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thesmilingfish:
bomberqueen17 answered your question “Question. I have a headache and want to take a couple ibuprofin but…”
webMD says yes: guaifenisin and dextromethorphan, which are in Mucinex, do not conflict with acetominophen or ibuprofen. I’d link you the answer but URLs don’t work in these. The cough syrup probably does have ingredients that might conflict w/ Mucx!
Thank you. I’ve been all over the place today and I’m having trouble concentrating. I only got about ah hours sleep at a time last night. I tried vacuuming and doing some light chores but that was a VERY bad idea. I just have stuff to do darn it.
Anyway, thanks again.
I hope you feel better! Oh, I totally didn’t mean to imply that you ought to have Googled it yourself– if I were sick I wouldn’t want to be Googling shit I can barely spell either! No way man. I got you fam. Here’s a link, though, to the answer I found, with more information.
Different drugs eff with people in all different ways. Mucinex has guaifenesin, which is my #1 favorite thing for colds– it’s a mucous thinner, and so it helps with both head colds and chest colds, in making the mucous easier to keep moving.
A version of Mucinex also has dextromethorphan in it, though, which is a cough suppressant– it acts on your actual brain, making you less likely to have the cough reflex. Which is great, in some cases, but I know it sometimes makes me loopy as fuck, and some of my friends get super fucking high from it, and not in a pleasant way. If you’re having light-headedness issues, it is almost certainly the DM that’s doing it. That’s the one that can also combine with other stuff in real bad ways, though it looks like formally speaking there are only a few prescription medicines it’ll hurt you if you combine it with.
In general, though, ibuprofen is pretty innocuous and doesn’t interact with other medications badly. It is hard on your kidneys, so if you have any kidney issues, permanent or temporary, it’s best to skip it– and in sustained or high doses, it’s bad for your stomach, and will give you tummyaches something fierce. But it’s my favorite painkiller because it’s such a good anti-inflammatory; I take it for any kind of tissue damage or inflammation-related pain.
tl;dr i hope you can sleep and feel better, that sounds just miserable. :(
thesmilingfish:
bomberqueen17 answered your question “Question. I have a headache and want to take a couple ibuprofin but…”
webMD says yes: guaifenisin and dextromethorphan, which are in Mucinex, do not conflict with acetominophen or ibuprofen. I’d link you the answer but URLs don’t work in these. The cough syrup probably does have ingredients that might conflict w/ Mucx!
Thank you. I’ve been all over the place today and I’m having trouble concentrating. I only got about ah hours sleep at a time last night. I tried vacuuming and doing some light chores but that was a VERY bad idea. I just have stuff to do darn it.
Anyway, thanks again.
I hope you feel better! Oh, I totally didn’t mean to imply that you ought to have Googled it yourself– if I were sick I wouldn’t want to be Googling shit I can barely spell either! No way man. I got you fam. Here’s a link, though, to the answer I found, with more information.
Different drugs eff with people in all different ways. Mucinex has guaifenesin, which is my #1 favorite thing for colds– it’s a mucous thinner, and so it helps with both head colds and chest colds, in making the mucous easier to keep moving.
A version of Mucinex also has dextromethorphan in it, though, which is a cough suppressant– it acts on your actual brain, making you less likely to have the cough reflex. Which is great, in some cases, but I know it sometimes makes me loopy as fuck, and some of my friends get super fucking high from it, and not in a pleasant way. If you’re having light-headedness issues, it is almost certainly the DM that’s doing it. That’s the one that can also combine with other stuff in real bad ways, though it looks like formally speaking there are only a few prescription medicines it’ll hurt you if you combine it with.
In general, though, ibuprofen is pretty innocuous and doesn’t interact with other medications badly. It is hard on your kidneys, so if you have any kidney issues, permanent or temporary, it’s best to skip it– and in sustained or high doses, it’s bad for your stomach, and will give you tummyaches something fierce. But it’s my favorite painkiller because it’s such a good anti-inflammatory; I take it for any kind of tissue damage or inflammation-related pain.
tl;dr i hope you can sleep and feel better, that sounds just miserable. :(
