I take enough that I have an organizer for them.
My man! 👋
Currently 41, not taking anything daily yet.
30, not taking anything regularly either.
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’m at 2 daily now, so I guess I’m lagging.
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.
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.
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.)
ALL OF THEM
Hopefully still zero
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.
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.
Do vitamins & minerals count? Beside those my goal is none and so far so good…
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.
Other than the occasional ibuprofen or allergy pill I take zero at 58 years
I’m at 10/day in my 30s and I’m not even trans 🙃
At some point, none.
I take 2 right now and gave up animal products to minimize the possibility of having to take more.
