My mom is prescribed 2400mg (3 800mg pills) per day. Since Vioxx was taken off the market, more and more people have been prescribed high doses of ibuprofen. (If one doesn’t kill you, the other will.)
This has me worried, since she has been short of breath with relatively low levels of activity. I am going to suggest (vehemently) she see her doctor again, since my dad had similar symptoms just before he died of a massive heart attack.
She has a bad combination of high blood pressure and severe arthritis in her knees.
Have her try giving up dairy for two weeks to see if it helps her arthritis. She can go back on it if it doesn’t, but it’s a small sacrifice if it does. My mother just recently went off dairy and the pain in her arthritic knees has stopped and she’s able to get around a lot better.
Do a Google search on dairy and arthritis, it’s the highest ranked food for causing arthritis/join pain.