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Originally Posted by wehateporn
It's scary to think of the amount of damage these painkillers are doing; Ibuprofen and Paracetamol should have been banned already, but instead they try to ban Vitamin C
1) Ibuprofen - Heart Attacks, Strokes, kills people with Chicken Pox
2) Paracetamol - Destroying livers, sometimes even when well within 'safe' dosage
3) Aspirin - Bleeding in the stomach, also kills people with Chicken Pox
Not to mention that the pain is there to protect us, to tell us that we are damaging our back if we move into a certain position, this stops us making it worse.
If somebody is already terminally ill, beyond repair, then painkillers are a blessing
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Banned - no. Regulated better - yes.
My wife suffers from reumatoid arthritis to the point where she receives regular cortisone injections (after joint draining), methotrexate injections and plaquinil infusion treatments...and still endures an unbelievable amount of pain on a daily basis. The cost of the infusion treatments is phenomenal - $2k per session (thankfully we have great benefit coverage).
Even with all that - on a good day, she has to dose up on Aleve just to be semi-mobile. As a child her doctor had her on a regiment of up to 20-30 aspirin a day (which to this day she thinks did more harm than good at the time).