Remembering to take a medication that helps you is a skill. Following through and taking that medication is a skill. Not the ONLY skills, but don't fool yourself; some people refuse to take medication and they suffer for it. Taking it IS a skill.

Well it's PRN which I hate because i'm so bad at deciding when I need to take it. Plus I still feel sleepy and then I don't want to feel more sleepy.

Well it's PRN which I hate because i'm so bad at deciding when I need to take it.

Yeah, but I still maintain that recognizing when to take it is a skill, which means it's something you'll improve, and you won't be so bad at deciding when you need to take it.

Remembering to take a medication that helps you is a skill. Following through and taking that medication is a skill. Not the ONLY skills, but don't fool yourself; some people refuse to take medication and they suffer for it. Taking it IS a skill.

OMG yes. Also extra bad when the thing you need the med for steps you from taking it--Saturday I felt like ASS all afternoon. Headache, not at all hungry, couldn't stand light...blamed it on too much sun, took Otc painkiller, took a nap, nothing worked...finally remembered I have migraine meds. For when I have migraines. Duh?!? 90 minutes later it was like a miracle had occurred. I was so much better. Sigh.

I'm fine taking medicine twice a day. I'm terrible at remembering to take something in the afternoon. I need to set up some kind of alarm. I found out Monday what happens when I miss a dose of the drug I take for neuropathy. It suppresses nerve impulses and apparently there's a rebound effect that makes every nerve in cuts, bruises and any other nerve that had ever thought about causing pain to go sproing.

I was on Effexor for a few weeks. Then I found myself thinking about irritating people, "I could take her out." Thinking about murder seemed like a really unfortunate side effect.

Then I found myself thinking about irritating people, "I could take her out." Thinking about murder seemed like a really unfortunate side effect.

Wellbutrin did that -- I had a bottomless well of raaaaaaaaaage. And also insomnia for a year, 9 months of which were after I stopped it.

Hi, Nanita! And everyone else, of course.

Sending loving thoughts to all of you darlings even if I can't quite articulate each thought.

As long as I can take meds with a meal - no problem. I count them out in advance. Except that recent incident when I got my pill boxes confused and took my morning meds at night. Still over all getting a pill box with at least as many compartments as times you have to take meds seems to work well for me most of the time. I just have breakfast, lunch, dinner and bedtime meds, each in their own compartment. Only screwed it up once in the past three years thought that screwup was a doozy. Might work for you, though not helpful for "as needed" meds.

askye, I was on 150mg for a couple of years, at first along with time released Clonazepam at night for sleep. It worked great for my anxiety, but a different doctor than my first one (he moved out of network) took me off the Clonazepam. She said it causes dementia in older adults. Now, I'm not sure just how old older is (I'm 57) and she didn't say how long you had to be on it for it to have that severe an effect. Unfortunately for me, the anxiety started to come back within a year or so and I waited way too long to push the issue with her. I finally had her refer me to an anxiety specialist who works with CBT and that's helped some, but also having my doctor increase my Lamictal to 200mg has really helped. Even my new job doesn't stress me as much as my old one did and that's saying a lot when something completely new and unknown is less scary than something you've been around for 3 years.

All that to say, I'm pretty sure you'll find the bump up helpful, and it may even help enough you eventually won't feel the need for the Clonazepam (Klonopin).