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Anyone else take tons of painkillers?
Topic Started: May 29 2015, 02:18 AM (989 Views)
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By painkillers, though, I don't mean hard stuff like oxycodone. I mean ibuprofen, advil, midol for period cramps, etc. I don't know if this is because of my addictive personality or actual pain. I have leg aches every now and then and can't sleep because of them. I also have a bad back and extremely bad cramps the first few days of my period. But I will admit that I have a problem quitting things, like coffee for instance. How much is too much? I know the bottle requirements. You're only supposed to take 2 every four hours, or 6 every 24 hours depending on the medicine, but I used to take a lot, especially during my period. I've really cut back though ever since I started pooping blood and my parents convinced me it was because I was abusing ibuprofen.

Does anyone else take ibuprofen or other painkillers regularly? Do you see it as dangerous to take 3 every day? That's what I was doing for a while. Of course, I amped that up to about 9 every day while I was on my period. For those of you who suffer from chronic pain, do you have any negative side affects from taking too many over the counter pain medications? Is it possible to poop blood from taking too many ibuprofen?
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I just try to ignore the pain. I try to stay away from pills of any kind. I've had bad experiences in the past when I actually did take entire bottles over the course of a couple days.
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Recently I've been doing a pretty good job. I've only been taking them when I'm cramping, for the most part. I think I've taken maybe only 9 ibuprofen in the past month or so.
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i'm always scared i'll OD after like 3 tylenol lol. i have a pretty high tolerance for pain so i rarely take them anyway except for headaches because f*** headaches
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Nine pills in a month isn't bad, not when it's for mother nature's gift to women.
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Damn, from what I've seen getting addicted to pills isn't pretty. One of my co workers from last year told me at the peak of his addiction he would spend nearly $200-300 a week on oxy's and xany's. Good for you that you understood your situation and cut back.
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Ibuprofen?
Doctors over here acvice against that.
They almost never give you a prescription for it unless your pain is really serious.
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Nine pills a month sounds fine, but I think NSAIDs like Ibuprofen can cause high blood pressure and damage stomach lining if taken in high doses for long periods of time. That's when I remember reading a few months ago anyways, when I was prescribed meloxicam (another, stronger NSAID) for ulnar neuropathy. The dumbass practitioner who prescribed meloxicam told me to take the maximum daily recommended dose of meloxicam. After a few days of that, I was feeling significant tightness in my chest so I looked up the side effects on meloxicam and other NSAIDs, and chest tightness was one of them. So I just stopped taking the drug. In hindsight it was completely unnecessary and the practitioner who prescribed it to me did not know what she was doing.

But other than this I rarely ever take painkillers since I don't get sick or have headaches.
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I have a lot of weird, chronic pains. None of them are too serious, but it always feels a bit better when I pop some ibuprofen or advil. The cramps, though... There's really nothing else I can do to ease them. At times they're so bad I pass out, so I kind of have to help myself out by taking something. I've switched over to midol instead of ibuprofen, though. Hopefully that's a bit better for me.

I have an addictive personality, so the only thing that really stops my bad habits is feeling the side-effects. I don't know if my ibuprofen use was the reason for me pooping blood for four days straight, but either way I cut back after that. I depend on substances to ease my pain (whether physical or emotional), and that's not a good thing.
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I don't take painkillers. My mum would take them as a reaction to pretty much everything, so that's probably why I don't take them. I've never been in excruciating long-term physical pain though, so I don't know how I'd react if, say, I broke a major bone. But generally I just put up with the pain.
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I don't think Ibuprofen is all that dangerous depending on the milligram you take, 9 a day seems a bit much though.

You should try other methods of pain relief along with a small amount of painkillers. My girlfriends period pain is eased greatly by a back massage, particularly lower back. Seems to ease pain and get things moving.

I'm sure your girlfriend wouldn't mind giving you a massage every now and then giving that presumably she can understand your pain :p


If you actually pass out from it though might be worth a doctor visit not really common for someone to experience that much.
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May 29 2015, 05:18 AM
Ibuprofen?
Doctors over here acvice against that.
They almost never give you a prescription for it unless your pain is really serious.


Ibuprofen is over the counter medication in many countries - it's the standard along with your paracetamols and aspirins. There are a few studies on side-effects of long-term use etc but provided you stay within your daily dosage you should be okay.

If you are in more pain than the daily dosage allows I would see a doctor who can give you something stronger that is safer. The increased efficacy combined with the decreased dosage should give you a much better allowance for toxicity.

More to the point if you are at a point where you constantly need pain killers then taking painkillers is treating the symptoms rathers than the problem. In regards to your period have you considered taking a contraceptive that lets you skip your period? Talk to your doctor about it perhaps but it can be an option to help manage things a bit better for you.

"If problems persist contact a medical professional" really sums it up. Being dependent on pain killers will have a few major problems beyond what I stated above about treating the wrong issue. Having them constantly will increase your bodies ability to process them leading to decreased efficacy meaning you are required to have more to deal with them. This can lead to toxicity issues depending on the drug.

The increased dependence has already been touched on, although most over the counter medications have very minimal adverse effects in relation to addition. Anything with those is much more likely to be mental rather than physiological.

Honestly as with all of those sort of topics I comment on I suggest going and talking to your GP - they should be able to advise what you should cut down on and tailor a medication regime to help deal with the problems you are having.

Hope this helps a bit :)
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I only take painkillers when I have a really bad headache, otherwise I avoid it. I've taken it as a muscle relaxant at times aswell when my shoulders have been way too much of a pain, but that's very rare. I then usually take Ibuprofen as this seems to work best on me, so I've stopped taking paracet/paracetamol.
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I go nuts on ibuprofen because my muscles get inflammed from overuse, lol. I should stop that. My mum got mad at me six years ago when she noticed that I'd been taking them as often as I could.
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May 29 2015, 11:38 AM
I go nuts on ibuprofen because my muscles get inflammed from overuse, lol. I should stop that. My mum got mad at me six years ago when she noticed that I'd been taking them as often as I could.
NSAIDS - Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. It's in the name ;) However again, just watch your dosage on them.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with having them when you need them - in fact some people have done studies that show that things like aspirin and ibuprofen may actually have long term benefits (although I wouldn't take them on that assumption).

If you are having problems with DOMS / Lactic Acid Poisoning there are other (better) ways to deal with that, though I'm sure you're well aware of that haha.
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