Tell me about it dude. It's like "Oh you seem to have broke a rib. Get some Tylenol 500's and take those. Oh and while you're here do you want a free flu shot?"
You must be seeing the same doctor, the one I'm dealing with said two Tylenol 500s three times a day and go to useless physical therapy. Some serious pain drugs are needed for my mother but that's as far as they'll go. I think they should give her any drug she wants at her age.
I stopped taking Tylenol and Advil years ago when I learned about their correlation with heart damage. Lost a little weight too, and I have almost no joint pain anymore. I'm convinced those drugs interfere with the bodies ability to heal and manage pain.
Yeah now factor in the age and how the max strength of Tylenol had to be reduced because too many people were overdosing on accident. It's almost like the medical community decided to just kill old folks.
Good to know re dosage article just in case she forgets and takes more than she is supposed to.
Get your mom a pain doc consult at a university medical center that has a real pain clinic.
Good idea. I'll look.
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