Posted on 02/16/2023 9:00:24 PM PST by anthropocene_x
A decade ago, most people thought of Tylenol (acetaminophen) as a medicine for fever, malaise and minor aches and pains. Nobody imagined that it would become the go-to drug for treating moderate, let alone severe, postoperative pain.
But this is just what has happened. Thanks to pressure from lawmakers, government agencies and policymakers who inserted themselves into the patient-doctor relationship, patients became the victims of the never-ending war on drugs.
Now, doctors frequently offer only acetaminophen to treat painful conditions despite the drug’s inability to remedy them.
Policymakers’ exaggerated fear of opioids has pressured hospitals, doctors and dentists to switch to acetaminophen, no matter how severe the patient's pain. Sometimes, the drug is given intravenously in high doses as part of "opioid-sparing protocols." We believe using the drug in this way is ill-advised, cruel and borders on malpractice.
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My neighbor the retired pharmacist had knee surgery about seven years ago.
He felt his opioids were ineffective at relieving his pain.
Oh come on... who really NEEDS a liver?
There has to be a way to sue over this. In any case it makes more sense why so many people are overdosing on Fentanyl. When people are in major pain then they they are willing to take huge risks. I bet that many of those deaths are not recreational. Even DR Baker was into pain relief.
Why would anyone take Tylenol for any reason?
I would sooner local fet dog.
A woman oral surgeon who removed my wisdom tooth with no pain during surgery recommended combined pain medication for pain.
I think the combination was acetaminophen and ibuprofen.
There was pain afterward, for which I should have headed home to take medication for.
Take a Motrin they said, only a mastectomy, only an heart attack, only an amputation, only a few cracked bones...or go downtown and buy Fentanyl nice and cheap from the open border love children
I have combined those two for years……very effective .
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Acetaminophen I believe is the English NHS’s preferred pain medication.
They call it paracetamol.
Opiates have been combined with acetaminophen in a pill.
Junkies with a high opiate tolerance can ruin their liver with too much acetaminophen.
Perhaps they were.
I took only ibuprofen after knee surgery but after shoulder surgery I needed opiates just to get through the aftermath and the first few weeks of PT. Either I got a lot more wimpy in the few years between the surgeries or one was a lot more painful.
Yes, we had one of those local fet dogs hanging around here
for a while, but I don’t think he was from Oklahoma.
Acetaminophen is a perfectly good drug and effective if taken correctly. In high dosages outside of prescribed dosages it will kill your liver and thus yourself on long term use. If one takes a massive dose one time (many grams) it will kill your liver and you will die. It is all that simple.
The real tragedy is Tylenol advertised it products as safe and effective for years and it is. Many young people took overdoses as a plea for attention from family not realizing it was a fatal overdose, as they thought it was safe. It is not safe in high doses. They died a most unpleasant death. Their liver died, they turned yellow of skin and incoherent of logic, with high ammonia blood levels,and died as their blood chemistry would no longer support life.
Hospital started me on fentanyl which didn't work, and then put me on oxycodone which definitely relieved the pain but made me have big time hallucinations.
Rehab place sent me home with an oxycodone prescription but I weened myself off of it thankfully. I now see how opiates can become addictive.
i’ve had two laparotomy’s, and sent home both times wi Tylenol...
Deaths from drug overdoses are well over 100,000 per year.
If I could be guaranteed it was pure and proper dosage I would buy fentanyl or other opiate on the street right now to keep it on hand for a future need
I can’t take ibuprofen but do combine acetaminophen and naproxen frequently. I would say 25% as effective as opioids.
If you are on blood thinners then Tylenol is your only over the counter pain reliever. I recently dealt with severe back pain and even the max dose of Tylenol was not sufficient. Especially when the max dose is 2 500mg tablets every 6 hrs, however you can only take 6 tablets per day. If you do the math you have no pain medication for 6 hrs a day.
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