Image description: A bottle of Ibuprofen containing 1000 tablets.
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this post was submitted on 02 Mar 2024
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Someone obviously doesn't have rheumatoid arthritis, or any other one of a plethora of painful diseases. Even with my biologics, flare ups happen, and ibuprofen takes the edge off.
On the other hand, maybe Europe has cured RA, and just hasn't shared it with the rest of the world?
Sure, NSAIDS are great, but 99.9% of RA patients still shouldn't need 1000 tablets of half strength Ibuprofen if they are actually seeing their rheumatologist. We usually use coxibs for prolonged therapy supplementing with paracetamole or paracetamole codeine as needed. Most of the time pain control is achieved quickly via steroids and we generally recommend patients to try and avoid NSAIDS once they are started on steroids.