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Q: Stress @ Work / Addiction to Pills? / Potential Health Risk?
asked by: Frook on October 17th, 2006
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Recently my workload has increased twofold to even threefold. I am the "go-to guy for whenever another team needs slack picked up. Unfortunately, this has been going on for well over a month.



In the past month, I have emptied out (all but maybe 5 bayers of a 50ct bottle) a bayer bottle. The rest probably won't last past lunch tomorrow. On top of that, I have probably taken minimum of 50 regular pain reliver / fever reducing ibuprofens. Added all up, over the last month, I have taken probably close to 40,000mg of this pain reliver if not more by day's end tomorrow.



Little by little I am starting to build a tolerance to even 2000mg total doses a day. Today i've already taken 3200mg (4 bayer and 6 ibuprofens). I am getting a bit scared at 1) what it is doing to my insides and 2) the fact that anything less then a 1000-1600mg dose does nothing for me.



How bad is this or how bad could it get? (fyi: I am 26, 5'8", 165lbs)
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sandyallen
replied on October 17th, 2006
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Please back off on some of those meds, they can make your stomach bleed, I am not a dr but my dr has told me this and I cannot take I byorofen for that reason, not even aspirin.
Good luck!
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moldy
replied on October 20th, 2006
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I'd have to suggest that you may be damaging internal organs with all the pain meds, kidneys are a concern here. Not to mention what you are doing to your immune system. Have you ever thought about meditation? 20 minutes in the morning before work and 20 minutes at night could do you a lot of good. It would definately help with the stress factor.
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