I definitely didn't like those periods of time I was on a lot of meds, but generally, those times were the months following a hospitalization, and given time to stabilize, my pdoc was able to decrease the number of meds once I was out of that acute phase. But I watched my sister deal with 18 prescriptions following her bone marrow transplant (something like 40 pills a day), so my number of pills was really small by comparison; put it into perspective for me.