If you don't have a habit of setting out your doses in a pill box ahead of time, you count the pills left in the bottle, and hope you didn't miss any previous doses already. ;)
This is why I had to stop taking birth control pills and get an IUD. I'd go to take my BCPs and find like a week's worth of pills in there. Too bad there isn't anything like an IUD for ADD medication, although the consequences if you forget to take it are less dire. :)
For a while I was in the habit of always taking my BCP just before I went to bed. That got confusing when my sleep schedule was so fucked up. It's three in the AM....what day of the week does that make yesterday? Gah!
Yeah. I have an IUD now too. In retrospect, I have NO IDEA how I managed not to get knocked up. I'd forget long enough to have my period start, on several occasions.
lol yes, this is me. I have a solution though: When I take my pills, I say out loud, "Okay, taking ___ and ___ now." Really helps me remember to say it out loud, although it's not a perfect system. I also have OCD, and I do the same thing to help with checking compulsions (for example, saying "I'm unplugging the flat iron now" or "locking the door" as I do it, so later I can reference that to tell myself I don't need to check). I don't know what it is about saying things out loud, but it works. Weird. :)
Tangential rambling is my specialty ^_^synapsomaticSeptember 1 2010, 18:07:23 UTC
You're definitely right, it does work. So does writing things down to remember them. It's only weird insofar as the brain is weird - and the brain is very weird. I suppose it would best be explained in this admittedly over-simplified and not genuinely descriptively correct way: you're trying to build a relationship between two sets of neurons; the more paths (of other neurons) there are connecting them, the more likely your brain is to actually make the connection. Speaking out loud uses different groups of neurons than merely thinking the same thing. And writing it down uses again different groups of neurons. If you had to type it, again, different groups of neurons
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Re: Tangential rambling is my specialty ^_^aprilstarchildSeptember 1 2010, 19:21:48 UTC
Yeah, flash cards are sorta useless in my experience. Slightly better if you make them yourself, but still not great.
When I was in Biology (100-level, admittedly) I'd just take the textbook to the computer lab, and type up notes on the material. I had my own way of organizing my notes and marking words when they were defined. I was really careful to make sure I reworded things (as opposed to just copying them) so that I knew I understood the material.
I'd reread them after I typed them up (also to proofread them) and then print them out, and reread them before the exam, and I got A's.
I tried doing the "write it out by hand" but then I never ever did it because I hate hand-writing, it's so slow and my hand would cramp up. Plus my handwriting is hard to read later, compared to typed notes!
I plan to go back and take 200-level biology...I bought one of those coloring books to help you study. I love that idea.
Re: Tangential rambling is my specialty ^_^pipsophiepipSeptember 1 2010, 21:54:44 UTC
Oh, totally. When I took human anatomy, my professor recommended all different types of studying: writing our own flashcards, labeling printouts of the body, holding actual bones and naming the parts out loud, holding the bones and writing down all the parts, etc. Doing it a bunch of different ways helps integrate the material into your brain better, I guess. In middle and high school when I was taking Latin, I learned it by reading vocab and passages out loud to one of our dogs. My sister thought it was hilarious, but I still remember a lot of it. It's all about taking advantage of your strengths, I guess. :)
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I don't know...
I'm sure we could come up with suitable circumstances with rather dire consequences from forgetting one's AD/HD meds. ;)
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Yeah. I have an IUD now too. In retrospect, I have NO IDEA how I managed not to get knocked up. I'd forget long enough to have my period start, on several occasions.
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When I was in Biology (100-level, admittedly) I'd just take the textbook to the computer lab, and type up notes on the material. I had my own way of organizing my notes and marking words when they were defined. I was really careful to make sure I reworded things (as opposed to just copying them) so that I knew I understood the material.
I'd reread them after I typed them up (also to proofread them) and then print them out, and reread them before the exam, and I got A's.
I tried doing the "write it out by hand" but then I never ever did it because I hate hand-writing, it's so slow and my hand would cramp up. Plus my handwriting is hard to read later, compared to typed notes!
I plan to go back and take 200-level biology...I bought one of those coloring books to help you study. I love that idea.
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In middle and high school when I was taking Latin, I learned it by reading vocab and passages out loud to one of our dogs. My sister thought it was hilarious, but I still remember a lot of it. It's all about taking advantage of your strengths, I guess. :)
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argh.
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