Sometimes I don't know how much of a benefit there is to take many medications. My view point comes from having to give medications to patients every morning. I would need to carefully get their medications ready for them every day. They were very sick people so they might need to take 20 or more medications first thing every morning. I just wasn't sure all the medications were helping that much. Sometimes I felt like I was contributing to their demise by expecting people to take so many medications.

Actemra is the one medications that seems to do me a lot of good. I am back down to taking 2 medications now not counting Actemra. My remaining medications are "as needed" or for "prevention" or totally optional.

There were so many people that had no idea what medications they took. All they knew was a doctor told them they needed the medication but they didn't know why. The 5 medication limit was more about putting a limit on doctors from prescribing so many medications.

When I was diagnosed with PMR and "other things" I was in the same boat for a long time. Many of my medications were prescribed to me to treat Prednisone side effects. I was giving myself more than 10 medications and I wasn't so sure all my medications were doing that much good.