Comment by topham
7 hours ago
The right tool for the right job. When it comes to medication, in the right dosage.
I'm aware of acetaminophen's down sides, and yet recently I was taking it combined with 2 other medications at the time.
Why? Because all three medications are recommended for dealing with the issue I had. (Alone and in combination)
The moment it wasn't helping further? Done.
There is this broken idea, particularly apparent in North America, but in western society that more is better for many things. It's not.
More pain killers don't do anything if they max out the relief they can give you, overloading their mechanism doesn't reduce anything, but taxing your liver or your kidneys.
All medications are potentially toxic, your body wants to dispose of them. In appropriate dosages they will benefit you, but more isn't inherently better.
Even water can kill you in sufficient quantity.
We do the same with diet; where someone declares one ingredient in a meal healthier than another; it isn't. A single ingredient isn't better or worse for you in a meal. Your diet however can be good or bad; over time that matters.
Try dealing with a herniated disc, more ibu is definitely better. Too little wont do anything, proper dose and you feel healed
Yeah can confirm. I try to keep it low but then pain lingers for days and cumulatively over the days most probably I took as much as I should have taken in stating few days already.
yeah tried to reserve ibu for sleep and during the day walking as much as possible. I know not everyone feels better while walking, luckily I did.
Spine issues are the single thing that pish me to ibuprofen or naproxen over acetaminophen. The latter does nothing for my issues.
yeah, its the inflammation going down that reliefs the nerve.
Took me 3 months, out of 2 i wasn't able to sit. Luckily I could walk and that give me great relief. So walked for hours.
Keeping the habit, will mostly being coding from my phone & walking from now on.
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