I take two calcium supplements with boron. The boron (I got my Ph.D. in boron chemistry so I should know...
http://valvereplacement.com/forums/images/smilies/cool.gif) is necessary for best bone healing. One medium to large apple contains the usual boron needed for normal day-to-day life. In fact apple trees won't produce apples if the soil is too deficient in boron, so you can be assured apples contain the right amount if they can grow at all. Of course, when there's a broken bone, people need more. My breastbone healing seems thorough and painless now--only the incision scar itself occasionally bothers me. I was able to do my first pull-up to my chin since my surgery just a couple of days ago. Just did 10 standard push-ups just after I typed the prior sentence without any significant pain--only a little from neglected muscles. Now back to the pills...
So, in the morning I get one heart med--diltiazem, two ADHD and depression meds, three supplements (a Kirkland multivitamin--Costco), and an aspirin.
In the evening there are now five or six I take. Advil PM (got free of a four year nightly Ambien dependency last October--Praise God!) for occasional insomnia problems, 0.5 mg lorezepam, 3-5 mg Geodon, acid reducer (for prevention of recurrence of GERD), 1-2 full sized asprins (325 mg), and once in a very great while a half hydrocodone for when I overdo it physically. The latter is from the original prescription refill from January, and there's a lot left.
I hope to be off many of these in the near future. My father takes about 25 different pills a day, while my mother (15 days older than him; both are 75) takes 3 a day, as does my 44 year old sister. None are heart-related for any of them. I've been spared many of my father's metabolic disorders, so maybe I'll be more like my mother when I'm older.
Chris
) Never took many pills til hit the 60s --- now, 3 with breakfast, 3 at suppertime, and 2 at bedtime. So that's 8 a day. 
