ACETAMINOPHEN vs DICLOFENAC

TLDR; Wife, 30, was placed on ventilator today. Worried it is a death sentence. I cannot lose her. For auto mods, my wife is female, 30 years of age. She leads a healthy lifestyle and doesn't take any meds aside from occasionally taking pain meds like ibuprofen, acetaminophen, and when she gets a m

32 (ftm) 158 lbs. I've had escalating bladder and urethral pain for months. My doctors don't seem to be taking it seriously. I'm the one asking for further testing while they keep repeatedly doing UTI and STD tests over and over that come back negative every time. The pain was and is severe. It feel

So this is going to be interesting. My husband is very worried and upset because a blood test be just did (to qualify for a new medication) returned with a really weird result. Dude does not drink, has trauma around alcohol so it's not like he's drinking in secret or something. Normal Ethanol Level

I'm a 36F and was diagnosed with Lupus at 23. Height: 5'3, Weight: 114, Race: White I had a bilateral salpingectomy done on the 7th of this month. During the procedure, my surgeon noticed that my liver was blue. She took a photo of it, but the blue doesn't show well. She said it looked far more blue

Hey everyone, I was wondering if there are any lesser-known or obscure OTC meds that don’t usually get much attention but can be surprisingly useful. Most people know the basics like ibuprofen, acetaminophen, and antihistamines, but I’m curious about the more niche products that are still available

This seems like dispensing medication. Would this be regulated by pharmacy laws?

Do you think when ED nurses go to a restaurant they order their food, then 15 seconds after the server leaves the table they go find the server and ask where their food is? Some of these nurses are insane. God forbid an acetaminophen order is in the verification queue for more than 2 minutes. I und

I was berated by my boss (also a pharmacist) for trying to prevent a shelf count discrepancy by writing on the top of one of the bottles. Med errors are not likely to happen due to this in our pharmacy, but just look at them! He's like: "You (staff) pharmacists cannot even read the bottle labels to

My pharmacy is doing a word scramble for pharmacy week. My brain just can't figure some of these out. Can you guys help me out?

Not the kind of "spot the difference" I wanted to play.

The one with the red X above it is a schedule III but the others aren't control at all but I can't find a difference in any of them. Same ingredients, same strength, all tabs.. Anyone know? And while we're at it, why is chlordiazepoxide (Librium) a control but chlordiazepoxide/clidinium (Librax) is

Hello reddit and fellow chronic pain people. I posted on here about 2 days ago asking for help because I was in severe pain from open heart surgery I just had on top of my CRPS in my hip and chronic back pain, and they gave me tramadol which didn't help that much and diclofenace gel and told me to m

Background info i'm 19. Have stage 4 congestive heart failure (terminal illness), severe debilitating pain. I have neck pain, chest pain in the middle of my chest thats nerve pain after open heart surgery, pain in my heart area. Pain and Spasms in my back, mostly lower back. Left Hip pain from surge

First I want to preface this by saying everyone's pain is different and pain meds are a totally valid treatment. A couple months ago I finally decided to do a spinal cord stimulator for my low back and down the leg sciatic pain. And especially the severe pain in my hip from this. Four months on I ha

My doctors told me I have mild inflammation in my bladder. I can't take ibuprofen, so I was prescribed Prednisone for a while, then Diclofenac. Neither helped. I do drink around a gallon of water everyday but I will spend hours in the bathroom. Just peeing. It's usually in little spurts but everytim

I gave it about a week with some Diclofenac. 23 years later...

I have arthritis, chronic fatigue, and chronic headaches. Sometimes just walking down the hall is hard as my knees scream at me with every step. It's hard to function when my body is telling me I need fourteen hours of sleep a day. And the headache never. Fully. Stops. And I just had to listen to f

I went to the ER today after my doctor worried that I might have Cauda Equina (negative), and the ER attending suggested that I try Diclofenac to manage my nerve pain as I wait for a diagnosis (it's been a year into testing, next up are nerve conduction tests and EMGs). I told him that I had previou

Desperate for any help, i decided to try this. Supposed to give it a week. I have only used it since yesterday. It is a topical NSAID so I never bothered with it. Needs reapplication every 4 hrs in the US and not labeled for back (just extremities). It really seems to be doing something so for now I