How many prescription drugs do you have?

[TheYellowCellPhone]

None, I hardly ever take medication, because a lot of the times when I have medical problems, I get all manly and blockheaded and say "nah, I don't need it, it'll go away eventually".

 

[ace_of_something]

7, I'm not listing them. I have lupus.
My goal is once it's more under control to bring that number down to 3. None are controlled substances.
How about the shit side effects?
One makes me more sensitive to sunlight (get nauseous), one makes me retain weight, one makes me sleepy, and one i cannot drink alcohol at all while I'm on it. Which is fine I don't drink anyway. It's thanks to that guy that I don't have to take any 'controlled' substances.

 

[AngryMongoose]

None. Too lazy to be checked out for anything; and I'm on the NHS, who don't push drugs on people for profits.

 

[sky14kemea]

Right now I have 1. Metaclopramide, or something. It's meant to get rid of nausea, which I only have because of a weird stomach illness that hasn't been diagnosed yet.

Weirdly, they don't work so well >_> But I keep taking them 'cause it's still an improvement from earlier.

Metoclopramide/Reglan isn't meant to get rid of nausea, it's meant to help a slow stomach or a slow or paralyzed vagus nerve digest food. They can cause tardive dyskinesia, so don't take them if you don't absolutely need them. (I take them, without them I'd be almost unable to digest food. Slow stomach to start with, add painkillers, and...)

Try ginger capsules for nausea. They'll give you some throat-burn feeling, but they work. Even the Mythbusters agreed that this is the only anti-seasickness remedy that actually worked! If I've got bad nausea, I'll take that in addition to my Reglan.

Really? I've never heard of Ginger capsules :0 I'll try them as well.

The reason he prescribed them is because they still have no idea what's causing my stomach illness, I did have some tablets to neutralize my stomach acid before these. I'll go back to my doctor and ask though...

 

[Ham_authority95]

None. I take vitamins occasionally, and I have allergy meds in the spring, but those are over the counter.

 

[Aur0ra145]

None. Occasionally I'll take a benydryl for allergies, but other than that, I don't take anything.

 

[Dr. Pepper Unlimited]

Zero. Hooray for health!

 

[Elsarild]

I got 1: some strong stuff to keep control of my stomach acid.

And it's not controlled, I could buy enough to swim in them. I would die, but I could!

 

[robot slipper]

I take levothyroxine for my slightly underactive thyroid, and lansoprazole for my overactive stomach acid.

I work in the quality control lab for a pharmaceutical company, so it has been jolly good fun reading this thread and going "I test that! And that! And that!".