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This site is about spreading false and misleading information under the guise of "just giving helpful advice"? Thanks but I'll continue to call out dangerous misinformation when I see it. Let's keep "reefer madness, but for pain medicine" at the fringes.
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10:1 is still a pretty big ratio. You could take 20 Panadol every few hours before getting sick. That’s a LOT.
not really. you will be quite sick before you hit 10. also, double dosing is a major problem and makes it easier to hit the threshold .
"it can cause detrimental side effects such as internal bleeding and organ damage" NSAIDs are also ototoxic, meaning that they cause hearing damage.
"it can cause detrimental side effects such as internal bleeding and organ damage" NSAIDs are also ototoxic, meaning that they cause hearing damage.
You just sent me on a research adventure. I have struggled with chronic neck tension and pain for the last 15 years with no obvious origin event, and sometimes take 2-3 ibuprofen every day to take the edge off, when it's at its worst. Thank you for bringing this up! Background for me for those interested: Within a few years of struggling with chronic pain and tension headache episodes (vomiting, catch-my-breath level…
The other thing that comes to mind is Ménière’s disease, a disease affecting the pressures of the inner ear. It's probably also considered if you've seen an ENT. A friend worked on his Ménière’s with diet (low salt, low glycemic index foods), and diuretics, but what is helping now is allergy shots. His ENT noticed that there was a seasonal component to his symptoms and sent him to an allergist. (The first allergist he went to did testing but found nothing; the next allergist found plenty of reactions and hit on an effective treatment.) Actually, his symptoms sound quite similar to yours. The Mayo clinic page on Ménière’s mentions various treatment modalities, though not allergy treatment.
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Do you have any good literature on Aspirin and LC? Not a doubter, actually I have LC myself.
I do not. I have my personal anecdote and experiences with common painkillers and LC. I've had it since January 2021 so there wasn't really anything known when I started taking aspirin outside of the many years of research as mentioned in OP's article. Here's my experience so far. https://jondouglas.dev/long-covid/ I've swapped aspirin about a year in for nattokinase and have noticed much better management. I still t…
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Honestly, aspirin is really closer to "grinding up rhino horns" than to complex pharmaceuticals you have to make in a lab. It's literally "drink this tea made from willow bark" except we got better at isolating the active components and finding other ways to produce them and more reliably measuring the dosage. The difference is that empirical studies have demonstrated the effect of "willow bark tea" and the lack of a…
That's not technically true, willow has salicin in it. Aspirin is intentionally a slight modification.
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believe me, i know all about pain, from experience. cannabis derived products are not going to do anything, and i have no idea what you were going on about with tumeric. the only real actual pain-killers are opioids.
You say only but I would say alcohol is decent at pain reduction in a lot of cases.
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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.
Tests are plentiful and easy. If you think you have it, get a test and find out. You still did the right thing by isolating, but advocating for aspirin and Claritin as relief for covid while not actually knowing for sure you had it is not as good. In fact, it can be dangerous, given those two drugs may interact with things others take but then read this and assume it's an effective treatment. You could have just been…
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…
Along these lines, you might have even better luck with serrapeptase, which breaks down fibrin protein. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8265778/ These are known tissue plasminogen activators. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5553328/table/t...
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.