• Today@lemmy.world
    11·
    10 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
    11·
    10 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·
    10 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.)

  • drail@fedia.io
    8·
    10 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.

    • DaGeek247@fedia.io
      61·
      10 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·
      10 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.

  • rmuk@feddit.ukEnglish
    61·
    10 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.

    • Lit@lemmy.world
      3·
      10 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.

  • vermyndax@lemmy.world
    3·
    10 days ago

    I’m at 3 on most days. 4 once a week. 3 plus an injection once a week. I have other pills that are optional.