How many pills???

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how many pills???

how many pills do you take????

luckily ive been med free since my ileo operation!!!
was wandering how many tablets a day do you take?
and what they are for??

:hugs: me
 
At the moment I take 8 Asacol, 4 azathioprine, 1 folic acid, 1 fish oil, 1 probiotic, I also take 2 Senna tablets when needed.
I do have a horrid feeling the nasty pred is on its way again which will increase the number of meds as I have to take Calcium and Indigestion meds along with them.
Donna, I hope your med free days last a very long time

Jo x
 
For my crohns I'm currently taking 2 tablets, pentasa. Although I also take 1 calcichew d3 daily and 1 alendronic acid tablet weekly to build up my bone density.

calum
 
Currently, I'm taking 2 pills Entocort, 2 pills Welchol, paxil, requip, 2 pills vitamin D, sublingual B-12, 2 pills acidophilis/bifidus, 2 pills fish oil, and 3 pills multi-vitamin. Dang, that's a lot of pills!!
 
Im down to only 9! yay! (11 on sundays)

2 MTX (only once a week)... to prevent anti-bodies to remicade
1 folic acid... to help with nausia from the MTX
1 pantaloc... for sore tummy
1 altace... high blood pressure
2 potassium... for my heart (blood pressure meds messed up my levels)
2 calcium... had a bad bone scan from the pred
1 multivitamin... just for fun
1 "the pill"... also just for fun :)

... and remicade every 8 weeks.. but thats not a pill.
 
1 Azathioprine a day and then just 1 iron tablet,1 ginseng and 1 A,C,E +Selenium a day
 
currently for each day....

8 pentasa
3 prednisone
2 iron
1 multi-vitamin
2 calcium
muscle relaxers as needed
starting immuno-suppressant (imuran) next week - not sure how many that will be

isn't it fun? :thumbdown:
 
As far as prescription meds, I only take monthly B12 injections.

The rest of the pills I take are nutritional supplements or OTC:

-1 or 2 Primal Defense capsule (probiotics) daily
-1 Colace/Docusate sodium (stool softener) soft gel daily
-Omega-Zyme (enzyme capsules) as needed before heavy meals or eating
hard-to-digest foods

Glyconutrients:

-1/2 tsp Advanced Ambrotose powder
-2 caplets - Manna Cleanse
-2 caplets Catalyst multivitamin/mineral supplement
-1 caplet Plus (endocrine support)
-1 caplet AO (antioxidant)
-1 capsule Phyt-Aloe (whole food dried fruits & vegetables supplement)

Other stuff:

Occasionally I'll take a fiber supplement (Citrucel caplets)

I'm supposed to take calcium supplements also, to help correct the long-term effects of taking Prednisone (osteopenia), but they do a number on me-they're very constipating! <ugh>

I'm sure that most of us here are professional "pill poppers." LOL
 
me (19 a day -right now..):
8 pentasa
3 entocort
1 aciphex
1 prozac
1 concerta
1 ambien cr -late at night ofcourse :)
1 trivora (birth control)
1 fish oil
1 multi vitamin-sustained release
1 calcium/magnesium
soon: probably back to vitamin e (2 a day) and cosamin (2 a day)
and maybe start vitamin d (not sure how many..)
 
8 salofalk
1 multi - vitamin (generic)
1 acidolphous (sp?)

Still holding off on the steroids... Was taking 3 500Mg of calcium sups daily, but they were killing me... trying to increase my cal intake by adding low fat lactose free cheese and cheese substitutes, and a daily container of yogurt.
Was taking 6 tylenol 3 (codiene) for the pain... but the codeine wasn't good! So now I just tuff it out... Besides, with 4000 mg of salofalk in me, pain is not so bad anymore.. except for around my pancreas or bile ducts (whatever)
 
Do you mean how many prescription meds or how many non prescription supplments every day Or both? Also do you want me to inclue in this list pills that are taken "meraly as needed"...
 
Kev make sure you do not exceed 4 grams of tylenol a day or it WILL cause liver damage... 2 grams is the highest safe dose you can take in a day... Anymore than that increases the risk of liver damage... Also your Loritabs and other pain meds more than likely have tylenol in them.... For pain I take Darvocet.. It is mainly tylenol with a very very very small synthitic narcotic in it... It will bassicly just help a lil bit more than a tylenol... BUT it will not clog your intestines and it shouldn't effect your crohn's...
 
You all may get tired of hearing this . . . but all I am on is 1 1/2 ounces of XanGo (mangosteen juice) 3 times a day. Sorry to not have more, but I dropped all those meds and feel better than when on them. But, we all have what works for us, right?
 
Just remember you can't just drop meds though.... You must tapper off of them or else you may die or at least have long term permenant damage... Depends on the med..dosage, how long you have been on it, what you taek it for... what your health is in.... What affect this supplment will have with your other supliments etc etc...
 
I'll make my list open for browsing tommorow yes I can be as specfic or as obtuse as you want me to be. I'll think I'll be in Capn GNC man mode though...

Should help to get me physced up for dealing with people again...
 
I take the following daily

3 entocort
6 asacol
1 calcium
3 metronidizole(Ithink theyre doing more harm than good

thank god ive cut back on what it used to be
 
Eeeek more pills for me.

3 entocort
3 pentasa
2 forvia
1 6mp
1 yaz

10 pills a day. New record.
 
im down to 1.5 imurans now

earlier in the summer i had 8 prednisone in addtion to my 1.5 imurans, and of coarse in order to take them i had to take a gravol with them.

I can take pills but 9 was just to many, i was tired by the time i was done with them, i used to crush them up and mix them with a glass of really strong tang.

I dunno how you guys can take 10 or 15 pills, id need a nap after that.
 
I take 2 acidiphillus, 4 probiotics. 1 to 4 digestive enzymes, 1 20mg prednisone. 5-1mg folic acid pills, vitamin d 50000 units-one pill, one injection weekly for methotrexate 25mg, norco10mg/325's between six and 8 a day, yea ridiculous. Percocoet 10mg/325mg 4 to 6 a day depending. 1 20mg celexa. 4-.5mg xanax, 3 tums a day, 1 fosamax,3 flexeral, protonix 20 mg, singulair 1, proventil 3 times a day two puffs. cipro, 500mg 2 a day, flagyl 3 a day 500mg, 25mg phenergan as needed. And about to start Remicade again, with loading doses and then douubling up on it to 10mg per kilo I believe.
 
I take (day)
5mg Folic Acid
2 pkg Questrin
500mg Calcium 3 times a day
1 multi vit with complex B
3 salmon oil
1 vit E
and
1 week - 1cc (25mg) metholtrexate sub Q
and
1 month - 1cc(25mg) b12 im
and
8 weeks - Remicade, hydrocortisone, benidryl, tylenol

Thats it I thing.

skinsfan, good to see that you are using probiotics with the antibiotics!!!

Flying Frog (aka Nelson)
 
FYI
If you take calcium, (and you should), my doc's said that a new study shows that our bodies can only absorb about 450-500 mg at a time. I was told to take 500mg with a meal (3*day) for better absorpsion.

Flying Frog (aka Nelson)
 
prednisone 3mg daily morning
methoxtrexate 8 pills weekly saturday
atacand 4mg daily morning
Fosamax 70mg weekly sunday
PRILOSEC OTC 20MG daily morning
folic acid 1mg daily morning
Vit D 800ui daily morning
Vit E 800ui daily morning
calcium 600ui daily morning

I have arthritis(STILLS disease )and Crohns . Most Crohns meds work for arthritis too.
But only thing to work for me that works on both is higher dose of pred. SO far.
 
Crohn's and glyconutrients

Hi,

I would be keen to hear whether anyone is taking glyconutrients to treat Crohn's. There is so much hype surrounding glyconutrients and we are trying to get to hear actual users experiences.

Many thanks in advance.
Perry
 
I take these every day. I was so excited to stop the Entocort. 3 less pills to take per day!

4 sulfasalazine
4 iron
1 folic acid
1 prozac
1 multi vitamin
1 vitamin C

(the last two are by choice, the others are all prescribed)

***oh yeah, I am suppose to take 1-2 prilosec everyday too, but have stopped since I haven't had any heartburn issues (should probably let my GI know!)
 
5 prednisone (1x5mg + 4x1mg) - tapering
5 Azathioprine (5x50mg)
2 Vit D
2 Calcium
2 Immodium

Total of 16 daily. Sheez when you look at it like that, that's a hell of a lot.
 
Prescription medication wise, I take -

2 Azathioprine
8 Pentasa
6 Pregabalin
8 Paracetamol
2 MST (Morphine)
5 Pro Banthine
4 Cyclizine
1 Amitriptyline
1 Diazepam
2 Omeprazole
1 Microgynon

Then I also have Immodium for when needed and prebiotics, calcichew and other herbal supplements. It kind of makes me said I take almost 50 pills a day, when I was on pred. it was a lot more than that too. I really don't feel like azathioprine is working for me, I'd like to find a medication that actually gets me into remission so I can quit with all these pain pills. I'm in the process of changing GI specialists because my current one doesn't listen and appears to have no interest in my general welfare.
 
Sorry, Perry. I've never even heard of glyconutrients - what are they? Welcome to the forum, though!

My meds include:
2 prednisone (1-10 mg and 1-5 mg at the moment)
2 Imuran (down from 3)
2 Plaquenil
1 Januvia
1 glimepiride
1 Protonix
1 loratadine
1 multivitamin
2 fish oil
1 BCP
2 insulin injections

Will have to add something else soon for the Crohn's (probably methotrexate injections) as the more I taper the pred, the more the symptoms come back...
 
hmm i dont take nearly as much as you guys...i only take 9 pentasa a day and 2 tylenol pm at night and pred if im on it which im in the hospital now so they give it thru iv...im sorry you guys take so much i hope i never have to take that many i have problems taking the amount i do now!lol!
 
wow...the tears almost hit me there....I can't believe how few pills I am on now compared to January when I got out of the hospital...

NOW:

3mg pred /day
2 ratidine (spelled wrong sorry)
1 Vitamin D
1 Folic Acid
1 Iron (Special brand prescription - the other brands killed me.)
3 Imuran a day
REMICADE - Every 8 weeks.

SO MUCH LESS then what i started out with. :)
 
Pentasa - 500MG capsules, 4 in the morning, 4 at night.

Two Vitamin B supplements, because Im always so damn tired and I noticed it helps give some energy.
 
At the moment:

3 elavil (For IBS/Chronic pain. 75mg but I demanded it in 25mg tabs because the last 50mg are worthless and I don't expect to be taking them very long)

1 atenelol (for mysterious tachycardia)

2 fish oil (great for good cholesterol)

1 multivitamin (100% of my recommended vitamin D intake before I even finish breakfast and yet the Rheumatologist decides it's a dietary deficiency)

7 Total (It was more impressive back in the prednisone days)
 
Hello everyone, newbie here... Dx this past March :-(. I take the following:

Remicade infusion
6-MP
Prednisone
Hycosamine
Zofran
Prozac
Clonazepam as needed
Vit D
Vit b-12
Colace
Mirilax
Folic acid
Nicoderm patch
Benadryl as needed
Birth control
Ambien CR
Gosh, I think that is it.....
 

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