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EDIT; I can't reply to everyone individually but thanks for all the suggestions! Opiates are out of the question, doctors here will only prescribe those in terms of absolutely extreme suffering or end of life care. I also don't particularly feel interested in developing a hard drug habit. Diclofenac and such are available but also only on separate prescriptions, I'd have to visit another doctor for that. I'm well stocked on paracetamol & ibuprofen, and apart from that, lots of ice cream, pudding & soup :)

Also, since a fair few people seem to doubt the veracity of my story, here's the 22 extracted teeth (the other 10 were already gone in previous extractions).

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah this is a good option - too much ibuprofen is harmful, as is too much acetaminophen. But you can take both together and get double the pain relief.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

NO DO NOT TAKE THEM TOGETHER.

You need to alternate them. Taking them together creates negatively synergistic effects which ruins your health.

FOR ANYONE READING DO NOT MIX IBUPROFEN AND ACETAMINOPHEN

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

As I said lower down, you can take ibuprofen and acetaminophen (paracetamol) together . It's advised you wait an hour after you take one type before you take the other to see if the first medication works well enough. There are even medications sold as a combination of both. What detrimental "synergistic effects" are you talking about?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

that’s SO wrong… in australia our doctors and surgeons FREQEUENTLY tell us to take both ibuprofen and paracetamol (which is what most of the world calls acetaminophen) together

perhaps you’re thinking of taking and

ie do not take tylenol and paracetamol/acetaminophen, since they’re the same and you’re double dosing

to add:

too much paracetamol/acetaminophen causes liver damage

too much ibuprofen effects your stomach, intestines, and kidneys

their overdose effects are different

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

0Further down this user realized they didn't really remember the name of which meds to not mix and may have been thinking of aspirin/ibuprofen ....lol