ACETAMINOPHEN vs MELOXICAM

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

I am absolutely going to scream! I had a vacation recently with friends where on the last day my meloxicam got packed into the bag, was unreachable and I hit a flareup mid morning. Not proud of it but I had a meltdown at some point because everything was too much and they wanted to discuss everythin

My pain doctor increased my hydrocodone from 3 a day to 4 a day. My pharmacist refused to fill the prescription. The prescription was sent to them on 10/6. They didn’t fill it. So my Dr sent it again on 10/22. Now I have 2 pills left, and the pharmacist said he needs the Dr to write out his detail

it be like that.

I had to tag this as funny, in a very sarcastic way. Talk about feeling unseen. I am on meloxicam, cymbalta and Humira for my RA. Stretching, Epsom salts baths, plant based diet just in case, meditate, starting therapy, limit my caffeine, medical marijuana. I know what I forgot, ibuprofen!

Hey, all. I have chronic pain due to ehlers danlos, fibromyalgia, carpal and ulnar tunnel in both arms, osteoarthritis in my lower back, and what I think are some other issues that haven't been diagnosed. I've had pain for years and have tried everything over the counter as well as Celebrex, Meloxic

After struggling for years with doctors that either don't take me seriously, try stupid solutions that dont work or just help me learn to "cope with it" instead of working on a diagnosis i got a new primary doctor THAT ACTUALLY LISTENS!!!! I mentioned a few different things i think i could have, she

First, this is a rant and basically nothing but a rant. I'm new here and I've been reading through a lot of posts that might apply to me. I just turned 40 in Feb of this year. Memorial day weekend of 2023 my car got totaled on a drivers side impact, and I've been in excruciating pain ever since. I'v

What’s up with Pain management drs not giving out pain killers to people who actually need it? Not everyone has addictive behaviors! I just had shoulder surgery was given a script of 30 OxyContin 5s that’s it and when I asked surgeon to get it refilled I was told to go to pain management. So I go to