Any old Geezers here that don't take any medications?

[ZGrand]

71 here - no medications, supplements or vitamins. Cholesterol was borderline last checkup -- hopefully it'll be lower next time.

I play pickleball 3 or 4 times a week, usually with guys about half my age. It's been ridiculously hot the past few weeks, so I'm trying not to play more than a couple of hours. I can still compete with the younger crowd, but I just don't have the stamina I did even a few years ago.

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

All I take is 2 multi vitamins a day........Keeps me chuggin along.

 

[Buford57]

Hit 67 later this month. Take a few vitamins and metamucil. One standard aspirin at bedtime. Black coffee PRN. Feeling the effects of old injuries in my knees, but they say that can only be fixed with surgery. Don't feel bad enough to go under the knife.

 

[StrawHat]

I will be 70 in March. I take one blood pressure pill every day. If I lose ten pounds I would not need that. Today, I was replacing wood siding on the house. Set up my horses near the front of the house, but in the shade. Carried the siding to my horses from the shop, 12 trips, 700 feet each way. Drove the miter box to the work site. 1/4 hour for lunch but several "Honey can you…" breaks. Wrapped up at 8pm. About 10 hours not counting lunch or interruptions. Can I do that everyday? Not sure. I really do not want to go back into construction to find out either. But, it is nice to know that I can still do it.

Kevin

 

[TX-Dennis]

64 - no meds. Cholesterol is great, BP okayish. I have lost 22 lbs. so far this year, but I'm still too fat. I do walk a lot most days on my job, so I imagine that helps. My phone says my average daily steps for the past 7 days is 17,286. Definitely more than most folks.

 

[Hair Trigger]

I turn 70 next month, I don't take any prescription meds, just Motrin when the aches don't go away on their own. I exercise by digging holes and sticking bushes in them, lopping off tree limbs with chain saws, slinging mulch by the cubic yard with a wide pitchfork and assorted bending and lifting doing paver patios and sidewalks.
Did I mention I take Motrin? I eat pretty much what I want and I usually don't want stuff that's really good for me. I'm 5'10" and weigh 185. I drink alcohol two or three times a week, mostly beer but never more than one in a day.

And I'm retired.

 

[LoboGunLeather]

I quit smoking, quit drinking, stopped gambling, and gave up on younger women, all at the same time.

That was the worst 45 minutes of my entire life.

Enjoy what you have while you still have it.

 

[Wdbutcher97]

I turned 68 In May. I take an allergy pill and an Alieve for my knees as needed. I try to stay active. I still work and I try to take our dog for a 1/3 mile walk daily. My knees are nearly shot , so no running for me. My wife takes enough meds for the both of us.

 

[Skeet 028]

If you ain't 75 you ain't a GEEZER. If I hadda known I was gonna live this long I woulda taken better care of m'self......tween my work and all the fambly history and stuff...I wouldn't have to take any meds. . Hurt my back ripping a guy out of a burning truck that kinda blew up...Two airplanes with too many holes...family that was rife with diabetes and cancer oh and farming and working the Chesapeake as a waterman fishing and tonging oysters... along with dinking smoking and chasing wimmen. I'd be in great shape. As it is I take 10 pills a night with the vitayums my wife makes me take and all...and insulin from a pump. My wife scares the hell out of me....saying she wants to keep me around...for ever and ever.... in a spooky kinda way..Course her family has had lots of long livers

 

[The Norseman]

No Meds

64 here. Never been on any prescription
medications.

Multi-vitamin, eating some what healthy,
Norwegian "keep to themselves" and
German "stubbornness" attitudes probably
contributes to this Health.

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

I will be 70 in March. I take one blood pressure pill every day. If I lose ten pounds I would not need that. Today, I was replacing wood siding on the house. Set up my horses near the front of the house, but in the shade. Carried the siding to my horses from the shop, 12 trips, 700 feet each way. Drove the miter box to the work site. 1/4 hour for lunch but several "Honey can you…" breaks. Wrapped up at 8pm. About 10 hours not counting lunch or interruptions. Can I do that everyday? Not sure. I really do not want to go back into construction to find out either. But, it is nice to know that I can still do it.

Kevin

Good job...........An idle mind is the devil's workshop.

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

Working at a desk 15 hours a day has kept the family fed, but done me no good.

 

[desi2358]

Blood pressure and a heart pill........... As I seem to have inherited an issue from each of my parents......... Other than that a couple vitamins to help keep my system in balance. My doctor has joked that I am one of his healthiest older patients, can't find anything else to prescribe for (think they're in league with the Pharmacy myself LOL).

 

[Yendor357]

I'm going to turn 64 soon. Nothing.

I ride my bicycle an hour at a time, 3-4 days a week. I helped put up hay a couple of time this year. I wasn't sure tossing a bunch of hay bales was a good idea. But my friend couldn't get any of his 30 year old buddies to help.

I take a vitamin every day, along with a glucosamine. I eat whatever I want. I do watch portion size tho.

I spent too much time at the reloading bench since I've retired from UPS. I wonder why that is?

 

[JohnRippert]

About to get off my prostate drugs since I had it resectioned by laser. Still have to take a couple cholesterol meds and 3 heart meds plus low dose aspirin. Taking a bunch of supplements along with my extra Vit C, D, B-complex, etc. I'm with Rusty, better living through chemistry. Emphasis on 'living'.

 

[Wdbutcher97]

Some days are like this.

 

[22lrfan]

I'm 65 and take no meds. Walk the dogs 6-7 miles every morning plus I'm outside working just about every day. I parked my zero turn a couple years ago and cut the grass with a push mower. I usually end up at 12-15 miles every day.

 

[Exmilcop]

In August, I'll celebrate the 9th. anniversary of my 65th. birthday. I have pain meds for when the arthritis kicks into high gear, but that's it. Even at that, I get 50 Percocet for the year and I always have a bunch left at renewal time. My 2 best buds are pretty much in the same boat in that none of us are on a daily medication regimen of any kind. One guy is 7 yrs. my junior and the other has a year more on me, so we're all of us pretty lucky.

 

[Hair Trigger]

I quit smoking, quit drinking, stopped gambling, and gave up on younger women, all at the same time.

That was the worst 45 minutes of my entire life.

I admire how long you stuck with it.

 

[garddogg56]

67 so far none

 

[llowry61]

I admire how long you stuck with it.

I quit smoking, quit drinking, stopped gambling, and gave up on younger women, all at the same time.

That was the worst 45 minutes of my entire life.

Enjoy what you have while you still have it.

Nice work - no one likes a quitter.

When asked I tell folks I am in the process of quitting all of the above and have been for 40 years.

 

[Skeet 028]

I gave up drinking at 20.. I wasted way too much on liquor. .Got married at 24 and quit chasing wimmen(for my health y'unnerstand). Quit smoking at 45 cause it just got too expensive...and I wanted to. Sometimes I get too close to a nice looking woman and regret my actions..and sometimes someone lights one up and for a second or two I want to rip it out of their fingers and suck it down in one drag. Never missed likker at all. I take a small drink every now and then but just a toast or something . My liver is still a little out of whack from all that likker 55 years ago... I would drink most anything at the drop of a hat...and I'd do the dropping LOL...Some of the things I did for fun and money were kinda dangerous

 

[Old 44 Guy]

At 93 I take 4 meds, mostly for blood pressure and prostate. Have a pacemaker for about 5 years and so far so good. Quit smoking 50 years back. Have a glass of red wine every night. It is not the years that did me wrong it was the miles .I have hunted and fished for all my life and did what I needed to do. Now a great grandfather which is the job I like. I use a cane but not a wheel chair. I have out lived all those Buggers I once worked for.

 

[Kinman]

I've survived multiple motorcycle accidents, a crush fractured L1 vertebrae (no surgery), prostate cancer (20 years ago), in the past few years knocking myself out slipping on ice twice once resulting in separation of my right shoulder...typical hockey injuries. At 73 I don't have anywhere near the stamina I used to have and consider going to the gym for some weight training, my back holds me back somewhat (acupuncture and Chinese herbs work wonders). I do take medication for lower leg thrombosis (Eliquis) I have a hypothyroid from possible exposure to agent orange which took my prostate at 53 so take a supplement for that as well as something to regulate my heart which drops a cylinder ever now and then, barely enough to pick up on electrocardiogram. The VA has been very proactive in taking care of me, I have no complaints with my treatment and generally feel in fairly good health especially when observing those around me that are younger. I just had both eyes done for cataracts and can once again see the front sight in the bull at distance and am happy to be shooting again and actually seeing what I am shooting at. Life is good...

 

[steelslaver]

73 here,
1/2 a simvastatin and a wiff off an Spiriva inhaler