Melody
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Please use this thread to discuss Motrin.
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Herby
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After already taking SOMA'S and Vicodin I took Motrin 8oomg's and they SUCK!!! I gave them to my mother.
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Princeton
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After my first bout with severe pain in my teens I was put on Motrin as well as other anti-inflamatories (no, not all at once). These things are described as "wonderdrugs" for some with oesteoarthritis. You know the commercials, laying on the couch crying one day and out pickin flowers with the kids the next. Frankly after they tore the lining of my stomach over 10 years ago I can't take any kind of anti-inflam (the new Coxx II excluded-but insurance doesn't cover it).
I live with constant pain and do try to catch it in time and hold it off with the weenie drugs (tylenol), but any doctor that seriously thinks that that group of meds will cure severe chronic pain needs to be left in a room with one of those little reflex bonker dealies for five minutes - JOKING!
If you can get some type of relief from the Motrin and are being VERY VERY careful about the side effects I'm happy for you. If it's not working (which is my guess) good luck on finding something that will address the problem.
Take care & best wishes,
Princeton
[PS: If this post is not in the correct section of the board, please enlighten me. I haven't been on for a long time and REALLY like the changes you've made - I'll do my best to follow the 'where to post' rules.]
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edward73
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J-U-S-T heard on the evening news that IBUPROPHEN is now being linked to serious health problems involving the intestines. You know, it's funny. You never hear of any actual narcotic pain relievers doing this. Kind sad what this country has become. JMO.
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Listvoer
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Well.... I think the main reason so many of the non-opiate/opioid pain meds keep turning up problematic is because we started using poppies back in the cave-man days once somebody figured out that if you are in pain and eat the goo inside it or rub it on the wound, the pain would go away. We've had an eternity to adapt to those. Cox inhibitors, tylenol, ibu, etc are still very new in comparison so our bodies aren't ready to handle them unlike opiates, for which our brains have evolved receptors just for them. We can try to fake them out all we want but at least IMO the only truly safe pain med is an opiate, taken in the proper dosage of course....
Just my 2 cents, but it makes sense to me...
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lilstraw
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Be very careful with motrin if you are on cumadin.It also thins the blood. Think about it this way 800mg is a lot of drugs to but in your system compared to lets say 40mg oxy.And thats all day. I think motrin you have to take 2 pills so now we are at 1600mg. I have had sandwiches that have that much weight.Correct me if I am wrong isnt that about a 1/2 once of meds.
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Listvoer
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Reged: 01/14/04
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I can agree with the cumadin part, but I have to dispute the "logic" in the weight of the meds... the weight literally has nothing to do with the effect of the drug, when comparing different meds. Or better put, weight has nothing to do with the potency/power of a chemical when comparing it to another, that's, as the saying goes, like comparing apples to oranges. The numbers are irrelevant insofar as the heavier one being the stronger one. For instance, 40 mg of oxycontin is far stronger than 100mg codeine yet 40mg of oxycodone is nothing compared to, say, 1000 micrograms (or 1mg) of fentanyl. It's far more complicated than the particular weight, or volume or mass. That only works when comparing the same chemical, like 5 mg of hydrocodone being weaker than 10mg of hydrocodone.
As to your sandwiches, i'd imagine most if not all of them weighed more than 1600mg... that's just 1.6 grams, or about the weight of a single potato chip or something similar i'd suspect. It's nowhere near 1/2 ounce (once?)... I'm not trying to knock you, I stink at math too, but I do believe you're going down a dead-end street if you're judging the power or dangerousness of meds by virtue of their weight alone.
But then i'm an insomniac who has been awake since yesterday, so I could be wrong... 
L - every part of me is tired except my brain, which has forgotten how to turn off....
ETA: Using my calculator with weight conversion, 1600mg=1.6 grams. 1.6 grams = .056 oz which is just a little more than 5% of an oz. If your sandwich weighed less, I don't think it'd be much of a meal..
Edited by Listvoer (01/17/05 06:20 AM)
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