# Per week, how many pills do you take regularly? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 28, 2010, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/per-week-how-many-pills-do-you-take-regularly/537604 "2010-04-28T03:54:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/per-week-how-many-pills-do-you-take-regularly/537604/21 "2010-04-28T13:25:37Z")
None, so far. Talk to me again when I’m on the other side of 50, though… (Just 4 more years! :eek: ) ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/per-week-how-many-pills-do-you-take-regularly/537604/22 "2010-04-28T13:36:27Z")
They don’t put enough levothyroxine into one tablet, so I have to take two a day to compensate for my freeloader thyroid. It just hangs out, doing nothing useful at all. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/per-week-how-many-pills-do-you-take-regularly/537604/23 "2010-04-28T13:37:48Z")
I take two NSAIDs a day (one morning, one evening) due to an ongoing shoulder injury I haven’t been able to resolve. I hope this will not continue much longer. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/per-week-how-many-pills-do-you-take-regularly/537604/24 "2010-04-28T13:43:02Z")
> [@Kayeby](#): > > I take 7 pills a week for my birth control. That was my vote. I forgot to count vitamins, though, which would up my count into the 21-30 range, at least. ---
**Author:** ![Jelly\_Roll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Jelly\_Roll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jelly_Roll)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/per-week-how-many-pills-do-you-take-regularly/537604/25 "2010-04-28T13:48:41Z")
14 a week-1/day for thyroid and 1/day for dermatology reasons. I’m supposed to take 3 vitamins pills a day, which would bring me up to 35 pills a week, but I never, ever remember those vitamins. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/per-week-how-many-pills-do-you-take-regularly/537604/26 "2010-04-28T13:52:38Z")
I’m lucky so far. A handful of vitamins a day, an aspirin and the occasional sinus medication are all I take. For now. ---
**Author:** ![Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/per-week-how-many-pills-do-you-take-regularly/537604/27 "2010-04-28T13:53:22Z")
Seven pills a week. I take thyroid medication daily. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/per-week-how-many-pills-do-you-take-regularly/537604/28 "2010-04-28T14:14:09Z")
I take on half of one pill every morning for anxiety, a multivitamin, and at least in the spring I pop a benadryl every evening if I want to sleep. I take a few ibuprofens here and there too. I’d say with some regularity because I have a regular pain issue. I go through a 100 pack in a month usually but there is occasional family sharing. ---
**Author:** ![BetsQ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@BetsQ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BetsQ)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/per-week-how-many-pills-do-you-take-regularly/537604/29 "2010-04-28T14:32:40Z")
Wow. I just went through a few weeks of ~17 pills a day for shingles, and I thought that was pretty intolerable. My usual is one multivitamin/day. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/per-week-how-many-pills-do-you-take-regularly/537604/30 "2010-04-28T14:39:32Z")
I’m not even on many medications, and I’m still doing twelve pills a day…2 each of two different blood pressure pills, a B12, a multi, two calcium…those eight are required. Then I average about 4 Tylenol-types a day to help with the arthritis. Sometimes more. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/per-week-how-many-pills-do-you-take-regularly/537604/31 "2010-04-28T14:54:21Z")
Pills for diabetes, blood pressure, cholesterol, triglycerides, chronic depression, reflux, joints, allergies, and several supplements. Plus three insulin injections per day, plus testosterone injection every three weeks. And varying amounts of ibuprofen, depending on how painful my knees are. Yup, it comes to over 200/week. But many of these medications are literally keeping me alive. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/per-week-how-many-pills-do-you-take-regularly/537604/32 "2010-04-28T14:57:04Z")
Seven. Prilosec OTC, or better yet, CVS brand omeprazole. ---
**Author:** ![Heckity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a5b964/32.png) [@Heckity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heckity)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/per-week-how-many-pills-do-you-take-regularly/537604/33 "2010-04-28T14:58:55Z")
Huh - I take daily pills: one for high BP; and a complementary diuretic; 3 pharmaceutical potassium; one for cholesterol; one off-label anti-depressant; 2-3 anti-narcoleptics (2 daily with a top up as needed); 3 anti-spasm; one for thyroid; 2 vitamin B; one folic acid; one calcium; one anti-inflammatory. As I have regular recurrent bouts of cellulitis, I’m often on 6 daily antibiotics. And this is when I say “better living through pharmaceuticals” and “Thank og for my drug plan”. I should note that they are almost evenly divided between day and night - do not mix up the pink ‘pill minder’ with the blue ‘pill minder’, as one pill makes me bigger and the other makes me small. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/per-week-how-many-pills-do-you-take-regularly/537604/34 "2010-04-28T15:09:54Z")
About 140 per week (20 per day). All are non-prescription vitamins or supplements. I don’t know exactly what they are because I don’t really care, except I know that some of them are vitamin C and some are multi-minerals. In my marriage it’s one of the battles I choose not to fight. ---
**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/per-week-how-many-pills-do-you-take-regularly/537604/35 "2010-04-28T15:18:15Z")
14 pills a week: 7 thyroid pills and 7 prenatal vitamins. ---
**Author:** ![UncaStuart](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncastuart/32/404_2.png) [@UncaStuart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncaStuart)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/per-week-how-many-pills-do-you-take-regularly/537604/36 "2010-04-28T15:29:09Z")
At 52 I took 0 pills per day. Now, at 62 I take 7 pills per day: 1 for atrial fibrilation, 2 for TII diabetes, 1 for cholesterol, 2 multivitamins, and 1 full-strength aspirin. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/per-week-how-many-pills-do-you-take-regularly/537604/37 "2010-04-28T15:34:37Z")
Nine per day: five in the morning (metformin, altace, hydrochlorothiazide, low-dose aspirin, multivitamin), four in the evening (metformin, altace, simvastatin, pantoprazole). Not counting the two antacids at bedtime (not really _pills_, per se) or the as-needed benadryl. For those scoring at home, that’s diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, and GERD. Yes, I’m an overweight, middle-aged white guy with allergies. How’d you guess? ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/per-week-how-many-pills-do-you-take-regularly/537604/38 "2010-04-28T15:39:03Z")
Nine a day (63/week): 4 Fish Oil pills 1 aspirin 1 multivitamin 2 Niaspan 1 phenofibrate ---
**Author:** ![Palo\_Verde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@Palo\_Verde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palo_Verde)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/per-week-how-many-pills-do-you-take-regularly/537604/39 "2010-04-28T15:58:24Z")
Daily I take one Claritin (or generic Lordadine) and 2 fish oils. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/per-week-how-many-pills-do-you-take-regularly/537604/40 "2010-04-28T16:00:28Z")
I must be frighteningly healthy: at the age of 64, I can’t remember the last time that I took a pill of any kind. It was probably some paracetamol as a painkiller, but I might take that once every 2 or 3 years. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/per-week-how-many-pills-do-you-take-regularly/537604.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/per-week-how-many-pills-do-you-take-regularly/537604.md?page=3)