It was found in the Neurology study that if you take an anti-inflammatory medication for two years, you decrease your risk of Alzheimer’s by about 50 percent as compared to those people who took nothing. This makes sense with what we know about Alzheimer’s being partly an inflammation of the brain. In the main section of the paper, the data also showed that people who took Tylenol for two years almost doubled their risk of developing Alzheimer’s.........
I suppose that I am lucky.
The first time I ever tried tylenol it gave me a terrible headache. It did the same for my siblings. I’ve never taken it since.
Tylenol does nothing for me...Hydrocodone/Tylenol seems to do less.
After my dentist told me to take 6 Advil rather than prescription drugs, then finally accepting that I can’t take large doses of Advil, giving me a script for the above mentioned drug which does little good.
Placebos??
There is no such thing as a medicine that doesn’t have some bad effects.
I have arthritis. Can,t take cellebrex, Doctor told me not to take naproxen, Tylenol will ruin my liver, and aspirin will ruin my stomach.
High Blood pressure will kill me if the medicine I take for it doesn’t kill me first.Many people are taking rat poisoning (warfarin) to stay alive .I haven’t reached that point yet. Pretty soon I will be old enough where I get cut off and rationed by Obamacare.
Stay healthy ——if you can.
Some OTC brands can cause liver problems.
Other OTC brands can cause kidney problems.
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The main reason they put pseudoephedrine behind the pharmacy counter had more to do with it being used to manufacture ilicit drugs.
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Anything in excess is dangerous. Nearly everything is going to have a negative impact on a few.
While it is good to know the dangers and take precautions, we don’t live in bubblewrap.
Too many times articles such as this have the underlying agenda to get products banned or more heavily controlled via prescriptions, etc.
I’ve used aspirin all my life (blessed with a cast-iron stomach), but likely used the tylenol hidden in other products lots of times. I’ll check the labels more carefully! My liver is needed to process my twice-a-week recovery beverages after rec b’ball, Smithwicks and Guinness!
My father was a dentist in WWII where on board ship he had to also act as physician.
He told me in the ‘50’s that acetaminophen was a no-no and was destructive to the kidneys and liver when Tylenol came out....he always prescribed ASA - Acetyl salicylic Acid - aspirin. He said he learned that acetaminophen was destructive in dental school before WWII, and they were told not to prescribe it.
Duh, knowledge has been around a long, long time. But powerful marketing by McNeil/Johnson & Johnson has so over-shadowed the truth that the majority of the medical community has bought into the lie that it is safe.....and it’s almost impossible to avoid in some form or other.....
Here is a bit more interesting information:
Opposing effects of aspirin and acetaminophen use on risk of adult acute leukemia
“The current study investigated the effects of aspirin or acetaminophen use on adult acute leukemia risk among 169 individuals with leukemia and 676 age and sex matched hospital controls with non-neoplastic conditions who completed a comprehensive epidemiologic questionnaire. Results indicate that regular aspirin use may be associated with a modest decrease in leukemia risk ...”
http://www.lrjournal.com/article/S0145-2126%2805%2900274-2/abstract
Personally, I prefer coated aspirin taken with some food.
What do you do about the elderly who have crippling painful never ending (till death) arthritis? Having older relatives I have watched this destroy them.
I do not take pain medication of any kind. On the rare occasion that I do, I take Excedrin. That’s about once or maybe twice per year.
I’m in my late 50’s and I have arthritis in my back, hips and knees. I also have several degenerating disks in my lower back, with one of them completely gone. I take the prescription drug Cymbalta, and it helps quite a bit for not being a narcotic. I also take about 1200 mg of aspirin a day for the inflammation, and it helps a bit too. I don’t like taking them regularly, but I occasionally still ask for narcotics, and get Vicodin, with the lowest amount of Tylenol that they offer.
Maybe if patients took a little personal responsibility and actually KNEW a little about their medical problems and their medications this wouldn’t be a problem. No instead the Nanny State will need to protect us all again.
Combining Tylenol with alcohol makes for a deadly combination. I once knew a woman who was an alcoholic and also took large doses of Tylenol for headaches. I warned her about this; I imagine others did too. But to no avail. She died of liver failure.
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OK freepers, forget tylenol. Three words: enteric coated aspirin (brand is Ecotrin, and there are generics of the coating). Despite tylenol being called SEAL candy-SEALs are young.
Here’s what happens: the aspirin is coated by design with a PH sensitive coating that will not dissolve in your stomach (which is PH 1.7 or so very acid). The coating remains with the aspirin inside and travels into the duodenum which has a higher (less acid PH) of around 6, which the coating will break down and then the aspirin released,and this actually occurs near the end of the of the duodenum, then heads into the small intestine where the aspirin gets absorbed into the blood.
Tylenol has been pitched for years as “not harming the stomach” because it is metabolized in the liver— well THAT is where the toxins are developed from tylenol—the ones that can kill you. Tylenol is a very weak COX-2 inhibitor vs. aspirin which is the Gold Standard of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)-the one which all others are measured against.
So why all this tylenol pitch? Lots of people who have aches and pains also have heart/vascular disease and are on blood thinners (warfarin)—aspirin is hum dinger of a blood thinner and ADDs to effect of any blood thinner— SO your blood will be very thin and not clot ( you bleed,.
which is dangerous of course), anf tylenol does not. Aspirin has to be balanced, and there are warnings about use of aspirin in children (rye’s syndrome).
tylenel ping
After I had an MI july of last year, I was put on Pradaxa, after using it for a couple of weeks I had a BM and there was a lot of blood.
I stopped taking it and went to the hospital, they took me off Pradaxa, I had to receive four blood tranfusions.
After I was stable, I was put on Plavix which has it’s own set of problems but, so far, no problems.
Some people have no problem with Pradaxa, I just wasn’t one of them.
So are NSAIDs and aspirin. There is no one size fits all remedy for people. I am guessing that we will have to go to the doctor for scripts for aspirin and Tylenol soon. To protect us. And to cut down on the high costs of treating liver or kidney failure. Or stomach ulcers.