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Two days ago I took out my third molars (wisdom teeth), afterward...

Posted at 4:57 PM on May 22, 2008 by dornab, #30708
Two days ago I took out my third molars (wisdom teeth), afterwards I took a prescription strength 600mg Ibuprofen with no side effects. I took another pill 6 hours later, and I have been having the worst upper stomach pain, much worse than the tooth ache ever was since then. I have been waking up with agonizing pain every hour for the past two nights, and I can't even take Tylenol for my tooth pain now since my stomach is so messed up (I tried and it cause horrible stomach pain). So on top of having to treat the stomach problem, I can't take any pain medication for my teeth and I'm just miserable. I'm 25 years old and have never had stomach problems before, the first night I thought I was poisoned or something and I was dieing. I think the small label on the bottle that says "if it causes upset stomach, take it with crackers or bread" needs to be replaced with "it doesn't matter what you take it with, it can cause much more pain that you have ever imagined." Because it actually doesn't matter if you take it with bread, or inject it to yourself, the function of ruining the stomach lining is because of it's anti-inflammatory chemicals, not direct contact with stomach. I read about it now, and apparently the deaths from Ibuprofen and Aspirin (anti-inflammatory pain medications) caused by gastrointestinal problems is about as many as deaths by HIV-Aids in USA*. I don't see any Ibuprofen awareness rallies though. I wish I had time to sue someone because I really really want to. ******
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Reply 6 months ago on May 27, 2008 by cmneste, #8643

About 2 years ago, I had a very similar thing happen to me. I had fractured my hip, and the pain meds my doc had given me weren't helping...so he prescribed morephine tabs for me. I also had a slight sinus infection at the time, and he prescribed zithromax for that. I took the zithromax when I got home, as I was told to do. Later, when I was ready for bed, I took one of the morephine tabs. About half an hour later, I wasn't sleepy and still in pain. I thought it was a little strange. About 15 minutes later, I was so ill, I was in the bathroom laying on the floor. I could barely move. I had to call my mother to come get me and take me to the ER. By the time she got there, my husband had come home and found me laying there and had rushed me in. On the way in, I thought for sure I was dying. My stomach swelled way up, and I kept losing consciousness. Turns out the two meds don't mix. When I got to the ER, they gave me something to counteract it. Needless to say, since then, i've been scared out of my wits about meds! When I followed up with the doc who prescribed the meds, he just looked at me blankly, and said "they react when taken too close together." I could have hit him! He didn't tell me that..and there wasn't anything in the papers they gave me either. I had taken the meds about 10 hours apart too. I would have loved to sue him...

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