I was taking 4 Aleve in 24 hours. I now take one every two or three days. My stomach told me this was not a good thing and eventually, it quit having any effect anyway. I've been on vacation now for several days and lack of stress is the best thing for my neck and shoulders.
Well, these are serious prescription drugs, not harmless pills that should be given out to everyone. The pharmacy companies encouraged doctors to overprescribe without properly weighing the benefits and risks. Advertising to consumers, who are not medically sophisticated enough to judge their need for these drugs vs. the risks, was another bad idea.
The whole idea of these drugs was to help people with serious, chronic pain whose stomachs might be damaged by ibuproferon and aspirin. They are not suitable for every baby-boomer who is beginning to feel the normal aches and pains of old age.
Perhaps the pharmaceutical industry should pack up and move to China if they can get the necessary guarantees from China. By staying here they are just setting themselves up for robbery by lawyers.
However,I am far more concerned about very potent drugs being made over the counter...a push by health insurance companies to avoid paying for popular prescription drugs like Claritan, Prilosec etc. Once a drug is available over the counter health insurance companies no longer pay for it.
I agree.
I have water knees, disintegrated ankle joint, multiple dislocated left shoulder, cervical arthritis, herniated thoracic spinal disc, herniated lumbar (#5) disc and all the sciatic "fun", ringing in ear from gunshot wound and residual sternum pain from open heart surgery last January.
But I still have to beg, plead, pay 250 dollar office visits etc to get an adequate supply of narcotic pain killers or carisprodal.
I tried Vioxx...it was OK...didn't kill me...lol
Ultram is for sissies.....they hand that junk out like jelly beans.
For hardcore neuro-pain, the best is a narcotic combined with carisprodal...hands down...or cortisone injections to site......Docs don't like doing any of that much.
One can Doc shop like Rush or go to pain clinics that bilk your insurance and want to put you an a damned patch....and into the ozone....it's vexing.
I think at 47 years old and broke up like I am that a couple of Percocets at night shan't kill me.....but try telling that to the DEA gestapo. I work my ass off fine and tolerate pain killers very well.
Nuts. Good thing I don't like drink...lol
All these bastard trial lawyers who are one reason folks like me live in perpetual pain should be lined up and hung from lamposts.