Prescribed drugs and Cyclists

[Homers Double]

12 weekly injection for me, age 49 but otherwise nothing other than joint supplements.

 

[winjim]

I hope this is not due to dementia.

As someone who has the other type of forgetting things disorder, the irony of having to remember to take pills in order to mitigate it is not lost on me...

 

[Drago]

Once a month I sit down and sort Mrs D's tabs into an dispenser/organiser. Takes about an hour, but it means if shes tired, feeling unwell or suffering the MS brain fog she can see where shes at and what needs taking.

 

[presta]

Prescriptions per year, not doses per day.

 

[Stevo 666]

Nothing for me, unless you count a daily multivitamin supplement.

 

[Drago]

Nothing for me, unless you count a daily multivitamin supplement.

Oh aye, not a prescription but ai have to take a daily calcium, to,protect me from the effects of the lanzasperole or whatever its called.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

One tablet per day for BP, with a serial prescription issued every 8 weeks.

This amounts to 6.5 prescriptions per annum.

 

[ColinJ]

1 - daily anticoagulants. I was put on them 14 years ago after a life-threatening DVT/PE (pulmonary embolism). The doctor took me off them after 8 months but I only lasted 4 months before I developed a second PE so I am now on them for life**.




** My case was reviewed a couple of years later. The same consultant who had taken me off the meds first time round asked if I would like to try stopping again. I "might be alright this time"... Er, no thanks!!

 

[Drago]

This amounts to 6.5 prescriptions per annum.

Oh, that's a lot of suppositories!

 

[fossyant]

Generally keeping fit helps, but some stuff you can't avoid, that's life.

 

[winjim]

Once a month I sit down and sort Mrs D's tabs into an dispenser/organiser. Takes about an hour, but it means if shes tired, feeling unwell or suffering the MS brain fog she can see where shes at and what needs taking.

I think Mrs D's situation illustrates the correlation / causation fallacy. I would suggest that people with physical disabilities are less likely to regularly cycle, and more likely to receive regular prescription medication. But it's not the lack of cycling which is leading to the incresead requirement for medication, which confounds the test of the implied hypothesis which is that cyclists are healthier and therefore take fewer meds.

Further complicated of course because some chronic conditions (not MS of course) could potentially have been mitigated by increased physical activity earlier in life, but may have progressed to the point of disability where that's no longer possible.