How many pills do you take?

[luvmarypoppins]

I take 9 daily plus another extra on sundays

 

[Tuffcookie]

1 for high blood pressure.

TC

 

[EACarlson]

5 pills that make up 4 different prescriptions and one injection daily.

 

[luvnwdwgal]

3 for high blood pressure
1 for anxiety

 

[indimom]

Two. High Blood Pressure (daily) and Heartburn (every other day). Both could probably be eliminated if I could just stick to a diet.
I do take a multivitamin, B12, and D3 daily.
And, I take a menopause supplement about every 3 days (I've been tapering off since the symptoms have started to ease off this year.)

 

[slo]

Now that I get my infusion (for severe ulcerative colitis) I take no prescription pills

 

[mrodgers]

One. Recently started on blood pressure pills.

 

[KittyKitty]

Oh, and the young nurse had the nerve to say to me we have to do a lot of tests on the elderly. Say what? So now I'm elderly?

Hope you told the nurse a thing or two!

 

[KittyKitty]

The good thing is today's Doctors have many tools to use to diagnose any potential problems.
The bad thing is Doctors have many tools to use to diagnose any potential problems.

I research if any prescriptions interact with each other, and with supplements. Then I talk about it with my Dr.

 

[loves to dive]

Hope you told the nurse a thing or two!

Nope, I'm southern so I just gave her the mama look.

 

[CGB]

None for me. DH takes two plus a low-dose aspirin (considering his heart attack/quadruple bypass almost six years ago, I'm counting that as a win!) We really changed our whole outlook on diet and exercise when that happened and I think that's helped us.

 

[RogueX]

9 plus one injection and 2 inhalers. Also one pill as needed for migraines. These are to control migraines, seizures and asthma.

 

[Snowysmom]

No prescriptions so far but if there are any down the road I would say high blood pressure meds. I do take Claritin every day from March to November.

 

[North of Mouse]

Wow, after reading some of these replies, I don't feel so bad. Thot' having to take 2 for BP was bad, but guess not at my age - also, I'm thankful for the all the years that have given me the privilege of being elderly and for now still going strong.

 

[leebee]

No regular, daily prescriptions. I take biotin for my hair and nails, though. About 5 yers ago my hair started thinning and falling out due to stress, and probably age, and the biotin seems to help.

 

[Wendy1985]

Proud to say only 3 the rest is over the counter

 

[HerRoyalHighness]

Nothing aside from the occasional ibuprofen and zyrtec when my allergies are bad. I changed my diet to address a particular issue (fructose malabsorption) and it helped a lot of the others. Was never on anything else but I was close.

 

[ScottOKW2K]

One. Used to be three but the BP and triglycerides meds are no longer needed.

 

[Jangles]

None. And prescription medication is free in Wales.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

A few years ago I took none. Now I have a few for thyroid, Vit B12 (prescribed), Vit D.

None . I did buy low dose baby aspirin for one a day today.

Confused. You take a daily aspirin but don’t consider it a medication? Is it self-prescribed?

None. I have always been blessed with excellent physical and mental health (knocking on wood). I feel so bad for those who suffer health issues, like my brother and many of my close friends.

I know people who like to say they take no meds, but it doesn’t always mean they shouldn’t. (Not saying you, speaking generally.) They sometimes come into the hospital with a health problem and go home with a few needed prescriptions. (Whether they choose to take them or not is up to them; often they don’t, and we see them back again!)

This is a sore subject for me right now. Got my blood work for my annual check up back on Monday. It was the you just turned 65 so we have to check all the things blood work. I've had high triglycerides for about 4 years now so have been taking a pretty high dose of statins. They called me and the Doc was prescribing fibrates as well because they weren't going down. My B12 was also down so now I have to take B12 every day. I've been taking hormones for 30 years and take OTC Nexium, which I'm slowly weening myself off of. And they are "monitoring" my thyroid. WTH? On paper they were so pleased with me, weight right in the middle of what it should be, blood pressure low, heart rate low. Work out 5 days a week usually, don't eat fried food and very little beef, no skin on my chicken, don't use sugar in anything, buy 2% milk and low fat cottage cheese. Then that darn blood work came back. My Mama died from Lupus and the last 10 or 15 years of her life she took a whole handful of pills, I swore I'd never be like that, yet here I am. Oh, and the young nurse had the nerve to say to me we have to do a lot of tests on the elderly. Say what? So now I'm elderly?

Sorry to vent. So now, 3 prescription pills, 2 vitamins (calcium and B12) and one OTC for now.

It sounds like you’ve been doing your best. Our bodies make cholesterol in addition to what we eat. High triglycerides can also run in families and be hard to treat. Unfortunately, things do creep up on us as we age. (And I’m in that club, too!) I remember our PCP referring my mother to a cardiologist in her 90s. He took her off her cholesterol medication saying, “This is what we give to people in their 50s to get them into their 90s”.

Hope you told the nurse a thing or two!

Why? Because she said the word elderly? It’s just a classification; a medical term. No need to take offense (or be mean to health care workers). It’s like calling someone under 18 a child. Or saying someone is Hispanic. It just is. When I was pregnant at 35 I saw written on one of my medical papers that I was an ”elderly primapara”. I was a little shocked to see it, but I realized what it meant. And no offense was intended or taken. It’s just medical speak. By many medical definitions a person is considered elderly at 65. Sucks, but there it is.

Nope, I'm southern so I just gave her the mama look.

Respect.