Posted on 04/07/2005 11:49:37 AM PDT by neverdem
Edited on 04/07/2005 12:00:36 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
The stock is barely down...
Stick with 2 ibuprofin and 2 extra strength acetominiphin,taken together,for pain.Every 4 hours.
Recommended by my MD for an ear infection and I even used it after coming home from surgery instead of a prescribed pain killer.
p.s.---Check your doctor first,of course.
They had no choice. Once the government recommended it, they had to or risk even more lawsuits than I am sure they will be getting already.
Great. Both my wife and my mother are on Bextra, it is the only drug strong enough short of narcotics to relieve their arthritis pain. Their doctors have both said that nothing else will work for them without causing greater peripheral damage to their bodies.
Now what?
Oh hell!
VIOXX was a wonder drug for me and when it was pulled, I had a tough time finding any relief. Celebrex does nothing for me and my doctor finally gave me some Bextra samples 2 weeks ago and it has worked well.
I guess I'll eventually have to go to the projects and get some smack.
A boxed warning on a drug's label and an enclosed medication guide should highlight the potentially greater risk of "cardiovascular events," like heart attacks and strokes, and gastrointestinal bleeding associated with taking the drug.
These control freaks are not going to be happy until they make all pain killers are made illegal to use, have or sell; and that this nation's population (barring themselves) are in constant pain.
These control freaks are sadists, it's the only logical explaination for their on going war against america's pain chonic pain suffers.
Medical marijuana.
or
try Vancouver, B.C.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1360508/posts
Ditto. Dr.'s are getting too scared to aggressively treat chronic pain for fear of some snotty bureaucrat reading a spreadsheet somewhere with penis envy, calling in the jackbooted thugs because he violated a prime directive and dragged off to Federal jail.
acetominiphin is not your friend. be careful.
FReepmail me if you want on or off my health and science ping list.
I rarely take pain medication-----once or twice a year---if that.
I'm a very lucky person.
Or younger than 50.
A company as big as Pfizer will not market Rx drugs that bring in less than 300 million/year. Marketing/sales too expensive.
Waaaaay over 50. LOL
OK....lucky.
No! If you must, at least alternate - one type now, the other in 4 hours. But, don't do this more than you absolutely have to, because you are "hitting" your kidneys and liver from 2 sides.
I don't know what I'm going to do - Bextra is all that works for me. No to little risk of heart disease in my family - before 80, anyway.
Besides, what *do* you want to die of? Starvation?
You want to join in my law suit? I've been threatening to sue, 'cause Bextra's the only thing that works.
I've only done it twice---the ear infection and after the surgery.
High blood preassure makes me avoid most of that stuff and,as I posted before,I've been very lucky.
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