Uses of Pain Relief Drugs

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Risk and Benefits Involve with Pain Relief Drugs
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• The use of pain relief drugs become somewhat
  common for us as we all use this kind of drugs to
  relieve us from the unbearable pains.
• The most two common causes for using pain relief
  drugs are mainly labour pain and arthritis pain
  and in this article we are going to discuss about
  the risks and benefits of pain relief drugs
  related to arthritis pain.

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• Arthritis pains make the work of our daily life
  harder.
• To reduce the arthritis pain doctors recommends
  various pain relief drugs but they are not free
  of various side effects so taking them with
  caution is very necessary and the same thing also
  goes for over-the-counter (OTC) arthritis
  treatment too.

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• So before you decide to take any pain relief
  drug, make sure to consider the risk and benefits
  involve with them.
• In case of arthritis pain relief drugs one of the
  most common is Acetaminophen.
• For people that have medical condition such as
  allergies and stomach problem Acetaminophen is
  considered as the safest one.

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• But as it did not sooth inflammation, so the
  effect of pain relief is not same for everyone.
• When you have very severe pain an acetaminophen
  alone may not work and in that case you might
  need a prescription acetaminophen containing
  opioid. Acetaminophen also contains some side
  effect and with different type the side effect
  also very.

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• Non-prescription acetaminophens are also pain
  relief drugs suggested by lot of doctors and they
  do not have very high side effects.
• But there is a chance of liver damage if you take
  overdose of it. Acetaminophen is usually hidden
  in many products such as OTP cough and other
  product for colds like actavis promenthazine with
  codeine which is a pain reliever and cough
  suppressant so taking these kinds of drugs need
  caution as they might overdose your acetaminophen
  taking.

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• Another pain relief drug Prescription-strength
  acetaminophen combination has side effect which
  can cause constipation, dizziness,
  light-headedness, nausea, and vomiting and with
  the increase of dosage these side effects also
  increase.
• The side effect is due to the opioid such as
  codeine, oxycodone, or hydrocodone that combined
  with the acetaminophen.

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• When the acetaminophen become ineffective to deal
  with the pain, then Prescription-strength and
  non-prescription non-steroidal anti inflammatory
  drugs which is also known as NSAIDs are mainly
  used with the lowest dose possible to reduce the
  pain.
• These drugs are very effective against both
  arthritis pain and inflammation but with long
  term use, the side effect also becomes very
  severe.

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• As they can upset your stomach so doctors often
  suggest taking them after meals.

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