• Today@lemmy.world
    11·
    15 days ago

    1 for asthma plus 1 for high blood pressure caused by asthma and migraine meds.

    2 for knee pain plus 1 for stomach issues caused by knee meds.

    1 extra because i hurt my shoulder in a dumb bike accident a couple of weeks ago.

    Feeling like i could trade all of these for Claritin and weed.

  • starlinguk@lemmy.world
    10·
    15 days ago

    I’m currently taking 10. Long Covid, esophageal dysmotility, asthma and menopause are a bitch.

    HRT (2 meds), 2 lots of heart meds, statins, omeprazole, blood pressure meds, antihistamines, betablocker, inhaler.

  • Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world
    10·
    15 days ago

    I was diagnosed with a nasty rare condition at 26 and since then have been taking a minimum of 7 a day.

    However my highest is probably 21 a day. (I ran out of a medication I take at 1600mcg, and was supplemented with 200mcg pills for a week or so. So 2 doses a day of that is already 16 pills.)

    • DaGeek247@fedia.io
      61·
      15 days ago

      I’m at two as well. Finasteride for hair, and vitamin D because my doctor recommended it.

      I had thought the vitamin D pill was actually kinda useless when i first started taking it. I was fine before i started taking the pill, right? Due to me being lazy and prescription address changes lagging behind a move, I ended up skipping out on that pill for two months. Turns out, vitamin D is like, a minor anti depressant or some shit because I was exhausted all the time near the end there before I started retaking the pill.

    • Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.worldOP
      41·
      15 days ago

      That’s a good solid base. Add some vitamins in. I don’t know what they do but they’ll really pump your numbers up. Hell, throw in a fish oil and you’re cooking with gas.

  • drail@fedia.io
    8·
    15 days ago

    Chrohns pill 4× daily, adderall 1-2× daily, multivitamin 1× daily, D-Vitamin 1× daily, so 7-8 per day. I am 29, so I have gotten a head start on my pill quota. I start back up on injections for Crohns next week, so four of those should be going away in the next month or so.

    • Lit@lemmy.world
      3·
      15 days ago

      Good point. I don’t count vitamin and mineral as “pills”, since they are powdered or liquid nutrients squeezed into a pill shape for convenience. When I think of pills I think of medication.

      I actually grind up different nuts into a powder form and shape them into balls that I eat 1 per day too, like taking pills.

      I could squeeze flour, sugar into a pill shape too, is it a pill then? actually, rice looks like tiny pills. Is fish/meat ball just a giant pill? is noodle a long string shaped pill? Is Hot dog a huge chewable pill. Are meat patty in burger just giant tablet made from meat?

      To avoid counting sugar cubes as pills, I only count doc prescribed meds as “pills”, i.e., something that i have to take regularly and can only be obtained by doc prescription and/or is not considered a nutrient.

  • rmuk@feddit.ukEnglish
    61·
    14 days ago

    By the time I’m fifty I expect I’ll wake up with sun beaming through the window and I’ll smile, stretch, lean over to the bedside table and just go full-on Hungry, Hungry Hippos.

  • pappabosley@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    14 days ago

    I take a baseline 4 pain pills a day, unless I have a really bad day and then I just take one knock out pill. Sertraline, Magnesium, vitamin d, and calcium most days. Every 12 months I can have a minor surgical procedure to burn out nerves in my neck and that reduces my need for pain meds, will likely start needing this on my lower back soon. Currently I’m 46, trying to hold off disc replacement or fusion until I’m 65 at least. When I’m really old, I will likely move to an oxycodone patch.