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.

 

[steverob]

Prescriptions per year, not doses per day.

Well that number can be misleading. I am (currently) on three different drugs which all by default come in a 28 pill pack, of which I take one a day. However at one time I noticed that I was going to be on holiday when my next prescription renewal was due, so I asked if I could get two month's worth for that particular renewal. Sure enough I got 56 pills the next time. And the time after that and indeed ever since because I didn't ask for it to go back down to 28.

So strictly speaking I should still be requesting 39 prescription renewals a year, but because I'm getting double the amount of tablets, it's only 19 or 20. Note that it doesn't make a difference in cost because I'm on a pre-pay certificate anyway.

 

[Exlaser2]

Aged 63 and am on 5 tablets a day , 2 for high blood pressure, 2 to control ongoing stomach problems ( which the only cure is a stoma, something I am keen to put off as long as possible after having to deal with my mother that had one ) and the last one is statins .

 

[Stevo 666]

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.

Mine was originally an iron tablet a day as my blood haemoglobin reading is a usually bit on the low side, but I thought if I'm going to pop a tablet a day may as well make it a multi-vitamin/multi-mineral jobbie and then I'm covered.

 

[No Ta Doctor]

One for the acid reflux, two a day for the ADD, one anticoagulant, one B12 supplement and one, as it was put above "per annum" daily (don't ask)
Calcium/D vitamin and Magnesium aren't currently prescribed but have been and I take them just to stay on the safe side