| ▲ | wouldbecouldbe 4 days ago |
| Try dealing with a herniated disc, more ibu is definitely better. Too little wont do anything, proper dose and you feel healed |
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| ▲ | SirMaster 4 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| I had a herniated disc and severe nerve pain. I took 16 ibuprofen a day, 4 200mg pills every 6 hours, it did nothing that I could tell. I also used a methylprednisolone dose pack, also didn't seem to help. I also tried prescribed opioid (tramadol), didn't seem to help much. Acetaminophen worked far, far better than all these. It worked so well, but i wanted to be careful to limit myself to 3000mg a day, so I took 1 500mg pill every 4 hours for a few days while awaiting surgery. It's the only thing that got me through it. Even a epidural lumbar steroid injection didn't help... |
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| ▲ | shankr 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Yeah can confirm. I try to keep it low but then pain lingers for days and cumulatively over the days most probably I took as much as I should have taken in stating few days already. |
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| ▲ | wouldbecouldbe 4 days ago | parent [-] | | yeah tried to reserve ibu for sleep and during the day walking as much as possible. I know not everyone feels better while walking, luckily I did. | | |
| ▲ | shankr 4 days ago | parent [-] | | No, moving definitely works. I can almost predict when my sciatica pain will be coming - usually when I work long hours sitting and don't do enough movement. I struggle to be more active than just going to the gym. I think we - those who suffer from herniated disc and sciatica, need to move much more than those who don't. | | |
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| ▲ | e40 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Spine issues are the single thing that pish me to ibuprofen or naproxen over acetaminophen. The latter does nothing for my issues. |
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| ▲ | wouldbecouldbe 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | | yeah, its the inflammation going down that reliefs the nerve. Took me 3 months, out of 2 i wasn't able to sit. Luckily I could walk and that give me great relief. So walked for hours. Keeping the habit, will mostly being coding from my phone & walking from now on. | | |
| ▲ | e40 4 days ago | parent [-] | | Really nice you found a workaround. I am constantly trying different ways to alleviate my pain without drugs. |
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| ▲ | SirMaster 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Anecdotally: ibuprofen, methylprednisolone, epidural lumbar steroid injection all did little to nothing for my herniated disc nerve pain. Acetaminophen worked wonders, even better than an opioid. |
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