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Posted on 05/11/2011 12:06:11 AM PDT by neverdem
Aspirin is the granddaddy of all NSAIDs. All of these patients, except those with an aspirin allergy, were probably prescribed at least a baby aspirin.
The presser links the abstract.
I’ve known for years that NSAIDS were bad news. Thankfully, my stomach doesn’t allow me to take them.
>> Aspirin is the granddaddy of all NSAIDs. All of these patients, except those with an aspirin allergy, were probably prescribed at least a baby aspirin.
This is confusing. Can you comment on the 81mg daily aspirin regiment prescribed for prevention?
The anti-inflammatory naproxen has some linkage to cardio problems, but baby aspirin?
I took the Zip Zor and within a week I had to go to the ER to get my tachycardia to settle down. 4 hours of 200+ beats a minute was about to do me in. I stopped the Zip Zor. The next try was Mobic. No Vicodin. I had chest pains every day and nitro was the only relief. I stopped cold turkey. Now I sit in my Lazy Boy and use crutches to get to the bathroom. But at least I'm not hooked on drugs and no more tachycardia or chest pains. I just can't hardly walk. I wish I could get some Valium so I won't throw things at the TV, but he would have to fill out gubmint forms.
Vicodin is the only pain med that works for me. I have been on morphine while in the hospital and it did nothing for my broken femur, or when I had kidney stones. I was also recently prescribed a nsaid for neck pain following a car accident and after reading the side effects I refused to take it.
I told my Primary Dr this story and he recommended I get on an SSRI for depression. I said "Not a chance" I've seen people trying to get off SSRI's and it looks like someone on heroin. He said, What is it you have against doctors? I said, "I just told you!" I said, "Would you give me Vicodin?" He said that's up to your knee doctor.
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“These are America’s best and brightest.”
There isn’t a professional in the bunch, they are all practicing!
COX-2s have had this reported about them since day one. I convinced my mother to get off Celebrex for her back pain, but it wasn’t easy.
SSRI's to certain patients can be far more dangerous than Valium, Xanax, or similar Benzo tranquilizers. I have a bad back among several other medical issues and when it goes out {usually once a year for a few days} Hydrocodone works and I take it just a few days till I'm functional.
I've taken Xanax daily several times a day for 16 years though LOL. No one no doctor will ever get me to take an SSRI again nor especially have my wife to take them. I among amongst the ones who can not take them and so is my wife a 26 year Xanax user. We have first hand for ourselves seen what SSRI's can do to persons who have a severe adverse reaction to them. They too can kill you taken as directed but you'll not hear about it from most doctors.
I’ve been prescribed 1000mg of Naproxen and 50mg of Tramadul for back pain so I think I will discontinue use for a few days to see if I can live without it.
Disturbing report.
If the article is correct, the study did not include asprin — which is obviously non-prescription.
“Researchers analyzed the duration of prescription non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)...”
Over the years, I have been prescribed many different pain medications and some of them have given me severe side effects and one medication, Indocin, even caused me to undergo surgery to correct the problems it caused.
NSAIDS in general caused me a lot of stomach pains and weren't very effective.
One medication Torodol, was extremely effective often stopping almost all pain within 15 minutes. I was on that for over four years. However, it has been linked to severe liver damage after one year and is no longer available in pill form even though hospitals still use in intravenously for some operations.
Darvon was completely ineffective and is now off the market due to the health problems it caused.
I was on Oxycontin for over a year but the Florida Hospital clinic didn't want to keep prescribing it for me once all the problems with Oxycontin abuse started.
Once I started with the VA clinic, Florida Hospital didn't want to bother with me any longer and was glad to get their Oxy prescription problem gone.
The VA doesn't use Oxycontin which is Oxycodone Continuous Release and uses Morphine Sustained Release instead which is much less effective for me. They finally after over five years admitted that they do use Oxycodone Immediate Release for ‘break through pain’ and I was finally able to get a prescription for that to go along with the Morphine.
I am finally getting some pain relief from the Morphine/Oxycodone combination but it took over five years of fighting with the VA clinic to get a prescribed dose which is finally providing some relief. The dose the VA is providing is still lower than what Florida Hospital was prescribing for Oxycontin alone.
I have been on narcotic pain relievers for many years now and other than the Torodol they are the only things that are effective for me.
Without exception, every NSAID that I have taken has caused me severe stomach or other problems and the only pain meds that don't cause me those problems are the opiate based pain relievers.
I do not abuse my meds and I am extremely carefiul to not overdose on any of them.
If one can avoid the narcotic addiction problem, the opiate pain relievers are the most compatible to one’s body pain relievers available.
Do they know why these meds are bad? I glanced throught the article and didn’t see anything.
The hydrocodone is much more effective than Morphine alone.
The acetaminophen is often added to other pain relievers to increase the effectiveness of the other medication while keeping the other medications dosage as low as possible.
The next step up from Vicodin would be Percocet which is acetaminophen and Oxycodone combined. The starting combination for both meds is 500 mg acetaminophen plus 5 mg of either Hydrocodone or Oxycodone.
Torodol used to be available in pill for and I was on It for over four years. It turns out that it does cause liver damage when used in pill form for over a year.
It is sill available and used in hospitals for injection.
It was very effective for my back pain usually stopping all pain in about 15 minutes.
It was originally created and marketed as an anti-inflammatory but it's pain relieving ability was so good doctors started prescribing it for pain alone.
Although aspirin is indeed a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug, it is mechanistically distinct from ibuprofen, naproxen, and the COX-2 inhibitors. Aspirin is an effective platelet inhibitor and works to prevent clot formation in diseased unstable atherosclerotic plaques in your arteries.
That's because Celebrex works.
My doctor took me off Celebrex about six months ago because I have an inherited clotting factor (Factor V Leiden) and put me on 325mg Ecotrin. It doesn't do a thing for chronic pain so I sit longer, which is bad for clotting. Talk about a Catch 22.
I hope your mother finds something that will work. I can't take NSAIDS either and there are days Percocet just doesn't kick in.
And then there's the necessary headache meds to deal with FDA regulations for painkillers. Grrrrrr.....
I guess it’s come down to “pick your poison.”
Tylenol increases blood pressure
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***I’ve been prescribed 1000mg of Naproxen ***
My mother asked her doctor for Napersen (Naproxen) for her arthritis. the Dr said he would have to monitor her kidneys closely as he really did not want her on Napersen but she insisted.
ONE dose of Naperson and it killed her kidneys dead. She died several months later of kidney failure and infection after lots of dialysis.
When she could not take dialysis anymore they used an intestinal wash but she got infected from it.
I stay far away from anything with Naperson in it.
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