# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Nefarious\_Chipmunk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nefarious_chipmunk/32/1045_2.png) [@Nefarious\_Chipmunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nefarious_Chipmunk)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/per-week-how-many-pills-do-you-take-regularly/537604/41 "2010-04-28T16:06:53Z")
I take two pills a day (14 a week). One B12 and one Vit D. They are both at the insistence of my doctor. If it were up to me I wouldn’t take any. I hate pills. My doctor also wanted to put me on Singular, but I seem to have convinced her that I don’t really need it. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/per-week-how-many-pills-do-you-take-regularly/537604/42 "2010-04-28T16:23:17Z")
5 Metformin a day - 2 in the am and 3 in the pm, for diabetes 1 multivitamin 2 calcium/Vitamin D pills 1 lisinopril - blood pressure 1 pravastatin - cholesterol 1 nexium - acid reflux That 11 per day, so 77 a week - plus 1 osteoporosis pill per week 78 pills. Dear Og. It used to be more, before I cut out some other vitamin supplements. Plus I stopped taking two pills for diabetes, and went on insulin. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/per-week-how-many-pills-do-you-take-regularly/537604/43 "2010-04-28T16:45:51Z")
1. 7 daily multi vitamins. That is consistent throughout the year. Right now during allergy season, I’m taking one Claritin D per day. Hopefully allergy season should be about over. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/per-week-how-many-pills-do-you-take-regularly/537604/44 "2010-04-28T16:52:08Z")
Five pills a day, seven days a week… thirty-five. ---
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/per-week-how-many-pills-do-you-take-regularly/537604/45 "2010-04-28T16:57:46Z")
None. Ever. ---
**Author:** ![Hirka\_T\_Bawa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/db5fbb/32.png) [@Hirka\_T\_Bawa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hirka_T_Bawa)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/per-week-how-many-pills-do-you-take-regularly/537604/46 "2010-04-28T17:32:49Z")
I don’t have any regularly scheduled medications, all the meds I take are PRN. However, I would like to thank all of y’all for giving me a job once I graduate from Pharmacy School! 😃 > [@gotpasswords](#): > > 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. Wow, you take more then 300 mcg of levothyroxine a day? I don’t think I’ve ever filled more then that for a human before. You’re not a dog are you? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/per-week-how-many-pills-do-you-take-regularly/537604/47 "2010-04-28T17:37:52Z")
I take four pills a day: two for diabetes control, one for blood pressure, and one antidepressant (shocker!). ---
**Author:** ![Ludy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Ludy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludy)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/per-week-how-many-pills-do-you-take-regularly/537604/48 "2010-04-28T17:42:35Z")
One birth control pill a day and a daily vitamin when I remember. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/per-week-how-many-pills-do-you-take-regularly/537604/49 "2010-04-28T17:43:10Z")
Daily one pill for my marginal half thyroid, one vitamin, and six for my heart, including 3 warfarins. I can’t spell any of the others! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/per-week-how-many-pills-do-you-take-regularly/537604/50 "2010-04-28T18:36:42Z")
Fourteen a week. One daily 2.5mg amlodipine and one daily 40mg lisinopril, both for high blood pressure. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/per-week-how-many-pills-do-you-take-regularly/537604/51 "2010-04-28T18:42:30Z")
14 a week - 1 a day for GERD, 1 a day for high blood pressure. ---
**Author:** ![rhubarbarin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eb9ed0/32.png) [@rhubarbarin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rhubarbarin)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/per-week-how-many-pills-do-you-take-regularly/537604/52 "2010-04-28T18:58:01Z")
1-10. I take a kelp pill a few times a week (I don’t get a lot of iodine in my daily diet) and calcium supplements most days. No medications. ---
**Author:** ![Flyhalf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ea5d25/32.png) [@Flyhalf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flyhalf)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/per-week-how-many-pills-do-you-take-regularly/537604/53 "2010-04-28T19:02:42Z")
Probably around 180 per week. ---
**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/per-week-how-many-pills-do-you-take-regularly/537604/54 "2010-04-28T19:11:59Z")
3 prescriptions that I take once daily: Birth control Prilosec Paxil And seasonally, OTC allergy/sinus meds once a day - something to look forward to in the next few weeks. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/per-week-how-many-pills-do-you-take-regularly/537604/55 "2010-04-28T19:26:45Z")
Four per day/28 per week: three for diabetes, and one for high blood pressure. I hate taking pills. I don’t even like taking Tylenol for a headache. When both conditions were diagnosed, I fought going on medication for as long as I could (though, clearly, I didn’t bother to lose the weight that most likely would make both conditions disappear). It’s been almost 2 years now and I’m used to it, but every now and then I still grumble to myself when I have to get one of the prescriptions refilled. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/per-week-how-many-pills-do-you-take-regularly/537604/56 "2010-04-28T19:27:27Z")
A multivitamin with calcium, and that’s all. I should be taking Lipitor but I need to see the doc and get the scrip renewed. I’m 65, and compared to my mom at this age, I’m in good shape. Now watch me keel over tomorrow. ::knock wood:: ---
**Author:** ![Velma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/85e7bf/32.png) [@Velma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velma)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/per-week-how-many-pills-do-you-take-regularly/537604/57 "2010-04-28T19:49:18Z")
None since I switched to non-pill form birth control. I probably should be taking a multivitamin or something though, but I eat well. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/per-week-how-many-pills-do-you-take-regularly/537604/58 "2010-04-28T23:42:08Z")
One multi-vitamin daily, so 7 a week. ---
**Author:** ![Maiira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Maiira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maiira)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/per-week-how-many-pills-do-you-take-regularly/537604/59 "2010-04-28T23:54:11Z")
> [@Kayeby](#): > > I take 7 pills a week for my birth control. This was my response. I have fruity chewable vitamins, too, but I don’t remember to take those as often. ---
**Author:** ![myskepticsight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@myskepticsight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myskepticsight)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/per-week-how-many-pills-do-you-take-regularly/537604/60 "2010-04-29T01:15:47Z")
Daily I take: birth control multivitamin beta blocker to prevent migraine headaches so 21/week but sometimes I forget my vitamin. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/per-week-how-many-pills-do-you-take-regularly/537604.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/per-week-how-many-pills-do-you-take-regularly/537604.md?page=4)