is kept next to my contact solution which I take in the AM & my prenatals are kept next to my face soap which I use in the PM.

 

apaige25

I put reminders on my calendar at work so something pops up on my pc and I also put reminders on my calendar on my cell phone so a reminder will pop up. 

njohnson1972

It is routine for me now.  But I am just taking daily vitamins/supplements.  I take them at my desk after I have eaten breakfast.

I am pretty serious about taking them - probably more so when I am cycling, but I rarely forget.