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Allow me to translate: it's important to understand how it works so we can develop a patented drug that costs 100x more per dose, then we will work on getting aspirin banned due to its "side effects"
Aspirin has been a life changer for long Covid. The other painkillers make symptoms 10x worse. Many people wonder if aspirin anti platelet/blood thinning capabilities is helping breakup microclots which brings relief. There’s also a thing called nattokinase that apparently has similar properties to aspirin and is being studied for heart disease. It has been shown to break down blood clots and even degrade the spike p…
Aspirin+Claritin was what I used when I had a few weeks of extended COVID effects past the actual infection. It really does seem to work! Or at least I think I had it... I never actually tested, I just assumed I should probably isolate regardless of whether it was COVID or the flu.
"it can cause detrimental side effects such as internal bleeding and organ damage" NSAIDs are also ototoxic, meaning that they cause hearing damage.
Yeah, for all the hype about opioids being bad, these 'safe' drugs are way more dangerous than commonly purported. Acetaminophen is especially bad because the toxicity threshold is only slightly above the therapeutic dose. That is why they have to put so many warnings on this 'safe' drug. Yet let's blame opioids. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therapeutic_index
I use nothing for reducing inflammation, nor any drugs since decades, when I'm ill from time to time (once or twice a year), I let the fever go, the body is just working actively, it's not especially uncomfortable
I'm sure you didn't mean it this way, but this does read as if you're shaming people for using painkillers. No-one should have to endure pain and there's nothing wrong with the responsible use of drugs to reduce it.
That doesn't mean the answer is no pain medicine. You should try to keep pain in a bearable, functioning range.
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No. Science has all along been testing if something works and then finding out why. Often the „why“ is orders of magnitudes harder to find out than the „if“. For example, we can observe how the brain functions in some instances, but why it works like does will elude us perhaps forever. Highly complex systems like the inner biomechanical workings of our brains are essentially a black box.
"Why" questions in general are pretty difficult question to answer in a satisfactory way. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36GT2zI8lVA
Today an allergist told me the random lip swelling I experience (angioterma) has been caused in many other patients by NSAIDs like Aspirin, Tylenol (acetaminophen), and a Alleve (naproxen sodium). I hate to think that's true, but apparently it is a studied phenomena: https://aacijournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1710-...
Is not an NSAID. One of its primary uses is as a medication for people who can’t use NSAIDs.
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"Why" questions in general are pretty difficult question to answer in a satisfactory way. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36GT2zI8lVA
I think “how” is more appropriate in the GP’s comment.
Like software incompatibility: every program is the story of "how", written explicitly, and translated into instructions. The only way to fit them together is to implement "why". If we could write both stories together, we could factor out incompatibility.
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There's something like a downward spiral into hell that is opiates which starts with low doses like what you're on and escalates into worse and worse bullshit because you're not even trying to treat the underlying inflammation before masking the pain with opiates, and then the movement the pain is trying to prevent you from doing happens anyways and you just end up with more damage. I'm telling you these alternatives…
"just try weed bro" is the absolute worst most condescending advice you can give to someone suffering from chronic pain who didn't ask for advice. Do you really, really think someone just "went to opiates" before trying absolutely everything to identify and treat the underlying cause?
It's really different depending on where you are
Also I think "weed" and "large doses of CBD" are really different things
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Do you have any good literature on Aspirin and LC? Not a doubter, actually I have LC myself.
The micro-clots in covid and long-covid are fibrin clots, not platelet clots. There is endless documentation and photos of this, it looks like tangled spaghetti. Every report of aspirin vs covid is wishful thinking, it does nothing. The amount of misinformation with covid and long-covid is astounding.