Yep, about 6-20 a day is how many pills I take! Here's the breakdown:
5:50am: 2 pills when I wake up
10am: 3 pills before I eat my breakfast, in case there's anything suspect in it!
12:15pm: 2 pills before a meal, 2 pills afterwards IF I get the beginning rumblings of an attack
4pm: If I have an attack, I'll take 3 pills when it starts, and maybe 2 when it ends to make sure it's not going to come back
6pm: 1 pill before dinner
After 6, before bedtime: If I get an attack, or the previous one comes back, I'll take maybe 4 more to either stop the attack or make the bm more solid rather than liquid for easier passage. Hurts less that way. 
If I eat less (like work through lunch, or skip dinner) I'll take less pills. So the total varies.
Doesn't seem like a lot to me, though, because it's just what I do to keep stable so I don't have to take the risk of having an attack. Every time I have a BM, I could start having an attack, so I prefer to only go every 6-10 days or so.
This cycle keeps me very stable and lets me have an occasional beer, go out to eat with my friends, etc. When I cook for myself though, I only eat stable foods (kinda makes it special when I go out to the restaurant and have something that's not on my safe list  )!
~nelly~
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The pill breakdown!
