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The problem with opioids for me is untreatable constipation. After one day’s dose I’m blocked for days after and no amount of laxatives or stool softener will shift it! I crashed my mountain bike a few years ago re-breaking my collarbone and I eventually wound up in the ER for a hot saline enema. Honestly the pain from my gut was far worse than that from my shoulder!
If I take NSAIDS I always have some food and I never take more than 800mg at a time and that much only rarely, typically 400mg does the trick.
 
Alzero said:
The problem with opioids for me is untreatable constipation. After one day’s dose I’m blocked for days after and no amount of laxatives or stool softener will shift it! I crashed my mountain bike a few years ago re-breaking my collarbone and I eventually wound up in the ER for a hot saline enema. Honestly the pain from my gut was far worse than that from my shoulder!
If I take NSAIDS I always have some food and I never take more than 800mg at a time and that much only rarely, typically 400mg does the trick.
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What are taking? Niflumic acid?
Paul
 
Alzero said:
I keep forgetting that I’m now in that elderly group! I mean I know it, but I don’t really believe it…. Anyway, I use the NSAIDS about once or twice a month, if that much, so no worries there.
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You'd be surprised.
Do a creatinine blood dosage before and after a few days.

Paul
 
Tippie said:
Big warnings about regular use of ibuprofen as well.
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This probably belongs in the "getting old" thread, but fuck it. We've never been too fussy about sticking to thread topics on this forum.

I got myself into trouble with Ibuprofen a few months ago. I was taking 2 tabs a couple of times a day over about a week for back pain, and it damaged the lining of my stomach. I had 9/10 gut pain (having had trigeminal neuralgia, I know what 10 is on the pain scale). I ended up in hospital being checked for all sorts of things including liver problems and gallstones. Eventually a gastroscopy revealed that the inside of my stomach looked like it had road rash. It was all inflamed and angry with occasional specks of blood seeping through. The official diagnosis was "chemical gastritis". Treatment with stomach acid reducing drugs settled it down over a few weeks. I've not taken Ibuprofen or any sort of NSAID since then.

At least having a severe gut pain seemed to have stopped my back pain. It got me wondering whether the brain can only handle one severe pain at a time. If you have a pain and a more serious one comes along, the brain focusses on the new pain and ignores the previous one. So my dad's dumb old joke if I winged about a pain probably wasn't so dumb after all. If I said I had a had a pain like a sprained ankle or skinned knee. After he'd checked that I wasn't in need of anything more serious than basic first aid, he'd say (jokingly) he'd offer to hit my finger with a hammer to make me forget about the other pain. I thought parents were supposed to offer sympathy and comfort. But he might have been onto some neurological breakthrough in pain treatment.
 
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Dellortoman said:
At least having a severe gut pain seemed to have stopped my back pain. It got me wondering whether the brain can only handle one severe pain at a time. If you have a pain and a more serious one comes along, the brain focusses on the new pain and ignores the previous one. So my dad's dumb old joke if I winged about a pain probably wasn't so dumb after all. If I said I had a had a pain like a sprained ankle or skinned knee. After he'd checked that I wasn't in need of anything more serious than basic first aid, he'd say (jokingly) he'd offer to hit my finger with a hammer to make me forget about the other pain. I thought parents were supposed to offer sympathy and comfort. But he might have been onto some neurological breakthrough in pain treatment.
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Now that's a career that I expect wouldn't have a labour shortage.

"What do you do for a living son?"
"Why I hit peoples finger with a hammer to stop their other pains"
"Good for you lad! I was wanting to go that route but the bloody lineup was too long!"
 
Dellortoman said:
At least having a severe gut pain seemed to have stopped my back pain. It got me wondering whether the brain can only handle one severe pain at a time. If you have a pain and a more serious one comes along, the brain focusses on the new pain and ignores the previous one. So my dad's dumb old joke if I winged about a pain probably wasn't so dumb after all. If I said I had a had a pain like a sprained ankle or skinned knee. After he'd checked that I wasn't in need of anything more serious than basic first aid, he'd say (jokingly) he'd offer to hit my finger with a hammer to make me forget about the other pain. I thought parents were supposed to offer sympathy and comfort. But he might have been onto some neurological breakthrough in pain treatment.
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Anti inflammation drugs, steroids or non steroid always attack the stomach. Can be symptomless, or gastritis, or ulcers which can perforate. They are often prescribed systematically with proton pump inhibitors to reduce stomach acidity.

Freud mentioned somewhere how focusing attention elsewhere would reduce pain. I think that he mentioned a telephone conversation alleviating pain. I imagine that we've all experienced that, for ourselves or with people we know.

Paul
 
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