Logging Medications?

JenniferAndres · March 2019

I’m wondering if I should be logging my medications. I log my foods- even the bad stuff. But meds, welll...🤷‍♀️.

lindamtuck2018 · March 2019

I personally don’t log my daily meds. I noticed some people take vitamins in the form of gummies and they have calories. Also, I had a cold a while back and cold medications can contain calories. A dose of NyQuil is 93 calories.

RetiredinGeorgia · March 2019

I am 65, retired and I do my best not to take any medications beside an occasional aspirin.

RunnerGrl1982 · March 2019

This is my humble opinion, but MFP has enough of our information - the company doesn't need to know what kind of medications you take or have been prescribed.

MikePTY · March 2019

Do your medicines contain calories? If they don't, then there is no need to log them. Most pills do not. However if you take liquids, they might have a measurable amount of calories, so in those cases I would log them, as you have to account for them.

RunnerGrl1982 wrote: »

This is my humble opinion, but MFP has enough of our information - the company doesn't need to know what kind of medications you take or have been prescribed.

As for this, I understand it, but I'm willing to be that FB, Google, etc have already figured out what you take. I think the age of us having secrets like this are over. But I would understand if there are certain medicines that a person takes that they wouldn't want their friends to see in their dairies. In that case you can always just log it as "quick calories"

RunnerGrl1982 · March 2019

MikePTY wrote: »

Do your medicines contain calories? If they don't, then there is no need to log them. Most pills do not. However if you take liquids, they might have a measurable amount of calories, so in those cases I would log them, as you have to account for them.

RunnerGrl1982 wrote: »

This is my humble opinion, but MFP has enough of our information - the company doesn't need to know what kind of medications you take or have been prescribed.

As for this, I understand it, but I'm willing to be that FB, Google, etc have already figured out what you take. I think the age of us having secrets like this are over. But I would understand if there are certain medicines that a person takes that they wouldn't want their friends to see in their dairies. In that case you can always just log it as "quick calories"

While I also understand what you are saying, I was just trying to point out in general, that's not the type of information you need to be handing over regardless of how many other places have it. They don't need to be 1 more in a long line of companies that do have that information, so why blatantly hand it over?

Danp · March 2019

It's a calorie tracking app, not a consumption tracking app and I can't imagine any medication that would have sufficient calories in them to have a tangible effect on calorie intake.

The closest I ever came was at one stage I was logging the fish oil capsule I was taking but even then I decided that the 10 or so calories in it was so small that it easily fell within the normal tracking margin of error so it wasn't worth the bother

lalawaterlala · March 2019

I mean technically you could add your meds in to log them each day if you wanted to but it seems like too much work imo

JenniferAndres · March 2019

Thanks for the responses. I don’t think they contain any calories. I know one of them I looked up had like a -4 calorie value. (Who couldn’t use negative calories, right? 😜). None of them are liquids though. As for “quick calories”. I’ll have to look at that- I haven’t found that part of the diary/ap yet. Still learning....