tylenol 3 and tylenol 1 . have been taking quite a lot for pain.?

Question

ok first i broke my toe rt foot . so given tylenol 3 took them a lot of them in order to keep working . i am a mover. then i fell of the truck and hurt my lft.foot . not broken i dont think but hurts as much or more then the toe. so more tylenol 3 and add to that some tylenol 1 . so all in all in a work day i might take 7 tylenol 3 and 10 tylenol 1 . i am not feeling well i dont take hardly any when i am home but when i put my feet down in the morning to stand up i can hardly walk . it takes 2 days of not working before i am up to even going outside to the porch .
i have to work moving company again tommorrow .
what should i do . the doctor wont give me anything strongher and the pain is sure not getting better. i am worried i have taken or am taking too much tylenol or codine but without it i am really not able to walk. please advice

Answer 1

Yeah, watch the Tylenol. It's not the codeine, but the actual Tylenol that will damage your liver. I've never really gotten any relief from Tylenol and I prefer to use Advil. Try some Advil along with you Tylenol 3s rather than taking more Tylenol. See if that helps. Also, you probably should look into physical therapy. Painkillers just mask your pain anyway. You want to CURE the pain.

Answer 2

First, Tylenol is a very dangerous medicine taken that long and taken that often . It will destroy your internal organs, then not only will you have foot pain but probably it will kill you.

Why are you not taking Asprin, or Anacin, or Aleve. Those are medicines reduce swelling and and aid in healing. Whereas Tylenol does neither.

Alieve, especially, its a totally different kind of medication that surpresses the nerve centers for hours at a time without the dangerous effects of Tylenol.

Why dont you tightly wrap your foot athletic style with gauss followed by gray tape every day and buy an oversized shoe to assit you in taking the pressure off of the toes A tight wrap of gauss and tape, not too tight. is much more beneficial in pain reduction and aid in healing that about anything else out there. And the injured foot, why have you not wrapped that with gauss and gray tape?

As an X-hockey player. I would never consider treating any injury without gauss and gray tape. Its the standard thing to do and nothing works better to eleviate pain and give you support thruout your daily work effort.

I am 100% confident that a good wrap of gauss and gray tape in your case will do more good than any Tylenol ever did for you. That is based on my own experience of injuries in which i need to keep going and exert pressure on the injury. which is exactly what you are doing every day.

At the end of the day, I am sure your feet have swelled up. So put those into very cold water or even ice water if you can stand it. That ice water or cold water will reduced the swelling.

Its the swelling that causes the pain in broken toe. And the swelling in the injured foot that that causes pain also. Treat that somehow with a cold pack at days end.

Answer 3

I would try going to a different doctor. Try an orthopeadic surgeon if your not already seeing one. Family doctors sometimes are limited as to what they can prescribe. Also try braces and different shoes. Taking that much tylenol can cause all kinds of problems. You could also try taking Ibuprofen in between doses of tylenol 1 and 3. Tylenol 3 has 30mg of codiene and 300mg of tylenol and #1 has 10mg and 100mg. Take your normal dose of pain meds at lets say 10am and at noon take 2-3 tabs of ibuprofen then the pain meds at 2pm. Thats what my doctor told me to do one time. All in all if its not working for you your doctor isn't working for you either. If the ibuprofen doesn't work I would definately seek another doctor. Good luck hope you feel better.

Answer 4

I know intense pain, I cannot work a normal job. I take Oxycontin (20mg) 3x daily, Soma (350mg) 3-4 daily, Percacet 10mg) 3-4 daily and xanex. I'm going to try Shark's oil next. I also take osteobiflex, Caltrate, MSN and Vita water with tons of b;s, C, folic acid, E and potassium. That's not all ...if you want the name of the water, let me know.
Take care~
Mare

Answer 5

I recommend you see a another doctor for a second opinion. You may need physical therapy to be able to function without pain. There also many techniques a physical therapist can do to help you help yourself and home. I can understand why your doctor doesn't want to give you stronger medicine, but there has to be some other type of treatment given.

Answer 6

If you keep taking that much Tylenol, you are headed for kidney failure. Your kidneys cannot tolerate all of that acetaminophen. Please if you don't believe me, call a pharmacist because you are flirting with disaster.

I know that it is hard, but the only way that you are gonna heal is to not work for a couple of days, with all the physical movement that your job requires your injury is never gonna allow you to heal without time off.

Answer 7

Drop the drugs!!! I have had busted toes before. Well lets see ...I have had surgery removing bone from my toes, pretty sure that the Dr had to break some bone prior to REMOVING IT!! Sorry your silly behind fell off a truck. Why are you asking a website for infomation, when it should be directed twowards your Dr?