This is all too familiar I used to spend hours filling in pill boxes for one month at a time, but that got too hard and because I adjust my doses on a lot of the meds (like everyone else...) having the pharmacy pre pack wasn't an option. So my new rule is to count out my daily regime each morn g before I leave the bathroom, no interruptions are allowed, they go into a small dish, I take my first dose and voilà! So far even when my husband is milling around I don't forget.

However, he has distracted me enough before that I took lunch and breakfast together, I was pretty mad...,new rule, hush until I am out of the bathroom in the am.

I started turning the bottle over after I take the baclofen. So that it's sitting on it's cap instead of standing right side up.

In the morning, when I put my glasses on, I flip the baclofen bottle over and put my eyedrops in my eyes. (well, I put my eyedrops in my eyes, and then put my glasses on)

I do that all the time, in addition to forgetting to turn off a stove burner, lock the door, get gas, did I put that in the file.

My worst time was not forgetting to take my pills, but taking too many at once. Last year I took 3 drugs in the AM, 2 of this, three of that, and one of something else. Since I sometimes forget to take them, and need them later in the day, I began to put a day's supply in my purse for just such emergencies. One day I shook out all those pills and popped all into my mouth, just minutes after taking my normal dose. I felt plenty sick by the time I got to work. It wasn't until the next day I figured out my error.

I think I first noticed minor memory problems back in 2001. (5yrs before I knew I had MS)

I worked at WalMart. They used to hang the schedules on the wall, high up and in tiny print. I'd write my schedule down, and then it would suddenly change. I still suspect that management was changing the schedule after it was posted, because I was the only person having problems getting their schedule wrong. I have no way of really knowing if it was my fault, or managements. (I tend to blame WM management, because other people were having the same problem)

I remember a couple of times one week while I was still working for WM, where I forgot to wash my hair when I took a shower. I'd get up, take a shower, and wash my hair and go to work. There were a couple of days in one week where my hair felt weird...and I couldnt remember ever washing it those days. I'd taken a shower, but I had absolutely no memory of putting shampoo in my hair those days. That place just stressed me out.

Annoying, but a minor problem.

Now I forget to call people for my dad. Last week, I was supposed to call Orkin to spray for mosquitoes for the Fourth. I didnt remember until thursday afternoon...too late for them to come to our house before the Fourth. He came today. Which, at least will help for awhile now. We still sit outside.

The other night just threw me a bit...I just could not remember if I took anything. At least the pharmacist said I wouldnt hurt myself taking any extra as long as I didnt go over a certain dosage.

I really hope these recent memory problems are just from the flare I'm still in, and that it goes away once the flare ends. (tell this flare to end soon!) I think the memory problem scares me just as much as any other weird MS symptom. Makes me think of my grandmother who had Alzheimer's.