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hunter

(38,311 posts)
Wed Apr 1, 2015, 07:54 PM Apr 2015

I take a handful of pills and use my inhaler twice a day.

If I don't I'm screwed.

I *WILL* end up in the Emergency Room, or sitting in the back seat of a police car on my way to the Emergency Room. I've known this for more than half my life now and I've avoided the ER for immune system and mental health issues since the early 'eighties.

But I do wonder sometimes what it must be like to be "normal," to live a life without meds.



Best I can say for the asthma is that it taught me to take my meds. Not breathing, at least for me, has always been worse than the other stuff.

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I take a handful of pills and use my inhaler twice a day. (Original Post) hunter Apr 2015 OP
Who says a normal life means a life without meds? Not me. CaliforniaPeggy Apr 2015 #1
I spoke to my doc re cutting out or back on some of the eight No Vested Interest Apr 2015 #2

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,611 posts)
1. Who says a normal life means a life without meds? Not me.
Wed Apr 1, 2015, 09:03 PM
Apr 2015

I take a handful of pills twice a day, and as far as I'm concerned, that's normal.

Take your meds, and enjoy your life!

Yeah, you must breathe to live!

No Vested Interest

(5,166 posts)
2. I spoke to my doc re cutting out or back on some of the eight
Thu Apr 2, 2015, 12:03 AM
Apr 2015

different pills I take each day.

He said "They're doing what we want them to do," and advised that I continue as before.

In other words, "You can't argue with success."

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