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HereSince1628

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3. Technically aspirin is an NSAID, but it has anti-clotting properties...

Reply to no_hypocrisy (Reply #1)

Tue Sep 11, 2012, 08:27 AM

Sep 2012

other nsaids don't have.

After my by-pass surgery (which wasn't preceded by a heart attack) I was told to do the daily baby aspirin thing. At that time I was told that the other nsaids don't provide protection as aspirin did.

Too bad about the other nsaids, because 800 mg Ibuprofin was really helpful when I had a combination rotator cuff and biceps-tendon injury.

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Anti-inflammatories tied to cardiac risk [View all] xchrom Sep 2012 OP

Let me get this straight: no_hypocrisy Sep 2012 #1

aspirin is a blood thinner that helps prevent strokes madrchsod Sep 2012 #2

Technically aspirin is an NSAID, but it has anti-clotting properties... HereSince1628 Sep 2012 #3

NS is "non-steroidal", so that's lumping a lot of different medicines together. eppur_se_muova Sep 2012 #7

I can't take Ibuprofin or similar anti-inflamatories woodsprite Sep 2012 #4

do you have a costco near you? they carry tylenol. nt xchrom Sep 2012 #5

NSAIDS treat pain... kickysnana Sep 2012 #6

That was my reaction _ people taking anti-inflammatories are treating inflammation - hedgehog Sep 2012 #8