OT Re: [Sca-cooks] HOW YOU KNOW YOU'VE BEEN A MEMBER OF THIS LIST TOO LONG:

[Randy Goldberg MD]

> Oh, yes! It was a dentist who started me on Advil, when I bashed up my
> mouth. It is an anti-inflammatory. I had not just mouth pain but severe
> headaches for months from pushing my teeth back into position with my
> tongue (reflex action, still do it under stress, he said not to try to
> stop it as it is the best way to realign them.) Advil was the only thing
> that stopped the pain. And it was real blinding pain!I lived on it for
> about 6 months, and have used no other pain reliever since. (No, I don't
> hold stock - maybe I should? But I use the generic...)

For pain due to inflammation, Advil and company are by far the best choice,
since they go directly to the root cause of the pain. Tylenol is a much
better antipyretic/febrifuge, and the only indication for which I routinely
recommend acetaminophen is fever. Most of the low-potency narcotics aren't
worth the trouble; in patients who can't take NSAIDs or fail them, I usually
skip the Tylenol #3/Vicodin/Lortab and go straight for the Percocet.

Avraham haRofeh (that's "the physician" if you don't know Hebrew <grin>)