ibuprophen, naproxin, and acetaminophen(tylenol)

[Raven]

if you have been tasking one of these three pain killers daily...i urge you to read this article....
the warning labels will change in a year to indicate what this article states....

personally:
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Having recently watched live a colonoscopy performed on myself and an upper G.I. tract too.....
on the TV monitor...
i was horrified at what Motrin was doing to me
also known as ibuprophen....creating ulcers in my body....
since that day....i dropped them completely and my stomach
problems have disapeared!

read it here:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/12/19....ap/index.html

[BigBo]

But what are you supposed to take then? They remove the stuff that works (ie; Vioxx, Bextra, Celebrex, etc) and tell you to take Ibuprophen on a daily basis.

[Raven]

you begin to ultimately trust it...
and you end up taking it for any little pain you have
A U T O M A T I C A L L Y

like i said to my Doctor (PMC) not to long ago....

I said... "i'm starting to get really concerned
about taking all this Motrin.. for my pain
associated with arthritus..."
it's been ten years now!

and this was because of that vioxx report....
and that stuff was supposedly perfectly safe too
according to the "always right as rain".....F.D.A.
YEAH RIGHT!
they're in the drug companys pocket.

@ my primary care physician's.....office
she replied...."hey don't worry about it!
advil has been around for a long time
and is proven to be very effective.... dissmissing my
faulty logic as just so much.....paranoia
(treating me as if i was a hypochondriac)
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but my gastro-intestinal specialist said to me
and i qoute:
"Lets see what that motrin (ibuprophen) is
doing to your stomach......."
then schedualing the colonoscopy
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Well i saw first hand with my own eyes
...and it wasn't pretty!
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so she was dead wrong and i was absolutely right...
i'm going to bear the pain
and have a normal stomach!

F___ those meds....

my recomendation is to take them only when you
absolutely have too...and stop ASAP
and if your stomach starts to bother you.....
like "anything you eat" doesn't agree with you...
stop taking them all together...
i found out the hard way....

[sok]

Let me guess.......
Ruins your liver and makes your stomach bleed?
Motrin,Tylenol.
Right?

TAKE NOTHING.
Suck it up and quit whining.
That's the advice I got from a pharmacist with 35 years in the job.
Dad.
The older I get the more sense he makes.
I also have two close friends in the same job that say the same thing.

[Raven]

there is actually a new drug out there that is specifically
for counter-acting the damage tylenol does to your liver.

[2na]

No drug is 100% safe - someone in the population is going to have some type of adverse reaction to it. It may help millions in the population and kill a few- look at Vioxx (I have a friend who is a scientist working for the maker Merck). You have to do a little risk/benefit analysis anytime you take something.

What did Dirty Harry say? 'Do you feel lucky, punk?'