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Subject: [OM] OT Sciatica
From: "Brian Swale" <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:23:09 +1300
Walt commented that he used 'Aleve' to mitigate the pain of sciatica.

I checked it out; it is a form of pseudoephredine. OK as a general purpose 
pain-killer.

What is usually prescribed here goes under the common name of Voltaren.
Actually is Diclofenac sodium, 75mg tabs. Very good, and one tablet kills 
the pain and disability for maybe a whole day.

BUT it is very dangerous. It put me in hospital with a suspected heart attack 
in the middle of the night, some days after I took the last previous tab. It 
nearly killed a friend of mine as it perforated his stomach and he developed 
peritonitis. The heart doctors who investigated me said that Voltaren 
ALWAYS causes bleeding and damage in the stomach.   Only very 
reluctantly will I use it again.

Brian

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