Originally posted by RichardCranium
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Tried it for a while but it used to give me sore guts. Packed in the last time the cycle hit the "doesn't make any real difference" marker.
May consider it if there are smaller dosages available, especially with the stomach lining stuff.
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Just got some from Waitrose, 75mg and some coating to stop sore stomach, it had Enteric coating presumably to avoid stomach problems.Comment
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Aren't statins supposed to be good for everybody regardless of state of health? Seems a bit safer than aspirin anyway.Comment
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I'm not convinced about the efficacy of the coatings, given that your stomach contains a generous helping of 0.1M hydrochloric acid and stuff tends to stay in the stomach for 2 hours (ish).
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I've been told that I'll be taking aspirin (75mg) every day for the rest of my life because of the heart attack. I'm also on another anti-clot drug, Clopidogrel, but apparently they might deign to take me off that after a year. Then there's the beta blocker to keep my heart running smoothly, the statin to keep my cholesterol levels down, and the ACE inhibitor to keep my blood pressure low, despite the fact that it wasn't high anyway. Oh, and the stuff to spray under my tongue if I get chest pains.
Until last week I almost never took any kind of medication; now I need a bag to carry it all aroundComment
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Originally posted by Zippy View PostI'm not convinced about the efficacy of the coatings, given that your stomach contains a generous helping of 0.1M hydrochloric acid and stuff tends to stay in the stomach for 2 hours (ish).
I am not a doctor.Comment
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostI've been told that I'll be taking aspirin (75mg) every day for the rest of my life because of the heart attack. I'm also on another anti-clot drug, Clopidogrel, but apparently they might deign to take me off that after a year. Then there's the beta blocker to keep my heart running smoothly, the statin to keep my cholesterol levels down, and the ACE inhibitor to keep my blood pressure low, despite the fact that it wasn't high anyway. Oh, and the stuff to spray under my tongue if I get chest pains.
Until last week I almost never took any kind of medication; now I need a bag to carry it all around
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Originally posted by OwlHoot View PostSo how many aspirin a day do you take?
Although I will use soluble Aspirin when I've got toothache; I hold it in my mouth then spit it out. I don't know if it is psychological, but swooshing the solution round a raw nerve seems to help reduce the pain.
The purpose of my little list of side effects was two-fold. Firstly, aspirin gets hailed as a miracle cure-all in the media, when it isn't. And second, Mrs RC has just spent 5 weeks poorly from some medication that was provided without doing the initial checks they are supposed to do, nor warning her of the side effects as they were supposed to before the consultant at the hospital administered it. So I'm a bit sensitive to "Buy my snake-oil / ground rhino horn / little white tablet and it'll fix everything".My all-time favourite Dilbert cartoon, this is: BTW, a Dumpster is a brand of skip, I think.Comment
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Originally posted by Cliphead View PostAren't statins supposed to be good for everybody regardless of state of health? Seems a bit safer than aspirin anyway.
It seems there is some bad press about statins. Trouble is nobody knows who to beleive any more.
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