Do you take any daily supplements/medication?

[Hoo-doo]

Daily:

• 10*1g fish oil (taken at once) -> one of the few supplements with nigh-incontrovertible efficacy, even if the exact magnitude is up for debate.
  
• Whey protein (variable quantity, dependent on what I've eaten that day)-> I'm a vegetarian, and find it difficult to get adequate dietary protein under that constraint. Currently struggling after an incredibly poor decision to buy a 10kg bag of banana-flavour powder without trying the flavour first (it's awful).
  
• 2.5mg Dutasteride &
  
• 10mg oral Minoxidil -> these two are for keeping my hair looking as lovely as ever. (N.B. the latter is considered quite dangerous, and as such I don't recommend it.)
  
• 2*40mg Furosemide (day and night) -> to combat the fluid retention (and rise in blood pressure, among other unpleasant effects) from the minox. There should be a beta blocker here too, but I'm lazy and irresponsible. I'll fix that at some point.
  
• 5mg Accutane -> my facial skin is naturally oily; this eliminates that particular problem, as well as preventing any errant pimples from popping up. 5mg is already a low dose, but at some point I'll experiment to see if I can get away with an even smaller one - although there are no discernible side effects at this dose, so it's not really a priority.
• 3*100mg Caffeine (pill form) | 2*100mg Modafinil | 4*2mg Nicotine gum | 2*10mg Dexedrine -> these are for Getting Shit Done. Doses spread throughout the day. This is obviously a four-day rotation; tolerance and/or dependence are a concern with each of these, so hopefully this strategy will ameliorate that. I do try to take a week or two off whenever I can; similarly, if I have nothing to do and can skip a day I will. I prioritise things so the bulk of my workload falls on the Dexedrine and then Nicotine days - for me the caffeine and Modafinil have only marginal benefits for productivity and are mostly useful to mask the sleep deficit I'm typically under. Modafinil is a CYP3A4 inducer so I take an extra dose of Dutasteride (CYP3A4 substrate) on those days, although I don't actually know if that's an adequate or appropriate response. A friend doing graduate pharmacy had no idea either. Oh well. If anyone here knows how to quantify this problem it would be much appreciated.
• 0.3mg Melatonin -> sleep aid. Unfortunately my melatonin capsules are 3mg, so I empty the powder onto a desk and divide it into rough tenths in lieu of properly measuring it, for obvious reasons. 0.3mg seems to be a reasonable candidate for minimum effective dose.

I'll probably add a statin here eventually, and maybe try out piracetam.

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What quack doctor is prescribing this stuff for you? Because I have my doubts on the actual medical indications for many of this stuff.
Dutasteride, Minoxidil and Furosemide just for your hair?
Two kinds of amphetamines for 'getting shit done'? No wonder you're on a sleep deficit, dude.

 

[-Pyromaniac-]

Vitamin D and that's it.

 

[Bakercat]

I take a med for my chronic mental illness, a med for my thyroid failure, and a blood pressure med that I had from my blood pressure being at stroke levels before my surgery for a herniated disk and sciatica. I need to talk to my doctor about getting off the blood pressure med, but he may wanna keep me on it because of gaining weight from thyroid and other endocrine failure.

26 btw...