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Big Pharma got me


Getting ready for work this morning, I decided to pack up a couple pills so I could have them when I ate breakfast at work this morning.

 

I had a horse sized glucosamine pill (they're for joint pain relief due to my running), a multivitamin, and then an advil. I started taking the glucosamine because apparently it helps with joint cartilage, the advil because my knees were sore from running earlier in the morning, and the multivitamin just because I'm probably not getting enough from the soda I drink.

 

I stared at the pills all lined up and had to mentally memorize what each of them were for big white one is glucosamine, orange one - vitamin, little round one - advil.

 

I then realized that I was going down the road of aging in america.

 

It was quite disturbing...where big pharma has us taking a multitude of daily pills. The image of my parents 'drug drawer', where they keep their stash for cholesterol, high blood pressure, arthritis, etc, etc, etc.

 

I need one of those old people pill boxes that have a compartment for each day of the week. sad.gif

 

In other news, I'm psyched for a trail race I'm doing this Saturday. There's 3 or 4 of us who are going to run the 10miler, so it will be fun to be running with guys who run the same speed. The course has a lot of hills, so that will make it extra challenging.

 

Take Care®,

 

Vic

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MikeL

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Vic, you might want to try fish oil pills, too. I suffered with an arthritic shoulder for several years before I started them. It took three or four months, but since then (about two years now) I have had no pain. It's also good for preventing clogged arteries. I remember my mother giving me a tablespoon of cod liver oil every day. I guess this is similar, but without the aftertaste.

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Cia

Posted

I take 2 blood pressure pills a day and a multi-vitamin, plus oh 2-4 arthritis pills on average all fall/winter/spring. I'm 28. Count your blessings, I've had one of those little daily pill keeps for years! LOL

Arpeggio

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I take steroids

 

I take immune suppressants

 

I take something that starts with an A and I dont know why.

 

and I take Nexium because some of these meds cause serious heartburn.

 

I'm 18. Yay :D

Kia Zi Shiru

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I take a pill a day..... just to keep me from reproducing XP

add to that a couple of vitamins because I seem not to get enough of them and get tired after a couple of weeks of not taking them :/

 

so yeah, stupid pills, and stupid food these days XP

Mark Arbour

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I take steroids

 

I take immune suppressants

 

I take something that starts with an A and I dont know why.

 

and I take Nexium because some of these meds cause serious heartburn.

 

I'm 18. Yay :D

 

On behalf of all drug companies, we'd like to thank you for being the perfect American. You're a great role model. We realize that in the past, our efforts have focused on old people, but they're somewhat unreliable in that they have this tendency to, well, die. So now we're pushing our products down-market to a younger age group. Viagra, not as the get-it-up pill, but as the keep-it-up-all-night pill. Adderall, not the pill for ADD, the pill for cramming. It's going to work. Buy drug stocks.biggrin.gif

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