SheitlQueen
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three total.......two for high blood pressure and one for thyroid.
Based on observation only, I believe it is age related. As folks get older they tend to take more. I am very lucky at 73 to still be at zero. I sometimes take an antacid if I eat certain things like Italian foods, red wine and a couple other. But only as needed. Doctor would like me to take a daily aspirin but haven't gone there yet.
With medicine, I feel less is best if at all possible.
You might want to consider adding Vitamin K to your regimen, if you are not doing so already. Vitamin K (especially K2), taken in conjunction with Vitamin D3 and calcium, helps make sure that the calcium gets to the right place (bones), and not to the arteries.
https://saveourbones.com/vitamin-k-osteoporosis/
What about medications you take regularly, but not daily? Some are meant to be taken once a week or even once a month.
For the people taking two meds for HBP....is it two different meds or just the same med twice per day?
Very few people in their sixties on zero meds. I've heard that undercover teams from the Smithsonian Medical Museum are scouring the country to find us, to put us under glass bell jars in the museum.
At 72, no medicines, no supplements.
So, do you get the "REally? Are you sURE?" when you say no Rx? As if your memory must be failing, you poor thing....
It always annoys me when my record at the Dr's office shows I'm still on the last 3 Rx's I took for temporary conditions.