Do You Need Medicines to Help You Function, Stop Pain, to Feel Better and How's That Working For You?

Ruthanne said:
I take what I consider a moderate amount of medicines for a person my age which is 65. There probably are those my age who don't need any yet, too.

I take 2 medicines to help with depression which is a chemical imbalance. I feel the medicines help restore me to feeling like myself again.

I take medicines to sleep, for Hepatic Portal Hypertension, for lowering cholesterol, for anxiety and panic. For the most part I sleep better.

How about you? Do you take medicines and what for if I may ask.
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I take about 17. I have to to function.
 
Right Now said:
Nothing to speak of, thank goodness. I am in very good health, and keep up with annual checkups. A multivitamin for 50 years, and low dose statin for cholesterol.
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That's wonderful! You must come from healthy stock and have taken extra good care of yourself!
 
Pepper said:
I do, right hand, and natch I'm right handed. Sometimes it shakes uncontrollably. I'm a wreck I tell you!
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My hands shake also. I have Essential Tremor. Inherited it from my grandparents and some in my current family have it, too. There is medicine for it but it was too strong for me.
 
Judycat said:
I take three for neuropathic pain, two for mental pain and one for high blood pressure. I could use more for mental pain. I will be 70 in June.
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I can relate. I take gabapentin for mood stabilizer and prozac for depression. Gabapentin makes me feel pretty good! Have you tried it?
 
Ruthanne said:
I can relate. I take gabapentin for mood stabilizer and prozac for depression. Gabapentin makes me feel pretty good! Have you tried it?
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I was given gabapentin for a while for pain but it didn't do much. I'm glad it helps you. I use Abilify and Celexa instead. They work well enough.
 
Judycat said:
I was given gabapentin for a while for pain but it didn't do much. I'm glad it helps you. I use Abilify and Celexa instead. They work well enough.
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Sometimes the dose needs to be increase for a mood stabilizer. Glad what you have work for you. I take Prozac, Risperidone and Gabapentin for a mood stabilizer and not for pain. 300 mg 2 times a day and 500 mg at bedtime. My doctor told me some people require 900 mg. 3 times per day.
 
Terazosin
Simvastatin
Lisinopril
Coreg
Amlodipine

Plus there's 1 more!
An inhaler. I have COPD and at times the lungs get a touch restricted. Perfume is very bad, cold wind almost as bad.

Now if I could drop some wright, I'd be better off.
 
Disgustedman said:
Terazosin
Simvastatin
Lisinopril
Coreg
Amlodipine

Plus there's 1 more!
An inhaler. I have COPD and at times the lungs get a touch restricted. Perfume is very bad, cold wind almost as bad.

Now if I could drop some wright, I'd be better off.
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I know what you mean about dropping weight. Seems the older I get the harder it is to take it off and it's partly because I don't care that much any more.
 
David777 said:
IMO many humans are victims of their own substance use and or lifestyles that create endless cycles of substance and drug consumption with worsening homeostasis.

All my adult life, rarely took any medicines or drugs, for the sake of maintaining a long evolved normal internal chemical homeostasis. That includes the favorites of many, alcohol, caffeine, and nicotine, that most also tend to conveniently not consider. If a rare toothache or headache, might take an aspirin or ibuprofen. Head cold? No don't ever take any medicines as decongestants and just allow my own immune system to run its course.

But since this March after a diagnosis of polycythemia vera, a rare but very treatable blood cancer, have been daily taking hydroxy urea that does not otherwise seem to affect my body and which research indicates is safe.
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I was curious about the polycythemia vera that you talked about and read this article about it:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK557660/

Apparently, it causes a thickening of the blood. Aspirin has been one of the treatments in this article.
 
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