primitives discuss taking a lot of pills

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1147737

Oh my.

The campfire's a year and a half old, but it's still smouldering.

hedgehog (32,303 posts)   Sun Aug 5, 2012, 02:20 PM

Damn, I take a lot of pills!

I've picked up a lot scripts over the years for various chronic conditons, and added Vitamin D, Fish oil, calcium etc. I look like a hypochondriac, but I'm feeling a lot better! I notice if I forget one pill or another. Thank heavens for super size pill of the day boxes, though!

TexasTowelie (7,022 posts)    Sun Aug 5, 2012, 02:49 PM

1. 21!

No, I didn't win at black jack--that's how many pills I taking each day (if diligent). I could probably back off some anti-oxidants and a couple of the pills are for antibiotics since I had oral surgery awhile ago. But those potassium pills could gag Rafalca--how do they expect a human to be able to swallow those things?

hedgehog (32,303 posts)   Sun Aug 5, 2012, 03:25 PM

2. Sometimes I crack the calcium pills in half to get them down.

I have you beat - I'm up to 30 pills - (10 medications, some with multiple pills!)

<<<wonders who's paying for all those pills.

On second thought, no, doesn't wonder.

kickysnana (3,390 posts)    Sun Aug 5, 2012, 06:14 PM

3. ...

You have a way to go. I get 21-27 prescriptions per month and I never counted how many pills but I take them at 5 different times a day because of interactions. I saw a new doctor in September and she looked at my records and said well you probably will feel a lot better if we can get you off so many medications. She has added 5 so far. Like you if I miss a dose or two, even on the handful of supplements I feel it.

dixiegrrrrl (34,734 posts)    Sun Aug 5, 2012, 10:20 PM

4. Ithe trick to getting stubborn pills down...

I use a pill cutter if need be and I buy orange juice with lots of pulp. Somehow if I can't feel the pill, it goes down better.
 
The gelatin capsules go down better if I have a mouthful of the OJ and then, standing, lean over a bit so gravity can assist, since otherwise, the gelatin pills want to float back up in your mouth instead of down.

The fish oil caps I use are pretty large.

and yeah, somewhere along the line I got a bunch of pills in my life. Have no idea how that became the new normal.

grasswire (39,166 posts)   Sat Aug 11, 2012, 01:42 AM

5. beware

Last year I inhaled a magnesium tablet. It was a pill that always was tacky, and would stick. In trying to cough it up, I INHALED it. Had to go to ER. Cost a lot of $.
 
I don't take that brand anymore.

^^^that resulted in one of the longest, and hilariously funniest, threads here in the DUmpster.

mrmpa (2,180 posts)    Sun Aug 12, 2012, 12:53 AM

6. I had a prescription for a 600mg tablet.........

well it was like a horse pill. Talked to my doc & she gave me a prescription for the 300 mg capsules. I take 2 of these, so much easier.

nickinSTL (4,832 posts)    Thu Feb 14, 2013, 11:06 PM

7. I'm at...29

One medication I take is a daily dose of 19, plus I take 4 of another, and then 1-2 of some others.
 
A few are supplements, including VitD & calcium, but still.

Fortunately, aside from the ones I take right before bed, I rarely forget a pill - and I use a daily pill box to keep track of the bedtime pills.

hedgehog (32,303 posts)    Fri Feb 15, 2013, 11:07 AM

8. I should add - Last year my GP insisted on what I thought at the time to be a lot

of unnecessary bloodwork. It turned out that I had an autoimmune disease - Sjogren's, and he had been doing an excellent job treating it symptomatically for years.

NightWatcher (23,189 posts)    Fri Feb 22, 2013, 07:40 PM

9. 19 on Mondays, 13 the rest of the week

I dont like my methotrexate mondays

mopinko (40,314 posts)    Sat Feb 23, 2013, 01:14 PM

10. i refuse to count

suffice to say that i have 2 giant weekly pill boxes- one for morning pills and one for night. one week laid out is just not that much help.

Herself (95 posts)    Fri Feb 7, 2014, 04:26 AM

11. never, EVER trust your doctor's scripts to be okay to take together.

I military buddy came to see me during the first months I was perscribed many scripts for serious injury. I was so drugged up I didn't realize I wasn't taking them correctly.
 
He took a brown paper bag to the pharmacy and had them checked for complications when taken together. He came back with 2 bags. Of the 17 drugs I was on, 5 shouldn't have been taken together. The pharmacist called my doctor as well.
 
Later that year I was "accidentally" over dosed in the hospital on morphine. I am allergic to it, but it wasn't identified by official medical people in the hospital. It was identified by a Viet Nam Veteran that seen the symptoms in Nam.
 
Have one pharmacy, and when new drugs are given, have the pharmacy run a check on the compatibility of them.

hedgehog (32,303 posts)    Fri Feb 7, 2014, 04:30 PM

12. I check each new script against all the others - and check the combinations. I think I've had Sjogren's for 25 years, but only had it diagnosed for about 3. In the meantime, my doctors were treating the symptoms, so I ended up on the same cocktail I would have been given after diagnosis less the anti-malarial that was added. Since autoimmune diseases tend to have effects on multiple systems, it's pretty normal to end up on multiple treatments.
 
But you are right - people need to be alert, especially when they are seeing different doctors for different problems. This is especially true as people age - a lot of stuffthat is OK for younger folks is sedating for older folks and/or the dosages should be adjusted.

Herself (95 posts)    Fri Feb 7, 2014, 06:52 PM

13. I have many symptoms of Sjogrens, but I've smoked, so everything gets blamed on it

I also live in a rental that has had severe mold, which would produce many endocrine related symptoms. Finding a doctor that actually knows modern testing for thyroid, adrenal, or autoimmune issues is very hard. They seem to be more into the provider/carrier fight and the patient gets the fall out from their retaliation toward each other.

[Carl]

What a useless bunch of demented loons.

[diesel driver]

At 55, I take Prilosec and an occasional BC powder for head and joint pain. 

Suck it,  DUmmies!   

[JohnnyReb]

At 55, I take Prilosec and an occasional BC powder for head and joint pain. 

Suck it,  DUmmies!   

At 68, I take an aspirin a day for the heart. I took myself off all that other stuff the doctors were shoving at me 15 years ago......I was supposed to have died shortly there after but I'm still pestering DUmmies today.

[thundley4]

No, I didn't win at black jack--that's how many pills I taking each day (if diligent). I could probably back off some anti-oxidant

No, no. Make sure you take those antioxidant supplements.

Hee, hee

[ChuckJ]

At 68, I take an aspirin a day for the heart. I took myself off all that other stuff the doctors were shoving at me 15 years ago......I was supposed to have died shortly there after but I'm still pestering DUmmies today.

A couple of years ago dad came down with some ailment. I can't remember what it was, but he went to the doctor for it. The doc prescribed some medication. Dad got worse and went back to the doc. The doc prescribed more medication. Dad got worse. This went on for several weeks. He finally started checking the side effects of the medication and noticed that his ailments (since the initial sickness) matched some of the listed side effects. He decided to stop taking all of the medication. Within days he was feeling well again.

[Gina]

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TexasTowelie (7,022 posts)    Sun Aug 5, 2012, 02:49 PM

1. 21!

No, I didn't win at black jack--that's how many pills I taking each day (if diligent). I could probably back off some anti-oxidants and a couple of the pills are for antibiotics since I had oral surgery awhile ago. But those potassium pills could gag Rafalca--how do they expect a human to be able to swallow those things?

Those are suppositories.

[GOBUCKS]

These are enormous numbers, and they're only counting the drugs they take legally.

This thread is so representative of the DUmp.

It's a lot like the ones they periodically have where they recount their experiences with serving time in jail.

[thundley4]

[Purple Sage]

   

[Chris_]

grasswire (39,166 posts)   Sat Aug 11, 2012, 01:42 AM

5. beware

Last year I inhaled a magnesium tablet. It was a pill that always was tacky, and would stick. In trying to cough it up, I INHALED it. Had to go to ER. Cost a lot of $.
 
I don't take that brand anymore.

Behold the superior intellect of the grasswire primitive.

[GOBUCKS]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1147737

Oh my.

The campfire's a year and a half old, but it's still smouldering.


^^^that resulted in one of the longest, and hilariously funniest, threads here in the DUmpster.

It's funny that the addled, destitute grasswipe Judy jokes about her pill snorting costing $5000, as if she pays any of her expenses.
http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,60698.msg699071/

[diesel driver]

I often wonder if the DUmmie's prolific legal drug consumption today is due to either their parent's or their own illegal drug use earlier in life.

Actions have consequences,  DUmmies.

[dane]

These are enormous numbers, and they're only counting the drugs they take legally.

This thread is so representative of the DUmp.

It's a lot like the ones they periodically have where they recount their experiences with serving time in jail.

I rowed over and read several of the threads.  They continually play the game "Can you top this?" where one will list an ailment, and everyone else not only has that one but more severely, OR has that one as well as several more.

However, when one does finally get a job, they don't try to top that with a better job acquisition, but rather simply K&R the OP or give a hand clap smiley.  I don't think they really want jobs.

[Carl]

I rowed over and read several of the threads.  They continually play the game "Can you top this?" where one will list an ailment, and everyone else not only has that one but more severely, OR has that one as well as several more.

However, when one does finally get a job, they don't try to top that with a better job acquisition, but rather simply K&R the OP or give a hand clap smiley.  I don't think they really want jobs.

That has been the reason for the obsession with "free" healthcare all along,it is tied to employment.
The CBO report this week tore the mask off and added in a new group of people pissed off about Ocare that had not been affected yet.
Now they see it as a gravy train ride to moocherville for millions.

[jukin]

My goodness think how much better our society as a whole would be if those pills were not available and the DUchebags were just put out on the porch.

[GOBUCKS]

DUmpmonkeys are big on homeopathic/organic/herbal/alternative mumbo-jumbo.

If they're taking twenty-five legal pills, I'll bet at least twenty of them are supplements, vitamins, minerals, herbs and other over-the-counter health store scams that are as medicinal as a capsule of sugar.

[franksolich]

DUmpmonkeys are big on homeopathic/organic/herbal/alternative mumbo-jumbo.

If they're taking twenty-five legal pills, I'll bet at least twenty of them are supplements, vitamins, minerals, herbs and other over-the-counter health store scams that are as medicinal as a capsule of sugar.

I have the contrary impression; when the primitives talk of pills, they're talking of pharmaceuticals, not supplements and additives.

They of course take supplements and additives too, but I suspect when a primitve boasts of taking 21 or 27 or 32 pills a day, the primitive's talking about pharmaceuticals.

Such pharmaceuticals of course are usually paid for by thee and me.

It's an ego thing for the primitives; the more they cost others, the more it boosts their selfish esteem.

[Dori]

it boosts their selfish esteem.

That's good....I've got to remember that....

[GOBUCKS]

They of course take supplements and additives too, but I suspect when a primitve boasts of taking 21 or 27 or 32 pills a day, the primitive's talking about pharmaceuticals.

Maybe, but they think their alternative, naturopathic voodoo is real medicine, and it carries the price of real medicine.

Also, their aromatherapists, chiropractors, acupuncturists, and other quack practitioners charge fees as if they're legitimate, and we pay those as well.

[Dori]

Maybe, but they think their alternative, naturopathic voodoo is real medicine, and it carries the price of real medicine.

Also, their aromatherapists, chiropractors, acupuncturists, and other quack practitioners charge fees as if they're legitimate, and we pay those as well.

I see your not part of the "woo" crowd.