Let's see how much medicines we can take!

Zoloft Why is it that you take more medicine the older you get? I never took anything but Tylenol before Lacey was born. I knew I'd have PPD, so my dr. prescribed an anti-depressant. It changed my life so much for the better! I didn't cry for no reason. I was thrilled with my new baby and it showed. And it didn't stop with just "the new baby". A few months later, I realized that things didn't bother me as much. I didn't get down about bad news. At each yearly visit to my dr., I said that I feel so much better. Nine years later, I'm still on it! While praying about it, I tried to wean myself from it a few years ago and it didn't work. I realized I needed it like a person with high blood pressure needs their b.p. medicine. God uses medicine to help you. It's not saying that God can't heal you completely from it, it's just, well, you know, part of His plan. The only bad thing about taking it is that I read somewhere that most people on it put on 5-10 pounds!

Multi-vitamin I asked a long-time childhood friend who is a pharmacist about taking vitamins and she said you ought to get your vitamins in food, not a pill. So, I delayed taking a multi-vitamin for years. Well, I'm a picky eater on top of the fact that I've never liked "healthy" food. So, I got in the habit of taking a multi-vitamin. It's one for women. They say it can make you constipated and I think I read that it makes it hard to lose weight when you're on it. That's okay, I'm active enough!

Librax After years of having diarrhea after eating certain foods and getting sick and tired of it, I went to my dr. a he told me exactly what I suspected after googling it. I have IBS-D. It didn't happen after every meal. Only ones that included Sprite and greasy foods. Two greasy foods that I like are fried chicken (fingers, not parts) and Lays or Ruffles. At a family reunion in TN one summer, I had both of those along with 2 Sprites! We were the last people to leave because I kept running to the bathroom. So, I take my little yellow green pill before I eat anything that I think might give me "Lady Di". I'm thankful for that little yellow pill!

Omeprazole This is also known as Prilosec. After Sire's medical scare, I noticed a tightness/pressure/strange feeling in my upper chest/lower throat. It went on for 2 weeks and I finally went to the dr. about it. He said he didn't think it was cardiac related but did an EKG anyway and it was normal. I'd never had an EKG before and I thought maybe I'd have to go to some clinic to have it done. I wondered how much it would cost extra. He left the room and I wondered what I was supposed to do, but he left the door open and I figured I should stay put until a nurse came with either an EKG machine or another patient. She came in and hooked me up. So, the dr. said it must be acid reflux and prescribed this Rx strength Prilosec. I've been on it for 4 days now and it's much better. I can still feel the pressure/tightness/strange feeling, though. He said it'd take about 10 days to notice so I got some peppermint Tums but you're supposed to chew them (yuck) so I suck on them. I might break them up and swallow them.

In summary, it seems like the older a person gets, the more they go to the dr., which means the more medicine they take. Not to mention the fact that I saw mostly elderly people at all the drs. I've been to lately taking either myself or Perry!