Questions following NSAID podcast

Medical Q&A [Moderated]
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These are all the questions I thought of during and following the NSAID podcast. Some of them are directly related, some are just random.

Answer all, some, or none at your pleasure sirs.

  1. Can/should you take Tylenol and an NSAID together and or alternate them?

  2. Any thoughts about something like Excedrin that mixes aspirin, acetaminophen and caffeine?

  3. If we are trying to look at clinical or scientific research do you know some good free or cheap places to look first? Being a Horologist doesn’t give you a discount and a lot of those places charge a fortune. Or maybe some group or organization to join. I don’t want to have to go back to grad school just to get a discount on research! :slight_smile:

  4. I use a medicine that is injected intramuscular, I self inject it in my quadriceps femoris. I read all this crazy stuff so does this really cause “scar tissue” and “muscle damage”. Also do you know if you can use medicine subcutaneously and it works the same?

  5. When can we expect the following;

A book authored by you guys

More seminars (and where)

Loraine and Austin to have their first super baby. :slight_smile:

Thanks!

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  1. For acute injuries where there’s concern for inflammation, I don’t generally have people use Tylenol in general, since it doesn’t really provide any significant peripheral antiinflammatory effects. If someone has a medical condition where they are unable to take NSAIDs, then sure, Tylenol (among other things) can be used for some analgesic effects. For more “chronic” aches where I’m less concerned about inflammation, if medication is necessary I might opt for modifying training, a local/topical medication, or tylenol before recommending an NSAID on a chronic basis.

  2. People typically use this for Migraine headaches, due to the caffeine component. I don’t generally recommend it for routine aches and pains.

  3. cough Sci-Hub cough

  4. You’re probably causing more harm by reading and worrying about this stuff than by actually injecting the medication. And I can’t say whether it works the same subcutaneously, because that depends on what medicine we’re talking about.

5a. At some point, it’s likely, yes.

5b. Working on scheduling as we speak, keep your eyes on the website.

5c. …Nope

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Awesome thank you!