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[Root beer]

Every now and then I have random pain or discomfort in my leg or hip. Ibuprofen doesn't help, so I was wondering what over the counter drugs work for you guys for pain?

[telmomarques]

tyelnol pm

[Jake P]

Jack n' Coke. Your welcome.

[tomustang]

None.

Go to the doctor.

[SirSnookalot]

None.

Go to the doctor.

X2..............if it persists.

[Bassn Blvd]

None.

Go to the doctor.

^x2.you don't want it to become a "pain in the ars," LMAO.

[Sam]

Root Beer, my wife is going under the knife today for her 6th back surgery to add to her neck and hip surgeries so she knows pain.

Pain is a sympton that something is wrong. As Tom D. said, go to a doctor and have it checked out.

I use Aleve. Works great for my two broken down knees, one which has to be replaced sooner or later and the other just hurts. (arn't football and basketball great sports????)

There are pain doctors out there but they are only good when you can't do anything else to aleviate the pain.

So I "X2" for Tom D. and ask you to go to the doctor and get to the bottom of the pain problem and have it corrected.

Let us know what you do.

[Lund Explorer]

Take everyone's advice and visit your doctor. You'll either find out that its short term curable, or in the worse case, something that could become a life long affliction without treatment.

I've limped along on a pair of knees that get worse with every passing year because I didn't follow a doctor's advice when I had the chance to. The inability to climb a ladder or rising up from your knees on the floor without pain is not what you want to look forward to.

Edit: Of course if you've already gone through extensive knee surgery that we didn't know about, I'd suggest a half dozen tumblers of Vodka Martinis whenever you feel a twinge!

[Root beer]

Let me clear something up, I had bone graft surgery last December. They cut a bone out of my hip, cut leg up and it left a gap between my fibula and knee cap. The bone from my hip went between that gap, then a plate was inserted to hold it in place. I now have bone cement (from my first knee surgery when I was 12, now 22), a plate and 4 screws in my leg. I've been released from my doctor's care a couple weeks go. Free to do however I feel I can do. I've rode 10 miles of mountain biking a couple times this month already. Occasionally I'll feel sore and will not ride for day or three and the pain would go away and I'll ride again without feeling pain after that ride. So, I haven't develop a pattern of what makes my pain comes back. My doctor said for me to quit doing things if I'm in pain, if it persist for a week call him back.

Basically, I was wondering what over counter pain reliever work best when I have pain at night or something, but yes if it persistent for a week I'm calling him back. It has yet to do that and hopefully never will. I really don't want go back under the knife or go through that crap again. I managed to get through the last few months dealing with my leg and got out of my final semester of college with a 3.0. Screw that, never again! I may just stick to booze. Just enough to numb it. ha.

[Root beer]

It could have been worse. Ah well.

[J Francho]

There's almost always more to the story, isn't there?

Advil works for me. You can go up to four pills, if needed. That's is prescription strength, though.

[Bassn Blvd]

Instead of MASKING the pain with pills just so you can ride 10 miles, how about NOT riding 10 miles. Pills aren't going to FIX your knee so that you can have full function like you did before you had surgery. You' are now limited to what you can do. Follow your doctors orders and just stop when it starts to hurt. No need to push beyond that.

[Raider Nation Fisher]

Instead of MASKING the pain with pills just so you can ride 10 miles, how about NOT riding 10 miles. Pills aren't going to FIX your knee so that you can have full function like you did before you had surgery. You' are now limited to what you can do. Follow your doctors orders and just stop when it starts to hurt. No need to push beyond that.

What he said.

[whitwolf]

Instead of MASKING the pain with pills just so you can ride 10 miles, how about NOT riding 10 miles. Pills aren't going to FIX your knee so that you can have full function like you did before you had surgery. You' are now limited to what you can do. Follow your doctors orders and just stop when it starts to hurt. No need to push beyond that.

Very good advice.

[slonezp]

Jack n' Coke. Your welcome.

Minus the coke

and pain meds and whiskey don't mix. I learned the hard way.