If anyone find that their clarity comes and goes, it would make me feel better.
A lot do, brain/fibro fog comes in its own flares or along with the physical ones! (I list it as an 11th form of fatigue.) In my case despite my 'alertness'-supps I seem to be writing stranger and stranger words, but at least I still see them while re-reading or after sending off, so I can still edit.
If the Wednesday pill is gone did I take it?
Oh yes, so many times! It's got better now I don't just have 10 pills (5 blood meds, and supps) 4x/d, but 15 (going up to 20 soon, just supps now) at >10 various times day and night, because I have to structure it more and write every time & amount into my blog immediately.
I have a two week pill counter(makes no difference)
Considering those 10x8=80/d, I got very frustrated with my 7dx4/d pill box a few weeks ago now the supps have increased plus the balancing out made me fuzzy as heck. I also had no idea how to arrange all the bottles so they didn't swamp me. A godsend that my wife then saw a cute new carrier bag with 8 well-sized compartments in a 'please help yourself' box in front of our neighbour's house. Now I've put all the bottles in there, using some empty thinner ones, put labels or writing in marker pen on the lids, incl. the main reasons I take them, I've always needed quick overviews & everything together. I've given up putting the pills together for the week, like I used to, seeing as I have to adapt the doses every day according to the results. Now I'll be able to cope with 20x10=>200 pills per day. To go, I'm now using one of the daily compartment parts I can take out of the week-frame to put the most important "daytime" supps in, esp. the ones for the Ache, energy/fatigue, post exertional malaise (serrapeptase didn't fulfil its promising start for that, but
NADH is working wonders reliably and inside of 10-20'). Luckily NADH is green, the new product brown. But most are white, either ready-made (all similar) or self-made capsules from white powder (in differing amounts, even for one substance, only slightly different).... So I have to make sure I know what's in which compartment. On the move I have to make a note in my non-wifi phone and look it up when I complete the blog entry.
I always use a calendar planner. Had to, when I was working ... Now I am not working but still use it to keep track of what I am supposed to do. ...
Post-it notes, too. ... cut up used envelopes ... before recycling the paper.
Ah, that's very similar to me. A pda (personal digital assistant)/palm/organizer was my best friend when I was working full time. Now I put many reminders in my laptop, as its attempts to remind me work best, as well as fairly discreet alarms in my phone, which I tend to ignore too much.
Post-its irritate & confuse me tho, make my brain fuzzy, so they're only an add on. (OK: I'll leave that 'they're' instead of 'their', as a praps not so strange example - just I didn't used to do this. WHAT? Not their,
there. Oh, I'm tired, can't sleep. On third thoughts: they're is write, no
right after all.
Let's see if I stick to that if I review it in the morning.
I have lost myself completely. Haven't ridden my motorcycle, haven't played paint ball.
Part 1: Losing ourselves. Part 2: Mourning. Part 3: Finding our new selves. Part 4: Enjoying self-caring more. Part 5: Recovering some of the old self by self-caring and pacing better. Part 6: Keeping hope and activity and the search up. Part 7, if possible: Finding our very own treatments (part of our very own new self) that actually help. Part 8, if 7 is possible: increasing the selected best bits of the old self....