Comment Re:Higher potency? (Score 1) 294
I take Vicoprofen (for migraine pain). It's mixed with Ibuprofen instead of Tylenol. It still makes me sick all day after taking it. No idea why people abuse it.
For me it comes down to a choice between being in horrible agony all day or having no pain but stuck in bed feeling dizzy and like shit all day. I'll take that over the pain.
Now there may be some anti-nausea I can take to counteract some of the negative affects, but I haven't asked my doctor about that because the effects now ensure I won't abuse it and I don't want to know otherwise I guess.
I ended up having temporary facial palsy (i.e. half my face drooped and didn't work) after taking Ibuprofin for a week for severe headache pain related to heat stroke. I also felt dizzy and sick while taking the Ibuprofin, but the headache pain without meds was unbearable. After the headache pain from effects of heat stroke passed I was able to stop taking Ibuprofin, and a week later the facal palsy went away. I can't know for sure that the Ibuprofin caused the palsy, but some number of people that take Ibuprofin report having palsy from it.
The nastiest thing about the facial palsy was that on the side of my face that had the palsy the eyelid didn't "auto-blink" anymore, so the eye would get dry. It was especially noticable on long drives. To wet the eye I would have to consciously close both eyes at once -- for whatever reason that still worked. It's a bit mentally draining to have to constantly remember to close both eyes to wet them.
Hopefully you'll never run into this problem.