I take 9 in the morning, and about 7 in the evening, plus 4 other over the counter and b12 shots. wow I am a druggy.
I used to be on 10 pills per day and then 18 on Sunday (methotrexate). I felt ill most of the time, especially 1-2 days after the methotrexate. I was always asking myself, wow, how many pills am I taking? and still not feeling good. so...one day I asked my Rheumatologist if there was any thing else I could do. He started me on Enbrel. Most of my Lupus symptoms were RA symptoms, he put me down as serum negative RA so my insurance would pay. That was 5 years ago, I now only take an occasional Tylenol or Advil. My stomach feels much better and I overall feel so much better and no longer obsess about if I remembered to take all my meds. I just take a shot once a week. Still worry about putting "chemicals" in my body but I am living a much better quality of life. Of course, we are all different and respond differently to medications. I hope this helps.
PS, maybe have your husband speak to your doctor to help him understand what you are going through everyday.
(: Ive done lost count. I don't even try and bother counting anymore.
Aww… Thank you Ann. I do the same thing. There’s no way that you cannot smile when you see a baby giggling or a dog doing something goofy. I look up silly youtube videos. There’s also a funny website called cakewrecks. It’s hysterical and passes the time. Unbelievable how bad people can screw it up. I’ll have to post more pics of Zeus.thank you for your prayers. I’m sorry to hear about your new scripts. I know you have been doing so well lately. I’ll keep you in my prayers also.
LOL! I understand you totally! At one point of time I was taking so many I made the discussion to cut down that count myself! Yes-I let my doctor know this , am only going to take the main pills that is necessary and the calcium ad vitamin D are combined, the iron and biotin and vitamin E, are all I will take-maybe every now and then a pain pill,so far it has worked for me. I was thinking just like you , The Liver!!! So far , everything works, but my doctor suggest that I only need to take a half of the prednisone , which I took upon myself not to do that, I take it every other day as a whole!! For this day am feeling fine! Expect when the weather is bad , that is another story! Well hope that you take care of this from your husband and anyone else who say this to you!smile, talk with you later!!..Beverly L.
I'm 17 as well. My husband says the same thing...he knows I need to take them, but doesn't understand some are doubles. And these don't count my vitamins. No one knows but you and your doc. Does he seriously think, with the FDA looking over every docs shoulder that they just hand them out willy-nilly.
You are keeping your health as best you can and the docs will decrease as you improve.
I injest more medication than i eat food per day. 
Currently, I’m on 17 different type of pills, but the total count of pills i have to swallow per day is just over 40. It’s been as high as 21 types of meds, amounting to as much as 60 or so pills ingested per day. Seems like every time i ask the docs to lower that number, they end up adding another medication instead. :-/