Is it bad to take a Ibuprofen every night?

Question

I reached my weight loss goal and am 170lbs. Now I am working out to gain lean muscle, so I cut down my cardio to 3 days instead of 5 and have intensified my weight lifting. That causes a lot of soreness and taking a Ibuprofen (800 mg) makes a whole world of a difference as it allows me to sleep without pain and wake up feeling good. Is it bad to take one every night?

Answer 1

yeah, why would you take it every night and if you knew a little more about exercise not to be sarcastic or anything you would know you get sore because when you exerise really hard and it gets sore while your doing it is because you get little tiny tears in your muscle and when that happens you rest a day the soreness goes away and those tears were healed and new muscle built over them you need to take rest days its not good to take buprofen everynight its pretty bad for you and especialy at such a high doseage

Answer 2

Yes, prolonged use of ibuprophen is linked to health problems such as bleeding stomach ulcers, gastritis, and even some heart issues. Are you alternating what muscle groups you work on every day? Like work upper body today, lower body tomorrow? If not, you're probably have some repetitive motion injuries by not letting your muscles recouperate. You also need at least one day per week with no work out to allow your body to rest. I reccomend that you trim down your weight lifting to the point you were before you ramped it up. Then, start very slowly intensifying your workout: week one add one rep to every set, week two add one pound of weight, week three add another rep, etc. This will help you slowly gain muscle safely. In the meantime, try icing your sore muscles (15 minutes on, 15 minutes off) before going to bed. You can even alternate ice with a heating pad, or use a non-asprin sports cream.

BTW, it's tylenol, not ibuprofen, that causes liver problems.

Answer 3

High doses of ibuprofen can be hard on your liver after a while, esp. if you drink (which is also hard on your liver). You might be pushing the weights a little to hard and need to back off a little b/c I don't think you should be in that much pain unless you just started the working out w/ weights.

Answer 4

i've been told taking ibuprofen all the time can eat the lining of your stomache...that it was not good to take all the time...my childrens doctor told me not to give my kids childrens motrin which is just like ibuprofen all the time because of that..that's why they tell u to switch between motrin and tylonole...

Answer 5

If you read the bottle, it's not bad to take one every night, assuming you don't take any others during the day. Just follow the dosage indicated.

Answer 6

if you are constantly sore from resistance training there are problems in your diet

Answer 7

dont think so