How many tablets do you take a day?

[Mo1959]

Only 1 medication which is Sumatriptan when required for migraine.

I also take magnesium, B2 and Coq10 which are supposed to help migraines too plus Vitamin D and iron.

 

[dicko]

AM
Lisinopril, vitamin D (winter time) and Omega 3
PM
Simvastatin

 

[gbb]

None generally.
I do take Naproxen very occasionally if my OA is playing up, usually just take ibrufen to keep it comfortable as and when it plays up (this week has been quite bad tbf)

 

[vickster]

Apixaban daily for three months from today after yesterday's AF ablation.
Occasionally bisoprolol for fast AF but the above should make that a thing of the past 🤞

Not medication per se but HRT patch changed twice a week plus low dose progesterone from Levosert coil.

Paracetamol 2-4 most days for joint pain as needed.
Voltaren gel as above.

Must get better again at taking Vit D daily in winter, possibly a multivit and start the omega 3 again

 

[gom]

A year ago I officially joined the old codgers list as I was put on blood pressure tablets. Still trying to find something that works that I can tolerate. Anyone else been through this? Low dose OK, but not having much effect, high dose has unpleasant side effects. So far these include, via different meds, legs feeling swollen, peeing repeatedly for several hours, feeling v tired, aching and feeling detached from the universe. Just giving up on the latest due to the last symptoms. Wot larks! As a sainted cousin of my mum's said "old age is a bugger", and I'm only just getting started. Downhill all the way. But I'm still smiling

 

[Dogtrousers]

How do you manage your tablets?
I'm uncharacteristically organised with some little boxes labelled with days that I load up each week.
And I still forget at least one day a week.

 

[Alex321]

I don't take any (apart from 1 Vitamin D when I remember).

My wife has about a dozen, which she organises with a tray full of little boxes, three boxes per day, labelled with the day and AM/PM/Noon

 

[iandg]

PMR, hypertension and depression.

Prednisolone (current dose 7mg = 5 + 1 +1)
Lisinopril x1
Sertraline x1
Mebeverine x1
iCal D3 x1
Alendronic Acid 1 per week

Supplements
vit D
Magnesium Malate
Omega 3

 

[Oldhippy]

None.

 

[Jody]

Low dose of Gabapentin three times a day and Omeprozole on an ad-hoc basis

 

[Vantage]

8
Atorvastatin
2x citalopram
Bendroflumethiazide (who comes up with these names?)
Amlodipine
Ezetimibe
Lisinopril
Clopitogrel
+ the 4 insulin injections

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I don’t take anything yet, age 40 (hexadecimal).

Where I used to work we used to say that only programmers were allowed to state their age in Hex

Those of us who used Hex daily used to scoff at the "programmers" and added "who use Hex daily"

Nowadays - I shouldn;t really so I don;t - partly because, after many years teaching IT rather than doing it and a while retired from even that - I can;t do it easily in my head anymore
I used to be able to do basic arithmetic in my head as well - that is well gone!!


what was the question????

Oh medicine
err - currently 3 plus one inhaler in the morning
then 2 more in the evening

The 2 evening ones will end soon as will the iron tablet in the morning

or so I assume - but the doctors have been saying the iron tablet can go for about 2 years now and every prediction has been wrong
maybe this time they will be right

or not

Oh - and another inhaler which is always in my pocket "just in case"

no statins or blood pressure stuff much to my amazement!!!!

 

[BrumJim]

Up until 2022 I could have listed every tablet I ever took in my life from the day I turned 18 to the present, including antacids (a couple in 1994).

Since my TIA I am on daily Statins and Clopidogrel, and have been informed that this will continue for the rest of my life. Fortunately post-COVID era I find I can now swallow them fairly easily. Possibly due to putting a stick down my throat a good few times.

 

[Time Waster]

I have had consultants and GPs try to put me on migraine medication for life. The first was a beta blocker which I got warned against strongly by various people who had taken them with issues and by medical people who know about medication (hospital pharmacist and consultants and people who work in the heart disease / diagnosis side of the NHS). The second drug for life for migraine was a drug originally developed for Psychiatric reasons namely depression. It was prety much failed in that use but someone realised it had an effect on migraine frequency or severity. I refused after learning about the side effects which IIRC basically stopped it being prescribed for mental health like depression or other.

Now I am on up to 4 tablets a day of loratidine for an auto immune condition. I am early 50s and hate the idea that I will be on these for life. However the first "for Life" drug was when I was in my 30s. That is potentially a long time to take them. I think I decided I would rather live with migraines than that.

I know others start taking "for life" medication younger than me or even my 30s. If you have to then you have to live with it. If you can live without (for some that would mean dying without it) then that is your choice and indeed your control of the situation.

I also have a brown inhaler to take two puffs once or twice a day. I take it when I remember or can be bothered. I have to have both criteria for it to happen. So far it is once or twice a week since I restarted about a week ago. I am still quite pleased that I have even managed that usage. Still it is close to reassessment and I am sure the asthma nurse will make a comment about it. Like why have I only had one brown inhaler all year but a lot of blue ones??

 

[Time Waster]

A supplementary question to how many daily tablets is what age were you when you started taking them daily?

I am on about 18 months of mostly daily loratidine to sort out a certain issue I have which is now called an autoimmune condition. So that was 62 in Octal apparently ( to help you numerists that is 32 in hexadecimal I think).