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Some blue pills are naproxen sodium, which just treats cramps/inflammation. Pink pill is seizure meds Divalproex. Half cyan half white pill is Diltiazem (so he doesn't have a heart attack). White 7.5 pill looks like Buspirone Hydrochloride for anxiety. Red triangle pill Xarelto for more cardio shit. Yellow circle Tadalafil is for hypertension. Ibuprofi. None of these are controlled substances, which means he could have gone to a store and bought them (meaning he could be lying). Some gummy nutrient things. Not sure of the other ones. The clear brown tablet with granulate in it looks like a fiber pill or an iron pill. Calling bullshit on this dude in general for his plight. If he really needs all of this shit daily, he's only got 10 years probably left to his life, if that. Additionally, some of those medications contraindicate each other. For example, you shouldn't take Divalproex if you have depression or mental disorders; Xarelto if you're taking NSAIDS (Naproxin Sodium is an NSAID). You shouldn't use Tadalafil if you're taking antiseizure drugs (Divalproex).
In the US, most of the actual medications in this pile do require a prescription, other than the vitamin gummies, the esomeprazole/Nexium and the NSAIDs. (The US won't let you have a Kinder Egg; there's no way rivaroxaban/Xarelto, an anticoagulant that's expensive to reverse, is available over-the-counter.)
Agree with your IDs, though.
If the meds are really divided by time of day, he's probably taking the divalproex/Depakote for psych reasons, not seizure. It's the extended release formula. I also see atorvastatin/Lipitor and pramipexole/Mirapex in that pile on the right, so that's got to be the bedtime pile. No way to be certain, but I suspect that makes the green/white capsule duloxetine/Cymbalta.
I'm surprised there's no gabapentin/Neurontin, because this looks similar to the polypharmacy of "I'm going to treat your 'nerve pain' because you won't admit to having psych problems."
Now wait a minute, Tadalafil = Cialis, a drug used to treat erectile dysfunction, like Viagra.
I know that drugs like that were originally supposed to treat heart problems, but werent they quickly discontinued to be used for that, because of new and more effective drugs with less side effects?
Is Cialis really still used as heart medication? How common is that?
Tadalafil is used for pulmonary hypertension, same as sildenafil (Viagra, but when it's for PAH it's called Revatio, in hopes of keeping your grandchildren from stealing it).
This is one I could see the jail accidentally holding, actually; plenty of guys would come in with this medication on their medication list for boners, so staff's probably used to just saying "welp we can hold that one" without reviewing it like they should.
From what I can see, he's only on one "heart med," the dilt, so it's anyone's guess what they gave and they held. (I mean, the tadalafil is for BP, which involves the heart, and rivaroxaban is for blood clots so dude might well refer to them all as his "heart meds.")
I think he probably is trying to catastrophize that the jail didn't give him 100% of his NSAIDs and nutraceuticals. He says they gave him 7 medications, and in this pile I see:
500mg divalproex DR
Nexium
0.25mg pramipexole
unknown dose rivaroxaban
10mg tadalafil
7.5mg buspirone
probably duloxetine (green and white cap)
120mg diltiazem ER
which is 8 (not counting the 200mg ibuprofen or the 220mg naproxen).
Of course, there are some white tablets that could be vitamins or prescription medications with the imprint on the obverse, which would bring the total up.
Don't forget that he has 10 naproxen pills in the picture, and the max daily dosage is only 6. Edit: Looked again and a few are ibuprofen. He still shouldn't be double-dosing nsaids. Clear yellow looks like any vitamin ever.
I wonder if he dumps all his generic vitamins and Aleve gelcaps into a great big pill organizer, and then whips that thing out of his purse dramatically at the top of every hour.
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"Oh dear, excuse me, it's time for me to take my HEART MEDICATIONS."
And then he makes a scene of choking down a half dozen pills, but most are just vitamins and Aleve.
Yeah, this is not safe NSAID use.
The "ohhh, my heart" pity party is 100% the intent Dave is going for, but the vitamin gummies make it hilariously over the top.
Whenever pre-fame Shepard Fairey got arrested for vandalism, the cops took his insulin pump, he'd go into DKA and get released fairly soon with a let's-both-sweep-this-under-the-rug. Dave
wishes he could bring that to the table, but the best he'd be able to do is hemorrhage after a light beatdown, due to his double-fisting rivaroxaban and way too many NSAIDs.