• Today@lemmy.world
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    3 months 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.

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    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.)

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    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.

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      3 months 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.

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      3 months 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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.