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Murrmurr said:
The Ibuprofen is a prescription. I take three 600mg tabs...1800mg a day.

I get plenty of acetaminophen already. It's an ingredient in my pain med, which has 10mg hydrocodone + 325mg acetaminophen per tab, and I take 5 of those a day.

According to my liver doctor, acetaminophen is harder on the liver than ibuprofen, but ibuprofen is harder on the kidneys.

The *odd* thing about all that is that aspirin is hard on the stomach-lining, but not nearly as damaging to the liver or kidneys (or anything) as both ibuprofen and acetaminophen, and it's like 300% cheaper. And now you can get "easier on the stomach" coated aspirin, which is still at least 1 or 2 hundred % cheaper. *Odder* still, our CVS doesn't even carry aspirin. 🤔
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We gotta get better organs.
 

You take 20 mgs per day more hydrocodone than me. My doc/or state? won't go over 30.
 

Pepper said:
You take 20 mgs per day more hydrocodone than me. My doc/or state? won't go over 30.
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I plan to ask for another 10mg/day, for a total of 60.

Wish me luck.

The label says 2 tabs in the a.m., 2 @ 3pm, and 1 @ bedtime. That works ok but sometimes I spread 'em out and take 1 about every 3 or 4 hours throughout the day. It all depends on what I have to do that day, like if I need to work in the garden or get a project done or company is coming, or maybe I'm just gonna sit on my keister all day watching the YouTube.
 
I wish you luck. I don't take mine as directed, I'd have no relief if I did. There are days I do 50 mgs a day, but I must somehow make it up so I don't run out. It depends. I manage to balance it out.
 
My lying pharmacy told me they're out of Norco. Yeah, they lied.

My doctor called me just now. I just got off the phone with her. She said CVS has Norco. They told her they have it. They won't fill the Rx unless she sends them the required "treatment document" explaining our treatment plan in detail. She said there's no such thing as this "required" document, and that CVS made it up, but she's going to compose something and FAX it to them.

So hopefully, what she sends them is adequate and I'll get my Rx refilled sometime today. If what she sends them doesn't satisfy CVS, she'll keep rewriting it til it does.

Meanwhile, I'll just keep knocking myself out with various pills in my stash.

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Yes, CVS was lying to you, as they did with me. That's why I switched my pain & psychiatric meds to my Russian Women's Collective pharmacy. CVS has been sued and doesn't want to end up like Rite Aid. Hate CVS. Hate. They gave me so much grief with such BS.
 
chic said:
It's becoming harder to find. I have to order it online. The narrative now is that aspirin is bad for you. 😝
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It's an NSAID, people should not take it on an empty stomach. But I don't understand it being hard to find.

An aside... I sent my grandson to CVS to get "baby aspirin" (don't remember why). He came back saying they didn't have any, and someone even helped him look.

I realized later that young people now call it "Low-dose" aspirin. :ROFLMAO:
 
RadishRose said:
It's an NSAID, people should not take it on an empty stomach. But I don't understand it being hard to find.

An aside... I sent my grandson to CVS to get "baby aspirin" (don't remember why). He came back saying they didn't have any, and someone even helped him look.

I realized later that young people now call it "Low-dose" aspirin. :ROFLMAO:
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I guess it doesn't matter too much what they call it if they no longer sell it.
 
Jules said:
I buy the 81mg, coated aspirin at Costco. It was ~$6 for 365 pills. It’s described as Enteric Coated ASA. Aspirin is probably a brand name. Try asking your pharmacist for ASA. BTW, Bayer which right beside it on the shelf for ~$25
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I have to buy some kind of buffered aspirin because I would get an upset stomach I didn't. :sick:They're not making Bufferin anymore but I still do find it online.
 
chic said:
I have to buy some kind of buffered aspirin because I would get an upset stomach I didn't. :sick:They're not making Bufferin anymore but I still do find it online.
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It seems that Bufferin hasn’t been available in Canada for a few years. If you ever can’t find Bufferin, the enteric aspirin is designed to dissolve more slowly to be easier on the stomach.
 
Pepper said:
Yes, CVS was lying to you, as they did with me. That's why I switched my pain & psychiatric meds to my Russian Women's Collective pharmacy. CVS has been sued and doesn't want to end up like Rite Aid. Hate CVS. Hate. They gave me so much grief with such BS.
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Independent and Mom & Pop pharmacies are not allowed to dispense opioids in Sacramento. Maybe the whole state, idk.

My Rite Aid didn't play games. Once the first Rx was approved by my doc and met FDA requirements, they just filled it every 30 days, no problem. The pharmacists and staff and I were on a first-name basis. I still had to show my ID, but that's FDA required. I think they were forced to close because they didn't cow-tow to the state 100%. They followed federal regs, but the state uses even more scrutiny, both electronically and on paper, plus they demand staff-rotations and other redundant BS that probably effected their profits.

Whatever the case, CVS opened a big new pharmacy directly across the street from my Rite Aid, and Rite Aid closed within a year. CVS was my Rite Aid's wolf. The Rite Aid pharmacist would call me whenever there was a shortage, and call my doc, and keep me updated. CVS: zero courtesies.
 
hollydolly said:
that's why it's better to take pareacetamol instead of aspirin. Aspirin can cause stomach bleeding by irritating the stomach lining... In the uK people rarely buy asoirin , preferring Paracetamol...
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Paracetamol was worth 588 million pounds in 2022. Expected to be worth 830 million by 2030.

Maybe the Aspirin compound isn't owned by any major pharmaceutical companies.
 
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