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Tava Edwards

Posted Friday, September 11, 2009 12:55 AM

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I am so glad to have found this forum. I was recently diagnosed with OA in my hip. This was a shock to me as I had no pain there at all before I accidentally pulled something in my hip while exercising and an x-ray showed a loss of cartilige and I got the bad news that I was probably looking at hip replacement surgery in the future. Meanwhile, I have had lots of pain that doesn't seem to get better which I guess goes with OA. I started on naproxen about two weeks ago. I couldn't tell that it helped much. Last week I had to have blood work done for my annual physical and was informed my billirubin level was abnormally high, the lab said it had to do with the naproxin and I needed another test to be sure. Well,the problem is what can I take for pain? I am afraid to take Tylenol with all the publicity about liver damage from it. I will call my dr., however it will probably be two to three days before I hear from him and I can,t imaging this weekend with no pain killlers at all. Does anyone have any experience like this and have any advice. Thanks so much, Maddie Grace

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starshine

Posted Friday, September 11, 2009 8:30 AM

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Welcome to the site. I'm sorry you are having pain. Tylenol is safe as long as you don't go over the recomended daily dose of 4000 mg. If you take 2 xtra strength Tylenol every 6 hours, that is the maximum you should take. That should tide you over until you hear from the doc. starshine

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