Prescription Drugs: Do you take any?

Dean wrote: I see Jim is on the expensive luxury statins but how many of us UK wrinklies here are paying (what I like to call) "statin tax" for the twenty-five times cheaper Simvastatins that nets the British government £7.28 each month?

Simvastatins didn't work for me, count kept hitting 8+ so GP put me on the pricey ones & now I'm down to just over 4 (despite my exclusively lard sandwich, cigarette, beer & black pudding diet)

someone_else wrote: Note on correct spelling: the death pills are named Atorvastatin .

emigre80 wrote: Dean wrote: Jim Garten wrote: Death pills = Avorvastatin (stops my blood becoming treacle) I see Jim is on the expensive luxury statins but how many of us UK wrinklies here are paying (what I like to call) "statin tax" for the twenty-five times cheaper Simvastatins that nets the British government £7.28 each month?    Simivastin is cheaper than dirt here. I think my monthly copay is $2.00. If in the UK the charge is the same for all drugs then I expect the British govt is in fact making a profit off you.

Edited by Dean - August 26 2016 at 07:20

SteveG wrote: Jim Garten wrote: [edit] Is there a drug available which enables you to spell 'prescription' correctly? Yes, Jim, it's called Alzheimer's medicine.   I've doubled the dose and corrected the spelling of the title!

Jim Garten wrote: Death pills = Avorvastatin (stops my blood becoming treacle)

2 on a regular basis - what my wife & I refer to as my nutter pills & my death pills -

Nutter pills = Citalopram (anti-depressants, mild dose)

Death pills = Avorvastatin (stops my blood becoming treacle)

Also, when needed, Sumatriptan for migraine (tricky ones these - if you take them too early, they don't work; if you take them too late, they don't work)

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Is there a drug available which enables you to spell 'prescription' correctly?

Edited by Jim Garten - August 26 2016 at 02:29

dr wu23 wrote: I take so many pills my daughter had to buy me one of those daily pill caddies so I can do it right..... (actually I only take 3 different meds...)

dr wu23 wrote: I take so many pills my daughter had to buy me one of those daily pill caddies so I can do it right..... (actually I only take 3 different meds...)

I take so many meds that my pill caddie looks like a Rubik's Cube!

SteveG wrote: Mascodagama wrote: Usually two, currently three.   I'm very happy that I was born in the era of modern medical science. About ten years ago my thyroid gland just stopped working. Thanks to 100 micrograms per day of levothyroxine this now has zero impact on my life. Without it I'd eventually have died, though I'd probably have gone mad first. Wow! Now that's a post to bring one back to reality! I'm very glad to hear you made a full recovery with your Rx and will be with us for a long time to come.

When a medic prescritps me some drugs, it's for a very short time, like when one gets the flu and has to take some medications for a week or so.
Yet, since diabeetus runs in my father's family, I'm afraid I would have to be on insulin when I'm older (unless I really keep a more strict sugarless diet)

Mascodagama wrote: Usually two, currently three.   I'm very happy that I was born in the era of modern medical science. About ten years ago my thyroid gland just stopped working. Thanks to 100 micrograms per day of levothyroxine this now has zero impact on my life. Without it I'd eventually have died, though I'd probably have gone mad first.

Wow! Now that's a post to bring one back to reality! I'm very glad to hear you made a full recovery with your Rx and will be with us for a long time to come.