How many medications do you take?

[Steamm]

It's been 5 months since I'm taking 5 medications per day and still I don't see anything getting better

 

[Suicide_vampire]

I feel much the same I take 3 different drugs, fairly high doses and notice no difference, I've been on one drug or another for last 18 months

 

[faust]

I stopped the medication (antidepressants, antipsychotics). Was taking xanax against anxiety the past 10 days (not every day) but I ran out of it a few days ago. Now only on my own.

 

[drivingaround]

5. It was 4 but just started one for sleep.

 

[Squiddy]

Currently taking 8 things

 

[Nem]

It's been 5 months since I'm taking 5 medications per day and still I don't see anything getting better

Sorry to hear that. Meds have been proven to be about 5% better than a placebo, they're working fine for the company making them though!

peace/hugs

 

[Keto]

I'm under antidepressants for 12 years right now. Some of them worked really good, like Venlafaxine, but it has terrible side effects and I can't bear them.
Right now, I take 2 medications. Don't feel any improvement, have no energy to do anything. I visit psychiatrist every month.

 

[Jean4]

9 and medical marijuana

 

[waterbottleman]

0

I don't take any medications or do any drugs.

I used to smoke weed but I quit a while ago.

 

[RottenDeer]

I'm taking anti depressants since I'm 15, so roughly seven years. Also started with ritalin the same time.

 

[Lethe]

I just take estrogen and a testosterone-blocker. I've been on and off antidepressants for several years, recently stopped taking them again.

 

[Final Escape]

I take levothyroxine, dex or adderall sometimes, herpes suppression, on pellet therapy with testosterone, estrogen, and progesterone, estrogen blocker. I want to switch my thyroid to the natural hormone bc levothyroxine is synthetic so not as good for u as natural thyroid hormone from pigs.

 

[zeroambition]

I just take Sertraline 100mg at the moment.

 

[ctbUniquectb]

I've tapered to 3 prescriptions and 2 supplements, but it's all stopped working. My next prescription is 8g of Pb

 

[RealLifeTamagotchi]

Used to take 7 different kinds of meds but now I only take 2(venlafaxine, quetiapine) he he but my parents want me to stop taking them altogether:(

 

[KiraLittleOwl]

I recently quit Seroquel
Idk why, probably because I was tired of getting extremely sleepy in the morning after I took the pills. I slept during the day and night.
It helped with anxiety a little but
didn't even chip my depression.
Now I think should I start something else or not... Everything I tried before never made a difference except for side effects.

 

[Slow85]

To many!
Lithium , Olanzapine, ariprazole , Venlafaxine as standards and then I have PRNs zolpiderm diazepam promethizine Clonazepam sometimes

rattle when I walk

 

[BPD Barbie]

Aripiprazole, Sertraline, Promethazine, Levothyroxine, Fexofenadine, Loperamide and 2 inhalers. Until recently I was on Lamotrigine as well but had to be stopped due to developing a rash.

Used to take 7 different kinds of meds but now I only take 2(venlafaxine, quetiapine) he he but my parents want me to stop taking them altogether:(

Please do what's best for YOU and you only love if they help, keep taking them!

 

[hershberger]

for my brain: phenelzine (Nardil), alprazolam (Xanax); if you wondering why I'm on an MAOI like phenelzine, it's because my psychiatrist had quite literally tried every other anti-depressant, and he thinks outside the box, so we gave up on the more common stuff because I'm officially "treatment-resistant"
for my stomach: omeprazole
for my blood sugar: metformin
for my blood pressure: amlodipine, lisinopril
for not sleeping: eszopiclone (Lunesta)
for when I'm hungry: pizza (which explains the omeprazole, metformin, amlodipine, and lisinopril, I guess)

And I second what Barbie said above: nothing personal against your parents, but they're wrong. If a medicine is helping you, take it. If not, find something else.

 

[Myforevercharlie]

I take Cipralex, Effexor, Lexotanil and Pramipexol ( the last one not for mental issues)

 

[Donk]

I recently quit Seroquel
Idk why, probably because I was tired of getting extremely sleepy in the morning after I took the pills. I slept during the day and night.
It helped with anxiety a little but
didn't even chip my depression.
Now I think should I start something else or not... Everything I tried before never made a difference except for side effects.

i was on seroquel as well. had to stop taking it cause i was sleeping 13 hrs a day. felt restless when i was awake