Had no choice......

[Claviger]

lol DJ, if I am going to be totally honest....

Pain level 1-5 = 1-5 Vicodin 5/325s respectively for me haha.

 

[cusso ken]

I will be eating Neurophen plus like lollies on the RDU trip

I will be eating Neurophen plus like lollies on the RDU trip

Probably better than trying to find 10 cherries at RDU ,less trouble too, just saying

 

[cr0ft]

pain level 1=400 mg IBU
pain level 2=800 mg IBU
pain level 3= celebrex (or prior to long rides or heavy work)
pain level 4=celebrex + vicodin
pain level 5=celebrex + vicodin + Double Manhattan (who needs a liver anyway)

***better living through modern chemistry***

Ouch, re Celebrex: "Side effects include a 37% increase in incidence of major vascular events, which include nonfatal myocardial infarction, nonfatal stroke, or death from a blood vessel-related cause.[3] Additionally, an 81% increase in incidence of upper gastrointestinal complications occurs, which include perforations, obstructions, or gastrointestinal bleeding as in all NSAIDs"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celecoxib

 

[TOMCAT]

Whacking a new knee in me come January .. touch wood i'll be able to kick the painkillers (strange name when they only just take the edge off) in the arse. I'm on these Durogesic patches now ... that my GP reckons would kill him within 48 hours if he was to put one on .. disturbing.

 

[BehereNow]

Modafinil is a 'smart drug' prescribed for mental alertness, but in small doses, for some, it compensates for age related aches and pains. At age 65 I was concerned about my recent 900 mile ride - day and a half - but it was no problem.
The military has been using it for mission alertness. Mind and body are one.
Contains no narcotics or amphetamines, but is a prescription med.

 

[R3Tex]

Not as decrepit as you lot apparently, but I get injections into two spinal cavities every 18 months or so to combat pain from disk damage. Anti-inflammatory, pain killer and steroid injected directly between the vertebrae in my back does the trick for a while...will eventually have to be fixed but all good for now. Oh...and injections in my knee periodically that they have been trying to cut on for 15 years or so. Don't take any oral meds regularly other than a wee dram of an evening as I enjoy the sunset

 

[1BigDog]

Were all a bunch of bloody druggies!!!! So, lets see: I use Celebrex only as needed and Ibuprofin on the rare occasion that I am doing something heavy in a short period of time. Most days I skip meds entirely if I can deal with the pain. But being bone on crushing bone is another story. For what you need to mask that pain wont allow you to function as you will be so whacked out that you want to dive off a building while you think you are a bird.

These new knee joints are real pretty. Too bad they cant make a clear knee covering. That would be awesome.

 

[DJ]

Not as decrepit as you lot apparently, but I get injections into two spinal cavities every 18 months or so to combat pain from disk damage. Anti-inflammatory, pain killer and steroid injected directly between the vertebrae in my back does the trick for a while...will eventually have to be fixed but all good for now. Oh...and injections in my knee periodically that they have been trying to cut on for 15 years or so. Don't take any oral meds regularly other than a wee dram of an evening as I enjoy the sunset

I've been down the injection road a few times. Doesn't seem to last long for me. As for Celebrex, I don't take it too much. I feel its to dangerous in the long term. To be honest, the pain really doesn't last too long. A bad night, or pissing a day and it will usually subside. A good stiff drink and hot-tub soak works pretty.

But now that I have had 2-knee operations, 1-shoulder operation, 1-disk removed and 2 vertabrea fused in my neck, and holding on to not having my lower back operated on, I tend to be non-tolerant of pain anymore.

D-

 

[DJ]

Were all a bunch of bloody druggies!!!! So, lets see: I use Celebrex only as needed and Ibuprofin on the rare occasion that I am doing something heavy in a short period of time. Most days I skip meds entirely if I can deal with the pain. But being bone on crushing bone is another story. For what you need to mask that pain wont allow you to function as you will be so whacked out that you want to dive off a building while you think you are a bird.

These new knee joints are real pretty. Too bad they cant make a clear knee covering. That would be awesome.

A clear knee, now that would be way cool!
My cutter thinks I have about 5 years if I'm lucky before I will have to have the knee replaced.

The funny part is why my knee is roast.

When I was a wee young lad in my early 20s a friend of mine was on the ski patrol at Squaw Valley in California. We skied constantly. It was not uncommon for us to drive up from the bay area (about 4 hour drive each way) to ski one day and drive home. We would leave our houses about 5 am and be on the hill when it opened.

Anyway one day I'm skiing with him on his patrol and we found a wooden stick marker had been moved below the rock where it was supposed to be.
This was a very steep hill. He goes down to the stick and throws it up to me. I im to throw it up to the next person who is at the rock. Well I plant my 210cm ski in the snow and give it a mighty toss up the hill. Well, my body pivots but my lower leg which is locked into the ski doesn't. The POP POP POP was ear shattering! I crumbled like a sack of potatoes!

My buddy is stoked. He thinks he will carry me down in a wagon. WRONG. I'm too stubborn/stupid. I ski down on one leg. Go directly to the bar and drink. About and hour or so later, I could not stand up. The knee was the size of a grapefruit. I ripped the crap out of that knee.

 

[RanDom_Chipmunk]

Aren't we all just a bunch of bloody geniuses. I separated my clavicle playing football with the boys in high school and with typical teenage intelligence figured it would just get better. Now it has healed wrong and at some point I will need reconstructive surgery. One of my ribs dislocates regularly because of a bout of pneumonia a few years ago that lasted nearly eleven months and the coughing tore it out of place and it never healed right. And I still smoke like an idiot even though I have allergy-asthma instead of regular allergy responses where my body skips the hives and sinus reactions and basically goes straight for the anaphylactic shock. I also forgot to tell you fellows that a month ago, I dislocated the bone on the outside of my left foot when I was pulling into my boyfriend's driveway and one of his cats darted from under a car and across my path of travel, startling me so much that I twisted the bars, and dumped my beauty on my right foot. My poor baby, so glad I have bars on him. The info on the ibuprofen is new to me, though. Going to have to look into alternatives now.