Am Zero at 58 yrs.
Anyone have any idea what an average number is for a particular age ?
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.
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.
I take enough that I have an organizer for them.
My man! 👋
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.)
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.
Currently 41, not taking anything daily yet.
30, not taking anything regularly either.
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.
Does half of one count as 1 pill?
I guess I’m at 6-8 depending on how you count them. Being trans is complicated. =3
I only take a multivitamin, B-12, and D-3. The last two were because someone said I should be taking them.
thanks for reminding me
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.
Other than the occasional ibuprofen or allergy pill I take zero at 58 years
I’m at 2 daily now, so I guess I’m lagging.
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.
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As a PNW resident, Vitamin D is serious business. Which you’ve reminded me I stopped taking…
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.
Y’all are some sick mofos. I’m a rookie over here with sometimes only one dicofenac daily for my rheumatoid arthritis condition. Early 30s.
At one point last year I had hourly eye-drops, with a separate set of drops to take every ~6 hours in December. That was unusual though due to uveitis.
This thread is one of the most bizarre things I’ve ever created. It’s wonderful.
I realise I didn’t really answer your question directly but implicitly, like everyone else in this thread, I am going to be taking all the pills when I get older.
