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.
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 only take a multivitamin, B-12, and D-3. The last two were because someone said I should be taking them.
Other than the occasional ibuprofen or allergy pill I take zero at 58 years
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.
At some point, none.
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.
Hmm. I may already count as older. But depending - maybe 4 if I am ok to continue what I have now, but need something else?
Plus vitamins, so maybe 8 in total because I plan to continue my “stack” of three supplements I’ve been taking for years.
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.)
I take enough that I have an organizer for them.
My man! 👋
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.
I hope, for as long as possible to stick with only a fluctuating 4½ to 5 a day. One of my pills sometimes fluctuates with how much I need to take, but as long as I can keep it to the 3 types I’m currently taking or less, I’d be a happy old man.
Currently 41, not taking anything daily yet.
30, not taking anything regularly either.
I’m currently on 18 in the morning, and 9 in the evening. I have eyedrops twice a day too. I’m in my mid forties now, so will almost certainly increase that number as I get older.
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
