For those of you on the pill, do you keep it somewhere visible, to remind yourself to take it every day? Do you hide it from company? Ever lost a packet, or forgotten where it went?
For those with other methods, what do you use and where do you store them?
I’m on the pill, and I keep it on top of the microwave so I’ll see it every morning, and I’m close by something to take it with. Every morning with breakfast…I have a tendency to forget otherwise. I’ve tried it in my bedside drawer, my bathroom counter, in my purse, tacked up on my bulletin board…and I still have trouble remembering.
I keep it by my computer. I take it at night, because I’m such a zombie in the morning even putting it by the coffeepot doesn’t let me remember to take it and I always check email at some point in the evening.
Next to the soap dish by the bathroom sink. The first thing I do every morning is get up and go to the bathroom, so I see the packet, take out a pill, go back to my bed and take it with the water I keep on the nightstand. I’ve never lost a packet or anything, but I do keep it visible so I don’t forget.
I keep mine on my nightstand (actually, bookcase headboard) right next to my retainer. I have to put in my retainer every night and have to take a pill every night, so there I go.
I don’t need to take it with water so that’s a plus.
I wear a retainer at night. At night, when I put my retainer in, I put the empty retainer case on top of my pack of pills on the sink. When I get up in the morning, I rinse out my retainers, put them in the case, take the day’s pill, and put both the retainer case and the pill case stacked together in the medicine cabinet. I take my pill every morning at 7:00 am (on the weekends, I sent the alarm, take it and go back to bed).
Yeah, I take the depo shot, so I assume I keep it somewhere in my ass.
However, when I took the pill I actually kept the little foil blister pack in my wallet. I didn’t use a purse back then, and the Mercette pills I used came in a nifty case that I hated, so I just took the blister pack out, which wasn’t that thick because the pills were tiny, and kept it in my wallet. It was my habit to get a soda at Nutrition break every day (this was while I was still in high school) and I’d have to take a dollar out of my wallet to do that, so it reminded me to take a pill with said soda.
I’m seriously contemplating getting one of those in the next couple of months. The pills make me a crazy person once per month these days, and I’m really tired of the weird hormone-related mood swings. I’ve heard having the hormones go straight into your uterus keeps the brain from turning on the crazy switch as often.
When I was on the pill I kept mine in my purse, but I also kept a really cheap digital alarm watch in my purse that beeped at the prescribed time each day to remind me to take it. The system worked perfectly for 10 years.
Back in the days when I took birth control pills, I kept the packet of pills on my nightstand, right beside the case where I stored my eyeglasses when I retired for the night. When I got up each morning, I would put on my glasses and then take my pill. As far as I know, I never missed a pill in ten years.
