[SunRescue] Hi, I'm Steve, and I have a problem. . .

[Dan Lane]

isn't ibuprophen (again, sp?) available over the counter???

Hmm its things like this that make me glad I don't go to the doctors... I
had tonsilitis for 3 weeks before work MADE me see a doctor :(

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Peter L. Wargo sent the following on Wed, 14 Feb 2001...

> > So I looked up reflux on google and read about it, now I am gonna spend
> > the next few years thinking I have a paraesophageal hiatal hernia just
> > because I hiccupped while I was wolfing down a cheeseburger.. oh well..
> > it'll go well with the imaginary bowel cancer and brain tumer I have :(.
>
> What's worse is that mine looks like it was caused by my doctors (at the
> time) having me on ibuprophen (sp?) for a couple of years, 1200mg a day
> for a chronic inflamation.  Turns out it can do long-term GI damage.  On
> top of that, before the good Dr. in CA figgured it out, they (my old dr's)
> we dosing me with all sorts of nasty drugs.  Oneof which (propulsid) I
> took myself off of after reading bad stuff about it.  The Dr. said I was
> nuts, it was fine, one month later it was off the market.  Caused heart
> attacks.  (I went off it becuase it was giving me the shakes.)
>
> -Pete
>
>
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