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painkillers
is it safe to take the recommended doses each of the painkillers aspirin, ibuprofen and paracetamol all at the same time, e.g. 2 aspirin, 2 ibuprofen and 2 paracetamol at once?
Would this provide more (maybe even 3 times) 'pain relief' compared to that provided by one type of painkiller alone?
Would there be any particular reasons that any two or three of these painkillers should not be taken together in combination?
Phil
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.But I wouldn't take all of what your suggesting at the same time.
You've also got to remember that taking lots of painkillers might get rid of the pain but your poor stomach has got to digest them.
I wish there was a miracle cure for arthritis!!
Keep taking the tablets!!!
When I take Ibuprofen for more than a couple days I get a nasty increase in tinitus (I already suffer this and it gets half as bad again in both ears, whereas normally it is just settled in one ear) and also blood in faeces. Quite frightening. When this happens I stop the Ibuprofen and put up with the pain for a week, transferring to co-codomol.
I get recurrent lower back pain that can be totally crippling for five or six days at a time if I don't zap it at the first sign.
I did ask my doctor if he could prescribe some cannabis for me (I have never used it!), but he laughed and said only for people with MS. I really hate filling myself up with chemicals!!!
Co-codamol and similar codeine products make me hallucinate really badly!! I take Mobic and Paracetamol/
Bl**dy Arthritis - still we all get by and you can't give in to it.