Medical question

[vitualis]

I don't know how a doctor would get a kickback with named brands. Can't the pharmasist give generic brands upon request of the customer (assuming there is one)? I can't remember as I have not had a perscription in over 5 years.

I don't know about other countries, but in Australia, there is an optional tickbox on the prescription on whether the phamacist can or cannot give a generic brand.

And of course, some medications don't have generic brands.

Both doctors and pharmacists here get "inducements" to use particular brand of medications and I'm sure that's the same the world over.

As for ibuprofen, in Australia, the maximum recommended safe dose is 1200 mg/day ... generally 400 mg three times a day. I personally don't think that it is safe (or particularly effective) to regularly use ibuprofen doses above this level.

As per rhegedus, if ibuprofen alone isn't enough, you should consider using it together with paracetamol.

As for chiropractors...

Regards.

[Cobra]

When I nackered my back, I got given some codeine. Lovely stuff!

Cobra

[rhegedus]

When I nackered my back, I got given some codeine. Lovely stuff!

Cobra

You should try Tramadol - it's like codeine squared!

[flaninacupboard]

i remember having a morphine injection in my arse, and it had no effect

Nitrous was good though.

once i was out of hospital i was on some serious pain killers. someone dropped a glass on the kitchen floor (hard tiles) and it smashed to bits. when i got up in the morning i just went got myself a drink and didn't notice till i stuck to the floor in the living room there was a TON of glass in my foot and a bloody trail behind me
That has to be the worst period of my life, having to take a stool to the bathroom so i could do a shit.

[beavereater]

I brought over a bunch of meds from Canada and I remember my doctor saying stuff like "Take this (Mydol) with half a (Something else) and you it becomes a sleeping aid." I docs mix drugs to get different effects, but then I get all scared when I read the lables saying "DONT MIX WITH..." and so I have never mixed. Anyway, the strongest painkiller you can get, even perscription from a doc in Japan, has about the same effect as half an asprin...its terrible. People just deal with the pain here. They have a headache, take medicine, and hours later when its not gone, there like "It takes time for the meds to kick in"

[flaninacupboard]

well this is the same society where loads of men suffer erectile problems because they don't allow semen to leave their body when masturbating, so "hold it in"

[teegee420]

I brought over a bunch of meds from Canada and I remember my doctor saying stuff like "Take this (Mydol) with half a (Something else) and you it becomes a sleeping aid."

Isn't Mydol for PMS? What's really going on, beavereater? :P

[Cobra]

I was once over in America and got the flu. Not very nice, and I was stuck taking this drug called "Tylenol". It didn't do a thing. That said it helped with "period pain" too, as well as headaches and everything else.

A day or two later, I discovered a packet of Nurofen Plus I'd packed and forgotten about. Bliss!

Cobra

[Capmaster]

When I had broken my leg I got morphine, but I was allergic to it and my BP spiked to 185/125 and temp went to 103.

Doc put me on Tylox, which is acetominophen with oxycodone. It worked great for bone pain, but threw my body's thermostat off. I was dying from the heat when it got over 75 degrees

For everyday pain. ibuprofen is my first choice.

[flaninacupboard]

go on cap, how did you break yours? how long were you in plaster?

[Capmaster]

go on cap, how did you break yours? how long were you in plaster?

A motorcycle accident. I did battle with a 4,000 pound car ...and lost

The leg got infected and I wasn't out of the woods for two more years. About 8 surgeries, grafts, debridements, you name it. Not a good time.

[flaninacupboard]

A motorcycle accident. I did battle with a 4,000 pound car ...and lost

To be honest that's not too surprising! yours all sorted now? i got a spiral fracture and now my foot is about 20degrees clockwise of where it should be. still gives me weird pains sometimes, specially if i knock it against something - or the worst, if i'm in bed with someone and they slide over my legs to get out
And i can't cross my legs! used to be able to do the lotus position too....

[Capmaster]

A motorcycle accident. I did battle with a 4,000 pound car ...and lost

To be honest that's not too surprising! yours all sorted now? i got a spiral fracture and now my foot is about 20degrees clockwise of where it should be. still gives me weird pains sometimes, specially if i knock it against something - or the worst, if i'm in bed with someone and they slide over my legs to get out
And i can't cross my legs! used to be able to do the lotus position too....

I know the feeling. Right after the accident my foot was at a weird angle - hell, I could have kicked myself in the ass But my leg looks normal and I have no limp now. Normal until I pull my pants leg up and you can see the 8 or 9 surgery incisions and the 200 or 300 stitch and staple scars

It was years before my wife stopped complaining about my "jimmy-legs". As the nerves grew back, in the middle of the night my leg used to shake and sometimes I would lift it and drop it. It kept her up many nights

And I still don't have 100% of my achilles tendon stretch back. I still can't easily kneel on that leg.

[flaninacupboard]

yeah, that was the worst! about three days after my cast was removed i was at a friends house, having a go with his new air rifle. i'd been in a full leg cast for four months, so my muscles were pretty wasted. i knelt down to take a shot at somthing, tried to stand up and collapsed backwards on my leg, and there was nothing i could do - too weak to lift my own body weight. and it hurt like ****! so im in his yard screaming and he didn't have a ******* clue what was going on, and did nothing to help. gee, thanks.
i still have a tiny limp, and i have to wear boots, so i can roll down my sock. just the pressure of sock elastic hurts.

Best feeling ever, bending your knee for the first time in four months! strange, but true. also weird was the fact that leg is now waaaay hairier than the other!