Right now I'm working myself up, I'm in the 4-5 range. How many pills do you plan on taking when you're older?

I take enough that I have an organizer for them.
- My man! 👋

1 for asthma plus 1 for high blood pressure caused by asthma and migraine meds.
2 for knee pain plus 1 for stomach issues caused by knee meds.
1 extra because i hurt my shoulder in a dumb bike accident a couple of weeks ago.
Feeling like i could trade all of these for Claritin and weed.

I'm currently taking 10. Long Covid, esophageal dysmotility, asthma and menopause are a bitch.
HRT (2 meds), 2 lots of heart meds, statins, omeprazole, blood pressure meds, antihistamines, betablocker, inhaler.

I was diagnosed with a nasty rare condition at 26 and since then have been taking a minimum of 7 a day.
However my highest is probably 21 a day. (I ran out of a medication I take at 1600mcg, and was supplemented with 200mcg pills for a week or so. So 2 doses a day of that is already 16 pills.)

Currently 41, not taking anything daily yet.
- 30, not taking anything regularly either.

Does half of one count as 1 pill?
I guess I'm at 6-8 depending on how you count them. Being trans is complicated. =3

I'm at 2 daily now, so I guess I'm lagging.
- I'm at two as well. Finasteride for hair, and vitamin D because my doctor recommended it.
  I had thought the vitamin D pill was actually kinda useless when i first started taking it. I was fine before i started taking the pill, right? Due to me being lazy and prescription address changes lagging behind a move, I ended up skipping out on that pill for two months. Turns out, vitamin D is like, a minor anti depressant or some shit because I was exhausted all the time near the end there before I started retaking the pill.
  
  As a PNW resident, Vitamin D is serious business. Which you've reminded me I stopped taking...
- That's a good solid base. Add some vitamins in. I don't know what they do but they'll really pump your numbers up. Hell, throw in a fish oil and you're cooking with gas.

Chrohns pill 4× daily, adderall 1-2× daily, multivitamin 1× daily, D-Vitamin 1× daily, so 7-8 per day. I am 29, so I have gotten a head start on my pill quota. I start back up on injections for Crohns next week, so four of those should be going away in the next month or so.

Do vitamins & minerals count? Beside those my goal is none and so far so good..
- Good point. I don't count vitamin and mineral as "pills", since they are powdered or liquid nutrients squeezed into a pill shape for convenience. When I think of pills I think of medication.
  I actually grind up different nuts into a powder form and shape them into balls that I eat 1 per day too, like taking pills.
  I could squeeze flour, sugar into a pill shape too, is it a pill then? actually, rice looks like tiny pills. Is fish/meat ball just a giant pill? is noodle a long string shaped pill? Is Hot dog a huge chewable pill. Are meat patty in burger just giant tablet made from meat?
  To avoid counting sugar cubes as pills, I only count doc prescribed meds as "pills", i.e., something that i have to take regularly and can only be obtained by doc prescription and/or is not considered a nutrient.

By the time I'm fifty I expect I'll wake up with sun beaming through the window and I'll smile, stretch, lean over to the bedside table and just go full-on Hungry, Hungry Hippos.

I was on 3, but I got rid of them all.
I want to live without any pills!
- Whoa, so like your tolerance will get real low so when you're old that shits going to really hit. That's smart dude. I'll call you the professor.
  
  If you need it, you need it.
  I just found ways to replace my old pills with food and lifestyle

Hopefully still zero

ALL OF THEM
- Is it you, Chuck?

I only take a multivitamin, B-12, and D-3. The last two were because someone said I should be taking them.
- thanks for reminding me

I'm at 10/day in my 30s and I'm not even trans 🙃

I’m at 3 on most days. 4 once a week. 3 plus an injection once a week. I have other pills that are optional.

Other than the occasional ibuprofen or allergy pill I take zero at 58 years

I take a baseline 4 pain pills a day, unless I have a really bad day and then I just take one knock out pill. Sertraline, Magnesium, vitamin d, and calcium most days. Every 12 months I can have a minor surgical procedure to burn out nerves in my neck and that reduces my need for pain meds, will likely start needing this on my lower back soon. Currently I'm 46, trying to hold off disc replacement or fusion until I'm 65 at least. When I'm really old, I will likely move to an oxycodone patch.

Y'all are some sick mofos. I'm a rookie over here with sometimes only one dicofenac daily for my rheumatoid arthritis condition. Early 30s.
At one point last year I had hourly eye-drops, with a separate set of drops to take every ~6 hours in December. That was unusual though due to uveitis.
- This thread is one of the most bizarre things I've ever created. It's wonderful.
  
  I realise I didn't really answer your question directly but implicitly, like everyone else in this thread, I am going to be taking all the pills when I get older.

8 currently in my 40’s. When I’m 70 I can’t even imagine
- Yo man, if you ever need a spotter, like just call me over.

Am Zero at 58 yrs.

I take Tylenol whenever I have a headache, but otherwise none. I was on and off a few for a while, but better exercise fixed my various issues better than any pills did.
I'll probably pick them back up when exercise isn't enough, but it's hard to say how many I'll be at by then. Maybe 10? I trust the science :P
- Tylenol is nearly useless, straight up bad for you, and plain dangerous. If it came out today it wouldn't be sold over the counter. It's seriously one of the worst NSAIDS, there's literally no reason to be using it over Ibuprofen.
  
  Tylenol (acetaminophen) is not an NSAID.
  Ibuprofen is.
  Ibuprofen particularly can mess up kidneys and stomach lining with chronic use especially. Meanwhile Tylenol tends to be a bit harder on the liver but is otherwise generally considered safer. This based on my hospital stay as a patient and the doctors veering me away from ibuprofen and toward tylenol, and my wife who is an RN.
  I very much avoid both to the best of my ability but ibuprofen in particular (even though for me it's WAY more effective), and the only time I've really used either with any temporary regularity was with kidney stone, pneumonia, sepsis (all three at same time, mind you), and omicron covid I think it was. Tylenol is generally considered to be safer than Ibuprofen, unless you have preexisting liver issues.
  
  NSAIDs worsen my asthma so I have no other choice besides staying in pain 🥲
  
  Strong claim is gonna require evidence, since literally every paper I see on the front page of Google search says the opposite. For example, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20236342/, "A randomized, placebo-controlled trial of acetaminophen for treatment of migraine headache", found "Significantly (P = .001) more patients treated with acetaminophen 1000 mg reported mild to no pain after 2 hours (52.0%) compared with those treated with placebo (32.0%)"

I take 2 right now and gave up animal products to minimize the possibility of having to take more.

I'm currently on 18 in the morning, and 9 in the evening. I have eyedrops twice a day too. I'm in my mid forties now, so will almost certainly increase that number as I get older.

I hope, for as long as possible to stick with only a fluctuating 4½ to 5 a day. One of my pills sometimes fluctuates with how much I need to take, but as long as I can keep it to the 3 types I'm currently taking or less, I'd be a happy old man.

At some point, none.

Anyone have any idea what an average number is for a particular age ?

Hmm. I may already count as older. But depending - maybe 4 if I am ok to continue what I have now, but need something else?
Plus vitamins, so maybe 8 in total because I plan to continue my "stack" of three supplements I've been taking for years.