Re: Young@Heart/Old@Hip-ibu...

[Guest guest]

For what it's worth...

...you're right about the rx dose.

After my initial injury (eight years ago, so the medical science may

be a bit more refined) the doc put me on 800 mg ibuprofen three times

a day...with the caveat the the threshhold dosage at which damage

might begin was 3200 mg per day, so I shouldn't take more.

At 2400 mg, it seems to me one gets a little closer to that potential

damage threshhold (kidney...and esophagus)); especially if the dosage

is taken over a prolonged period...as would be the case with many of

us.

Alan

> Fred, I was thinking about crutches after surgery. Curently, I

just

> walk with a limp. I haven't graduated to a cane yet. I may try

800

> Ibuprofens as my next step. I worry about using Tylenol due to

> possible kidney damage.