NSAIDs, more bad news.
From the People's Pharmacy:
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CBS News: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nsaid-n...rt-attack-risk/ Was also on ABC news. |
Probably a good thing cannabis is becoming legal in more states all the time. Opioids, nope. NSAIDs nope.
I haven't taken an NSAID for several years now, but I got a migraine and took one. Fortunately I barfed it up. |
Dr. Weil's new book Mind Over Meds summarizes all the concerns over pain relievers, but then I have found the alternatives he listed just don't work. The lifestyle changes (lose weight, eat anti-inflammatory diet) are OK, but arnica, capsaicin, turmeric, fish oil, ginger, tart cherry,... not so much. Acupuncture, massage...maybe but short-lived. So if bad, a regular aspirin...but then there's goes my stomach lining ;) Nancy, your suggestion may be the best.
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Well Florida voters just elected to authorize medical marijuana - but if it's anything like previous referendums the people have voted on it will just be totally ignored by the legislature.
I try to limit myself to aspirin if I must take something, but I have to confess it doesn't work as well as ibuprofen. Sheesh, some 30+ years ago when I was suffering such severe nerve pain that I could not even hold a pain to write I was scarfing down 4 ibuprofen at a clip, 3-4 times a day (with my doctor's blessing). No internet to use back then! If the doctor said it was okay then you complied. |
Relative risk, absolute risk. What a difference!
If one is taking a blood thinner, then aspirin is out too. Perhaps mmj is the way to go! |
This confirms suspicions that many of us have held. I, too, no longer take any NSAIDs. An occasional aspirin, yes, but nothing else. medical marijuana? Yes, it should be available and considered as a normal treatment protocol; however, it should also be studied to better understand its overall impact to physical and mental health. It appears that there's too much money behind manufacturing NSAIDs to pull them from the market any time soon.
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Yesterday, the FDA increased the warnings on NSAIDs, Plan to extend them to OTC versions also.
https://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/ucm451800.htm Quote:
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The marketing of these drugs was tremendous...They knocked aspirin right out of the market. To round it out they made sure that no child took aspirin again with a scare of Ryes Syndrome. Remember before that St. Joseph aspirin was the go to for all children with fever.
Well my mother was right again. She wouldn't touch any of these "new" drugs, only aspirin. One doctor gave her Celebrex and after taking it a couple of times, she said it made her feel weird and stopped. When my DD2 was in high school she kept getting strep throat so she was put on Zithromax Z-pac. It put her in acute renal failure... (could have been the strep but I think it was the Zithro) Many of the children on this floor, the kidney failure floor of the children's hospital were there due to these kidney damaging drugs. We've been sold another bill of goods by the drug companies... |
When nsaids came on the market, first prescription only, the one thing they did that no other drug had ever done, was relieve severe menstrual cramping. They made a huge difference in my life. Luckily this is a condition that only required the pills to be used for a few days every month. Now I read that a lchf diet can really help with cramps. I am too old to know whether or not that is true. I haven't taken nsaids in well over a decade but for me I suspect they would still be worth the risks associated with them if lchf didn't work. Before nsaids I took codeine, or darvon or tramadol. My father was a doctor so he would give me whatever high level pain killer he had around. Nsaids changed all that for me.
Jean |
Naproxen started out prescription only with huge warnings about drinking a lot of water with each dose. It knocks out back pain like nothing else.
Once it became available over the counter under the name Aleve.... most people didn't realize how powerful the drug is, in it's ability to damage the kidneys. Most people think it's as safe as aspirin because they don't know. After all, all of those happy commercials with people laughing and enjoying life! Surely they wouldn't sell something to us that could permanently damage us for life! sarc |
Aleve was my go-to for back pain. I only took it when really needed it, though. Thankfully, the back issues are gone. I have not taken an NSAID in 3 years. With my CVD risk factors the timing couldn't be better.
Just like they do with salt, caffeine, red meat the media regularly splashes troubling results of various OTC medication studies on the evening news. These reports, accurate or not, made me wary about taking any medications unless I had a really good reason to. When I get a cold virus related headache Tylenol is the pain reliever that works best for me. I used to think it was totally safe if taken as directed. But I've seen reports that even if taken as directed liver damage can occur. So I'm downright paranoid of everything these days. I'm just getting over the first serious chest cold that I've had in several years. I had a nasty headache for several days. I took a chance and used Tylenol a couple of times a day for a week. It worked. But I still didn't like taking it. |
Glad you're getting better Ken.
The flu is making it's rounds this year. One of my GSs was sick with fever for one solid week+ and had the "flu" as confirmed at the doctor on a second visit because he wasn't getting any better and kept fever even with meds. I saw on the news that one a kid was hospitalized and almost died from it. |
<sigh>, what to do? What to do? I still get lots of pain. LCHF does a lot of good things but pain relief is not one of them. I try to limit myself to a couple aspirin if I must but that doesn’t do much to help. I avoid Tynenol like the plague as I don’t need liver failure. A “normal” dose of Tylenol does about as much for pain as a couple M&Ms would do. An amount sufficient to help with pain would probably kill me from liver failure.
The one that always worked for me is ibuprofen. It was always my “go to” but not at the suggested dose. The dose used to be two tablets and that did nothing for me. Now the suggested dose is ONE tablet! But anything less than three tablets is not eve worth taking. I really need four for pain relief, but three will take the edge off. I hate to take them but sometimes I need to sleep. I spent the day today at my sewing machine making doll clothes for my granddaughter for Christmas. So tonight I have sciatica, a headache, aching shoulders.... :( Anyway I did take three ibuprofen just a bit ago. They are kicking in! But I’ll only do it once a day and try not to every day. But damn, there must be something! Haha. My surgeon gave me a prescription for about 60 opioid painkillers when I had my wrist surgery in August 2016. I still have about 50 left. Sometimes I take one of those when I want to avoid ibuprofen! |
When I took ibuprofen for menstrual cramps I had to take 6 to get any relief. I am so glad those days are over with. I know I would still opt for the ibuprofen over the pain. Luckily I don't have to choose.Opioids may actually be the safer option for those of us who are not in danger of becoming addicted. I used to have a lot of leftover oxycontin just hanging around because I no longer needed it. There needs to be a way to treat people with legitimate pain issues.
Jean |
Tylenol has never worked for me, and now I consciously avoid it because it is so easy to have an overdose and damage the liver. They put it in everything OTC and what used to be a harmless practice to get through a bout of flu can now endanger your life.
I was in despair over my painfully arthritic hands which would make me up in the middle of the night. And I was already eating low carb! Gluten free and MSM have done absolute wonders. And if I need painkillers, I take white willow and devil's claw; together they need a lower dose. Pharma tweaks the molecules to get them patented, so often the natural alternative (white willow was the first aspirin) will dodge the side effects. I am fortunate I found things that worked; and they were outnumbered by what I tried that didn't work. |
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