Unless you're on mega prescribed pharmaceutical doses rather than over the counter ibuprofen/nurofen is fine for most people if taken at mealtimes.
It was prescription doses. 400mg 3 times a day. The GP told me to stop taking them immediately so he must have been concerned. I had been taking them for at least a couple of years by this time. He certainly seemed surprised that they had been prescribed for an extended period without the other item to counteract the side effects.
Oh yes I accept that in fact he spent weeks in contact with them & put lots of resources into them, just shows what is possible though. For me the interesting point was how quickly the body adapts and becomes inured to pain killers & hence why they stop working. I am fortunate to only very rarely have to use them (usually when I have overdone it in the garden) in these cases I usually take one dose just to get a good nights sleep but I never take them long term.
If you are on Ibuprofen 400mg three times a day,long term, then you should be on a PPI. Not the Schwarzenegger annoying advert. Just a proton pump inhibitor. Omeprazole to the uninitiated. It protects the stomach.
On another tack. I was going to do a seed order today using my Tesco vouchers. Have Thompson and Morgan stopped participating? i don't want to go to Legoland.
One of my wife’s many consultants is a neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. In charge of the headache group there, we light heartedly refer to him as the head of headaches at the Headache Hospital. He is quite categoric: long term taking of ibuprofen is deleterious to your health. No more than 10 days in a month he says. With great kindness, calmness, authority and knowledge he went through all the options for my wife’s brain tumour induced headaches - they ranged from acupuncture to practising mindfulness, decaffeinated tea to sleeping regimes, yoga to exercise.
The anti inflammatory I was on, diclofenac is no longer being prescribed. the other one he gave me had to have yet another tablet to stop stomach ulcers, if you read the small print in those it says not to be taken if you have osteo problems, when I pointed that out to him, he said he’d have to read up on them, I told him what to do with them. No faith in doctors or hospitals anymore, @raisingirl, yes the hospital would be Derriford, used to be one of the best.
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Sorry about your wife, Picidae. I have to say if I had brain tumour induced headaches, I would want some morphine, and hang the addiction/effects on health. Is taking Ibuprofen with a PPI worse than being in pain from a brain tumour? Nothing scares me more than being in pain without adequate pain management.
I have a proton pump inhibitor to take in the morning before the naproxen, to reduce the risk of stomach/gut damage. For my particular problem it's medium-term rather than long-term so the GP is OK with it. It's a case of assessing the risks vs. the benefits and getting enough pain relief to move the shoulder, which will help it to resolve faster and reduce the risk of long-term complications (physio confirmed this and put it on my record for the GP to see). We also discussed and ruled out steroid injections - apparently good for sports/overuse injuries but not for my condition and also not without side effects. I'm starting to feel lucky that I got 2 GP appointments and 2 physio appointments within two weeks of the onset of symptoms (I have had it before so I recognised it straight away - very distinctive kind of pain).
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He is truly inspiring.
the other one he gave me had to have yet another tablet to stop stomach ulcers, if you read the small print in those it says not to be taken if you have osteo problems, when I pointed that out to him, he said he’d have to read up on them, I told him what to do with them.
No faith in doctors or hospitals anymore, @raisingirl, yes the hospital would be Derriford, used to be one of the best.