How many pills do you take every day?

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)

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

thank you for correcting me

Three pills: A near-microdose of Wellbutrin (100 mg), Strattera, and a antihistamine.

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I take one prozac every day, along with vitamin D. Up until fairly recently I was taking mirtazapine most nights a week to help with sleep, but I don't need it so much now. Still, I'm glad I still have them for times I might (WILL) need them.

Recently I had to take these really expensive antibiotics to help with shingles, and I was hiccuping all day and night for the first 24 hours! Weird.

My parents used to joke that they should just dump anti-cholesterol medication in the drinking water.

Me: Multi-vitamin with D/C/zinc, sometimes a ginger tablet or ibuprofen. Sometimes (rarely) at night a melatonin.

i don't take any pills but i think Dan S has a good attitude

i do have a lot of herbal tinctures prepared by herbalist friends who practice TCM & Ayurveda etc, and they have instructions written like "take 4 drops 4x a day" that i mostly ignore, but some of them really do seem to help.

i find St John's Wort to be very energizing when i'm feeling the general depression-fatigue malaise. i probably reach for that one the most

i find St John's Wort to be very energizing when i'm feeling the general depression

Good to know.. I used to write off most herbal supplements as money-wasting scams (or, at best, placebos) but I think I'm coming around to some of the old standbys. It's funny how they come in and out of vogue, though

I'm on mirtazapine but unfortunately it hasn't done anything to help me sleep in years. I could probably take it in the morning and it wouldn't make any difference

It is quite effective as an antidepressant though tbf. Prozac stopped working then they put me on amitriptyline for a bit until a different GP wondered why the hell I was on it because apparently they don't prescribe that for depression any more