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Healthy adults who reach for common painkillers to ease the twinges of everyday aches and pains could be setting themselves up for a heart attack or stroke, according to recent research.
Common Painkillers Increase Heart Risks in Healthy People
Seeded on Thu Jul 22, 2010 8:42 PM EDT
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NSAIDs are terrible. I can't take them now due to having ulcerative colitis, and while UC has no definitive cause, I'm all but certain that mine was caused by having to take NSAIDs multiple times a day for several years for chronic pain. I just know that they destroyed my digestive system, and that's what it took for doctors to finally give me decent pain medication. But even that's a struggle because ZOMG, ADDICTS (and apparently, a common tactic among "drug seekers" is claiming an allergy to NSAIDs - another strike against me). Fortunately, my heart is still in good working order. One of the few organs I have that still works well.
Just because it's OTC doesn't mean it's safe. I wish there were more options for chronic pain patients and that physicians weren't so afraid of addiction, which is actually very rare among pain sufferers.
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