Re:Xanax and Adderall Access Is Being Blocked by Secret Drug...
by the_mar on Monday April 03, 2023 @11:43PM
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I’m not trying to say that narcotic painkillers are ineffective or necessarily dangerous.
I am saying that many kinds of pain can be managed with OTC medication. There aren’t necessarily two schools of thought. It’s more that if let’s say ibuprofen isn’t helping the pain, it may just be that you aren’t taking enough of it. It is a very effective pain medicine.
Re:Xanax and Adderall Access Is Being Blocked by Secret Drug...
by sammax on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @04:27AM
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What a shitty take. There’s only so much ibuprofen you can take before the risks start outweighing the benefits, and there’s plenty of pain that is much stronger than that.
Re:Xanax and Adderall Access Is Being Blocked by Secret Drug...
by the_mar on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @09:56AM
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Actually you can take quite a bit of ibuprofen for a short period of time with no long term problems. You can also take ibuprofen and acetaminophen. It is quite the hot take that narcotic pain meds are safer.
I’m not at all suggesting ibuprofen for pain management of cancer patients or people immediately after major surgery.
But for a big chunk of outpatient procedures enough OTC pain meds will actually work just fine.
I’m not some granola advocate here. Nor am I trying to say that everyone should just tough it out. But you can’t seriously say that 800mg ibuprofen is more dangerous or less effective than opioids for wisdom teeth removal
A: Time limited access to narcotics is safe and effective pain management for severe but temporary injuries and I don't exist to suffer in this world -- give me the good stuff.
B: If I can reduce my pain into "bearable" with nsiad painkillers then I don't want to take narcotics.
I think one of the dangers of B in the real world is that for severe pain doctors are terrified of prescribing narcotics that they put you on the nsaid cycle with extremely high doses which can wreck your stomach lining and liver.
When I was recovering from surgery they gave me Xanax, Vallium and Tylenol to basically sedate me for 2 straight weeks because of this nonsense and it was miserable. Just trading one kind of high for another but the new way you mostly keep the pain.