How many Medications do you take a day?
I take:
Morning: I take 7 tablets and 1 Insulin Injection.
Lunch: 1 Insulin Injection.
Evening: 5 tablets and 1 Insulin Injection.
Guess I’m lucky, no medication. 
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I have 4 insulin injections every day & take 3 pills.
I used to have a Vitamin D supplement every day but that has been reduced to every other day because it is causing a magnezium deficiency.
Until recently I took only one pill a supplement type thing but my doctor just persuaded me to take another so two pills a day for me
I take 8 after breakfast plus two calcium tabs throughout the day if & when I remember.
I’m not sure I really need half of them, for example, 4 are for hypertension, there’s probably a single tab that would do the trick. I take the lowest dose of statins when I’m not sure I need it at all.
I just take Thyroxin, daily. I might take supplements now and again, if I feel I need a boost of iron or vitamin D, but its not a regular thing.
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I take a low dose of vit D, it’s in the calcium I take. And as I’m osteopenia, the doc thinks the calcium wouldn’t do me any harm anyway.
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one of the tabs I take is carbimazole for thyroid probs.
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I take a couple in the morning and one before bed. I’ve also got into the habit of taking a vit D tablet every day since reading last year that a high percentage of Covid sufferers had low levels of it.
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Yes I read that too…I used to have a spray that I scooshed under the tongue, last year. Now its just tablets.
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I take an anticoagulant twice daily (and will do so for the rest of my life),
I also take Magnesium Taurate
Vitamin D3 all year (I am Vit D deficient)
II have recently stoped one medication in stages because it was not effective and was considerably reduced my quality of life including my vision/balance/ability to be active.
I am in the process of reducing a second medication which is also affecting my quality of life and I am monitoring that careful.
Most conditions have set guidelines stipulated by NICE ( You can look it up for yourself ) that Doctors are supposed to follow so they prescribe medication accordingly but that means everyone is treated the same and we are all different . No one has ever asked me if the medications are effective , I am just told to keep taking them . What is the point if they are not effective and make your quality of life worse.
I am at the same time trying to increase my overall body health by following Professor Tim Spector recommendation to eat 30 different plant based foods a week which is not a problem for me as a vegetarian .
ETA I forgot my Seretide Inhaler for asthma…
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Meg, when doctors understand that patients are not all the same, health care will get even better.
My doctor told me that as my Vit D was low I should take high supplements every day. What she didn’t tell me was that oral Vit D reduces the effects of magnezium. My Vit D level is now up to 80 , so not too high, but it has caused my magnezium level to go very low.
Strangely enough since I have lowered the VIt D & eaten more plant foods ( avocado are good & so are bananas & nuts) I have felt better, so waiting for the results of yesterdays blood test . My Doc has now told me I can have vitamin blood tests whenever I feel I need them! 
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Hi
I am currently taking 13 in the morning, 5 at lunch, 5 in the evening and 2 at bedtime.
They have been changed again during this hospital admission.
My eldest niece follows this too Meg. Think it started with his first book Identically different when she first mention him I recall buying it for her for Christmas
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I have several NHS prescribed meds and all are self administered daily at the correct times.
A GLP-1 analogue morning injection that helps combat insulin resistance, and very effective it is too 
Last HbA1c was 5.8%
Pioglitazone by tablet for insulin resistance
Candesartan by tablet for tight control of hypertension.
Amlodipine by tablet for circulation.
Lixiana by tablet as an anticlotting agent due to my tendency for AF.
Sotalol by tablet as an anti AF control. Atrial fibrillation (AF) | British Heart Foundation (bhf.org.uk)
Two different inhalers for asthma/COPD. I’m an ex smoker since 1982, but still treated as a smoking leper 
I am also supplied with blood testing strips for home monitoring and the meter is supplied/maintained FOC by the test strip manufacturer GlucoMen Areo and Areo 2K
A few years ago my GP put me on Vit. D capsules, but now they have taken them off my prescriptions and told me to buy them over the Counter if I want them.
Each morning I take Metformin for diabetes, Lisinopril for blood pressure, and inject insulin
With dinner & tea I inject insulin
At night I inject a long lasting insulin
Sometimes I take a vit D or a multivitamin tablet
I used to take Atorvastatin to control cholesterol, but eventually suffered from statin ache, so I stopped it
My cholesterol level is at the upper limit of acceptable, but is going down very slowly and slightly as I’m trying to control things with diet, exercise, and losing weight; this has also improved my BP & diabetes
I take Thyroxin as well, two tablets 50 & 25, in the morning, which is low as most need over 100 & anti itch pills for my eczema, (they don’t work) & Omeprazole for reflux in the afternoon.
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Susie that is because you are above the seriously deficient level now & you can get Vit D3 capsules reasonably cheap. You can get twice is much if you buy when H&B sell them for 1p if you buy 2 packs. Ut saves the NHS money that way!
Ask you doctor when you will need blood tests to make sure your Vit D level is stable. They can check you magnezium levels too from the same tube of blood.
If you dont ask they wont offer!
I take Thyroxine too. Used to take 25 mg. but they upped it to 50 mg a while back.
Also just a 10 mg Statin.
I do take a multivitamin, a ProBiotic, plus a Q10 as well.
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