Aspirin - Safety Warning!
Sep 18, 2018 19:43:39 #
hj wrote:
You mention that all meds have risks and rewards..... Yesterday My wife and I laughed because of a commercial on TV where the list of side effects took longer to mention than the product description itself. We commented that every day we see one or two newly named medications on TV. Obviously BIG MONEY. We could lower the National debt by applying some kind of advertiser tax on pharmaceuticals advertisements.
I almost always ask for an old proven drug and avoid the new ones,,,and am sick of the new drug commercials on tv and the almost as many lawyer commercials saying if you took this drug and had these side effects please contact us,,,I take one Excedrin almost every day,,,I grind it up and take it with milk or some other beverage and some food,,,since it also contains caffeine and acetaminophen it really picks me up,,,,
Sep 18, 2018 21:04:32 #
speters wrote:
That's the most stupidest thing I've herd, taking Aspirin every single day! That has been a big no-no ever since I was a little kid!
Wake up, Speters. Where have you been hiding? Taking a low dose aspirin a day is the advice given by cardiologists in Today's World.
Sep 18, 2018 23:02:43 #
Robyn H wrote:
It's a scientifically proven fact the virtually and literally every person that drinks milk, dies. I wouldn't be too concerned about 81 mg of aspirin.
Regardless of often faulty science, every person that eats anything eventually dies. I'm 91+ years old and I've consumed a gallon of non-fat, and fat milk almost every day of my life. Sure I'm gonna die eventually, but it'll not be from consuming milk.
Sep 19, 2018 02:03:16 #
bobforman wrote:
I take a regular aspirin every other day. Seems to me the folks who sell baby aspirins seem to think they gain in value the smaller the pill gets. It is a blood thinner and can exacerbate bloody noses if you are prone to them. Also can cause tinnitus if you take enough of the stuff. As for bloody noses a glob of Neosporin in each nostril each morning keep the tissue moist and less likely to crack and bleed. This advice is worth what you paid for it.
The unnecessary use of an antibiotic (Neosporin) regularly can encourage antibiotic resistance among your normal bacterial flora. Use something like Vaseline or cortisone.
Sep 19, 2018 05:23:09 #
It's out there, it's coming for me, and it's going to get me. It'll kill me - and hopefully it'll be OLD AGE!
Sep 19, 2018 12:36:46 #
About ten years ago my doctor prescribed a medication to lower my cholesterol, my wife talked to the pharmacist where she worked and he told her the side effects could lead to early alheimzers or demtia. when she told me that I told her not to have it filled. Remember in the 70's when scientists was warning about bacon causing cancer? I went to the dentist on Monday for a cleaning and they take your blood pressure at the beginning of the visit and again at the end. They got two different readings. At the beginning it was 147 over 90; at the end it was 104 over 100, nothing had changed during the visit. The second reading had to be done twice as it failed to read the first time, it was the second take that gave such a high reading.
My doctor up my aspirin dosage from 81mg to 325mg once a day and I am here only use Bayer. For pain relief I am here switch off between the different OTC so I am here don't build up an immunity to one and have to take more than is recommended to get the relief.
My doctor up my aspirin dosage from 81mg to 325mg once a day and I am here only use Bayer. For pain relief I am here switch off between the different OTC so I am here don't build up an immunity to one and have to take more than is recommended to get the relief.
Sep 19, 2018 13:00:19 #
Alan1729 wrote:
They told me that if I kept drinking single malt scotch it would kill me. I'm not dead yet, unless this really is Hell!
Sep 19, 2018 13:03:28 #
Largobob wrote:
I have been on a statin for over 20 years. My cholesterol levels are wonderful. But, side effects include muscle pain and weakness. I think quality of life as important as length of life???
Side effects suck, that's why I quit that crap, felt like hell all the time. Don't want to live to be 90 feeling like that.
Sep 19, 2018 14:22:29 #
Ive been taken an aspirin a day for the last 25 years and Im 88. It wotks for me. So I say "What ever floats your boat.
Sep 19, 2018 14:37:42 #
Longshadow wrote:
In general maybe.
But what about conditions like a-fib and a-flutter?
But what about conditions like a-fib and a-flutter?
"Dr Richard Hodes, director of the National Institute on Ageing (NIA) in the US, said: 'Clinical guidelines note the benefits of aspirin for preventing heart attacks and strokes in persons with vascular conditions such as coronary artery disease.
'The concern has been uncertainty about whether aspirin is beneficial for otherwise healthy older people without those conditions."
Sep 19, 2018 14:54:23 #
These two decrepit looking guys sitting on a park bench looking at each other when one ask the other, What do you atribute to your old age? The one answered,''I eat well and get plenty of rest. How about you? Well I stay up late, get drunk and run around with loose woman. Why that's something, How old are you anyway? "23"
Sep 19, 2018 16:13:53 #
jerryc41 wrote:
You know how we're supposed to take a low dose of aspirin every day to prevent strokes and heart attacks? Taking an aspirin a day was shown to increase the risk of death. I saw this headline in the Washington Post and Googled it.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6173371/Aspirin-doesnt-lower-heart-attack-stroke-risks-increase-bleeding.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6173371/Aspirin-doesnt-lower-heart-attack-stroke-risks-increase-bleeding.html
A little over the top.
My plan has been to take an aspirin a day and live forever. So far so good.
Sep 19, 2018 21:54:44 #
marine73 wrote:
About ten years ago my doctor prescribed a medicat... (show quote)
I would not put much stock in what the pharmacist said.if you are concerned about statins causing dementia then take a water soluble one like Crestor. Blood pressure taken at the dentist office are usually unreliable. Most use a wrist cuff! get a lot of patients who had inaccurate readings although getting the bill is worth at least 20 points.😄 Rich.
Sep 20, 2018 06:50:14 #
I am 67 and had border line hypertension. I eat a clove of garlic first thing in the morning .I walk briskly for 30 mins a day. Worked very well for me but please do your own homework before starting
Sep 20, 2018 06:50:19 #
I am 67 and had border line hypertension. I eat a clove of garlic first thing in the morning .I walk briskly for 30 mins a day. Worked very well for me but please do your own homework before starting
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