How many pills do you take every day?

my son's daily meds are four 300mg sodium valproate tablets and one 100 mg sertraline a day.

Lately SNRIs and beta blocker haven't still been able to stop my heart from racing so might need higher dose of BB.

Though I'm just wound too tight inherently

2 one for anxiety and one for ADHD. I try to take vitamin d and magnesium but rarely remember.

xp ugh same
for the first time in years I'm considering upping the benzos a bit because I think it might just be a healthier system overall
learned the very hard way to tread very cautiously there because of a klonopin prescription ages ago so taking my time, but going without is also pretty debilitating

"I have PrEP on hand in the event that either me or my boyfriend want to open things up (we don’t)

― a hyperlink to the past (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, February 24, 2024 9:04 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink"

Growing up on fire island and following the HIV crisis then volunteering for advocacy groups in the 90s, it's amazing to me that prep is now a thing you can have on hand like this. So awesome.

❤️

zero

zero is a good number, even the best number

zero’s great but i’ll be real: i have struggled with a lot of shame re being put on medication and i have tried to accept it as a positive, in that it provides me with a handrail for things my body can’t do

so even coming here & listing my meds took a few deep breaths

0 sounds like hell

idk how many I take it might be 20 or so - amphetamines, hormones, benzos, vitamins, bits and pieces - prescribed, otc, grey market, recreational

I would not recommend upping benzos unless it's very urgent bc the dependence and later paradoxical effects are no joke. unless you have no propensity for addiction whatsoever. I have found pregabalin the most helpful thing for my years-long diazepam reduction (on hold for about a year at this point though)

VG otm
Meds can save lives and the shame keeps many people away, often til it’s too late. Not to be grim but it’s true.

3

sertraline
vitamin d&k (one pill)
iron

Yes vitamins are supposed to be supplementary, prefer to take regardless ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

never heard of pregabalin!

i got friends who are like "i have such a hard time remembering to take my meds lol" and with me, if i miss out on a dose of my mood stabilizer i know _very quickly_ and it is _not good_

never heard of pregabalin!

― Swen

it's a pretty niche variety of jefferson airplane slash, not surprised you wouldn't have heard of it.

I’m pro meds, they can be goddam miracles. Currently at 7 a day.

jefferson airplane is easily one of my favorite bands of all time lol

Yeah I don’t think there’s any “right” number of pills to take, it’s whatever’s right for your circumstances. Both my kids actually take more prescription meds than I do, because one is autistic with moderate long-term depression and one is severely ADHD. Their pills help them. (And I mean, I’m not counting alcohol and weed here bcz not “pills,” but I’m hardly chemical free.)

2 for blood pressure, 3 for the sads and one chewy for sleepy time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm2Dru2puLs

xps

I had some amazing "weed" pills the other week (some kind of coconut based thc solution) highly recommended

I would sell my soul to indulge in a tablet with Keanu Reeves 😆

I sometimes buy berocca or whatever fizzy water tablet when they're on special

Mostly for the taste though and to fool myself that I'm doing something healthy. Otherwise 0, besides the booze chemical with dinner most nights

just 1 for blood pressure. hopefully nothing else for a while

One baby dose of Lisinopril

1 - a statin

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^^gets it

i take some supplements (namely magnesium and l-theanine) and advil if i have a headache but i don't take any prescription meds

lisinopril for hypertension
atorvastatin for cholesterol
zolpidem for sleep

and flecainide for arrhythmia

I had a right heart ablation for atrial fibrillation that was caused by an upper loop right atrial re-entry phenomenon. The result of the ablation was atrial flutter, and flecainide easily converts that to sinus rhythm. I thought A Fib would be a life-long issue for me, requiring a pacemaker and a serious anticoagulant, so I was relieved that after the ablation flecainide was the solution. I have to take it twice a day. I feel like it is the one medication that has been a life saver for me

I don't have any embarrassment about taking medication

<3 <3

One Metformin every morning. (I initially read this as "How many polls do you take every day?"--usually a couple.)

I have a “take 1-3 as needed” option along with the daily bad brain one … so generally 2. Plus Vitamin D gummies because I am deficient

supplementing vitamin D is SOP for everyone in the Pacific NW USA

I just remembered that my maternal uncle had rickets as a child in the 1930s, due to vit D deficiency. It's just how things are around here.

supplementing vitamin D is SOP for everyone in the Pacific NW USA

― more difficult than I look (Aimless)

they have vitamin supplements to compensate to make up for lack of sunlight but not vitamin supplements to make up for lack of meaningful in-person social contact with other human beings :(

I'm already taking Vitamin D for MS, but as I'm now also old with a dwindling vitamin B12 level, my doctor has advised taking a supplement of 1000 mcg per week

Many xp

I need to figure out what this miracle anxiety pill is. It’s like a “stop worrying, sleep for nine hours” masterpiece. Good following “a horrible argument with a friend” or “disappointing news from a lawyer”

I’m not into those insta-fine pills generally but knowing these ones work and won’t make you black out or become addicted like a benzo, it’s great

Re: PrEP, like the joke/truth is that since it came on the market, HIV is down but everything else has skyrocketed. It’s not a substitute for safe sex but I’m just.. wholly aware that if you’re feeling self destructive enough to get banged by a stranger or two that you might possibly be in a breeding mood… at least, so I’ve heard. I wouldn’t know, I don’t have sex. I just have them on hand, just in case

n0ne

None, although at least one conspiracy lovin' friend would no doubt tell me I was taking a daily dose of red pills or blue pills or whatever it is due to being vaccinated.

None, but I only started to go to a checkup last year after just never bothering. Blood pressure normal, didn't get round to the other tests but will book them

PSA everyone please get a lipid panel if you haven’t already. Or another one if it’s been a few years. Don’t even need to fast beforehand for a screening test.

3 per day, one of which is baby aspirin to go with the statin … I kinda don’t count the fish oil as a pill for some reason or another, despite being the side of a horse suppository

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

1x baby aspirin
1x milk thistle
1x valerian root
men's vitamin 2-3 per week

I tried ashwagandha awhile back, but I think it was giving me the shits

now what is a lipid panel?

a lipid panel is a group of blood tests that track your liver function. livers are complicated so just one blood test isn't enough. they only have to draw the blood once; they take enough to do all the tests.

right, I feel like they might have done that when I had cancer but I'm not sure. I'll keep in mind.

Lipid panel results can be addictive; I try to match this year's results with last year's

I don't want to see my liver test results, thank you

Xpost a lipid panel measures cholesterol and triglycerides (a type of fat that circulates in the bloodstream). Elevations in LDL cholesterol are linked to increased risk of heart attacks and stroke. Typical treatment is a statin (e.g., Lipitor).

A liver panel tests ALT and AST (tests of liver injury) and bilirubin (assesses gall bladder function). There are all sorts of reasons why liver tests might be abnormal so your GP might recommend additional evaluation as a first step

xp I can’t imagine having that kind of insomnia. When my sleep is interrupted more than maybe once or twice a night, I wake up feeling like the world is going to come to an end.

i probably didn't sleep much at all for 1.5-2 years. even my prescribed Sleep Aid did nothing - but after they put me on a beta blocker last year and paired it with that, suddenly I am sleeping again.

also find that I have to jump in the shower for like a minute before sleeping, it just makes me feel more comfortable when I get into the bed

xp fwiw it's not something I have to deal with all the time, at least not recently, it's just odd nights here and there when my brain just won't shut down

I do tend to wake up a lot in the middle of the night though. it's rare that I sleep through the night

Thread reminded me to take a blood test, so should get results on cholesterol soon...