Anyone Finding Day Light Savings Time Complicating Medication Routine/Sleep?

[ILADVOCATE]

I know that the return of daylight savings time can be for some people confusing or disrupting as regards sleep but when medication has to be adjusted for the time change sometimes that can cause some minor difficulties at first. For example I was not thinking and instead of taking my medication earlier (for the next day to adjust) I accidentally took it later so tomorrow things will be confusing (things are especially difficult for me with time orientation for other medical reasons). Did anyone else have this problem?

[bernie40]

It has bothered me right from when I was a child, I don't know why but it confuses me completely and it takes me a good week to get used to it.  I look at the clock and have to work out what time it would be if the clocks hadn't changed :-/  Strangley though I found it easier to cope with on medication because my meds make me drowsy and also because I don't have a set time to wake-up since I've been unable to work and my husband took over the mornings with regard to the children.  This one will be interesting though as I am now back in control of the mornings for school runs etc and temporarily off medication.  Our time change isn't for another couple of weeks so I'll let you know ...

[Xila31]

I always take my medicine right before I go to bed. Sometimes this is as early as 9 p.m., sometimes as late as 12 a.m., and a lot of times in between, but usual bed time is between 10 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. I take it right before I go to bed because it is very hard for me to remember to take it at all. Taking it before bed simplifies it for me because now I put on my pajamas, get my water, take my meds, and go to bed. It makes it part of a group of things, and I do things in groups easier than one thing. Like in the morning I brush my teeth and then shower. Doing it differently is distressing and makes me feel like I forgot to do something all day. Adding or changing things is a real mess.

I personally hate daylight savings time vs. changing to standard time. Since it is always on a Sunday it shortens the weekend and makes me feel rushed. And I hate that. Otherwise, it doesn't bother me.  

[paranoid_cataclysm]

I think you would be OK taking it an hour earlier or later than normal or at least I was told that.  To answer your question uhh... I guess it kinda does mess up my sleep patterns.  I'm the kind of person where if I stay up a few hours too long I have to stay up an entire day just to get my sleep straightened back out.