Can I ask you how many tablets you take a day, please?

[ComeBackPeterComeBackPaul]

I sometimes wonder if I am taking so many that they cancel each other out. I take three for medical reasons and then I also take Vit D, Magnesium, and Curcuma. Thanks.

Whoa calm down Karen 🙄

I'm genuinely curious. Is that a crime? I asked because I'm trying to educate myself and understand why someone would need to take 25, 40 and 100 pills a day. I never said I knew better than a health care professional for god sakes. Of course there will be conditions people are born with that they will be taking medication for. But from what I've understood most people taking so much prescription medication hasn't been for lifelong conditions (although some yes). I'm in my 40's and as I said - don't know anyone friends or family aside from my husband who takes prescription medication. It was a genuine question out of curiosity. I wasn't putting anyone down by asking it or saying that they were lying.

Perhaps you should add a chill pill to your arsenal of daily medications 🙄💊

3- a multivitamin, an antidepressant for my postpartum depression and levothyroxine for my hypothyroidism.

I'm in my 40's and as I said - don't know anyone friends or family aside from my husband who takes prescription medication

I think this is likely an incorrect inference on your part. Why would your friends and family necessarily tell you what medication they are on?

My husband knows what I take, but it's not something I would discuss more widely. Many of my friends and family members would assume I don't take anything.

I have a lot of medication because I'm very very ill. Life limited. Lots of pills required and I am unlikely to last another ten years. Maybe as little as 5. That's about the average. 10% make it to ten years.

It's okay to be curious. I was curious too as taking tablets is not my norm and I assumed most people don't but then I realised that was a peculiar privilege of never needing medication. I feel bloody lucky tbh.

It is NOT okay to call people Karen.

@WineGetsMeThroughIt

This isn't meant to be a rude comment, but I'm genuinely baffled that some people are taking so many prescription medications. I'm curious as to why - I mean it's obviously none of my business, but I'm curious as to whether it's for a preventable condition they developed because they weren't living a healthy lifestyle or what? I don't know anyone that takes prescription medication aside from my husband due to a recent heart injury.

I go through phases of taking vitamins. It usually only lasts a couple months max before I forget to take them for months on end. I've just had covid so am on a vitamin roll and have been taking

Vitamin D 3x daily
Vitamin C 2x daily
Vitamin A 1x daily
Zinc 1x daily
Omega 6 & 9 1x daily
Cucumin (higher grade tuneric) 1x daily

Multi-vitamin 1x daily

Illness and disability can and does happen to anyone regardless of whether you live a healthy lifestyle or not. We like to tell ourselves that if we eat vegetables, exercise and keep ourselves slim that these things won’t happen to us because it makes us feel better mentally but it isn’t the truth for a lot of conditions. A lot of it is luck and genetics.

I am one of the people taking 25 things everyday. I have Addison’s, asthma, lupus, a pituitary tumour, hypothyroidism, kidney issues, long term uti issues, etc etc. I don’t smoke or drink, never have. I walk long walks every day. I am a reasonable weight, never been overweight until I started the steroids for my various things (and even now I’m only 1.5 stone overweight). I do / did everything I “should” do and still here I am, taking 25 things every day.

You probably don’t even know who out of your circle takes what medication. It’s not like I go round shouting it from the rooftops.

@WineGetsMeThroughIt

Whoa calm down Karen 🙄

I'm genuinely curious. Is that a crime? I asked because I'm trying to educate myself and understand why someone would need to take 25, 40 and 100 pills a day. I never said I knew better than a health care professional for god sakes. Of course there will be conditions people are born with that they will be taking medication for. But from what I've understood most people taking so much prescription medication hasn't been for lifelong conditions (although some yes). I'm in my 40's and as I said - don't know anyone friends or family aside from my husband who takes prescription medication. It was a genuine question out of curiosity. I wasn't putting anyone down by asking it or saying that they were lying.

Perhaps you should add a chill pill to your arsenal of daily medications 🙄💊

slurs like that are really uncalled for.

can you not imagine that healthy lifestyle doesn't protect against all (most?) ilnesses and disabilities?

@devildeepbluesea

None. Health wise I’ve been very lucky so far.

I don’t take vitamins. I eat food.

@devildeepbluesea I thought that, but it's hard to get enough vit d through diet and with winter sun. And vit d can help with covid, I think?

A multi vitamin and mineral tablet.
I'm 47.

levothyroxine
omeprazole
betahistine x3
montelukast
folic acid

plus
peptac
duoresp
spivira respimart

I'm late thirties. I take a multivitamin when I remember.

Must be nice being one of the people on this thread who are so healthy and so completely oblivious to the multitude of health problems that people can have!

Thanks everyone, a really interesting set of replies. I really am just curious, and possibly reassured, to hear of other people’s experiences.
I was/am a relatively healthy person til a previously unknown hereditary condition threw a spanner in the works in my late thirties.
Sorry, when I said curcuma I should have said turmeric which I have found great for aches - particularly hip pain. My doctor absolutely swears by both it and magnesium. I had low Vit d levels which have been corrected by taking a supplement.

@Theworldisquiethere

Must be nice being one of the people on this thread who are so healthy and so completely oblivious to the multitude of health problems that people can have!

Totally agree! There are many things I choose to not to discuss with my friends and family and this is one of those things for me.

I’m taking ducking loads and sometimes I’m tempted to stop them all and see how I feel.

I bet you do @WineGetsMeThroughIt but they have chosen not to tell you as you rightly said its none of your business
As for calling someone Karen as an insult, you need to grow up

@WineGetsMeThroughIt

Whoa calm down Karen 🙄

I'm genuinely curious. Is that a crime? I asked because I'm trying to educate myself and understand why someone would need to take 25, 40 and 100 pills a day. I never said I knew better than a health care professional for god sakes. Of course there will be conditions people are born with that they will be taking medication for. But from what I've understood most people taking so much prescription medication hasn't been for lifelong conditions (although some yes). I'm in my 40's and as I said - don't know anyone friends or family aside from my husband who takes prescription medication. It was a genuine question out of curiosity. I wasn't putting anyone down by asking it or saying that they were lying.

Perhaps you should add a chill pill to your arsenal of daily medications 🙄💊

Prescribed medication is certainly safer than self medicating with alcohol as your 'humorous' user name suggests you do.

2...one for under active thyroid and one for high blood pressure 😭

Ive got an underactive thyroid and high blood pressure

And the underactive thyroid can cause issues with blood pressure

So you might start with one issue that causes others

@WineGetsMeThroughIt

This isn't meant to be a rude comment, but I'm genuinely baffled that some people are taking so many prescription medications. I'm curious as to why - I mean it's obviously none of my business, but I'm curious as to whether it's for a preventable condition they developed because they weren't living a healthy lifestyle or what? I don't know anyone that takes prescription medication aside from my husband due to a recent heart injury.

I go through phases of taking vitamins. It usually only lasts a couple months max before I forget to take them for months on end. I've just had covid so am on a vitamin roll and have been taking

Vitamin D 3x daily
Vitamin C 2x daily
Vitamin A 1x daily
Zinc 1x daily
Omega 6 & 9 1x daily
Cucumin (higher grade tuneric) 1x daily

Multi-vitamin 1x daily

I'm 36

Age 11 I got cholinergic urticaria - no idea why
Age 12 I got hidradenitis supprativa - genetic (my mum has it)
Age 32 I got autoimmune neutropenia - very very rare in adults
Age 33 I got cauda equina - herniated a disc doing nothing
Age 34 I got hashimotos - no idea why

So that's why I take my meds. Autoimmune conditions tend to mean you end up with more than 1

1x 50mg Elvanse (lisdexamphetamine, a stimulant to manage ADHD)
1x 5mg folic acid
1x multivitamin

Take a multivitamin and vit d. Right now am taking ibuprofen a few times a day for a pain.
Take antihistamines when needed.
And soon I'll be snorting something for hayfever.

Overall despite weight issues and allergies I'm pretty lucky.
There were times when I was a child I was on a dozen or so things a day between medicine, tablets and inhalers. So I'm very happy that other than hayfever everything I take is totally optional.

@Theworldisquiethere it's the absolute definition of "health privilege" isn't it. I don't take anything at the moment but I've been really sick in the past and on piles of tablets. Good health is so precious and if you've always had it you have no idea how quickly you can lose it through no fault of your own.

@WineGetsMeThroughIt you say you're curious as to why people are taking tablets, well maybe because they're sick and taking tablets to improve their conditions? You betray your assumptions with the statement "a preventable condition they developed because they weren't living a healthy lifestyle" - judgy much? And calling someone Karen is really offensive.

One - the mini pill.

Go to your pharmacy and ask for a medicines use review. They will go through everything with you.

Just supplements no medication.
St John’s Wort for SAD
High dose vitamin D
Multivitamin
Turmeric
Omega 3
Milk thistle
Probiotics