渐渐地，我丢开了药罐子，看医生的次数也少了。

Gradually, I was taken off the medicine and my doctors' visits grew further apart.

她总是说我是一个病秧子，在我生命的头七个年头里靠药罐子活着。

I had always been told that I was a sickly child who lived mainly on medicines during the first seven years of my life.

由于无法准确诊断，接诊医生常把患者转诊至疼痛科医生或精神科医生处，使患者变成药罐子。

Lacking an accurate diagnosis, doctors often send patients to be drugged up by pain specialists and psychiatrists.

他是一名忧郁症患者，生活充满着含糊的抱怨——压力，疲惫和莫名其妙的疼痛——因为这些烦恼他把自己变成了药罐子。

A hypochondriac, his life is filled with vague complaints-stress, fatigue and mysterious aches-for which he takes fistfuls of pills.