Two more arrows in the quiver

[cjsmith]

I've got nettle and bromelain now, too. Nettle is particularly nifty: it seems to work well with NSAIDs, giving a big multiplier to the drugs' effectiveness. Most excellent. Gimme.

My purse is bulging with all the things (pills, Blue Goo) I carry back and forth to work. Some things want to be 3x/day spaced out evenly, some want to be with meals, some I only need 1x/day.

MORNING: NSAID, nettle, bromelain, flaxseed oil, glucosamine/chondroitin, standard multivitamin: 16 pills.
LUNCH: nettle, bromelain, flaxseed oil: 8 pills.
MIDAFTERNOON: NSAID, 3 pills.
DINNER: nettle, bromelain, flaxseed oil: 8 pills.
NIGHT: NSAID, hormones: 4 pills.

Plus the Blue Goo 2-3x/day and the icing and the no sweets, of course.

This gets old.

Important Safety Tip: when taking sixteen pills right in a row, don't wash every one of 'em down with carbonated water. I feel like I just ate a rock. A big rock.

Comments

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

when taking sixteen pills right in a row, don't wash every one of 'em down with carbonated water.

I once tried taking my morning pills (about 16, 17, somewhere in there) with a diet Coke. It's bad when it fizzes back up your nose because you're trying to swallow a BIG pill :-)

Have you considered adding MSM to the mix, too?

[layer.livejournal.com]

i used to take 50 pills per day. finally just couldn't take it any more and stopped. think it's probably time to try and find a happy medium between all and nothing.

the other bonus about carbonated water is that if you don't swallow them fast enough it desolves the outer coating...

[genderfur.livejournal.com]

Perhaps useful? There are pill bottles with alarms built in. For people who have to take their meds at *precisely* the right time....

[just-cyd.livejournal.com]

ooh! that tip on the nettle might be something for me to check out to get this hip pain under control. anti-inflammatories don't seem to to squat for me, so maybe this boost will...?

since adding supplements, it's hard for me to get all my pills down in one sitting. i start with the smallest and most essential and go from there. three days this week my multivitamin, glucosamine/chondroiten (huge freaking thing) and one other didn't get down til i got to work. and i'm horrible about taking my dinner meds.

i keep forgetting to take my blue goo and ice packs to work. i do have access to an ice machine and plastic bags, so i can make my own in a pinch, but i learned the hard way they can leak. :-/

[rampling.livejournal.com]

When I was going through my pre- and post-surgery times, I had to swallow tons of pills, on irritatingly varying schedules. I had to carry my "big bag" in which I'd put all my pills and (most important) my record-keeping chart (which I'd created in excel) to follow it all. My best help was relabelling an extra-large 7-day pill container with 7 different types of pills. That way I could easily grab what I needed for each dose. Even those 7-day/4x-a-day 28-pill containers wouldn't have helped, because my regimen kept changing.

Anyway -- hang in there. Piles of pills sux, but hopefully they'll pay off for you.

And more virtual *hugs* from afar.