Sarah my husband has Hashimoto's Disease too he keeps his medication in the fridge with a laminated reminder on the fridge and as he is the cook in the house he is at the fridge before meals and as he is cleaning the kitchen it seems to have worked for him he has forgotten a couple of times but over all it has been successful. if that is any help ??
I am another one for the mobile phone alarm, and if you cant take it when the alarm goes off, make sure you set another alarm for when you can take it, so you remember... Don't assume you will just remember...
I hated taking mine Sarah, I hear ya.
I agree on the routine thing though. Make it part of the same thing you do everyday. I took mine as soon as I got up, then made beds, dressed the kids, got Darcy's brekkie, made mine and then half an hour was up and I could eat.
The alarm on the phone is a great idea and most phones have the option to have the same reminder go off everyday. The way i remember my medication is i have it on top of my fridge and so when i am organising dinner i see it up there and i know to have it after dinner.
I only take mine in the morning, and when i'm on something extra like a/b i'm pretty poor at remembering, so its hard with the before/after food.
What i do is have a big dosette box, so i put my weekly pills into that (i had to get the giant size one as i take so many different tablets), and then that goes on top of the coffee, and so every morning after i say my morning prayers i always go and have a coffee, and i take my tablets whilst waiting for the kettle to boil.
In terms of those tablets i forget very rarely, and once i got into a pattern of taking it i was fine.. when i was pregnant i would always forget, but now i think i'ld be much better.
If i were you i would put an alarm on my phone, and after a few months it will become so routine for you.
DD1 is on twice daily meds and she always reminds me that my meds are due and which ones are due when.... it helps that she is such a creature of habit. I would go the phone method, my good friend does it that way.
I have two medication times - the first lot with breakfast, and the second lot at bed time. I find that they are two things that happen in the same way every day and around the same time every day. This has gone on for years, but it's such a normal part of my routine now that I just never, ever forget. I keep my morning tablets where I have breakfast, and my night tablets are with my toothbrush. Fortunately I don't currently have any that are taken morning or night.
The alarm on the phone is a good idea if you always have it with you, but it doesn't take long before it becomes habit if you build into a part of your day that doesn't change much at all.
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