Lol...right? Good job
It sure is! Stopping cold turkey after several years of use, gave me extreme muscle pain, upper and lower body, and soreness! Until I researched it, I couldn't figure out what was wrong. I am now down to taking one, 200mg gel tab a day, and still am having pain with muscle rigidness of my neck, arms and shoulders although I am slowly getting better. I am not giving in. If I ever get over this, I am going to be very careful how I take it, and only take it for a horrible headache, as needed, and not everyday. I thought taking it every day would prevent the headaches from happening. Not so! I now realized the Ibuprofen can rebound on you, too...
This one sounds exactly like me! Cold turkey brought on horrible muscle pain. I could hardly get in or out of bed or up or down from a chair. I had to start taking Ibuprofen again and cut down slowly. I ended up taking a 1/4 tablet once a day. This has been going on for 2 months now. I am beginning to wonder if it is permanent? I am getting better but some days are worse than others.
it took me 5 months to get over the withdrawals from too much ibuprofen
They are the same, advil and Tylenol are just brand names. Obviously cant see the difference.
I'm doing an ibuprofen taper (after 5 years taking it around the clock) and it is dreadful. You can use a short course of prednisone to help but the pounding headaches, temporal throbbing and return of the original pain are a nitemare. I wish people wouldn't use the word addicted though. Being habituated to something is not the same thing as being addicted. Habituated means that your body has adjusted and assumes that your medicated self is "normal" . Changing the norm is as uncomfortable as anything else would be. Addiction involves abuse of a substance for secondary gain. Don't know of anyone who takes "extra ibuprofen" for the high or mental status change.
Exactly right, same here,
God i thought it was just in my head...i quit n i feel sick n the paun seems worse.
Me too. Aches all over. Every docs looks at me like I'm crazy when I ask if it's addicting. Thing is, the aches keep waking me up every hour and I don't sleep well, which destroys me after a few days. Pop 2 Ibuprofen, all is well. They don't know enough about this, I think. It's not mental. Or at least, not entirely.
Question: How do you explain the preponderance of folks here all sharing the same "flu like symptoms" of NOT taking Ibuprofen after long term use, regardless of the dosage? Without getting in the semantics of what the word "addiction" means, it's clear that people's bodies react to not taking the drug in a negative way the causes them to want the symptoms to stop by taking the drug again. You sound like a learned person who is probably very good at being a Dr but also missing the forest here. The only hope I've read is a 3 week torture remedy. Remedies are needed, not schooling.
I have taken it for over 25 years and I was taking 12 a day and decided to lower the dose, now my dr says I have to stop, but I'm feeling anxious and, I wondered if I would be going through withdraw even though there are not a narcotic , I'm glad I read your testimony . I hope your doing well.
Re your weight gain. May just linked t less activity and nt adjusting eating. I have stopped excercse but with reduced eating i have lost weight.
Ps. After years of being very active i feel better than ever.
Ps. After years of being very active i feel better than ever.
I think your mom isn’t taking ibuprofen is her pill blue ?
I feel the same way. I'm envisioning that it will be a few weeks or torture personally. I've been exploring magnesium oil/rub and hemp oil. I bought the magnesium oil and it works really well between doses so I'm hoping it will carry me through the ibuprofen withdrawal. I get super mean every time I try to go off the ibuprofen. Warned the spouse that we're going to be going into a rough patch but wasn't this out with the new year.
Hi i have been taking nurofen for maybe 6 years and im finally off it. I was only taking up to 8 tablets a day but it was enough to keep me dependant on it. I now have swelling of my nose and big lumps on my face and im beginning to wonder if these are side effects. Has anyone else had anything similar?