Dear Mari

i am sorry. i won't say anything more about vitamins.

~ waves ~

No. That talk is totally 100% ok. I am sorry.

I guess I should make more sense when I type.

I have not figured out a way to incorporate my multi-vit back into my regime.
Perhaps I can take it in the mornings --- far away from the night meds. Some mornings I take 0.25 Klonopin. I will need to eat food with the vitamin and most mornings I do not eat breakfast. . .
I can work out a way to take the vitamin; I have not yet.



M

I too don't eat breakfast. I bring a round plastic container with all of my meds and vitamins with me to take after I eat lunch. I feel them in my scrub top and reminders me to take them. This has been working out well for some time now. In the morning I drink 2-3 cups of coffee and drink 16 oz of water mixed with metamucil so my tummy is full until lunch.
bizi

Dear Bizi,
After I leave home, I do not have even have two seconds to myself until very late in the afternoon when I eat the breakfast/lunch (lately it is quinoa I prepared the night before with some Chobani yogurt. I have to excuse myself just to go to the restroom. I do drink water throughout the day.

I could take double vitamins on the days I am home like I am today. I would learn to coordinate eating with taking the vitamins.

Hey. Maybe I have a solution.
I cannot keep my vits and meds in the same container. Ever since I started on meds, I keep the prescribed stuff separate from the stuff I buy at the health food store.
Also, I make a mini ritual of my night meds by laying each one out in order by color, counting, taking a second or third look and taking them in order they were laid out.
That is why I currently am not taking vitamins. I want to be certain that I take my meds correctly.

If I keep the vitamins in a separate room, that might help. They will have their own separate place and time, and their own sort of ritual.

M

you could take your vitamins after lunch, in your office or in the bathroom?????
sorry you have so much to juggle at work and sounds like not enough privacy.
bizi

Dear Mari

thanks for your post, i will still try to be more brief. i do have genuine difficulty with verbosity, which can certainly add to problem if one feels overwhelmed by a topic.
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i am so sorry work places such constant demands on your time/attention. that environment seems terribly stressful. i truly don't know how you can handle it.
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Vit timing:

first, it should be fine to take 2 of those multivits at the same time, i.e. only once a day hassle. you are right about taking them with food.

i think with your br/unch would be ideal because i've read of certain b vits increasing alertness, and others, if taken before bed, increasing vividness of dreams. alertness would be helpful during the day. i know the dream thing is undesirable for you.

the other alternative is with dinner, as long as several hours elapse between your dinner time and going-to-bed time. that is when i take mine because lunch is haphazard. i have dinner at 7pm ish, and go to bed anywhere between 11pm and 5 am. with this sort of distancing, i have not seen any correlation between taking/not taking the vits and my falling asleep, staying asleep, or dream quality.

taking them with dinner would allow you to keep them at home - in a separate room as you suggested, to provide the needed "separateness" from your meds.

hope that is helpful.

~ waves ~

Dear Waves and Bizi,
Perhaps, I can take the vits when I first get home and eat a supper . . .still not sure how I can be one hundred percent sure that taking the vits does does not interfere with the meds. Sometimes after taking the vits, I feel that I have taken everything for the day. After 25 years of being on meds, I have learned that the pill box idea is not for me.
Maybe I can come up with a plan like a paper log so that I can know for sure that I have not taken them or have taken them.
It has heppened that I am not sure if I took them or not. I end up waiting three or four hours to see how I feel. After four hours being late, I can feel that I am missing my Verapamil and probably the others as well. So the next day stinks because I stay up later than usual. If I guess wrong and take double Klonopin or Gabapentin, the next day will stink due to brain fog. . . . . and so on.
I value your informative posts. Sometimes I half-remember parts of what you say from other things that I know or have heard you or others discussed here. I am happy to be reminded and given more information.

I am sorry that I did not respond appropriately. The work place is stressful because my sleep pattern is a mess. I start my day late. Otherwise, the day might be more leisurely.
There are people around me the whole time --- even in the bathroom. My "quiet" time for afternoon lunch involves other people. I will not take my vits to work.
I am sloppy with my stuff. I carry lots of things. So keeping track of the vits would be complicated.I am not going to add vits to my daily stress.

I am willing to consider how I can take them at home after work some days in ways that are completely separate from my meds.
Wow. This is a lot of words just to figure out how to take two vitamin pills.

I guess some things I really need to think through before I can make them work.
Perhaps right now is a good opportunity to admit that I rarely respond to change well. Yikes.
M